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If you don’t know where you’re going, you probably won’t get there. But is it a good thing to be a daily scoreboard watcher? I’ve been going through a lot of this type of strategy conversation of late as we set goals and identify the tactical strategies to exceed them.
Insert any statistical analogy you like [...]

I hate my computer today.
There’s this new analytics software, you see. And it’s super great, I mean, way better than the Google Analytics that we’ve been using. Well, I should say that it’s super-great on Chuck’s computer. All it does to mine is render every other program I have running useless. There’s no reasonable explanation [...]

"Hitch your wagon to the littlest star" could be the name of the marketing strategy used by the owners of Belly Maternity, a Denver boutique that sells maternity and baby clothes. They sent Angelina Jolie a "thank-you gift" for her humanitarian work. They also sent gifts to other pregnant stars like Gwyneth [...]

AND THE 2ND WINNER IS…
Our congratulations go to davenny! You are our 2nd lucky entrepreneur to win two free round trip tickets on Southwest Airlines through our "Work Hard. Play Harder." Contest.
davenny is a power networker as evidenced by both his high level of activity right here in the StartupNation community and his company name: [...]

When you write an advertisement, whether it’s for the newspaper, radio, or internet, you may want to tell people that your product is of high quality; that it’s a great value. You want them to know you have integrity. You are devoted to customer service, and you care about them deeply. Right?
Wrong! [...]

The ultimate customer retention strategy can be found in the story of Scheherazade & 1001 Arabian Nights.
Do you know the story? King Shahryar decides that all women are inherently unfaithful, so he has each wife murdered after the wedding night. This goes on for three years. The king’s wazir (the guy who beheads the virgin [...]

Music!
I had a home based business for over 12 years and there are many essential tools for success. But one that is overlooked is your music strategy. Music can inspire you when you need inspiration, calm you down when you need to take a deep breath & count to ten, transition you in & out [...]

AND THE WINNER IS… (drumroll)
Our congratulations go to bridalchic! You are our first lucky entrepreneur to win two free round trip tickets on Southwest Airlines through our "Work Hard. Play Harder." Contest.
bridalchic is a part time entrepreneur and started it up with a company called The Bridesmaid Party after being in the bridal industry [...]

You know the weekend is over when your spouse heads out the door to the office and hands you a plunger while giving you a kiss goodbye. I don’t know about you, but something in the universe made time run double fast for me in the past few days. I did many things, [...]

“It’s supposed to be hard. If it was easy, everyone would do it. It’s the hard that makes it great.”
At StartupNation, we agree with Tom Hanks character Jimmy Dugan in the movie “A League Of Their Own”. We all know this from our days of competing, whether it’s in sports or choir or academics or [...]