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Journeymen, Mavericks & Superstars: Understanding Salespeople at Startups

Both Sides of the Table

These people take directions well from a sales manager on how to approach sales campaigns. When you hear them speak in an interview about how they’ve run sales campaigns in the past they describe the methods with precision. Mavericks are the people who innately know how to navigate a sales campaign.

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[Interview] Jim Ewel, Author Of ‘The Six Disciplines of Agile Marketing: Proven Practices For More Effective Marketing And Better Business Results’

YoungUpstarts

They used Agile to differentiate themselves and help their clients deal with the radical changes in the business environment. Many marketing groups focus on how many marketing campaigns they can run, how many marketing emails they can send out, or how much marketing content they can generate. Most marketers think in terms of campaigns.

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How to Handle Competition as a Startup

The Startup Magazine

Differentiate Your Offerings To differentiate in a saturated market, startups must highlight what sets their products or services apart. Also, tracking competitors’ digital presence, such as social media trends or ad campaigns, can provide further insights into their strategies.

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What Happens When Startups Turn from Their Innovation Stage to Operational Excellence?

Both Sides of the Table

You start out with vision, you must adapt and have intellectual honesty once you stare at your data and know where your true sources of differentiation and value are. We weren’t in enough cities to do national advertising campaigns yet we weren’t centralized enough to benefit off of our central marketing traction.

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7 Likely Criticisms Every Founder Needs To Anticipate

Startup Professionals Musings

In business, and in your personal life, the ability to anticipate and overcome criticism is one of the biggest differentiators between leaders, who make things happen, and followers, who may have great ideas but never seem to get things to go their way.

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Effective Ways To Differentiate And Scale Your Business

Duct Tape Marketing

Effective Ways To Differentiate And Scale Your Business written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Key Takeaway: A major challenge many businesses face is trying to find ways to differentiate and scale. Debbie Howard (07:32): I think for us is just trying to differentiate and then scale.

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7 Negative Reactions To New Ideas And How To Prevail

Startup Professionals Musings

In business, and in your personal life, the ability to anticipate and overcome criticism is one of the biggest differentiators between leaders, who make things happen, and followers, who may have great ideas but never seem to get things to go their way.