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9 Messages From Sales Training May Save Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Yet in this age when customers have a thousand alternatives, and are overwhelmed by a multitude of messages, sales efforts can make or break a business. In fact, I believe modern entrepreneurs need to be super sales people, in the most positive sense, to their team as well as customers. No pain usually means no sales.

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Helping Startups Understand Salespeople & the Sales Culture

Both Sides of the Table

Specifically what is often not in the DNA of founders are sales skills. The result is a lack of knowledge of the process and of sales people themselves. I had never had any sales training so everything we did for the first couple of years was instinctual. I boil it down to this: sales people are sales people.

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10 Attributes Of The Perfect Partner For Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Very few entrepreneurs have the range of skills and experience to be the solution creator as well as business creator, or operational as well as sales leader. The challenge is to recognize and recruit that ideal partner match early with minimal cost and risk. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales.

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Improving Sales: The Excuse Departement is Closed

Both Sides of the Table

Specifically what is often not in the DNA of founders are sales skills. The result is a lack of knowledge of the process and of sales people themselves. I had never had any sales training so everything we did for the first couple of years was instinctual. I boil it down to this: sales people are sales people.

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How to Drive Sales by Ranking Higher on Google Maps

The Startup Magazine

It helps businesses to be discovered by customers, to stand out from competing businesses, and drive traffic to the store that can be converted into sales. Do not forget to include your main telephone number even if you use call tracking as your primary contact as Google will use it to match with other online information sources.

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6 Ways to Increase Holiday Sales and Engage Your Customers

Up and Running

Black Friday is just around the corner, and this is a great time to review your sales forecast goals and develop a strategy to meet them through your holiday campaigns. Here are 6 ways your business can build holiday marketing campaigns that help you increase holiday sales this season! This year, suggest the matching necklace.

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ExhibitMatch.com – Matching Trade Exhibitors With Vendors

YoungUpstarts

Founded in 2010, Las Vegas-based startup ExhibitMatch ( www.exhibitmatch.com ) hopes to solve that particular problem – it is a global online interactive bidding platform that matches trade show exhibitors with stand builders from around the world.

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