Up and Running

DECEMBER 14, 2016

See Also: How and Why to Collect Customer Email Addresses. MailChimp is ideal for the startup and small business customer that needs to grow an email list with industry-leading tools and best practices. See Also: 13 Ways to Make Customers Desperately Want to Open Your Emails. Which one should you choose? Sending options.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 7, 2014

If your most experienced salesperson has great sales numbers but bullies the shipping department every time he/she needs an order rushed, or if you have an employee who clients love but who often misses internal targets, those transgressions must have consequences despite these employees’ successes in other areas. Hire accountable people.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

Once again, we led each of these rounds at slide deck stage and helped land the first handful of customers to accelerate path to product market fit and their Series A rounds. This means more collaboration with the Fortune 500 and more go-to-market experience as our portfolio companies navigate their path to first customers.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 19, 2014

There’s no place for hipster lingo, inside jokes about customers, snarky tweets. Oh, and Northwestern Mutual has been in business for over 157 years and is worth $25 billion in sales. It trivializes the gravity of bad behavior and normalizes superior attitudes toward customers and, often, coworkers. Here’s how: 1.

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Ben's Blog

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

“We would have won, but the other guys gave the deal away” – “The customer selected us technically and thinks we are the better company, but our competitor just gave the product away. Anybody who has ever run an enterprise sales force has heard this lie before. If you hear this lie, try to validate this claim with the actual customer.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 17, 2015

The promise is your brand, and, as the recent Volkswagen scandal showed us, it can be destroyed quickly if a company isn’t living up to the standards its customers expect. Others become arrogant; the fast growth convinces them that their customers will always be there. But with fast growth, that promise can be diluted.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

It could be studying entrepreneurship in school or it could have been working with a government contractor or maybe someone had a sales job. 1 – Medical Device Sales. As a sales representative I noticed that the promotional efforts for Plastic Surgeons were held by a few large firms that overcharged. Sales Account Manager.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 14, 2015

These are management, sales and marketing, customer service, production/manufacturing, operations and safety. For example, employers must consider employees’ safety in sales and marketing when travel is required. The other potential hazard is employee interaction with customers.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

The startup didn’t work out, but I found ways to be around it, whether it was on the sales side in Goldman for a few years. Good CEOs will look inside and say: “Hey, maybe we’ve been hiring a little bit too much during the sugar rush phase of the pandemic, and what does that mean for performance management? Sounds great.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

My original post was directed at hiring managers. It said that I didn’t believe it was a good idea to hire job hoppers. My view still stands – for many hiring managers a large factor in looking through resumes of somebody who is 30+ and has never worked somewhere for more than 18 months will be the job hopping element.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

Car sales in China went from 1 million in 2001 to 14 million in 2011. It’s much easier to just steal their ideas and hire their employees. Filed under: China , Customer Development , Technology , Venture Capital. China Customer Development Technology Venture Capital' In the U.S. Unlike the U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Everybody was doing marketing blitzes, over-paying to steal the best staff, pimping out urban offices to the nines , and hiring in a frenzy. Within a year, by late 2000 / early 2001 consulting firms were firing people en masse. On July 27th, 2001 Accenture IPO’s and many of the partners grew fabulously wealthy.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

A year ago I blogged about one of my most common mantras that applies to sales, biz dev & fund raising alike: “ Time is the Enemy of all Deals.&#. It is true that you should mostly concern yourself with your customers, building a great product and providing excellent service. So how should you decide what to do?

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 27, 2016

When brainstorming a name for a new venture, zero in on the promise you want to make to your customers. But most importantly, we wanted it to immediately convey our promise to our customers. When customers hear a made up word or a generic business buzzword, they don’t know what to think.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

Car sales in China went from 1 million in 2001 to 14 million in 2011. It’s much easier to just steal their ideas and hire their employees. Filed under: China , Customer Development , Technology , Venture Capital. China Customer Development Technology Venture Capital' In the U.S. Unlike the U.S.

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Babbling VC

MARCH 18, 2018

Entrepreneurs oftentimes can fairly easily raise money but find it far harder to find customers and scale. VC's can help startups get funded and build a product but they struggle most at helping their companies find customers and ultimately exit channels. . We wanted to be in the midst of the product, sales, hiring and so forth.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 19, 2017

That innovation has to be built into the core of how you serve your customers. When I looked around for other examples like that I started seeing them everywhere, of companies that weren’t so much innovating in the product as innovating around the product and by doing so really helping their customers get more value from the product.

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Up and Running

JULY 29, 2015

First, I will cover how contracts of sale are formed, both offline and online. Then, I will examine store policies, and how to get your customers to agree to them. How a contract of sale is formed in a physical store: It may not seem like it, but when a customer purchases an item in your shop, they are forming a contract with you.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Hiring an expert or a coach to walk you through this stage can help you minimize the chances of failure although identifying the problem first can be a great way to create a long-lasting strategy. The founders eventually created custom cereal boxes to raise funds so they could continue to operate. Photo Credit: Donny Gamble.

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thebarefootvc

AUGUST 26, 2015

As someone who invested through the 2001 and 2008 crashes I can assure you that down rounds and fire sales are not fun for anyone involved. Keep employee morale high – if you’ve hired people passionate about your product and mission, and motivate them, they will persevere and produce in all market conditions.

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thebarefootvc

AUGUST 26, 2015

As someone who invested through the 2001 and 2008 crashes I can assure you that down rounds and fire sales are not fun for anyone involved. Keep employee morale high – if you’ve hired people passionate about your product and mission, and motivate them, they will persevere and produce in all market conditions.

Marketing 40

Marketing Investment Bankers Valuation China 40

Babbling VC

MARCH 18, 2018

Entrepreneurs oftentimes can fairly easily raise money but find it far harder to find customers and scale. VC's can help startups get funded and build a product but they struggle most at helping their companies find customers and ultimately exit channels. . We wanted to be in the midst of the product, sales, hiring and so forth.

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Merger Venture Capital Cofounder Incubator 40

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Only Hire A+ People Who Punch Above Their Weight Class. There are people who tell startups that they should hire the most senior people that they can find. I’m a big believer in only hiring A+ team members. Weight Class : Let’s take sales. You need the sales executive who aspires to be a VP Sales (e.g.

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thebarefootvc

JULY 26, 2015

As someone who invested through the 2001 and 2008 crashes I can assure you that down rounds and fire sales are not fun for anyone involved. Keep employee morale high – if you’ve hired people passionate about your product and mission, and motivate them, they will persevere and produce in all market conditions.

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Marketing Investment Bankers Valuation China 40

37signals.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

One thing we learned early on talking to Basecamp customers: Many of them didn’t even know that the app was called Basecamp. I would not recommend you if you were “Customer Relationship Management, Platinum Edition 2010” :—). ”), but the original 2001 iPod itself had nothing to do with the internet.

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dashes.com

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

I would love to be plagiarized and embroiled in a lawsuit--the curiosity factor alone would boost my sales and name recognition exponentially. If someone hired you, would you have your lawyer look over the NDA? But moreover, thats just not how things work. Ideas are cheap. Execution is hard. kevinshay. | May 8, 2010 12:06 PM.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 25, 2011

Every presentation I do is customized for the audience in the room. In a world of Like and Follow where every TV ad and billboard is directing customers and prospects to third party destinations it might seem insane to suggest this. Hire smart people. Hire smart consultants. "Shouting" on Twitter / Facebook.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Hire everyone you need as an employee. Of course, Excite also went bankrupt in 2001, so maybe five is a terrible number? Since we bootstrapped Backblaze, early on we would have months when the company did not have enough cash from sales to buy the additional servers it needed. One” – You have to have a cofounder.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 19, 2019

First I should mention that we’re trying to shake up real estate commissions in NYC which have remained stubbornly high despite an average Manhattan sale price of about $2 million. It didn’t seem big enough for what I suspected I would soon be doing, which was hiring contractors to contribute to projects. I chose DevBev Co.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 9, 2013

So the question is, does emotion play a role in making more sales online? Before we look how emotion affects sales, we have to ask if emotion plays a role further up the marketing funnel – specifically for driving awareness and getting more reach. Emotional Design Influences Sales. As it turns out, yes. image source.

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ConversionXL

MAY 8, 2017

Here’s how they explained it : “Leaving shoppers’ questions unanswered can derail a sale or even worse, make shoppers abandon not just the purchase, but the site as well. That’s all to say, don’t waste the reader’s (the customer’s) time. Talk How Your Customer Talks (or ‘Everyone’ Is Not Your Customer).

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

2) Help Others & Improve Upon Customer Service. I started my business namely to help others and to improve upon the aloof customer service being presented in the IT industry. I heard horror stories about how their technicians had chips on their shoulders, belittling customers with their elitist attitudes. That’s it.

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BeyondVC

MARCH 23, 2004

There were a number of attendees who were here during the past few years and their businesses raised a fair amount of capital and somehow they managed to survive the nuclear winter during the 2001-2002 period. In other words, alot of these companies were based on cool technology and not on making customers happy.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In its most recent quarter, the company processed the exchange of $923 million of sales, which equates to a $3.6B Founded by Michael Bruno in Paris in 2001, 1stdibs (*) is the world’s largest online marketplace for luxury one-of-a-kind antiques, high-end modern furniture, vintage fashion, jewelry, and fine art. annual GMV.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

Within a year I hired 92 permanent staff and another 30 full time contractors. I was on an airplane 2-3 times / week meeting potential customers, investors, employees, business partners and the press. I was on an airplane 2-3 times / week meeting potential customers, investors, employees, business partners and the press.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Here’s how they explained it : “Leaving shoppers’ questions unanswered can derail a sale or even worse, make shoppers abandon not just the purchase, but the site as well. That’s all to say, don’t waste the reader’s (the customer’s) time. Get Copy From Your Customers. Get to the point.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 20, 2018

When you treat your people well — catch them doing things right, praise them when they are doing well, and redirect them when they get off track; when you empower them to bring their brains to work and make decisions — they will treat your customers well. So we try to hire leaders, no matter what role we want them to fill.

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