Lynne Meredith Schreiber

18 posts
Lynne Meredith Schreiber is a contributing writer for StartupNation.
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Cheaper, Better Customer Service? Try

When DigitalBridge Communications launched its broadband wireless services company in 2005, the company decided to use home-based, outsourced virtual customer service agents instead of a site-specific, company-managed call center. It saved a bundle of money....
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Blood and Business

StartupNation founders Jeff and Rich Sloan worked together as teens, but it wasn’t until Rich’s freshman year in college, when he left the University of Colorado and returned home to attend the University of Michigan...
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Do You Need Bricks and Mortar Anymore?

Fortunately for entrepreneurs who prefer to run their businesses far from frenetic population centers, the Internet has rendered the world flat. Laramie, Wyo., population 26,000, sits 7,200 feet above sea level between the Medicine Bow...
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Pimp My Pamphlet

Marketing has its roots in advertising. Bland brochures, blah business cards, ambiguous messages don’t sell. “I make all my clients put strong headlines on their brochures. It’s no different than any other ad. You’ve got...
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Religion Can Work in the Workplace

In the 25 years that Mark Carr has run his automotive franchise business according to Christian teachings, he’s never considered it a conflict. “Downsides? I don’t see any,” says Carr, who named his Houston startup...
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How to Bring Home the Bacon

Every Sunday morning, Severn Williams totes two cookbooks under his arm as he heads out for breakfast with his wife, Nina, and toddler son, Ezra. At the restaurant, they leaf through the books for two...
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Outrunning the Tiger

When Dave Taylor moved his company, Intuitive Systems, to a new office, he purposely chose a place two and a half miles from his Boulder, Colo., home. It’s close enough to walk, but far enough...
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The Most Important Merger

Cameron Hake keeps a magazine ad for a Disney cruise as a reminder that when his parents open their 20th meal-prep franchise, they’re all going on vacation. With eight stores still to go, looking forward...
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Staying Scrappy

One of the nation’s most essential modern businesses began about a century ago when new Americans found ways to make usable, salable products out of bottles, cans and other castoffs they picked up in streets...
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Inventory Management: Keep It Clean

One word keeps cropping up in conversations about inventory management: seamless. Business owners agree that if you have to do double duty entering data in different systems, you’re bound to mess up and cost yourself...
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You Don

Serial entrepreneur Asher Epstein rises at 6 a.m. every day to take two hours of conference calls with an Israeli company for which he’s a consultant. At 8, he heads to his job, where he...