Founders Nextdoor: Entrepreneurship | Small Business | Startups | Freelancing | Washington DC - How to get and keep customers for service-based businesses, Ep 055

How to get and keep customers for service-based businesses, Ep 055

04/10/18 • 27 min

Founders Nextdoor: Entrepreneurship | Small Business | Startups | Freelancing | Washington DC

Mina Fies is an award-winning designer, remodeler, and the founder and CEO of Synergy Design & Construction. She is also the author of the Renovation Roadmap system. In this episode, Mina told the story of how she started a business in an industry that she had little prior experience in, how she built a successful business by really focusing on the customers’ needs, and gave lots of tips on business development and networking.

“You can’t be in entrepreneurship for the money alone. You have to have the passion and see the vision ahead of you. That needs to be fuel for everything.”

– Mina Fies

Reference:

Synergy Design & Construction
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Renovation Roadmap system
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“You can’t be in entrepreneurship for the money alone. You have to have the passion and see the vision ahead of you. That needs to be fuel for everything.”

– Mina Fies

Reference:

Synergy Design & Construction
Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Linkedin, Youtube, Google Plus, Houzz

Renovation Roadmap system
Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram

Resources:

SCORE

BNI- Business Networking International

Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business

Rocket Fuel: The One Essential Combination That Will Get You More of What You Want from Your Business

Soundwise: innovative podcast publishing platform that helps you capture, keep and convert listeners

The post How to get and keep customers for service-based businesses appeared first on Founders Nextdoor.

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How to Build, Launch, And Improve A Software Product, Ep 054

PJ Taei is the founder of UScreen, a video platform that enables content creators launch their own video streaming service and build a profitable business selling their videos online

In this episode, PJ talked about how he created UScreen from scratch, from building prototype and getting initial customers, to iterating on the product vision and launching marketing campaigns.

“Ultimately the best way to test your idea is to build something (quickly) and get it into customers’ hands.”

PJ Taei

UScreen
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Reference:

Soundwise: innovative podcast publishing platform that helps you capture, keep and convert listeners

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From Government Employee To Software Company Founder, Ep 056

Ahmad Ishaq is the founder and chief innovation officer of ByteCubed, an IT consulting firm in Arlington Virginia. In 2017, ByteCubed was ranked No 46 on the Inc magazine’s list of fastest growing companies. It was also voted one of the best places to work in DC by the Washington Post.

In this episode, Ahmad talked about how he built a successful company in the very competitive government contracting space, the challenges of managing hyper-growth and the importance of having a unique value proposition.

“You need to have clear, concise stories of who you are and what your unique value proposition is.”

-Ahmad Ishaq