Berkonomics
SEPTEMBER 13, 2018
Most investment bankers will coach you into helping them find you a strategic buyer, knowing that such sales are quicker, often less focused upon the small warts of a business, and yield higher prices than financial sales. The price negotiated is not at all the critical factor in the emotional sale.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 3, 2014
Specifically what is often not in the DNA of founders are sales skills. The result is a lack of knowledge of the process and of sales people themselves. I had never had any sales training so everything we did for the first couple of years was instinctual. I boil it down to this: sales people are sales people.
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Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 5, 2011
Specifically what is often not in the DNA of founders are sales skills. The result is a lack of knowledge of the process and of sales people themselves. I had never had any sales training so everything we did for the first couple of years was instinctual. I boil it down to this: sales people are sales people.
Berkonomics
APRIL 19, 2018
Email readers, continue here…] Early in the rapid growth phase of my computer software company, I hired an excellent, IBM-trained vice president of sales to further growth and begin our international expansion. Everyone but the sales VP was present as anticipated. A personal story illustrates the point too well.
Berkonomics
SEPTEMBER 2, 2011
Most investment bankers will coach you into helping them find you a strategic buyer, knowing that such sales are quicker, often less focused upon the small warts of a business, and yield higher prices than financial sales. The price negotiated is not at all the critical factor in the emotional sale.
AeA Los Angeles Council
APRIL 10, 2008
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. Panelists include: Mark Friedman , President of the Velos Group, an industry expert in Sales Lead Management. Sales Directors.
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 24, 2019
At the very least, big brands like IBM and McDonalds still take decades to achieve influence, whereas people have become influencers with only a few months of work. Tony Hsieh, founder of Zappos, is recognized as an influencer in online retail, doubling sales annually, by giving away shoes to the needy.
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