reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

What I’ve honorably been able to do, however, is share the deck I used to pitch LinkedIn to Greylock for a Series B investment back in 2004. the consumer internet landscape in 2004 vs. today. In 2004, the consumer internet was just beginning to rebound. In 2004, investors regained interest in the consumer internet again.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 15, 2013

Marketers should see this as great news, because if someone chooses to continue subscribing to your alerts, you’re doing something right and the chance of making sales increases exponentially. Fortunately, there are innovations taking place in email management to help consumers get better at email.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

And in 2003 the Haas Business School at U.C. In 2004 I funded IMVU, a startup by Will Harvey and Eric Ries. And the organization to implement all this was not through traditional sales, marketing and business development groups on day one. So I wrote a book about this called the Four Steps to the Epiphany.

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techcrunch.com

APRIL 26, 2013

From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. She graduated from Columbia University in 2003, where she was. with a $3 sale. → Learn More. Wednesday, April 24th, 2013. Metal Gear Rising's Blade Wolf DLC out in Japan May 9.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

The early history of MySpace is inextricably intertwined with that of Intermix, a small-cap publicly traded Internet company in Los Angeles where I worked as corporate counsel from 2004-06. MySpace was incubated by a small team of employees within Intermix in 2003 (Chris DeWolfe, Tom Anderson and four others).

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 26, 2010

By 2003, I entered my first show and in 2004 I had a full-fledged business running. Large format was a great selling hook and I could easily take on other competitors at the shows and win sales. My sales continued to slide as I watched my competitors produce cheaper work via digital negatives. I loved this product.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 13, 2011

Far too often marketers spend all of their attention on the chase and the sale and not enough on the retain and remarkable experience. It’s certainly a big topic, but I love that attract and retain are used in the same setting because they are certainly linked arm in arm in a business that wants to build any kind of marketing momentum.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 14, 2011

Use technology to produce postcards that invite each recipient to a personal landing page that features information tailored to their interests and alerts a sales team to initiate a further contact. The technology is there to do this in small batches with hundreds of variations.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 28, 2011

If indeed you have any vision of selling your business in the future you’ve got to focus on marketing instead of simply focusing on sales. In my opinion, a greater focus on these elements not only creates greater sales, it leads to the creation of a more valuable asset – or something you might indeed be able to sell.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 20, 2011

I’m no science wiz, but I’ve always loved the idea of resistance in physics as a metaphor for the kind of resistance many business owners encounter when trying to spark a sale. Many times we can present a solution and price that seems like the obvious and logical choice, but can’t seem to make the sale.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 20, 2011

Mahan Khalsa Mahan Khalsa is the founder of the Sales Performance Group of FranklinCovey , the creator of the Helping Clients Succeed sales improvement program taught in over 40 countries and 10 different languages. He is currently a founding partner at Ninety Five 5 (Less Nonsense – More Sales).

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 14, 2011

Gives you the ability to initiate help and sales chats while visitors are on your site. The photo in the post is a favorite for the week from Flickr. Image kase3k via Flickr Good stuff I found this week: Olark – Very full featured real time chat tool for your web site.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 20, 2011

Jim Connolly Jim Connolly specializes in helping small businesses to make massively more sales and boost their profits, through common sense marketing. I Hate Selling, So Now How Do I Convert Leads 1 Many business owners attract sales leads, but feel uncomfortable converting those leads into paying clients.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 25, 2011

Often times we want to make our stuff sound so important and wonderful that it comes off confusing and complex – confusion equals no sale! Balancing both of these needs is the tricky part.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 27, 2011

On the surface it’s a stock market like game where individuals and companies offer shares of stock for sale and that stock value is measured based on demand, actions taken on Empire Avenue and the collective participation and engagement in social media sites such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube. First off, what is it.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 19, 2011

When you want to get more “leads” into the top of your sales funnel, you have the option of not requiring people to register to get the valuable content that your company creates (an ebook or white paper perhaps). With a gate, each person downloading becomes a valuable sales lead. You have a choice.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 10, 2011

If you’ve ever wondered why your pure sales messages meet with resistance and deflection it’s because to most prospects you look like someone that is out to steal their money, time and attention – something akin to a predator.

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BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 25, 2003

Its latest survey calls for an increase of 2% spending for 2003 versus a December 2002 survey which forecasted a decline of 1.1% for 2003 spending. That being said, the October 2003 survey forecasts spending growth of only 1.3% for 2004, down from an August 2003 spending survey forecast of 2.3% growth for 2004.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 20, 2011

Mahan Khalsa Mahan Khalsa is the founder of the Sales Performance Group of FranklinCovey , the creator of the Helping Clients Succeed sales improvement program taught in over 40 countries and 10 different languages. He is currently a founding partner at Ninety Five 5 (Less Nonsense – More Sales).

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 20, 2011

For more insights, download these four free sales tools. Jill Konrath Jill Konrath, author of SNAP Selling & Selling to Big Companies, helps sellers crack into new accounts and win big contracts. I Hate Selling, So Now How Do I Convert Leads 2 Stop selling then – at least the way you think you’re supposed to.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 16, 2011

Look for numbers like sales, units, leads, presentations, page views, downloads, and conversion rates. Which brings us to money, the reason why you want a marketing plan: better marketing planning means better marketing management which means more sales and managed, optimized marketing spending. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. :

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 20, 2011

Wendy Weiss Wendy Weiss, The Queen of Cold Calling™ , is an author, speaker, sales trainer, and sales coach. Read all five posts in today’s series and come back each day this week for five new posts in this great educational series and another chance to win. She is the author of the book, Cold Calling for Women.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 20, 2011

Michael Schultz Mike Schultz, author of Rainmaking Conversations , is President of RAIN Group, a sales training , assessment, and performance improvement company, and publisher of RainToday.com. Those that turn their sales fortunes around stop hating it. I wish learning to love sales would be as easy as telling you, “Try it!

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 28, 2013

Marketers should see this as great news, because if someone chooses to continue subscribing to your alerts, you’re doing something right and the chance of making sales increases exponentially. Fortunately, there are innovations taking place in email management to help consumers get better at email. If You Liked This Post.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2011

Word of mouth, referrals and buzz on social networks can increase awareness, build trust and influence sales. Social Media & Networking – 90% of marketers say that social media is important for their business according to the 2011 Social Media Marketing Report.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 19, 2011

You’ll find it’s much easier to promote this kind of high-quality free content, particularly with social media, than it is to try to jump right to the sale of your product or service. It will build trust and rapport, so that down the line you can fully explain all the benefits of what you do.

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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. By way of context: It took me 28 years (from summer fo 1975 til December of 2003) and at least four close encounters to see what seems to me so obvious after the fact. Ideas are cheap.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 19, 2011

Usually, referrals begin already much closer to the sales point, but not always. Ask questions about them. Connect them with others (only with permission, of course), etc. The best of all is through a referral. Sometimes they come in at the top, as well.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

In 2003, he was the founder of Nigeria’s first online-realtime Point of Sale (POS) electronic payment system and in 2004 created West Africa’s first locally issued and processed online-realtime international payment card: Ecobank MasterCard.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 16, 2011

How much of our sales are we willing to put into our Marketing? Here are some great questions to get your Marketing Strategy rolling: What is the purpose of our business? Why do people love buying from us? If we could get them to buy more, what would we want them to buy and how much more money should they spend?

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 19, 2011

But what would happen if, instead of ending with the sales conversation; the new customer, you began with the customer purchase? You are addicted to acquisition as you cast out that wide net, which just happens to be full of holes. And you’re not alone.

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 15, 2009

It’s almost like the clock is moving backwards to 2004/2005 when blogs when there was much less noise in the blogosphere, but a smaller audience of commited, early adopters. Since 2003, my thoughts have often manifested in a blog post. 7 Matt Watson : DragonDrop.org » on 09.15.10 at 5:53 pm I was thinking the same though*.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

Most of what I learned about operating startups I learned from the really tough years at my first company from 2001-2003. I was paid less in salary in 2004 than I was paid at the job I quit in 1999 (a job I had held 8+ years). But in our first year of sales (and those were really shitty years to be selling software) we sold $2.1

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BeyondVC

AUGUST 23, 2006

Back in 2003 when we were deciding whether or not to sell Expertcity (GoToMyPC and GoToMeeting) to Citrix or continue fighting the fight and attempt to take the company public 1 year later, it was quite a gut-wrenching decision. Everyone knows that hindsight is 20/20. million to June 30th this year. million TTM with its latest results).

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ConversionXL

APRIL 7, 2020

The first shows were created in late 2003, and the term itself was coined in 2004 by combining “iPod” with “broadcasting.”. Podcasting can drive traffic to a website, which, in turn, can generate leads or sales. If you don’t have a thoughtful strategy and process, it’s easy to waste time and effort. Let’s get started. .

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

ChemChina, a state-owned company formed in 2004 from the former Ministry of Chemical Industry, had sales of $23 billion in 2010 and assets of $29 billion. Perrigo, which recorded net sales of $2.7 Koor is controlled by Discount Investment Corp, a subsidiary of IDB Holding Corp. Food and Drug Administration. in Haifa in 1974.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 23, 2019

On-page FAQs do have a place—when they’re used to answer actual questions, not as a sales tool (e.g. Tullis and Wood (authors of a prominent 2004 study) recommend testing 20–30 users for card sorting. While there’s a strong case against left-vertical menus , two studies (2003 and 2004) claim it’s better.

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