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3 Sales Tips for Startups – Creating a Burning Platform

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Most start-up entrepreneurs have little or no sales experience. But through nearly a decade of startups I learned that sales comes down to three essential elements: 1. The real test of sales and the topic of my post is “why buy now.” It’s what kills most sales cycles including raising venture capital. I know I didn’t.

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How Event Farm Is Making Events A Part Of Your Sales Funnel

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The most obvious, is to drive sales. Our clients are large, Fortune 1000 companies, like Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Nike, JP Morgan, Lamborghini, and SpaceX. Of course, we have competitors. Of course, there are follow up emails, but during an event is the next big chunk. It's stupid to say you don't have competitors.

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5 Marketing Software Tools Every Business Should Have

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ConstantContact is email marketing software. With ConstantContact you can create subscriber lists, send email campaigns and track open rates. You can even send scheduled personalized emails on a customer’s birthday or anniversary. ConstantContact. Yext puts you on the map. Conclusion.

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Find Egg-breakers: People With Influence & Authority and Are Unafraid to Use Them

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The process for raising money from a VC is a sales process and as such much of what is taught in enterprise sales can be applied. While this post is written about raising venture capital (which I always remind entrepreneurs IS a sales process) the lessons can be applied to any sale or biz dev deal.

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Launchpad LA – 10 Startup Companies to Watch

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We had software executives from Google, Yahoo!, And of course we had, TheMan. We’ll be conducting a series of educational programes covering: fund raising, team building, product development, sales, marketing, business development and how to prioritize your time as a CEO. Now begins the 6-month journey.

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Lead, Follow or Get the Fuck Out of the Way

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I sure wish the founders of Yahoo! But for years Yahoo! When you haven’t been decisive in years, when you botched a profitable exit, when you hired a non-visionary CEO and then fired her by email – it’s time to get out of the way. I was no longer leading, so I became the problem.” ” Hallelujah.

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How Online Video Companies Can Increase Margin and Build Better Businesses

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You can ask them to come and watch your videos at your owned & operated websites (O&O) where you can make higher margins as well as ask directly for more meaningful customer information such as Facebook connections, Twitter oAuths, email addresses and the like. In the old days this was email addresses. MSN & AOL.

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