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The Secret To Making The Hard Sell Easy

Duct Tape Marketing

Tom is CEO and co-founder of ASLAN Training, a global sales enablement company appearing nine consecutive years in the Selling Power Top 20. Since 1996, ASLAN has worked with many Fortune 500 companies, training more than 100,000 sellers and leaders in over 35 countries. ASLAN Training — Organizations looking for sales training.

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How to Hack Growth When Growth Stalls

ConversionXL

Such lapses in strategic vision and product innovation often lead to a company experiencing what is called a growth stall, a phrase coined by Matthew Olson, Derek van Bever, and Seth Verry of CEB , a leadership advisory network. billion, a 35 percent drop.

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Hubris Versus Humility: The $15 billion Difference

Steve Blank

By 1992 Research in Motion (RIM) had been in business for eight years, had 16 employees, sales of about $500,000 a year, and three or four business lines. First, wireless voice networks – cell phone networks – had started to emerge. At the same time, digital data networks to support “pagers” were also growing rapidly.

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How Top Venture Capitalists Create (and Sometimes Destroy) Portfolio Company Value

David Teten

Christopher Fralic is a Managing Partner at First Round Capital’s New York office, and has focused on a number of the firm’s investments in Advertising Technology, Social Media, Ecommerce, Gaming, Mobile and more. Mr. Fralic has 25 years of technology industry experience, with significant Internet business development roles since 1996.

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Social Media Best Practices for Your Nonprofit

Board Effect

The Communications and Decency Act of 1996 also offers some protection for infringement claims for nonprofits. Be Aware of Marketing and Advertising Laws. Informational blogs may be misperceived as advertising for products or services. These laws only offer protection that results from a third-party posting.

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10 Mom-and-Pop Businesses That Turned Into Empires

YoungUpstarts

The mom-and-pop business became an instant success and its annual sales continued to skyrocket each year. Energy Brands was founded in 1996 by J. It was here where Walton achieved higher sales volume by marking up items slightly less than other competitors. and expanded to 24 stores over the course of five years.

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The Zero Dollar Consultancy

Duct Tape Marketing

The Zero Dollar Consultancy written by Tosin Jerugba read more at Duct Tape Marketing  The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I interviewed Phil Gerbyshak, a small business expert, author, and keynote speaker with over two decades of experience in sales and marketing.

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