InfoChachkie

JULY 18, 2012

Our customers benefitted from this and saved thousands over the years as a result. But later in 2011, new customers slowed, appointment bookings slowed and average appointment time dropped. In May of 2012, sales dropped drastically. Sales remained sluggish during this period, but we were not giving up. I was wrong.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Sales Mentality. They may not be a salesperson by title — but they should be able to effectively pitch and sell your product to customers. • Facebook • Twitter • Delicious • LinkedIn • StumbleUpon • Add to favorites • Email • RSS. What was the result?”. Share and Enjoy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 16, 2012

This is the main focus of EveryBlock, where they give each city block its own Web page, its own RSS feed and its own e-mail alerts. Geographic customization. Give people a way to draw custom geographic boundaries to specify their area of interest. Topic customization. This is not just a fad.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 10, 2012

The company posted a Show HN entry entitled, " We built a better solution for customer analysis and support.". Never ask a tech community for feedback when your true intent is to close a sale. • Facebook • Twitter • Delicious • LinkedIn • StumbleUpon • Add to favorites • Email • RSS.

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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. It’s called showing good service to your most loyal customers. That’s why people turn up to Buzzfeed. Good comment community = viral blog.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

The popularity of the company''s newsletter soon began to grow at a pace that outstripped the MouseDriver''s relatively meager sales. Sales Matter: Although they did many things right, John and Kyle failed to generate significant MouseDriver sales from their community. So in a sense, we crowdsourced our advisory board and.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 18, 2011

This is the main focus of EveryBlock, where they give each city block its own Web page, its own RSS feed and its own e-mail alerts. Geographic customization. Give people a way to draw custom geographic boundaries to specify their area of interest. Topic customization. This is not just a fad.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 22, 2012

If this is the case, offer to make a meaningful introduction to a potential customer or partner of one of their portfolio companies. For instance, you might propose a lead sharing relationship in which both companies trade customer introductions. Yes, I am advising you to sandbag your prospective investors. Share and Enjoy.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 25, 2009

I’ve sat through a lot of VC pitches and having been CEO of an enterprise software firm for many years I’ve also sat through many customer meetings with sales teams. After the sales meetings I would ask the exec afterward, “how do you think it went?&# We used to do this in our sales slides.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 14, 2008

Benefit of a proprietary platform can be finding customers. From BBM's web site: media RSS - extensions to RSS subscription format to support time based media, enclosures, copyrights and other meta-data needed for media. First company built on top of EMC, Unix servers, field sales to large clients. I would tend to agree.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 16, 2010

This is the main focus of EveryBlock, where they give each city block its own Web page, its own RSS feed and its own e-mail alerts. Geographic customization. Give people a way to draw custom geographic boundaries to specify their area of interest. Topic customization. This is not just a fad.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Steve's first question was, “Who are our customers?" I) took the 300 latest cards, personally wrote a questionnaire and called 300 customers. SuperMac's main customer base were color desktop professionals. All of a sudden I now had customers telling what market, how to reach them and what applications are important.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2010

I guess let’s file this under sales & marketing advice. Define your customers, partners and other relevant people to your organization (e.g. That’s blogging to the echo chamber unless they’re your target customers. That way people who want to get your blog by RSS and/or email can do so. I use awe.sm.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 4, 2012

As an entrepreneur, I helped create companies which achieved two IPOs and two trade sales totaling $385 million. Fallacy: Startup ventures tend to evolve, especially after you begin speaking with pesky customers and demanding partners. Public relations at a startup is a sales process. Perform China Syndrome Market Analysis.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Lean startups validate their business model by quickly iterating and assessing potential customers' feedback. However, sales plummeted once the popularity of the Kingsmen's single spread from Boston, eventually becoming a national hit. Although it sold a couple million copies in Europe, sales in the US were a disappointing 600,000.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 4, 2013

By 2012, total sales exceeded 50 million copies and founding band member Roger Waters was cited by Forbes as the second highest paid musician of the year, pulling in $88 million. Instead of refining their material based on customer feedback, they often lock themselves away in a recording studio, isolated from their fans' reactions.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 24, 2013

One way to do so is to ensure that when your customers share their experiences with your products and solutions, they do so with the passion and intensity of a soulful kiss. Buzz that does not ultimately generate sales is worth little. Startups must economically counteract the pervasive drone of large incumbents'' messaging.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

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. I’ll bet your customers, business partners or suppliers would love similar.

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socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2009

Our customers can sign up, and they can get full access to our API, where they can create campaigns to target public officials. We've made it really, really easy to offer to their customers. We want to make it so you can subscribe to that via RSS, or an email digest, or see when a vote comes up. Jason Kiesel: Yes.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 30, 2012

For instance, a senior executive from a major media agency, who did not attend the show, was prompted by a bearded-booth-babe tweet to contact the company’s VP of Sales. Central Desktop’s angel was amusing without alienating potential customers. Her company has since signed a contract with Central Desktop. Share and Enjoy.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

A startup leader's primary responsibility is to maximize the return to its stakeholders, which include the company's global and local neighbors, employees, suppliers, customers and investors. In particular, the Chick-fil-A Monday counter-protest resulted in a one-day sales record for the franchise. Stakeholder Responsibility.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

- SoCal CTO , January 13, 2010 5 Lessons from 150 startup pitches - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , July 11, 2010 9 Reasons Why Many Smart People Go Nowhere - Life Beyond Code , March 29, 2010 No Accounting For Startups - Steve Blank , February 22, 2010 Startup Advice In Exactly Three Words - #StartupTriplets - OnStartups , January (..)

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Subscribe to RSS. Subscribe to RSS. Matt McKinney is the Founder of TiesForCharity.com, a trendy tie company that donates a percentage of each tie sale to unique charities. Subscribe to RSS. Our Best Interviews Via Email: Monthly. Idea Mensch. where entrepreneurs share their stories. Thank you eMinutes. Email Address.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2010

maybe I own 20% of the company) or $5 million at a $20 million post (I own 25%) shouldn’t I block that sale of a company a cheap price? I know that people prefer to use Twitter as their RSS feed these days but wanted to remind anybody else that you can still get the traditional feed. At each step you preserve your options.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. Community Home Loans: FOR SALE. Upstate NY Retreat For Sale. Investment Land For Sale. Back to Top « Customer Service. FourSquare.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Engineers typically evaluate ideas differently than people engaged in sales, who in turn will consider ideas from a dissimilar vantage point from those responsible for product development, customer support and marketing. Share and Enjoy.

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