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6 Reasons Why Technology Won’t Kill B2B Salespeople

YoungUpstarts

A new report from Forrester Research called “Death of a B2B Salesman,” predicts that one million U.S. B2B salespeople will lose their jobs to self-service e-commerce by 2020. Job Forecast Study ranks sales jobs as the number one job employers are currently looking to fill, ranking 10% higher than technical positions.

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2010 VC Funding Outlook for Startups – Prepare for Winter (Part 3/3)

Both Sides of the Table

It affects even B2B companies because ultimately most must sell to companies who sell to consumers and if they suffer they cut back on suppliers. The IMF just raised its global growth forecast from 2.5% This is tied to having consumers who feel confident enough to spend. Consumer spending is where I’m dubious.

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Why your company should have a single email address

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

This guest-post is from Joannes Vermorel, founder of Lokad which produces sales forecasts for off-line companies. He has a personal blog about cloud computing. Despite experts routinely claiming Email 1.0 will soon be replaced by their own Email 2.0 ; Email 1.0 is here to stay.

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Start-ups are all Naked in the Mirror

Both Sides of the Table

Reporters were no longer interested in talking about B2B eCommerce. Our sales forecasts were revised downward – many times. Our customers were generally happy but they were pushing us hard for promised features. Our business development discussions took longer than planned. But still we made progress.

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Pitch Deck Month: The “Where Are You Going?” Slide

View from Seed

Enterprise SaaS/B2B software – account executives (AEs) and sales developement reps (SDRs). The point here is not to do a granular forecast of revenue or number of users/customers, but to put a stake in the ground so investors understand what you believe is achievable with X amount of resources given Y timeframe.

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Coping With Late Payment – Managing Asia’s Slow Payers

YoungUpstarts

A total of 30 per cent of business-to-business (B2B) invoices issued to foreign companies were paid late and 6.5 According to The Economist forecast for 2015, ASEAN will add USD 335 billion and become the fourth largest economy in the world. Forecast cash flow. per cent were written off as uncollectable. Set credit limits.

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How To Keep Your Company Alive – Observe, Orient, Decide and Act

Steve Blank

Forecasted recovery date. Sales pipeline/forecast. B2B – cloud services, online meetings, virtual workforce management, collaboration tools. Shelter in place yes/no? Health of Your Current Target Market(s). Actively buying? Not returning calls? Out of business? Emergence of New Market(s). Are there new opportunities?