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16 Strategies to Keep Your Small Business Organized in 2021 and Beyond

Neil Patel

This can be difficult if your small business doesn’t have the cash or resources to put systems in place that lead to long-term organization. Although it’s important to automate your customer support system, it’s a bad idea to automate your relationships with customers. Don’t try to automate the entire process, however.

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How This Business Went From Losing $20,000 to Earning $1 Million in Just Two Years

Buffer Resources

After learning about the true cost of being in business, my co-founder and I realized we needed to triple our prices and switch to a monthly payment plan option that provided monthly recurring revenue. I only started taking an owner’s draw in excess of tax payments once hitting $1 million in annual revenue. I was out of ideas.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with InCountry and Y Combinator — July 19, 2019

SaaStr

Prior to InCountry, Peter founded six and sold 6 enterprise software companies that were acquired by Sun, Citrix, VMware, Oracle, Sprinklr and Prograph. What benchmarks should startups bake into the agreements? * He said that serial entrepreneurship is potentially overrated. How does Peter think about enterprise pilots today?