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Paranoid Companies Miss the Best New Opportunities

Startup Professionals Musings

Up-sell related products after the initial sale. They are more than happy to sell you alternative brand of shoes that match your suit, or suggest a premium appliance from another manufacturer, once you have selected the lowest cost refrigerator. This is called up-selling, or cross-up-selling, and both parties share the profits.

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Your Toughest Competitor May be Your Best Partner

Startup Professionals Musings

Up-sell related products after the initial sale. They are more than happy to sell you alternative brand of shoes that match your suit, or suggest a premium appliance from another manufacturer, once you have selected the lowest cost refrigerator. This is called up-selling, or cross-up-selling, and both parties share the profits.

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Demand Generation vs. Lead Generation: Integrating To Drive Growth

ConversionXL

Typically, they use gated content to capture the prospect’s contact information so the sales team can nurture and convert them. Without a focused, integrated demand generation strategy, lead generation delivers disinterested leads that frustrate sales reps and result in low conversion rates. Take sales CRM Pipedrive.

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What you have to know about conversion optimization

ConversionXL

It is the cheapest, quickest way to increase sales online. Think about this: if you’re currently converting at 1% (1% of your visitors buy your stuff), but can increase that to a mere 2%, you’ve doubled your sales. The higher the conversion rate (%), the more sales (sign ups, subscriptions, etc) you get.

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10 Rules For Writing An Effective Sales Letter

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

For people who hate cold calling, a sales prospecting letter that converts well can be a golden ticket to a successful start-up. They seem as if they’ve all come from the same template on some sales letter example website. It can also help more established professionals press on through a slow patch.

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7 Easy and Effective Customer Segments to Target in Facebook Ads

ConversionXL

Basically, folks who are already in the sales funnel. Customer segmentation is an old trick in the marketing book. According to Direct Marketing Association , 77% of ROI is attributed to segmented, targeted, and triggered campaigns. The newest entrants to your sales funnel. These are for winning higher match rates.

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From Airbnb to TaskRabbit to Zimride, sharing is becoming big business

www.usatoday.com

To greet renters and hand over the keys, Hertz sometimes hires a stand-in through TaskRabbit, a Web-based company that matches time-deprived people in need of temporary assistants with freelance errand runners who have passed criminal background checks and are looking for extra income. If I find a full-time job, I may not need the money.