crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Create a sales plan. It includes key players, industry trends, and estimates of industry sales. How do they currently meet your target market’s needs, and how will you differentiate your product or services? Sales and marketing plan. If you’re a sole owner and don’t have employees, this is not required.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 18, 2024

16:21] How do you help people differentiate between growth and scale? [22:16] But what they don't tell you is that they're not taking anywhere near a market rate salary for what they would get paid somewhere else. You start hiring freelancers and then maybe employees. 09:13] Why are service businesses hard to scale? [16:21]

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 6, 2022

18:51] Do you get pushback from people who work from home that think this is another way for employers to watch over their employees? [21:41] You can have visibility and accountability to your employees. I can build an office for a hundred, you know, 10,000 employees. 21:41] What does the roadmap look like for Kumospace? [23:42]

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2019

VC’s have just changed the ~50-year old social contract with startup employees. For most startup employee’s startup stock options are now a bad deal. As Venture Capital emerged as an industry in the mid 1970’s, investors in venture-funded startups began to give stock options to all their employees. Here’s why.

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

Very few, if any, of these interactions are with a sales rep. Because if people are making up their own minds, without coercion from sales, creating demand is the best way to get them to choose you. Because if people are making up their own minds, without coercion from sales, creating demand is the best way to get them to choose you.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Look, if you work in sales, wanna learn how to sell or just peek at the latest sales news. Check out the sales podcast where host Will Barron helps sales professionals learn how to find buyers and in big business in effective and ethical ways. I mean, it was such a great differentiator right early on.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

What differentiates you from the competition? If you can make about half of your yearly salary off of your product, then you can start thinking about quitting your day job. Once you have validation through sales and some money flowing, you can take the plunge. You cannot pay employees; you cannot pay yourself.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

They hire their initial co-founders and early employees and everybody has a sense of “mission.” But putting no time into anchoring your beliefs because you’re too busy executing sales, marketing, support, product & engineering is an easy recipe for leadership drift. A Sense of Purpose. Conviction. Empowerment.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 9, 2024

It's not an employee, it's a vendor almost. You put out free content as a marketer, you get a sales meeting as a business owner, you then ask for a proposal project gets worked on, or maybe a handful of projects get worked on, and then everybody starts over again. (06:33): And I've experienced that over the years.

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Up and Running

MAY 16, 2016

To supplement this guide, I interviewed an expert in the home health care field: Carol Byrne is the National Sales Director for 21st Century Health Care Consultants, a consulting firm which serves home health care agencies throughout the United States. See Also: Hiring Employees? Nursing aide. Social work.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Instead of being able to justify a somewhat fixed salaried workday, you find yourself working longer and longer hours as client demands increase. In addition, freelance development requires a lot more mental energy than being a salaried employee. Mental energy that can’t be spent launching your product.

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www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Your product must solve an actual need, have a profitable market size, differentiate itself from the competition, generate sufficient interest from your target market, be cost-effective to produce in a timely manner, and have a clear marketing path. If there isn’t enough differentiation from competitors, the venture will fail.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Jason Bay is a leading sales expert, and he talks with other leading sales experts to get you the information you need. John Jantsch (04:52): You know, you mentioned that, I mean, it was such a great differentiator, right? It's brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network, the audio destination for business professionals.

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Up and Running

MAY 1, 2014

Marketing and Sales Plan. What marketing and sales tactics will you be using? Highlight the key aspects of your financial plan, ideally with a chart that shows your planned sales, expenses, and profitability. You’ll end up with a long, generic statement about how your company is serving its customers, employees, etc.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Navigating the transition between a salaried employee and running your own consulting business can be tricky. Create a sales plan. It will be much easier to differentiate yourself from all of those other generalized consultants if you specialize. Create a Sales Plan. Build a web presence. Spread the word.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2014

According to Gallup’s chairman and CEO, fully 20 percent of American employees are actively disengaged because they have “bosses from hell that make them miserable.” In turn, these employees “roam the halls spreading discontent.” The qualities that make a great leader are quite different from those that make a good employee.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

They can differentiate themselves by holding “buy two cups get one free” sales or throwing in a free cinnamon sugar cookie with each purchase. You might even brainstorm ways to stop the problem — say, by giving kids a cut of the profits instead of paying a flat salary. The Brainy Bake Sale or Smart Car Wash.

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Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

That’s the sales forecast, the spending forecast and the cash flow. What taglines are you using to differentiate yourself from other people, other businesses that might be similar. You want to show that, and investors need to see the scale of a business that have to do with your sales forecast. It is not a document.

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Up and Running

JULY 22, 2014

Sales forecast. A typical profit and loss statement should include: your revenue (also called sales), followed by. your “cost of sale” or “cost of goods sold” (COGS)—keep in mind, some types of companies, such as a services firm, may not have COGS. That might sound like sales, expenses, and profits, but it’s not.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 2, 2023

Fractional CMOs help companies and business owners develop strategic marketing plans in a more cost-effective solution as they are not full-time employees, but they have the expertise of a seasoned marketing executive. You know, it's not an employee, it's, it's a vendor almost. (02:49): And I've experienced that over the years.

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Transformify

JANUARY 21, 2020

On the contrary, salaried employees may lose their jobs on short notice due to business transformation, cost-cutting or adverse market conditions having a negative impact on the company they work for. Another differentiating factor is the type of assignments each freelance platform is focused on. Onlinejobs.ph.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 14, 2019

Create a sales plan. How do your natural strengths differentiate you from the other real estate businesses in the area? Maybe you want to be the area expert in short sales, only focus on rental property management, or perhaps you are the go-to resource for landlord/tenant laws for your state. Sales and marketing plan.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Look, if you work in sales, wanna learn how to sell or just peek at the latest sales news. Check out the sales podcast where host will Barron helps sales professionals learn how to find buyers and in big business in effective and ethical ways. They had to have a lot of really smart, a lot of really expensive salaries.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Pay For Devices For Your Employees. Paying for devices for your employees might sound like a big expense, but it’s nothing compared to the cost of regular IT. You can probably buy all the equipment people in your business need for the price of a single salaried worker. Manage Sales Pipelines. Will you try it?

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blog.launchbit.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Putting aside the questions of when you should find a technical person or whether that technical person should be a cofounder or an employee, today Im going to focus on the question that Elizabeth and I hear over and over (and over) again: How do I find a technical cofounder?? 1 = Not Important and 5 = Very Important.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 20, 2017

I founded PointClickCare two decades ago with a background in sales and no technical skills. But I was able to take a simple idea to help nursing homes operate better and nurture it into the North American healthcare IT market leader for the senior care industry, with over 1,400 employees. What differentiates them?

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Klaviyo is a platform that helps growth-focused eCommerce brands drive more sales with super-targeted, highly relevant email, Facebook and Instagram marketing. It’s about being very, very intentional and setting ourselves up to really differentiate ourselves as employers in the marketplace. Transcript. Sabrina Starling: Yes.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 12, 2015

At the end of the day, what you want to do, is be able to move from that fishbowl of all the other businesses running around in the rat race, and differentiate yourself, and be that outlier and move to your own fishbowl. List your current and planned employees, et cetera, et cetera. What percentage of your sales will be on credit?

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

You can go so far in a single direction with too much freedom that maybe that’s not the best for people around you, or employees, or partners. Peter: If you hit a point where it may be difficult to pay salaries out or something like that, you know, often times it’s the business owner takes the first cut.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2020

Differentiation is about standing out from the noise and giving people a reason to choose you over others. Let me tell you why that is, and how you can differentiate. Sameness is the combined effect of companies being too similar in their offers, poorly differentiated in their branding , and indistinct in their communication.

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