Hearpreneur

MARCH 13, 2020

In 2004 I was a part-time flight attendant with a 10-year-old son living in Los Angeles. in December of 2004 with just our one little product, and by the end of 2005 we had sold 1 million Finders Key Purse(r). I had a taste of self-employment when I was in college with a part-time sales gig. 12- I needed to pay my rent!

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 23, 2013

Online commerce has seen explosive growth in the region – data from PayPal, from example, revealed that merchants based in Singapore saw an increase of online export sales on average by 68% to China, 55% to Hong Kong, 22% to Japan and 20% to Australia in 2012 alone. “So, in 2005, we launched our very own platform.

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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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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Never missing an opportunity for a good war story, I’d like to revisit one high-profile transaction, the $650 million acquisition of MySpace by Fox Interactive Media in 2005, on which I spent many sleepless nights along with the rest of the deal team. The spin-out took a few months to negotiate and didn’t actually close until February 2005.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

In a recent survey published on HubSpot, it was found that companies who put data at the core of their marketing/sales decisions improve marketing ROI by 15%-20%. Popular eCommerce site Threadless has had a “feature request” thread on their customer forum since 2005. million in 2004 to $6.5 image source. image source.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

In a recent survey published on HubSpot, it was found that companies who put data at the core of their marketing/sales decisions improve marketing ROI by 15%-20%. Popular eCommerce site Threadless has had a “feature request” thread on their customer forum since 2005. million in 2004 to $6.5 image source. image source.

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allthingsd.com

AUGUST 24, 2012

Still, it is the highest amount increase since Fenwick began compiling the numbers in 2004. CCIE - Senior Sales Support Engineering. © 2005-2012 Dow Jones & Company Inc. Two big-ticket financings upped the Q2 number, which would have been 70 percent if they were removed. — Dan Rather on the digital news cycle.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

In a recent survey published on HubSpot, it was found that companies who put data at the core of their marketing/sales decisions improve marketing ROI by 15%-20%. Popular eCommerce site Threadless has had a “feature request” thread on their customer forum since 2005. million in 2004 to $6.5 image source. image source.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

In a recent survey published on HubSpot, it was found that companies who put data at the core of their marketing/sales decisions improve marketing ROI by 15%-20%. Popular eCommerce site Threadless has had a “feature request” thread on their customer forum since 2005. million in 2004 to $6.5 image source. image source.

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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 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

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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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

I also wanted to future proof my business – to position it for growth, and ultimately sale, so giving it my name was out of the question. When I decided to quit the corporate world and build my company in 2004, I saw very few companies focused on helping SMB with digital marketing services. So why Market Expertise?

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 4, 2022

And that was, you know, 2004, 2005 was, I was realizing that it was no longer about working harder. Instead of the chief sales officer , but yeah, there's pretty much running the functional areas. And then secondly was the text. It was about working smarter. So now it's the chief revenue officer, right.

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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

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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Mike Michalowicz

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

She has studied the practical application of psychology for more than a decade in sales, marketing, and people management. My wife Mirta, a professional chef from Paraguay, and I started the business in 2004. Now we have 70 employees and serve 5000 children every day. Contact me at simon.rothschild@eltucano.de or 608-542-0880.

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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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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

by Christopher Wallace, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Amsterdam Printing. Google reportedly turned down buyout offers from Microsoft shortly before the 2004 IPO. The founders sold the two year old company to eBay in 2005 for $2.6 A volatile stock market and economic recession have since changed much of this thinking.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 1, 2011

This might end up sounding more like a personality trait, but companies that turn customers into volunteer sales forces fully understand and use the power of giving more than was promised and surprisingly beating expectations as a marketing strategy. The element of surprise Few things enamor like exceeding someone’s expectations.

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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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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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NZ Entrepreneur

AUGUST 29, 2019

Assessments for measuring and analyzing such strengths have been developed by VIA (Values in Action Classification of Character Strengths; Peterson & Seligman, 2004), Personality Strengths Project (Linley, 2008) and Gallup, Marcus Buckingham, Now Discover your Strengths (Buckingham & Clifton, 2005). NZ Sales Manager.

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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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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

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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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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David Teten

MAY 16, 2011

Joe Chernesky, Vice President and General Manager of Global Licensing Sales, Intellectual Ventures. Kupietzky held a variety of management roles in marketing, sales and product management at world-class technology companies: Digital Insight (Intuit), Loudcloud/Opsware (Hewlett-Packard) and Siebel Systems (Oracle).

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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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