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Bolstering the Partner Ranks at GRP

Both Sides of the Table

He was also the first one to challenge my conventional wisdom that it made no sense for tech companies to advertise on television. We both wanted to put energy into GRP’s platform of services that provide more value to our investments than merely capital. He walked me through both the logic and the math.

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sales vs marketing

AeA Los Angeles Council

Having been both a marketing & sales executive, I have seen first-hand how silos between these two departments can exist while products (or the sale of services) still "succeed" despite the rivalry. His client side experience includes senior management positions at Brentwood Medical Products, Inquiry handling Service, Stac, Inc.,

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App is Crap (why Apple is bad for your health)

Both Sides of the Table

or “tell us what you’re doing about location-based services?&# ). I own an iPod Touch (not an iPhone – my house in Brentwood gets literally ZERO AT&T bars). Apple has sent out signals such as that they might like to own location-based mobile advertising. It came to me. They may do this / they may not.

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