Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 2, 2011

It’s apropos because there is so much noise these days with email, Twitter, Facebook, blogs, web shows, etc. I was thinking back to a few previous “insider baseball&# blog debates that raged for several weeks: AngelGate (aka Bin38 secret cabal), convertible debt vs. equity, bubble vs. not, and now the AngelList discussion.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

If you follow the tech media you would be subject to a lot of narrative biases that are completely off base – and this includes the value of email and phone calls. All the data actually suggests with the growth of mobile, inbound sales calls will double from 30 billion to 60 billion in 3 years (source: Kelsey). THE FULL STORY.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 31, 2012

I got an email recently from my friend & fellow VC, Jeff Bussgang from Flybridge Capital Partners in Boston. Jeff (also an HBS alum) co-teaches the LTV course with Professor Eisenmann about a student of theirs who had written a blog post about sales taking on some of my previous assertions. Specifically, 1.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 23, 2014

Absent a human gatekeeper, you can capture a busy individual''s attention by crafting a compelling and pithy email subject line, voicemail message, Tweet, Quora or Facebook message. It could be a significant sale to a large enterprise, the opening of a new office, a key hire or a promising partnership. Sue.Who@acme.com).

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2018

The most important advice I could give you before you set out in fund raising mode is to understand that fund-raising a sales & marketing process and needs to be managed. Somehow many first-time founders equate “sales” with something that is beneath them. In sales there are also three rules: Qualify, qualify, qualify.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

You can watch/listen to how John and Kyle turned their email newsletter into an international bestseller in the following 9-minute excerpt from John''s recent talk at UC Santa Barbara. an email) to about 35 people. If you want to be kept informed just send me an email and let me know that you''re in, and that was it.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

In this period (less than 2 years) he has brought on incredibly talented senior execs is sales, marketing, product management, client services, finance, vp engineering and more. So what are Rob’s secret hacks that he didn’t spill in his blog post? . Email updates frequently. Make your emails actionable.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

Customers go there to check on the details of your offerings and verify that you are not a scam, investors look there to check out your management and sales approach, and suppliers expect to find contact information. Finalizing the web site validates your product plan and sales strategy. Websites do take time to get done right.

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Web Startup Sites Design 139

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 1, 2011

That was back when VCs weren’t so quick to respond to emails. I was thinking about all of this as I looked at the logs from my WordPress blog this evening. I started blogging 2 years ago. As with tonight I got my kids to bed, did some email, caught 30 minutes of the news then sat down to type. I did that?

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 24, 2011

On this blog I’m often trying to combine lessons for entrepreneurs and market commentary. I received a couple of emails from my friends and colleagues vigorously defending GroupMe. Then an email came in from somebody I know that made it clear to me what was wrong and what my internal compass had been trying to tell me.

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Email Writing Blogging Competition 270

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 15, 2022

There is still infinite room for new startup sales modes and models. Extend data metrics into non-traditional channels, such as email, internal social media, and customer collaboration platforms. Use internal collaboration platforms, then extend to online customers through your website, blogs, and social media.

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Startup Social Media Entertainment Metrics 126

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 4, 2021

Probably every one of you who has a business and a website have been approached through email or personal contact, and asked to spend money on paid search results (appear on the first page of search results, despite low SEO rank). Both have the same end goal of getting people to your website.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 25, 2011

And anybody who follows this blog knows that I believe television disruption has already begun and it is more likely to resemble Internet content than streaming long-form content to our living rooms. You can monetize via Google Ad Sales before you have enough revenue to build your own sales team. Sound familiar?

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Carson Content Los Angeles Press 291

InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

You can watch/listen to how John and Kyle turned their email newsletter into an international bestseller in the following 9-minute excerpt from John''s recent talk at UC Santa Barbara. an email) to about 35 people. If you want to be kept informed just send me an email and let me know that you''re in, and that was it.

Newsletter 133

Newsletter Startup Entrepreneur Writing 133

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

By definition, you read blogs. If you care about accessing customers, reaching an audience, communicating your vision, influencing people in your industry, marketing your services or just plain engaging in a dialog with others in your industry a blog is a great way to achieve this. People often ask me why I started blogging.

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Eric Greenspan

JULY 29, 2010

I say, go for it, use em all…but here’s a few of my ideas on each: Email for conversations where tracking, history and detail is important and if you wish to forward to another and the best sales tool of them all. I will update the blog post as they come in. Wanna Talk?

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Email Tool Blogging Sales 157

Eric Greenspan

MAY 7, 2013

Mommy bloggers are one of the most influential social networking resources that lead to increased awareness and sales. Either you get multiple email addresses tied to the same URL or vice-versa.) Complete this quick form or email sales@zodiac805.com. Social Marketing mommy bloggers Mommy blogs' Great service!”

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IBM IBM Email Research 154

TechCrunch LA

APRIL 12, 2018

And as Battery Ventures investor Sanjiv Kalevar noted in a blog post last year , the opportunity for software companies serving blue-collar workers is huge. Indeed, more than 60% of U.S. workers and even more globally fall into these “blue collar” industries.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 11, 2011

We talked about a lot of great stuff in the video including how to do sales calls and a how a new “culture of writing&# is emerging as a critical skill set in business today. I’ll write a post on how to give feedback to employees and then I’ll get emails from people telling me they forwarded it to their whole team.

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Buzzfeed Content Tips Blogging 354

CEO Flow

JANUARY 30, 2009

I’ve always really liked the team over at Marketo, which offers lead management software for email marketing, lead nurturing, lead scoring, sales lead insight, and closed-loop reporting. Jon Miller has a popular and excellent blog, “Modern B2B Marketing&#. Getting into lead generation was an accident.

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Sales Blogging Organization Venture Capital 40

CEO Flow

JANUARY 30, 2009

I’ve always really liked the team over at Marketo, which offers lead management software for email marketing, lead nurturing, lead scoring, sales lead insight, and closed-loop reporting. Jon Miller has a popular and excellent blog, “Modern B2B Marketing&#. Getting into lead generation was an accident.

Sales 40

Sales Blogging Organization Venture Capital 40

CEO Flow

JANUARY 30, 2009

I’ve always really liked the team over at Marketo, which offers lead management software for email marketing, lead nurturing, lead scoring, sales lead insight, and closed-loop reporting. Jon Miller has a popular and excellent blog, “Modern B2B Marketing&#. Getting into lead generation was an accident.

Sales 40

Sales Blogging Organization Venture Capital 40

Berkonomics

MARCH 7, 2010

This book and workbook contain all the material from the BERKONOMICS emails and blogs and much more. Purchase either for yourself or for an entrepreneur, board member or executive of a growing business.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

Our sales guys were on the front line and heard what they needed to win deals. He decided that our largest customers would be involved in the setting of our priority lists (we did some of this internally in the early years but we saw it mostly as a sales process). The Outside In organization had a one-way flow.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

Plus, now they need to Tweet, use Facebook, attend conferences and keep a blog! This is not unlike a major biz dev deal you’re trying to sign or a big sales campaign into the VP of a major company. I like to tell entrepreneurs to treat it like a sales campaign. EXACTLY like a sales campaign. Let’s be honest.

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Venture Capital Startup Email News 277

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

in sales last year, what he learned from his experience at TechStars, and where he's going with Fanmix. It's like WordPress, but instead of blogging, it provides an online community, which is self-hosted. million in sales last year, with great margins, and it's profitable, with a team of ten people. We scaled that to almost $1.4

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Startup CTO Coach Blogging Social Media 242

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Here’s my advice: A got an email from a young, super bright entrepreneur today. He responded by emailing the COO and asking him to lunch. I get emails all the time from people asking me on a first date and saying, “how about if I buy you dinner.” A guy I would love to work with – maybe even hire myself.

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Venture Capital Startup Email Networking 397

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

And I'm looking forward to more interaction now that she's blogging. BLOG: [link] LINKEDIN: [link] TWITTER: [link] What's a phone booth? Right now we're working on a multi-platform sales support program for Daylight Transport, a mid-sized LTL (Less Than Truckload) carrier and logistics company. Maybe you can blog about that?

Marketing 150

Marketing Social Media Blogging Media 150

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Customers go there to check on the details of your offerings and verify that you are not a scam, investors look there to check out your management and sales approach, and suppliers expect to find contact information. Finalizing the web site validates your product plan and sales strategy. Websites do take time to get done right.

Web 76

Web Startup Sites Design 76

InfoChachkie

JULY 18, 2012

However, Eric recently posted the following insights on his blog. In May of 2012, sales dropped drastically. Sales remained sluggish during this period, but we were not giving up. • Facebook • Twitter • Delicious • LinkedIn • StumbleUpon • Add to favorites • Email • RSS.

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RSS Technical Review Capital Email 170

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

There is still infinite room for new startup sales modes and models. Extend data metrics into non-traditional channels, such as email, internal social media, and customer collaboration platforms. Use internal collaboration platforms, then extend to online customers through your website, blogs, and social media.

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Technology Social Media Startup Entertainment 97

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Do you find yourself too much in email mode? I regularly shut down my email so that I don’t get pop-up alerts when I’m working. The number of times I’ve had people come to me and say they want to blog more. I’ve written about these sales mavericks before. How can I play to my strengths?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 10, 2010

I wrote a blog post related to this called Is it Time to Earn or to Learn? Getting Your Work Schedule on Your Terms – Many people in America sit at their desk much of the day and have email open. And from email we added IM, Facebook and LinkedIn where people contact us. I wish I were good in the email category.

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Startup Email Technical Review Course 295

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 21, 2011

We now know that the medium has changed the news industry leading to blogs, real-time reporting, integration of text and video, two-way discussions, stories surfaced based on what your friends are reading, etc. Nordstrom sales reps are trained to do this to, but of course they can’t know every customer that walks around the store.

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Mobile Advertising Media Marketing 329

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 19, 2015

Sales people (and website customer acquisition folks) all think in terms of funnels and yet non-sales professionals seldom do. Every night before I went to bed I would say to myself, what one thing could I do to make progress on this hire, which is why people who worked with me on it probably noticed a lot of late-night emails.

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Startup Framework Sales Venture Capital 150

socalTECH

MAY 24, 2011

I had requests from friends to put them on an email, or give them a calendar reminder when a band was playing, and one thing led to another, and I started the site. We also have a very popular blog on our site, where we only mention one band a day, and we have lots of bands, artists, and labels vying for that position. READ MORE>>.

Social Media 241

Social Media Startup Sites Advertising 241

Eric Greenspan

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

I am anxious to see my blog post a month from now where I update my findings. Through CJ’s website, Publishers/Affiliates bring hits to Advertisers’ websites by using Google Adwords, blogs, email, Twitter, Facebook and other means. An example of this process is evident right here on my blog.

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