Hearpreneur

JANUARY 30, 2022

Face-to-face engagement is important, especially at vital points in the sales cycle or while creating relationships. The traditional push marketing approach has given way to a new approach that entails engaging customers through social networking, blogs and video. Photo Credit: Bailey Whissel.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 8, 2014

Is Networking a Waste of Time? Networking is actually one of the most powerful strategic activities you can engage in if you do it right. In fact, when people ask me what they should do to market their business when they are just getting started I tell them to start networking. Marketing podcast with Derek Coburn.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

While big ticket products might carry longer and more complex sales cycles, high-end buyers are just as lazy as the rest of us, so they use the same methods: Google, social media, and yes, their inboxes. Plus, it’s your personal network, and you probably want to have at least some control over who you’re hitting up.

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Mucker Lab

MAY 20, 2013

2002 – “the social network fad is over”. 2005 – “Sales cycle is too long for software companies selling to government and educational sector”. 2005 – “Sales cycle is too long for software companies selling to government and educational sector”. Myspace, Facebook). Everything).

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 24, 2011

I thought it was going to be easy to find two developers, given that I had a pretty large network. Distributing this content is a lot easier when all of your employees are connected extensively across all social networks--Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn. That's something I learned at Path 101. The Meetup Ground War.

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Mucker Lab

MAY 21, 2013

2002 – “the social network fad is over”. 2005 – “Sales cycle is too long for software companies selling to government and educational sector”. 2005 – “Sales cycle is too long for software companies selling to government and educational sector”. (Evernote, Dropbox). 1999 – “The search engine game is over”.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 23, 2014

Now, don’t take the word authority to mean fame or notoriety – it’s really more about possessing person power – the kind that can attract new business, create more opportunities and drastically shorten sales cycles. You must get very, very good at sharing, networking and aggregating content.

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Brandanew

DECEMBER 21, 2015

Some products have a strong seasonal surge around the holiday season, and you need to be aware of your sales cycles. You can increase your online sales at Christmas by planning: Offers, promotions & sales. You need plan everything ahead. Think about who you can target and with which products.

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Hippoland

AUGUST 16, 2018

And, your idea is 50th social networking site of the week. There were/are so many freakin’ ad networks / ad exchanges / ad platforms out there that LaunchBit was just undifferentiated. 3) Your business model seems flawed OR is not the right fit I talked a lot about unit economics and sales cycles in my last post.

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Hippoland

AUGUST 16, 2018

And, your idea is 50th social networking site of the week. There were/are so many freakin’ ad networks / ad exchanges / ad platforms out there that LaunchBit was just undifferentiated. 3) Your business model seems flawed OR is not the right fit I talked a lot about unit economics and sales cycles in my last post.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. I had planned a balance of large companies and SMB/divisional sales but have changed my thinking. Reasons: cost of sales executives, long sales cycles, deep functional requirements.

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