Entrepreneurship – Groove Blog https://www.groovehq.com/blog Wed, 30 Jun 2021 22:06:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.14 Becoming an Entrepreneur: How I Started My Very First Business with Just $300 https://www.groovehq.com/blog/my-first-business https://www.groovehq.com/blog/my-first-business#comments Sat, 09 May 2020 15:10:43 +0000 http://www.groovehq.com/blog/?p=1968 My story of becoming an entrepreneur—and how I nearly lost everything on the very first day. “BOOM.” The vehicle shook, and I startled. “What the hell was that?,” I thought. And then, as my little car slowed to a crawl, and then to a stop, my excitement turned to a sigh of irritation as I […]

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]]> https://www.groovehq.com/blog/my-first-business/feed 6 The Top 5 Leadership Qualities a First-Time Founder Should Practice https://www.groovehq.com/blog/leadership-qualities https://www.groovehq.com/blog/leadership-qualities#comments Wed, 20 Feb 2019 16:30:00 +0000 http://www.groovehq.com/blog/?p=3707 Starting a business is hard. But developing these leadership qualities will give you a chance of survival In addition to dealing with a million things on their plate at any given time, first-time business owners also need to learn to be managers for when their company starts growing—including all the leadership qualities that come with […]

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]]> https://www.groovehq.com/blog/leadership-qualities/feed 1 How to Use Upselling to Increase Customer Happiness, Retention and Revenue https://www.groovehq.com/blog/upsells https://www.groovehq.com/blog/upsells#comments Fri, 20 Jul 2018 09:22:00 +0000 http://www.groovehq.com/blog/?p=2500 What comes to mind when you think of the word upsell? For many of us, it might bring up images of sleazy salespeople trying to line their pockets by selling us extra stuff we don’t need. Unfortunately, sometimes that does happen. Anyone who’s spent time buying a car from a dealership can attest to that. […]

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]]> https://www.groovehq.com/blog/upsells/feed 10 Attention Startups: Stop Selling to Startups https://www.groovehq.com/blog/look-outside-of-your-market https://www.groovehq.com/blog/look-outside-of-your-market#comments Thu, 02 Nov 2017 15:17:02 +0000 http://www.groovehq.com/blog/?p=1900 Figure out who your best customers really are. A few years ago, we were getting ready to test a big PR push to get the word out about Groove. We put our heads together and tried to think about all of the different publications and influencers who we could reach out to that would be […]

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]]> https://www.groovehq.com/blog/look-outside-of-your-market/feed 5 9 Blog Posts Your Team Should Read Today https://www.groovehq.com/blog/articles-for-startups Thu, 26 Oct 2017 07:03:56 +0000 http://www.groovehq.com/blog/?p=1656 My favorite recent startup articles about growth, marketing, and business life. Today, I’m going to share 9 articles that have made a big impact on me lately. Even if they don’t directly address issues you’re dealing with today, I hope you’ll bookmark them like I have so that you can lean on them someday when […]

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]]> Don’t Let An “Unlimited” Vacation Policy Kill Your Startup https://www.groovehq.com/blog/vacation-policy https://www.groovehq.com/blog/vacation-policy#comments Thu, 19 Oct 2017 08:47:40 +0000 http://www.groovehq.com/blog/?p=428 Most vacation policies lead to burnout and unhappy teams. Here’s another way. Last updated: October 18, 2017 It’s almost silly to say that “hard work is important.” It’s not just important. Relative to just about everything else in success—strategy, tactics, networking—hard work (done smartly) is everything. If you work hard every single day, and apply […]

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]]> https://www.groovehq.com/blog/vacation-policy/feed 10 7 No-Nonsense Pieces of Startup Advice I Wish I Got When I Started https://www.groovehq.com/blog/no-nonsense-startup-advice https://www.groovehq.com/blog/no-nonsense-startup-advice#comments Thu, 05 Oct 2017 15:13:35 +0000 http://www.groovehq.com/blog/?p=1979 Advice for founders who are tired of bad advice. There’s no shortage of advice for startup founders on the internet. But sadly, most of it isn’t helpful. The bad advice⁠—the variety that makes up the overwhelming majority of those search results⁠—typically falls into two categories: Advice so fluffy and vague (“product/marketing/support is everything”) that you […]

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]]> https://www.groovehq.com/blog/no-nonsense-startup-advice/feed 27 Friday Q&A: How to Know When to Abandon a Strategy https://www.groovehq.com/blog/friday-qa-september-15-2017 Fri, 15 Sep 2017 15:12:44 +0000 http://www.groovehq.com/blog/?p=1256 Every Friday, we’re answering your questions about business, startups, customer success and more. Happy Friday! This question gets at the heart of one of the biggest challenges of being a small company. We don’t have the volume of traffic and data that a business like Amazon or Netflix might have. Not every decision can be […]

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]]> Friday Q&A: Is a company’s vision created by one person, or by a team? https://www.groovehq.com/blog/friday-qa-september-08-2017 https://www.groovehq.com/blog/friday-qa-september-08-2017#respond Fri, 08 Sep 2017 15:06:03 +0000 http://www.groovehq.com/blog/?p=1244 Every Friday, we’re answering your questions about business, startups, customer success and more. Happy Friday! This question was asked in response to our recent post about the importance of vision. The context of Spencer’s question is that he and two other leaders are running a family business. But many startup co-founders share this same challenge. […]

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]]> https://www.groovehq.com/blog/friday-qa-september-08-2017/feed 0 Friday Q&A: How much should a startup founder pay themselves? https://www.groovehq.com/blog/friday-qa-august-25-2017 https://www.groovehq.com/blog/friday-qa-august-25-2017#comments Fri, 25 Aug 2017 16:00:06 +0000 http://www.groovehq.com/blog/?p=580 Every Friday, we’re answering your questions about business, startups, customer success and more. Happy Friday! This is a question that every startup founder has to solve, and I’ve seen a lot of different approaches. My take is very similar to the one Ben Congleton, Olark co-founder, shared in his interview on our blog. Initially living […]

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