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Enjoy A Sales Turnaround By December!

Rembrandt Communications

It’s September, and the busy, holiday sales season is here. How To Boost 2022 Holiday Sales Fast – R.U.N.! • When was the last time you reviewed everything going on at your business including your website content, sales funnels, customer service processes, delivery materials, social media, online analytics, and more?

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9 Messages From Sales Training May Save Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

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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8 Priorities When Offering A New Product Or Service

Startup Professionals Musings

Every one of you business owners I know periodically introduces new products and services to sustain growth, fight off competitors, or take advantage of new technologies. The cost of any new product these days must include education and rollout marketing, perhaps equal or greater than the development costs.

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7 Keys To Making A Business Out Of Your Great Product

Startup Professionals Musings

Most technical entrepreneurs focus hard on building an innovative product, but forget that an elegant solution doesn’t automatically translate into a successful business. Defining the right business model requires the same diligence as designing the right product, but the approach and skills required are different.

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10 Key Business Plan Elements Not In A Product Spec

Startup Professionals Musings

For the rest of us, we need a business plan, as well as a product plan. Some of you may be convinced that your product specification communicates the product message even better than a business plan, so why be redundant? Professional investors and even customers invest in people, rather than just a product.

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How a Virtual Assistant can Help Startup Make More Sales

ReadWriteStart

Now that the volume of VA footwork has rapidly increased and jacks of all trades are no longer productive enough. This article will examine one vital activity and see how trained VAs can help your company improve sales. This has led to companies looking for trained professionals who can wrestle with specific, critical tasks.

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Helping Startups Understand Salespeople & the Sales Culture

Both Sides of the Table

Most technology startups seem to be funded by product people or business people. Specifically what is often not in the DNA of founders are sales skills. The result is a lack of knowledge of the process and of sales people themselves. I boil it down to this: sales people are sales people. Here are mine.

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