Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2014

In fact, the average spent by Inc 500 companies for sales and marketing expense continues to hover around 10% of overall revenues. Create meaningful content and engage others online (free downloads, white papers, webinars, regular blogging). A blog is critical, and essentially free (your cost is creating content).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2013

In fact, the average spent by Inc 500 companies for sales and marketing expense continues to hover around 10% of overall revenues. Create meaningful content and engage others online (free downloads, white papers, webinars, regular blogging). A blog is critical, and essentially free (your cost is creating content).

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Marketing Startup Social Media SEM 106

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

With today’s Internet instant access to all the latest reports and white papers of industry experts, there is no excuse for not staying current with outside perspectives, to temper your own views. I often hear entrepreneurs who seem to rely wholly on their own passion, and the view of a few friends.

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Customer Custom Technical Review Software Review 57

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2014

Use your favorite search engine and keywords describing your solution to find online sales reports, trade association statistics and online newsletters with the latest statistics. Competitor''s annual reports, white papers, press releases and presentations are great sources of data and trends that you can use to support your own efforts.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 28, 2016

Use your favorite search engine and keywords describing your solution to find online sales reports, trade association statistics, and online newsletters with the latest statistics. Competitor annual reports, white papers, press releases, and presentations are great sources of data and trends that you can use to support your own efforts.

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Marketing Startup Statistics Research 59

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2010

In fact, the average spent by Inc 500 companies for sales and marketing expense continues to hover around 10% of overall revenues. Create meaningful content and engage others online (free downloads, white papers, webinars, regular blogging). A blog is critical, and essentially free (your cost is creating content).

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Marketing Startup Social Media SEM 94

TechCrunch LA

MARCH 17, 2019

Freight railroad owner Genesee & Wyoming is considering a sale of all or part of itself, Bloomberg reported. The four parties will collaborate to accelerate the development and commercialization of an automotive grade over-the-air (OTA) system enabling remote vehicle software updates and management. Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 10, 2015

I write about sales often both because it’s the lifeblood of any organization and because in my experience it is the area in which more startups are least experienced or inclined. I also write and talk about it frequently because raising capital is a part of sales and this is important for entrepreneurs to understand.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2012

Here’s some other things you might find interesting: There are around 20 billion in-bound sales calls in the US each year. If you want to understand more about the real trends in phone calls there are a bunch of white papers here. Online conversion of purchases drop considerably when the value of a product is above $150.

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