Berkonomics

MAY 16, 2013

Record plants were noisy, dirty places, using chemicals I can only imagine now rest somewhere in the ocean, to electroplate the “stampers” and press the records. Email readers, continue here.] Here it is, not so many years later, and the signs are more subtle yet, but the speed of obsolescence is much faster.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 2, 2011

It’s apropos because there is so much noise these days with email, Twitter, Facebook, blogs, web shows, etc. He’s committed to getting through every email. It’s not because I don’t want to respond to all emails – I do. I get way too many emails – many of them unsolicited.

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Eric Greenspan

JULY 3, 2012

With over 38,000 cult-like testimonials, one cannot dispute the company delivered a valuable service in a way like no other company has come close. Make It Work sold its services in pre-paid hours, at a discount from our pay-as-you-go pricing. They received priority service, convenience and savings. I was wrong.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 13, 2015

Because I am cheap and I know that car dealers are incentivized by the manufacturer to hit quarterly and annual sales goals. Thus, the value of a sale at the end of a quarter can be significant, if the sale contributes to obtaining a manufacturer''s incentive. Avoid The End-Of-The-Quarter Trou Drop.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 18, 2012

The following guest post is from Eric Greenspan, Founder and CEO of MakeItWork, a consumer facing, in-home tech support service. With over 38,000 cult-like testimonials, one cannot dispute the company delivered a valuable service in a way like no other company has come close. They received priority service, convenience and savings.

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StartUp Beat

MARCH 29, 2018

The press released added that Bessemer Venture Partners partner Bob Goodman will be joining Electric as a partner. The company boasts that it can keep the “email, computers, Wi-Fi and software running smoothly” at any given business. Electric is pioneering IT support for the modern office,” Goodman said.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 6, 2016

As the Internet continues to become populated with e-commerce sites, it’s becoming more and more difficult to generate web traffic, leads, and ultimate the sales for your website. Nowadays, it is not uncommon for e-commerce sites to accumulate a large number of sales thanks to social media interaction and promotion.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Most newspapers are written at a third-grade reading level, White House press releases average a fourth-grade reading level and the New York Times is easily digestible by the average fifth grader. Distribution and Sales. As best-selling author Stephen King once said, "Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word.”

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 1, 2010

Escort Services – Make a personal connection with someone willing to escort you through the front door and allow you to pass the corporate sentries unmolested. For instance, if the BDC were to bundle your solution with one sold via its VARs, such a partnership might result in incremental VAR sales.

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socalTECH

MAY 24, 2011

I had requests from friends to put them on an email, or give them a calendar reminder when a band was playing, and one thing led to another, and I started the site. How have you been growing the site and getting the word about your services? I just wanted to create a service to communicate and find local music. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

Our sales guys were on the front line and heard what they needed to win deals. some came from our customer service, some were to improve performance / scalability from tech ops, some were bug fixes, etc.) But it seemed strange to me that we would openly talk about stuff rather than waiting for a big announcement to the press.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

in sales last year, what he learned from his experience at TechStars, and where he's going with Fanmix. million in sales last year, with great margins, and it's profitable, with a team of ten people. However Gmail is only private email conversations. We heard form Alex to learn how SocialEngine was bootstrapped to $1.4M

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socalTECH

MARCH 24, 2016

In the world of residential real estate, there are now web and mobile services for everything from finding a new home, comparing neighborhoods and properties, to finding a mortgage, and even handling paperwork and closing. That's a big contrast to how it is done now, which is by pen and paper, phone, email, and fax.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 22, 2012

Professional service providers are incentivized to foster your business, as a portion of the funds you raise will go toward payment of their invoices. As you accomplish your milestones, send your target VCs a brief email update (think eye-candy graphics and charts, not dense text). Ask for money in your initial meeting with a VC.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

But putting no time into anchoring your beliefs because you’re too busy executing sales, marketing, support, product & engineering is an easy recipe for leadership drift. A regular dialog with peers can be more valuable than reading any amount of tech press and in many cases more valuable than even board input. Conviction.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 19, 2011

Later they became big business in Financial services lead-gen. o Huge on PR, “Be Everywhere” is his motto – fly to NY, proactively everywhere he could get press. o Huge on PR, “Be Everywhere” is his motto – fly to NY, proactively everywhere he could get press. o Everything is for sale but it’s the price that moves the timing.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

We can take all those search results, put them into a spreadsheet, and automatically email it to interested parties. In 2004, there was just rudimentary usage of web sites, and now, we've got cloud based, software-as-a-service. How did the company come about, what was the issue you were trying to solve? READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2010

I guess let’s file this under sales & marketing advice. As Brian Solis is fond of saying, “PR stands for public relations, not press release.&# That’s right. If you’re a financial services firm blog about personal finance. That way people who want to get your blog by RSS and/or email can do so.

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Blogging Startup Writing Summary 286

socalTECH

JUNE 9, 2010

Last week, Los Angeles-based HauteLook (www.hautelook.com), an online private sales site, scored a major round of funding--raising $31M from Insight Venture Partners. Adam Bernhard: We're a platform that does flash sales. Adam, thanks for the time. We work on behalf of brands, as a web site that has a membership base of over 2.5

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

Fund raising (as is much of life) is a sale – pure and simple. As with any sales campaign you need to: Qualify your buyers early so you focus your scarce resources on people likely to buy your product. . Three rules in sales: Why buy anything? Remember again that the three major steps to a sale are: Why buy anything?

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socalTECH

AUGUST 3, 2009

We have a tool that gives you the ability to manage, leverage and grow your professional network, designed for professional service providers and people who live or die by their relationships. We build web software that improves the ability of people to manage their networks. We're specifically not a social network.

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Networking Startup Social Network Software 113

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2010

File this under both Startup Adivce and Sales & Marketing Advice. Not talking to the press is a bit like a politician saying they don’t want to talk to the press because they’d rather save that time for drafting legislation. If you’ve got good ideas for a story – shoot it over to them in an email.

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Jason Nazar

MAY 2, 2016

For a corporation and LCC, you must register a service agent. Pick an internal email system ( Gmail , Outlook ). Choose an email system to connect with customers ( Constant Contact , MailChimp , Sendgrid ). Create a sales forecasts and financial projections regularly. Execute the 5 Step Sales Process.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

That, plus I love the space of high-customer-service, focused eCommerce for moms worried about what their kids eat & wear.&#. If I’m not mistaken, I may have been the first person to send out an angel “personal intro&# email on AngelList through their new platform when it launched or at least I was one of the first few.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

I was on an airplane 2-3 times / week meeting potential customers, investors, employees, business partners and the press. I stayed up late every night after a day of meetings doing email until 3am so that I didn’t feel out of touch with our product and sales pipelines. I swam every morning and ran every afternoon.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

We provide turnkey digital messaging appliances for enterprises, service providers and software developers to send marketing, e-commerce, CRM and customer service email. It was intended to be a single solution for all-things advertising online (banner ads, email, content management, search advertising, etc.).

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