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Helping Startups Understand Salespeople & the Sales Culture

Both Sides of the Table

Most technology startups seem to be funded by product people or business people. 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 boil it down to this: sales people are sales people. Here are mine.

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5 Tips For Attracting Female Customers

Tech.Co

Purchasing products from a brand you trust can be more of an emotional buy, and trust is one of the key factors to attracting the female shopper. If they know a product is good enough for their family and children, they will share that information with friends. “Focusing on emotion is key when communicating with female customers.

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5 Tips to Becoming a More Customer Centric Organization

Both Sides of the Table

As organizations we have become more open and I believe this is great for businesses and their customers. We spent time out in the marketplace talking with customers, looking at their solutions, comparing ourselves with our competition and then squirreling ourselves away in our offices designing our next set of features.

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Startup Children – How To Parent An Entrepreneur (Part II) - Sales Advice From Dr. Seuss

InfoChachkie

Man or woman, the tactics deployed by Sam are applicable to any sales situation and can be put to use by any salesperson, irrespective of their gender. The story begins with the unwitting, future customer relaxing and reading the paper. He is so confident in his green eggs and ham product that he cannot help but smile.

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Reflections on 2020: Nick Hedges, MomentFeed

socalTECH

In 2020, the pandemic radically changed the customer acquisition process for many consumer-facing industries. We successfully accelerated our product innovation schedule to deliver, in record time, solutions to meet these challenges. What was the biggest lesson you learned this year?

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Mark Suster’s Advice To Emerging Entrepreneurs – “Do Not Do, As I Have Done”

InfoChachkie

By focusing on what he would do differently now, he was able to humbly convey a number of impactful lessons to a captivated audience of budding entrepreneurs. Mark encourages emerging entrepreneurs to be bold, yet he admits that with his first startup, he boldly pushed PR before the product was ready. Number one is sales.

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What I’ve Learned About Venture Funding

Both Sides of the Table

We’ve had just one market since then and it could confuse one into thinking: every deal finds downstream investors, every company good or bad finds a home, you know anything at all about brazil, india, china or even saas sales, ecommerce or analytics (you know all these in a bull market). The longer I do this the more humbled I become.

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