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Pricing determines your business

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Price is not an exercise in maximizing some micro-economic supply/demand curve, slapped post-facto onto the product. This is often B2C because the value is in quantity of customers, and there’s 100x more consumers than businesses. $1/mo simple enough to be self-service). . $1/mo simple enough to be self-service).

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29 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I have been working with my Partners since November 2000. The company that employed us began putting profits above people and new sales above client retention. They recognize the average lifespan of a client is 3-6 months, so they implement a strong sales team to consistently search for new clients. Photo Credit: Mikko Honkanen.

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Scaling Sales: From Craft to Machine

Seeing Both Sides

I''ve been thinking a lot lately about scaling sales. . Before this occurs, the sales process is a craft or an art - custom-made by the founder or evangelist sales VP. How do I build a repeatable, scalable sales process that is like an industrial machine - not a crafts project? 1) Enterprise Sales.

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8 strategic hacks for building marketplace liquidity

The Next Web

By the end, 99 percent of the B2B marketplaces had cratered and only B2C eBay was left standing and thriving. it’s really a software business, not liquidity driven) and that B2C marketplaces could not be built under the giant momentum of eBay’s “ network effect. Start with aggregating scarce and in-demand inventory.

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Special: The 56 Israeli Companies Exhibiting in Mobile World Congress 2011

VC Cafe

Established location-based services to enable the CSP offer B2B and B2C services based on mobile positioning, tracking & locating, turn-by-turn navigation and mobile local search. Improves customer experience during sale, after sale and support interactions while generating revenues and reducing operational costs.

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