Direct Marketing Finance Sales 
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 28, 2010
VC Financings: 1. It was an early example of the power of direct marketing and subscription services. Jeremy Liew, a respected VC from LightSpeed, obviously saw the change to ramp up sales. It’s a hot but still relatively nascent market area. I keep meaning to get him drunk to spill the stories.
Lightspeed Venture Partners
DECEMBER 3, 2010
The breakout categories of 2010 are Local Deals (Groupon, Living Social* etc), and Flash Sales (Gilt, RueLaLa, HauteLook, Ideeli etc), and both are squarely aimed at helping consumers save money. The Flash Sales sites and Local Deals sites both make shopping fun by offering deep discounts. Finding money and saving money online.
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crowdSPRING Blog
FEBRUARY 11, 2019
Create a sales plan. You know a lot about marketing or finance or… whatever. For a consulting business, you’ll obviously want to track your sales and profits, but there’s so much more to think about before you can get there. Create a Sales Plan. Fill in the business blanks. Crunch the numbers.
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 27, 2010
During the 1990’s large corporations had bought different software applications to automate each part of their enterprise – finance, customer support, manufacturing, sales, etc. The finance system didn’t talk to the sales system which didn’t know the manufacturing system even existed. Founder Too.
Up and Running
APRIL 25, 2013
Business Management Productivity Sales and Marketing Technology business Digital Mail Room Direct Marketing finance' The USPS offers a free, one-time service that updates a mailing list up to 50,000 names with correct, standardized addresses.
YoungUpstarts
SEPTEMBER 27, 2016
Sales is often a numbers game. The more prospective customers you are able to reach out to and the more efficiently you are able to move each customer through your sales funnel, the more sales you will be able to make even with many sales failing to fall through. Develop A Fixed Sales Process.
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 9, 2010
Best of both creates a new market. Your competitor has strengths (maybe sales), and you have a different strength (maybe technology), appealing to overlapping segments. Up-sell related products after the initial sale. They may have the finances you need, and be ready to invest in a business area they know.
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