Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Every startup lucky enough to get some traction gets to the point where they decide to hire some “regular employees” for sales, marketing, and administrative tasks. What they should be doing is hiring only “entrepreneurs,” meaning people who think and act as if this is their own business. We don’t need to reward lead generation.”

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 10, 2012

by Bill Lee, author of “ The Hidden Wealth of Customers: Realizing the Untapped Value of Your Most Important Asset “. No one can truly understand your customers or genuinely share their interests unless she is a customer herself. Your most powerful growth engine is your existing customer. Highly trained salespeople.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2014

This person may be an extraordinary communicator, who rallies employees, customers, and colleagues around the vivid future he sees. Chief Sales Officer (VP Sales). See this anecdote by Steve Blank on how a hotshot sales executive can sink your startup. Chief Brand Officer. Chief Risk Officer.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2022

In this article, we’ll explain how to create a marketing playbook to align your teams and boost your sales opportunities. They map out a repeatable process to avoid chaos and confusion in your team and with customers. This consistency creates familiarity, breeding trust that turns prospects into customers and customers into advocates.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2013

Every startup lucky enough to get some traction gets to the point where they decide to hire some “regular employees” for sales, marketing, and administrative tasks. What they should be doing is hiring only “entrepreneurs,” meaning people who think and act as if this is their own business. We don’t need to reward lead generation.”

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 19, 2019

You should hire a company nurse and a company doctor for your business, especially if your business deals or works with heavy machinery and equipment. Indeed, digital marketing has made many small businesses successful because of reaching more customers in less time and effort. Secure Business Systems, Software, and Applications.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

While there are some services that are commonly outsourced, such as customer support and software engineering, there are actually hundreds of other tasks that can be effectively done by outsourcers, thereby helping to scale your business. Lead generation. Transcribing video and audio content.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

This person may be an extraordinary communicator, who rallies employees, customers, and colleagues around the vivid future he sees. Chief Sales Officer (VP Sales). See this anecdote by Steve Blank on how a hotshot sales executive can sink your startup. Chief Brand Officer. Chief Risk Officer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Some make big mistakes, such as Webvan expanding too fast with a huge infrastructure, and Pets.com , trying to grow the business with a negative margin, under the mistaken assumption that winning customers is more important than making a profit. Ask every employee to focus on sales. Aggressively enter new markets and sales channels.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

You’re in discussions with strategic partners and potential beta customers. It’s the first place a potential customer will go to check you out. What value will customers receive from doing business with your company? Never lead with your technology—make a brief mention at most. Now is the time to get your web site up.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 28, 2022

We are also investing more in our team by hiring additional staff and providing more training and development opportunities. 3- Increase engagement with customers. In 2023 I plan to engage with my customers and social media followers more extensively. 7- Improve customer experience. Photo Credit: Bozlur Rehman.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 19, 2013

Over the years one of the great breakdowns in many of the small businesses that I’ve worked with lies in area of sales. Now it might be tempting to conclude that what I referring to is a lack of sales, but what I’m really getting at is a misunderstanding there’s actually a distinction between sales and marketing.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

He transformed a $3,000 investment into a multi-state enterprise with nearly $1 billion in lifetime sales. Exclusive to new customers—upgrade and grow your business with ActiveCampaign today! But as you start hiring people and building a team, now the business' success depends on how well teams execute.

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Gust

APRIL 20, 2014

This person may be an extraordinary communicator, who rallies employees, customers, and colleagues around the vivid future he sees. Chief Sales Officer (VP Sales). See this anecdote by Steve Blank on how a hotshot sales executive can sink your startup. Chief Brand Officer. Chief Risk Officer.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 19, 2022

After having to reduce and rethink our strategy during COVID, we observed that our community and sales have skyrocketed. I need to look after our personnel because they look after our customers. We had to make the difficult decision to cut down on staff and this allowed us to hire workers at lower rates.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2010

This person may be an extraordinary communicator, who rallies employees, customers, and colleagues around the vivid future he sees. Chief Sales Officer (VP Sales). See this anecdote by Steve Blank on how a hotshot sales executive can sink your startup. Chief Brand Officer. Chief Risk Officer.

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Ben's Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2010

The biggest difference between being a great functional manager and being a great general manager—and particularly a great CEO—is that as a general manager, you must hire and manage people who are far more competent at their jobs than you would be at their jobs. So, with no experience, how do you hire someone good?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 9, 2020

Some make big mistakes, such as Webvan expanding too fast with a huge infrastructure, and Pets.com , trying to grow the business with a negative margin, under the mistaken assumption that winning customers is more important than making a profit. Ask every employee to focus on sales. Aggressively enter new markets and sales channels.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 13, 2019

Or that 49 percent of law firms report pay-per-click ads as their best lead generation tool? . More than ever before, today’s potential clients are interested in their customer experience. We recommend hiring a professional so that your space looks well-appointed and inspires confidence. . Marketing Expenses.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

SAAS+ focuses on integrating high touch with their high-tech subscriptions, providing their customers with a platform for coaching and consulting needs. We’re able to achieve this by creating an ecosystem customized to a client’s needs in a professional manner. In addition, we also focus on a LinkedIn lead generation.

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ConversionXL

JULY 1, 2014

Conversions are mostly about being relevant to your customers. If what you offer and the way you present it is relevant to your visitors they will convert to buying customers. Then again if you don’t understand who your customer is or worse it’s “everybody” then you have very little change of being successful at it. Demographic.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2022

Beyond the fear, many really don’t get the value of being willing and able to communicate effectively with team members, investors, customers, and a myriad of other support people, both one-on-one and one-to-many. As a startup, you as the entrepreneur are the brand, the brand builder, and the major lead generator.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 13, 2019

Ecommerce sales are growing for traditional B2B businesses as well as direct-to-consumer brands, which are opening wholesale sides to get a slice of the growing B2B ecommerce pie. B2B buyers have two key differences that impact marketing and website design choices: A more complex sales cycle; Niche targeting. Niche targeting.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Like most functions in today’s businesses, sales is currently undergoing a transformation. Lead generation , customer acquisition, and sales resources are being approached differently. Companies now replace the cold call with new sales tools and tactics that are changing results for the better.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 30, 2024

Key Takeaways Chris Martinez’s journey underscores the importance of strategic pivots, understanding customer needs, leveraging technology, building a strong team, and continuous learning. We had first we had a big giant office in Tijuana, but then we expanded and started hiring people all over Mexico. Let's talk about that.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Blog About Log in Register Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition In the many thousands of articles advising entrepreneurs on what they have to focus on to build successful startups, much has been written about three key factors: team, product and market, with particular focus on the importance of product/market fit.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Think back to a sales situation with a friend of a friend, one where you started with a huge trust advantage: how much smoother and faster was the process? Hire a virtual assistant to find your targets’ emails and other information. Day 1: Post hiring ad for lead generation VA. Step 1: Create Upwork hiring account.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

The company focuses on various areas, including content creation, digital marketing, paid search, lead generation, digital design and more. As a result, they produce aesthetically appealing websites that attract visitors and help boost sales conversions. Who is Quantified Media? Current Openings at Quantified Media.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 4, 2021

These are keepsake cards and many of our customers tell us that the recipients frame their cards. And that’s how I started my private equity business where I acquire both online and offline assets such as lead generation websites and physical real estate. 9- Providing Legitimate B2B Customer Data in the Era of Mistrust.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 16, 2011

My experience is that most businesses have at least a few of those evangelist type customers just looking for ways to sing their praises. Sure, asking them for a few referrals is a great way to let them help, but I’ve found that there a few things you can do to really give your champion customers a voice and let them shine in the process.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 2, 2018

Marketing is the bridge between your business and your customers. Almost any form of communication with your customers falls under its umbrella. Without marketing, your business may as well exist in an unlit locked vault – no customers are coming in and no sales are going out. Customers will beg to differ.

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

Very few, if any, of these interactions are with a sales rep. This behavior has marketers pledging to up their demand generation budgets. Because if people are making up their own minds, without coercion from sales, creating demand is the best way to get them to choose you. Demand generation owes a lot to inbound marketing.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

Some see it as a sales tactic, while others view it as a content marketing strategy. Account-based marketing is an approach where marketing and sales work together to nurture target accounts and convert or retain customers. It needs perfect alignment from sales, marketing, and executive leaders across the organization.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

From preparing your latest pitch for funding , to improving your customer service , generating content for your website and even chasing up unpaid invoices, you’re likely to be doing a million different things yourself or with a very small team in place. Sites like Quora are great sounding boards and sources of information too.

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Venture Chronicles

AUGUST 7, 2013

To recap, here is the series thus far: 1) Hiring 2) Dynamic Org Structures 3) Product First. I really loved telling the story of GS for this reason alone, it is about what is possible by empowering people, customers and employees, rather than saving a few dollars here or picking up some extra revenue there. 4) Marketing.

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 29, 2012

For example, if you want to hire someone to call to call local businesses and set appointments for you, you would need to: Develop a general game plan of who to call, how many people, what times of day, and for what purpose. So considering putting someone in place to handle all the new business to generate.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 3, 2024

For startups eager to establish an efficient operational framework from the start, the decision to hire Microsoft Dynamics experts becomes instrumental. As a versatile ERP system, Microsoft Dynamics caters to a variety of business needs, supporting everything from sales management to customer interactions.

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