Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 23, 2021

Here are my recommendations for training and managing your team to keep their delivery memorable for customers, as well as profitable for your business: Hire team members who enjoy customer interaction. Provide training, tools, and required decision authority. Relationships also build loyalty, get referrals, and drive more sales.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2022

According to one study a decade ago, only 45% of founders plan to exit after stage one, and my guess is that less than half the remainder survive the next stage in their own company. Switch your attention from product development to sales. Separate marketing from sales for further leverage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2020

These must be countered by a focus on changes and training that benefit your people, as well as your business. Set up training courses that highlight agility, and adopt agile working practices. They grew sales by 28% in 2009, while most companies were hunkered down and losing share. Difficulty in securing and protecting funding.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 21, 2013

So when I meet with GRP portfolio companies that do enterprise sales I try to emphasize the following: 1. Often your sales engineers can do the customizations without bugging the core eng team. Integrate PS Work Into Sales & Marketing Processes. Referenceability is the lifeblood of sales. rollout support.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

According to one study a while back, only 45% of founders plan to exit after stage one, and my guess is that less than half the remainder survive the next stage in their own company. Switch your attention from product development to sales. Separate marketing from sales for further leverage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2014

According to earlier studies from Forbes Insights , many entrepreneurs and small businesses not only feel the lessons learned during the past few years have helped them survive, but the recession also exposed flaws in their business strategies that they were able to fix. See where you can maximize this type of profit.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 1, 2008

The meeting had a decent case study and some pretty good discussion around the room of different tools that you might consider using. Then the organizer went into a 20 minute sales pitch around his new training/coaching offering. I went to a meetup yesterday that was on the topic of Internet Marketing / SEO / SEM.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Yet in this age when customers have a thousand alternatives, and are overwhelmed by a multitude of messages, sales efforts can make or break a business. In fact, I believe modern entrepreneurs need to be super sales people, in the most positive sense, to their team as well as customers. No pain usually means no sales.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

For example, for a sales person, this metric number would likely measure new revenue or new customers. A more comprehensive study by Gallup showed that 70 percent of employees today lack these attributes. Evaluate where technology and training can help. In business vernacular, targets are usually called metrics.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2013

Jim Stengel, in “ Grow: How Ideals Power Growth and Profit ” chronicles a ten-year study of the world’s fifty best businesses, including Apple, and concludes that those who centered their businesses on a culture of improving people’s lives had a growth rate triple that of competitors in their categories. Train all the time.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 4, 2012

Jim Stengel, in his latest book “ Grow: How Ideals Power Growth and Profit ” chronicles a ten-year study of the world’s fifty best businesses, including Apple, and concludes that those who centered their businesses on a culture of improving people’s lives had a growth rate triple that of competitors in their categories. Train all the time.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

According to one study a while back, only 45% of founders plan to exit after stage one, and my guess is that less than half the remainder survive the next stage in their own company. Switch your attention from product development to sales. Separate marketing from sales for further leverage.

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socalTECH

MAY 30, 2019

There are tons of studies that we've done that show when a brand is not good, that employment brand, it impacts your entire brand and the people you can get to come work for your company, and the people you can get to stay. What we found, if people wanted help finding a job right away, and didn't want to be trained in how to look for a job.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

In fact, new studies show more results come from peer and non-cash recognition. This simply means that everyone should be trained and motivated to prioritize and focus on the important items, and proactively attack those first. Perfection is not an affordable target in product development, sales or customer support.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 21, 2011

Nordstrom sales reps are trained to do this to, but of course they can’t know every customer that walks around the store. Study after study shows that for most high-value products, close rates are higher and order sizes are higher when you get a customer on the phone. Or can they? They’re not. The Future.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 2, 2011

We need to study humanities, religion, politics, biology, economics as well as computer science. This is where training programs come into play. Maybe 2 years of computer training would suit some people better than 4 years of book study? Single minded is good for some. Not for others. Actually, not for many.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

According to one study a while back, only 45% of founders plan to exit after stage one, and my guess is that less than half the remainder survive the next stage in their own company. Switch your attention from product development to sales. Separate marketing from sales for further leverage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

According to one study , only 45% of Founders plan to exit after stage one, and my guess is that less than half the remainder survive the next stage in their own company. Switch your attention from product development to sales. These only come with the proper training, investment in tools, and focus on customer relationships.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2019

These authors present 20+ years of research, including case studies and metrics, showing how culture really makes or breaks your business. In addition, most business knowledge, such as the reason for a lost sale, is subject to interpretation. I have found that while many of their lessons may seem obvious, others are not so intuitive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2016

Entrepreneurs don’t realize that this burden is actually costing them over $200 billion in repeat sales, according to a recent study by the W. The report also indicates that customer problem experiences continue to increase, up four percent to 54 percent since the last study. Provide training and empowerment.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

There have been many studies done on the topic including looking at twins raised in separate families. There have been studies of adopted children to their natural parents versus the parents that raised them. I have also seen studies on “birth order.&#. There’s no question that both factors are involved.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 9, 2013

Earlier this year, a new study “ 2013 Business Outlook Survey: A New Reality Of Cautious Optimism ” was published by EKS&H. Here are some financial planning areas of emphasis derived from multiple studies: Better cash flow controls. Even though it has been a long haul, it’s nice to see some optimism surfacing in 2013.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2011

Just yesterday, a new study “ The PNC Economic Outlook: Survey of Small & Middle-Market Business Owners ” was published. small business owners expect increased sales and profits in the next six months, with a brighter outlook for hiring full-time employees. One out of two U.S.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 24, 2015

Thanks to recent advances in big data analytics, companies of all sizes now have the same opportunity to gather data, study it, and figure out the best ways to use it for growing their businesses. As far as business trends go, few have had as big of an impact as big data. Big data needs to ultimately give you insight that you can act upon.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2015

However, the higher you get within an organization in the sale (and the larger the deal) executives are often looking to “win in the market,” which means growing revenue faster, offering products or services at a lower cost or offering features that their competitors can’t.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 16, 2016

The material was essentially a rehash of my four years of undergrad business training. marketing, finance, sales, etc.). This will allow you to focus on the aspects of the course that are relevant to your interests, without forcing you to study gratuitous facts. Like a sheepeople, I dutifully signed up for the required classes.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 22, 2016

The 11-year-old company provides customer relationship management software-as-a-service for companies like Electrolux, Whirlpool, and Samsung, helping them re-purpose their training materials and other “help content” to improve their customer experience. In April, a study released by the San Diego Regional Economic Development Corp.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : “Ringrevenue’s call performance marketing platform enables ad networks, agencies, advertisers & publishers to generate more inbound sales calls.”. For businesses like this, finding new ways to drive more of these high-value inbound sales calls is key. Those are the two main criteria.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 20, 2013

Who is the sales person? Players are trained and disciplined to react accordingly and make quick decisions in a blink of an eye that would most benefit the team. Most will mention basketball legends like Michael Jordan or Magic Johnson, studying all of their games and learning their every move. Who has the business mindset?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

But what chapped my hide was that every early assignment at Accenture they divided teams, training and assignments into “technical” and “non technical.” I told her I wasn’t yet convinced that she’d make a good: product manager, designer, sales person, leader, CEO. She was paid 15% more. Persistent?

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

If you look back, the original founder, Stephan studied at the USC Foreign School of Music, so there is a long standing connection with LA. After that the next step will be to build up a whole business development sales and marketing team here in the US (in close contact with the big music production companies and so on).

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