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Why Email May Be Draining Your Company’s Productivity

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I’ve taken to saying, “Email is our personal to-do list that anybody adds to – whether they know us or not.” about their marathon 4-hour sessions to get to zero inbox or somebody else claiming email bankruptcy ( definition if you don’t know it already ). I have taken to limiting my outbound email.

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Why Most of Your Assumptions About Phone Calls are Wrong

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If you follow the tech media you would be subject to a lot of narrative biases that are completely off base – and this includes the value of email and phone calls. All the data actually suggests with the growth of mobile, inbound sales calls will double from 30 billion to 60 billion in 3 years (source: Kelsey). THE FULL STORY.

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What Should You Send a VC Before Your Meeting?

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As a VC and former entrepreneur let me offer you some advice. Remember that the goal of an email to a VC or an introduction from a trusted mutual connection is simply to get you the meeting. This is part of a series on how to improve your fund raising game. The first post & the full outline if you click the link.) Compelling.

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How Event Farm Is Making Events A Part Of Your Sales Funnel

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The most obvious, is to drive sales. However, our approach is a whole new product category, part of the marketing cloud. Before we came to market, there had not been the focus on having the right people at marketing events, that tracking people matters, and including those events as part of the sales funnel.

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One Man’s Signal is Another Man’s Noise

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It’s apropos because there is so much noise these days with email, Twitter, Facebook, blogs, web shows, etc. Here’s the thing: entrepreneurs who aren’t at all of our private meetings really didn’t know what do think about the situation. It sure wasn’t when I was a first-time entrepreneur.

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Deal Hair: Is Your Startup More Like Russell Brand Or Bruce Willis?

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Whenever a VC assesses a potential investment opportunity, they attempt to match the entrepreneur(s), their solution, and intended markets with a pattern they have previously encountered. Conversely, even if a venture is pre-revenue, the operational risk is reduced if the entrepreneurs have a relevant track record of success.

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Interview with David Loo, CEO and Founder of Perspectium

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The CFO requires financial acumen driven from metrics, which can be had from sales and operational information, however, they're often locked into these silo'ed application stacks. They end up either calling or emailing, and someone literally takes that same content, and manually enters it into a trouble ticket in a system like ServiceNow.

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