Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

Ask your customer why you lost. Looong Appendix (only for those interested in reading another story about losing a sale & key lessons): A personal story of losing a sale that haunted me for years. In the 2003/04 timefame I was living in the UK and running my first company. Specifically: 1.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

Ask your customer why you lost. Looong Appendix (only for those interested in reading another story about losing a sale & key lessons): A personal story of losing a sale that haunted me for years. In the 2003/04 timefame I was living in the UK and running my first company. Specifically: 1.

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China Silicon Valley Software Review Technical Review 328

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

It was 2003 and I was training for a marathon so I was in great shape (yes, I know this was YEARS ago but I did complete it in 3:57). I was looking for a person to head up my UK sales team. But as a sales person you have to be able to build rapport. Small story. I used to work in the UK. He took the issue off the table.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 15, 2016

Ted Rheingold: In 2003 I owned and ran a web service business called OneMatchFire , and made a number of image sharing products for customers (or as side projects). By the end of 2004 I had brought on two co-founders: John Vars – who is now the Chief Product Office at TaskRabbit, and Steven Reading took over Sales and Revenue.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

In this time, building a successful business meant building a company that had paying customers quarter after quarter. It did not mean building a startup into a company to flip or hype on the market with no earnings or revenue, but building a company that had paying customers. They taught you about customers, markets and profits.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Follow your passions only if there is a market for them and customers willing to pay. From 2003 to 2008, I was the host/DJ/producer of The Groove Boutique, a radio mix show that aired across the United States. I’m now an award-winning provider of multimedia sales support guidance for organizations around the world.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Follow your passions only if there is a market for them and customers willing to pay. From 2003 to 2008, I was the host/DJ/producer of The Groove Boutique, a radio mix show that aired across the United States. I’m now an award-winning provider of multimedia sales support guidance for organizations around the world.

Entrepreneur 54

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 10, 2011

Business owners must learn to manage and juggle a complex and shifting combination of customer, partner, vendor, staff and advisory relationships in order to survive and grow. Internal customer – How often do you take the internal temperature? It may be one of the most important reflections of the service your customers receive.

Small Business 59

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

In 2003, Ben Luftman, fresh out of law school, started Luftman, Heck & Associates, LLP, with partner, Jeremy Heck. We also used this capital to grow the business by investing in additional marketing and human capital for product sales. After all, what have you got to lose? After all, it worked for Deborah! “We Turn to your state.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2019

You might sell one of two of your widgets for $1 million each, entering profitability immediately, but then die because you can’t grow sales at that price. That means it solves a real problem for real customers who are ready and able to spend real money. The number of current potential customers is large and growing.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Starting a business comes with a lot of on-the-go lessons, but Jeremiah Boehner, a serial entrepreneur and senior director of sales at MyLikes, an advertising platform, says the most important lessons are those that teach you about yourself. “As Reason #24: The internet offers more sales possibilities. @TheSeasonalDiet ?.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2009

In the 2003/04 timefame I was living in the UK and running my first company. I was working hand-in-hand with my close friend and associate Stuart Lander who was running our UK office and with one of our local sales reps. I later learned one of my biggest lesson in sales. Ask your customer why you lost. Losing sucks.

Software Review 151

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Steve Blank

MARCH 26, 2014

For those who don’t know, I wrote the book Open Innovation in 2003, and followed it with Open Business Models in 2006, and Open Services Innovation in 2011. The success of Documentum and Document Sciences, they felt, came largely from Xerox technology and customers, yet the startup companies XTV funded got all the credit.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 31, 2011

I was totally product focused for the last year and now it’s live, so I need to start thinking about finding some customers. ” So instead finding out who and where those potential customers are , which is hard, he just made a product, which is easy (for him). So I think the ideal customer is: SaaS, ISV, Web Products.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

This is because of the fact that Gift card spending is now reaching a new record high, having grown from $40bn dollars in 2003 to $100bn in 2015. Corporate gift cards will give you the opportunity to offer your customers the gift of choice and gradually expand to new markets. Your customers are now bringing you more customers.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

The response from customers and technology partners validates we are onto something big. Bob Baughman, previously with Polycom and Marvell, as Vice President of Business Development and Sales. Baughman is Calxeda’s new Vice President of Business Development and Sales. Naval Nuclear Power Program.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 15, 2013

Otherwise, you’re just wasting time and ticking people off (which, for brands, means potentially losing customers). These days, many of the subscription emails in your inbox are real-time customized based on past purchases, recently viewed items, geography, and the device you open the message with. The rest is just digital noise.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2013

You might sell one of two of your widgets for $1 million each, entering profitability immediately, but then die because you can’t grow sales at that price. That means it solves a real problem for real customers who are ready and able to spend real money. The number of current potential customers is large and growing.

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Widget Angel Investor Revenue Early Stage 242

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2017

You might sell one of two of your widgets for $1 million each, entering profitability immediately, but then die because you can’t grow sales at that price. That means it solves a real problem for real customers who are ready and able to spend real money. The number of current potential customers is large and growing.

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Widget Angel Investor Revenue Early Stage 137

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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Small Business Customer Marketing New York 72

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Email marketing and digital marketing are fantastic ways for businesses to flourish and boost sales. The marketing also keeps their customers up to date on company information. It’s fast, it’s relatively simple to set up, and it’s one of the most cost effective ways to market your business and drive customers to your website.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 18, 2015

Now that we’ve looked at advertising in Part 1, it’s time to consider the situations in which you may be directly contacting your customers to advertise or market your products, and collecting their information to do so. Privacy issues when collecting customer information. Let’s take a look. and from the U.K. Offline data collection.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

For instance, you can set up a promotional deal to attract customers. If you put up a tempting offer, customers will soon flock in. Most customers do not appreciate an increase in price, and you might end up losing some of them. However, if you can communicate about your brand and its policy clearly, your customers may stay.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 28, 2015

anti-spam legislation will be met if you follow the two guidelines I laid out in Part 1 and Part 2 of this article: Don’t mislead your customers, and make sure that you are collecting your customers’ private information legally. Anti-spam laws when emailing customers about your special deals: In the U.K., In the U.K.,

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Direct Marketing Advertising Email Sales 60

Cracking the Code

APRIL 27, 2018

What a journey it has been since the genesis of the company in 2003, when it’s visionary team set out to automate the agreement process and solve many pain points from speed to cost and accuracy. It’s rare to see any type of technology reach such a range of customers - from very large companies to individual users across all industries.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

That is because we do not sell, or use, anything other than “canned” software, for which we collect and remit appropriate sales taxes. He said that people who download “standard” software (like TurboTax) from the internet should pay sales taxes, just like someone who buys TurboTax in a box at BestBuy. Citrix Presentation Server 4.0,

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 25, 2012

Customers were bailing on the service because of the frequent downtime. But there was a hard-core customer base that had been around for years and had stuck with the service because the main algorithm that provided recommendations had never stopped working, even though everything around it had crashed and burned.

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

Philip Bouchard : You’ve started teaching at Berkeley since 2002, Columbia in 2003 and at Stanford since 2011. The hard part in a company is not getting a demo or setting up an internal accelerator, it’s getting something delivered all the way through your existing sales channel. Building an entrepreneurship ecosystem.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2019

It’s important to have a report that allows for a comparison of the quoted or budgeted cost with the actual cost, as well as letting the executive team compare financial performance using custom criteria. User actions and performance are great metrics to do a deep dive into processes and identify those types of bottlenecks.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

I’ve built a loyal customer base and by selling directly through image consultants, stylists, at shows and on my website I am able to give my clients top quality at almost wholesale affordable prices. (I I have encountered numerous companies with bad customer service, or bad financial management, or unprofessional stuff, you name it.

Entrepreneur 91

Entrepreneur LLC Cofounder Green 91

Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 28, 2013

Otherwise, you’re just wasting time and ticking people off (which, for brands, means potentially losing customers). These days, many of the subscription emails in your inbox are real-time customized based on past purchases, recently viewed items, geography, and the device you open the message with. The rest is just digital noise.

Email 63

Email Michigan Social Network Cofounder 63

Hearpreneur

AUGUST 10, 2022

It drives media attention and fosters customer retention rate, which is why most companies strive to have it in their mission statement. It seeks to solve customer problems in a better and more modern way and help such companies edge over the competition. And as we all know, wowing the customer over and over is no easy task.

Entrepreneur 121

Entrepreneur Technical Review Non-Compete Software Review 121

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

JUNE 14, 2011

My take is that if you establish a strong marketing strategy, one that helps you build trust, and you fully understand the behavior and objectives of your ideal customer, then you can use almost any tactic to build your business. The technology is there to do this in small batches with hundreds of variations.

Small Business 68

Small Business Lead Generation Social Media Advertising 68

Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

My Experience Back in 2002/2003 I spent hours writing a sales letter and emailing it to 15 local design firms, offering my services as an outsourced development staff (I coded in PHP,NET and Java at the time). Being a partner of a tool you customize was the best. 4 Matt Doar on 09.29.09 at 6:35 pm Writing a book helped.

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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.

NDA 52

NDA Technical Review Non-Compete San Francisco 52