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Scaling Sales: Arming & Aiming – A’s, B’s & C’s

Both Sides of the Table

This is part of my ongoing Sales & Marketing Series. In the first part of this post I talked about how sales in a startup is often evangelical , requires as consultative sale and needs constant adjustments based on customer feedback. We had 4 or 5 sales reps that had been around since the early days.

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6 Essential Elements For Kickstarting Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

A few years ago, I saw a classic primer on the key elements of great online content that I like, in “ Launch: How to Quickly Propel Your Business Beyond the Competition ,” by Michael Stelzner, founder of SocialMediaExaminer.com. Lacks a sales angle. They are a shortcut that can put you far ahead of your competition.

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CapLinked Worldwide Pitch Competition | Submit Your Startup

Tech Zulu Event

CapLinked , the online platform for private investment funded by members of the “ PayPal Mafia “—announced that it is launching a worldwide pitch competition for entrepreneurs to present their business ideas to a panel of all-star judges from Idealab, Rincon, Rapidfire, and Actarus.

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Create An Industry Alliance Entrepreneurs: Need Friends On The Startup Playground

InfoChachkie

Entrepreneurs can emulate de la Guerra’s strategy and make their adVenture appear far larger than reality and thus increasing its influence and market reach while discouraging competitive threats by creating an industry alliance. Revenue – We generated significant fees, over and above our product sales, from our members.

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Why Startups Need to Blog (and what to talk about …)

Both Sides of the Table

eCommerce is an enormously competitive search term. Do you have sales productivity software? A large number of readers on my site get it from Feedburner or newsletter feed. TC posts = more Twitter followers = more conversion when I do write on my own blog = more Feedburner / newsletter subs = more traffic.

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Startup ‘Word-Of-Mouth’ Is Not A Launch Strategy

Startup Professionals Musings

A couple of years ago, I saw a modern-day primer on the key elements of great online content that I like in “ Launch: How to Quickly Propel Your Business Beyond the Competition ,” by Michael Stelzner, founder of SocialMediaExaminer.com. Lacks a sales angle. They are a shortcut that can put you far ahead of your competition.

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6 Core Elements of Winning Startup Launch Content

Startup Professionals Musings

Not too long ago, I saw a modern-day primer on the key elements of great online content in “ Launch: How to Quickly Propel Your Business Beyond the Competition ,” by Michael Stelzner, founder of SocialMediaExaminer.com. Lacks a sales angle. They are a shortcut that can put you far ahead of your competition. Then write it down.

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