Tim Keane

OCTOBER 8, 2012

.  The company prepared, as I recall, several million labels for their big customer (really their only customer) a major retailer based in the midwest.   What RTMS missed was that instead of the boolean logic selecting the top 2MM customers , it had selected a random 2MM customers.

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Tim Keane

MAY 27, 2010

.   We had a customer and a value proposition.   We were fortunate enough to have customers like Boston Store, Carson’s, Penney’s, Sears, GNC – and they loved our exceptional customer service and ability to deliver a better value to their customers – and more sales and customer satisfaction to them.

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Tim Keane

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

It welcomes feedback from potential customers and experts, reduces the cost and risk of the startup and can potentially drive success quickly.    It can also drive fast cheap failure which is a great second alternative.   An average customer will spend $X per year with us because they spend three times that now. 

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Tim Keane

OCTOBER 4, 2010

If your business sells to a quantifiable and identifiable group of business customers who are in the tens of thousands, or less, there's really no reason not to individually identify every one of them and track all of your contacts with them.  Any former customers from other places now working there? Market Math. Market Math.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 23, 2014

For example, in 1994 Jeff Bezos founded Amazon from his garage in Washington, and Harley-Davidson started out of a home—and a shed—in Wisconsin. From finding customers to tracking inventory, there are a lot of chores that you’ll need to handle. “A Finding customers. You’ll need a plan in place to attract and retain customers.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Customer Center. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. million products as of June, and this year expects to do $140 million in sales. Sales Jobs |. Ran gold Resources Ltd.

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Transformify

MARCH 4, 2018

Their customer portfolio includes a wide array of companies, organizations, and industries. Having 70 000+ employees in 60+ countries, Adecco is also a member of National Minority Supplier Development Council, Women’s Business Enterprise National Council, and Elite Service Disabled Veteran Owned Business Network. Robert Half.

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Tim Keane

OCTOBER 3, 2012

.  That is, when we think a company primarily has "execution risk," do we mean that they're facing scientific and technical hurdles to achieve results, or do we mean that they are facing the risk of selling to their market, or of delivering a product to customers who've bought?

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Tim Keane

APRIL 14, 2008

As one example, think about forecasting sales based on market potential and competition, rather than simply on historical results by salesperson. If that leads us to needing additional sales people, can we forecast the benchmark for productivity based on past results? Add another sales capability?

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Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

It also assumes the entire value of the investment is captured for investors at a sale of the company in the time specified in the term-sheet. This results in a range of sale prices; in this example from $118.6MM to $21MM. Let’s start at the end.   So, let’s assume here we have an 8% non-cumulative dividend.

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Tim Keane

SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

In a lot of startups (especially good ones) the founder/CEO/leader is a customer-oriented sales person. Because of the virtuous feedback loop right at the center of the company, innovations for customer benefit come more rapidly. Even with bumps along the way, the major customer facing components add up to more and more success.

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Tim Keane

MAY 2, 2006

Here’s a post from Jason Caplain , a VC in Ralieigh, NC with another take that adds more meaning to the discussion about the entrepreneur being the chief sales guy. However, my contention is that even if there is a sales leader who is not the CEO on the founding team , the CEO has to be selling as a primary role.

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Tim Keane

OCTOBER 2, 2007

Are they verifiable with sales, fixed, or some combination? Are we planning for the lowest customer acquisition cost the industry has ever seen? Are they verifiable with sales, fixed, or some combination? Are we planning for the lowest customer acquisition cost the industry has ever seen? Resources for startups.

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Tim Keane

SEPTEMBER 13, 2006

They understand their customers and the market the customers live in. They get the idea of value creation, of delivering more for the customer than they promise. But it isnt the same as having the sales instinct down so well that he can taste it. Sometimes the leader caves in to the customer. Make sure you deliver.

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Tim Keane

JULY 16, 2008

How much margin you will make on each sale; c. The timing of all of these activities – how long to make; how fast to get orders; the customer repeat rate, and so forth. The sustainable longterm source of cash is the customer, of course. How much margin you will make on each sale; c. What your operating expenses are; e.

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Tim Keane

OCTOBER 30, 2007

They would like businesses solving “big hairy problems” of real value to the customer. We used that information for a lot of our customers. The joke around the office was always that the systems that performed the worst had the best customer service and the best performers provided customer service that was terrible.

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www.foliomag.com

JULY 31, 2012

Sales & Marketing. --> Bloggers. --> Resources. It’s also simple to customize.” Advertising/Sales. Join the Network for Magazine & eMedia Publishing. Sales/Business Development. --> ENTER a CITY and/or SELECT STATE. Web Designer, Sales/Mktg - Md. Case Studies in Custom Content. B2B: Business Media.

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Tim Keane

JUNE 22, 2006

If customer interest can be obtained in a live test involving revenue, valuation may rise again. In an “elephant sale” software company ($200,000 average order) the staff and infrastructure was built to sustain sales of $400,000 per month, beginning three months from product release. Resources for startups. Google Ads.

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Tim Keane

OCTOBER 3, 2007

They start with, say, a needed conversion to sales rate from a click stream and work back to the quantities and conversions at each step to achieve profitable results.). The faster you can see repeatability from customers on the scale you estimated, the better. What should the entrepreneur do? Often people work these backwards.

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Mike Michalowicz

MARCH 8, 2013

Wisconsin is a dairy state with fabulous cheeses to choose from. They customize the message that goes in the box each season for no additional charge! This organizer is a universal, elastic organization system that gives customized digital device and personal item storage. Custom Unique T-shirts. A Chef’s Coat.

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Tim Keane

JUNE 13, 2006

Growth involves, in many businesses, more customer service, product development, support, marketing and so forth – in addition to more R&D. So, if all of your costs rise smoothly in direct proportion to sales, I would suspect you built these costs for the first month and then just scaled them going forward. Resources for startups.

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Mike Michalowicz

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Wisconsin is a dairy state with fabulous cheeses to choose from. They customize the message that goes in the box each season for no additional charge! This organizer is a universal, elastic organization system that gives customized digital device and personal item storage. Custom Unique T-shirts. A Chef’s Coat.

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Mike Michalowicz

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Wisconsin is a dairy state with fabulous cheeses to choose from. They customize the message that goes in the box each season for no additional charge! This organizer is a universal, elastic organization system that gives customized digital device and personal item storage. Custom Unique T-shirts. A Chef’s Coat.

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Tim Keane

APRIL 24, 2006

Create a culture in your company that is focused on the customer, rather than on the technology. We had a business at $2MM in sales look like it could go to $8MM. Create a culture in your company that is focused on the customer, rather than on the technology. We had a business at $2MM in sales look like it could go to $8MM.

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Tim Keane

APRIL 12, 2006

Are you able to explain why your product is a compelling purchase for the customer, and how the customer will make buying decisions? It has superior rights to common, usually is converted to common for the purposes of a sale, and sometimes has a sort of bonus payment to investors, called a “participation.”. Google Ads.

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