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Using Generative AI to Drive Corporate Impact

TechEmpower

Generative AI is revolutionizing how corporations operate by enhancing efficiency and innovation across various functions. TechEmpower has been instrumental in developing chatbots like these, utilizing generative AI to sift through internal documents and user manuals, enabling them to provide precise answers to customer service questions.

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Scaling Sales: Arming & Aiming – A’s, B’s & C’s

Both Sides of the Table

The next few posts are going to talk about scaling your sales operations as you move out of the evangelical phase. You have no choice since in the first few years everything you do is about showing results to justify financing to continue your operations. I would work through my sales deals pipelines by doing pipeline reviews.

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73.6% of all Statistics are Made Up

Both Sides of the Table

One of our core tasks was “market analysis,&# which consistent of: market sizing, market forecasts, competitive analysis and then instructing customers on which direction to take. They had interviewed telecom operators, handset manufacturers and corporate buyers. 18% of all errors come from people using the wrong documents.

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The Key Elements of the Financial Plan

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Sales forecast. You’ll also list your operating expenses, which are the expenses associated with running your business that aren’t incurred directly by making a sale. Your gross margin less your operating expenses will give you your operating income: Gross Margin – Operating Expenses = Operating Income.

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10 Reasons You Don’t Qualify for an SBA Disaster Loan

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This does not mean that you need 2-3 years’ worth of documents showcasing your revenue and cost of goods sold, but you’ll likely need reports that show at least 12-months of financial activity. If your business has only been operational for a few months you do have options. Incomplete application or missing documents.

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How to Know When to Sell vs. When to Market to Customers

Both Sides of the Table

But you have no choice since in the first few years everything you do is about showing results to justify financing to continue your operations. You could often tell when a sales person couldn’t defend having the deal be listed as an A deal (and thus have a high forecast percentage) by having them walk you through each deal.

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Introducing Lean Planning: How to plan less and grow faster

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Develop a forecast: Basic forecasts and budgets are critical; And tracking them is even more so. Instead of detailed documents, we focused on tracking our performance to our plan and managing to regularly updated schedules and milestones. The Lean Planning methodology starts with a documenting your hypothesis with a pitch.

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