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6 Incentives To Master The Art Of Marketing Yourself

Startup Professionals Musings

As an investor, I sometimes see CEOs who negotiate to send their VP of Marketing to talk. As your company grows, you have to host customer seminars. The other four are: new product development, writing, time management, and sales/marketing. The implications to you and your company are also large, so be prepared.

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5 Priorities For New Business Leader Self-Development

Startup Professionals Musings

Here are the key internal characteristics that McKeown and I both see as critical to your growth from a technical expert who can develop a great solution, to the recognized business leader you need to be to prosper: Measure yourself on how much you have learned lately. Another approach is to tackle one specific problem at a time.

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Why Your Startup Needs a Sales Methodology

Both Sides of the Table

It’s what I call “ the evangelical phase ” of a company in which you’re out trying to persuade customers that a product you’ve designed is going to meet their needs better than other solutions on the market. Steve Blank calls this “ customer development ” in which you built an initial product that is in search of “product / market fit.”

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The Value Achieved Business Networking at Conferences

Tech Zulu Event

It was a day and a half into Blog World while I was mentally drowning in my own whining when I stopped to recognize that for the past 36 working hours I was often in the lobby area or inside a seminar smiling and laughing with some of my most inspiring friends. At least that is what happened to mine. Ricardo Bueno @Ribeezie.

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Small Business Marketing | Get Customers versus Get Leads

Tech Zulu Event

That is, of course, as long as what you are selling is the absolute best in your market.) In a seminar, with author of “ Linked Working ” Lewis Howes , he shared one of his clients spent an hour a day answering questions on LinkedIn and got a few new clients each month creating thousands of dollars in additional revenue.

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6 Reasons To Overcome Your Fear of Talking Publicly

Startup Professionals Musings

As an investor, I sometimes see CEOs who negotiate to send their VP of Marketing to talk. As your company grows, you have to host customer seminars. The other four are: new product development, writing, time management, and sales/marketing. The implications to you and your company are also large, so be prepared.

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5 Public Speaking Opportunities To Make Your Company

Startup Professionals Musings

As an investor, I sometimes see CEOs who negotiate to send their VP of Marketing to talk. As your company grows, you have to host customer seminars. The other four are: new product development, writing, time management, and sales/marketing. The implications to you and your company are also large, so be prepared.

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