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27 Entrepreneurs Share Tips on Building an Ecommerce Business

Hearpreneur

While platforms like Instagram offer a great starting point, the key to differentiation lies in the age-old strategy of Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Every element on the page needs to be tuned to help convert visits into sales. Thanks to Matt Uebergang, Cat Water Fountains Australia ! #24-

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Australia And Virtual Reality

YoungUpstarts

One of the biggest tech trends to pervade Australia is VR or Virtual Reality. The future of Virtual Reality in Australia. A few months back The Telsyte Australian VR and AR market had predicted that around 110,000 VR headset units would be sold in the year 2016 and the sales figures would cross 500,000 units per year by 2020.

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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. This engineering manager is a smart guy, and very experienced.

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27 Entrepreneurs Explain How Technology Will Affect Their Business Tomorrow

Hearpreneur

Software like customer relationship management (CRM) can help firms keep tabs on their customers' activity so they can better target their advertising and improve their sales. Sales enablement tracks consumer buying interactions and analyses user activity. Thanks to Mick Humphreys, Z Grills Australia !

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Biz Dev Tips for Startups – The ‘First Meeting’

VC Cafe

Here are a few lessons I learnt from having hundreds of business meetings in Australia, Chile, and the USA. However most of the time it won’t be an ‘easy’ sale. ’ These questions also give me an approximate timeline of how long the ‘sale’ will take, and I can plan accordingly. Following up.

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How To Start A Startup – For Busy People

YoungUpstarts

I’ve been too busy working on a lawn mowing startup in Brisbane Australia, more than 7,000 miles away. The side benefit of this was that when engineers got tired of answering customer service calls on a particular tech issue, they would fix the tech issue. Lecture 19: Part One: Sales and Marketing. How to Get Started.

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Have you been celebrating each victory?

Berkonomics

Each new plateau in revenue growth, each time a month’s orders hit a record, each large order from the sales department, all of these and more give rise to opportunities to celebrate publicly. Email readers, continue here…] Many companies have a bell hung somewhere in or near the sales bull pen, rung each time a sale is consummated.

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