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How to Find the Time to Accomplish Anything

Feld Thoughts

In 2002, I met Libba and Gifford Pinchot, cofounders of Bainbridge Graduate Institute , at a retreat. Then you’re free to spend the rest of the day however you want. Here’s how to calculate break-even point in sales.”. Enter the Craziness. Focus on those actions until they are complete. Have you considered X? Telecommute.

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How to Radically Stand Out with Brand Marketing

ConversionXL

In 2002, Elon Musk created Space X. Your brand is your reputation – that intangible thing that determines whether your customers trust you above the rest. If you spam the non-buyers with sales CTAs, you’ll only annoy them. They show original sales intelligence data and they post relatable memes.

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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

In 2002, McKinsey published a study of 1,000 U.S. Although the company created an incentive plan to boost sales, its sales growth fell from 19% before the recession to 8% after—five percentage points below Staples’ postrecession sales growth rate. What the big studies have shown.

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Making Decisions in Context

Austin Startup

Of all your hires, if you have commissioned sales people, those will give you the most problems if they’re not all given an equal chance to make their quotas and achieve their personal earnings goals. Does the rest of your team measure progress the way you are? You’ll just never create the sales momentum you need. Not really.

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After Your First Big Success, What’s Next?

Feld Thoughts

” You now can do whatever you want with the rest of your life. I was making plenty of money consulting and, while I was investing much of the money I made from the sale into new companies as an angel investor, the idea of living in Homer was attractive. When Amy and I talked about “what’s next” when I was 29.5

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The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Education and Corporate Innovation

Steve Blank

Philip Bouchard : You’ve started teaching at Berkeley since 2002, Columbia in 2003 and at Stanford since 2011. ” And second, so that the rest of us who are not going to be artists can appreciate how hard it is, and learn how to look at art and how to look at sculpture and how to appreciate good writing.

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The Gamification Behind Loyalty Cards

Up and Running

Setting yourself apart from the rest has never meant more. Launched in 2002, the Sainsbury’s reward card finds particular strength in integrating ‘food for thought’ (excuse the pun): If you have your own bags, for example, you can redeem points. But in the modern day, where much consumerism is through big brands, competition is fierce.