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Episode 106: Implementing Profit First With Frank DeBenedetto and Ralph M. Rivera

Mike Michalowicz

Too add, by implementing Profit First, within the first two weeks of starting the business, the company took their first distribution check! And audIT Sales Presentation System, a SaaS sales presentation system for the IT and MSP industry designed to help communicate technical concepts in simple ways using color and infographics.

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5 Ways to Keep Your Small Business Growing

Up and Running

Statistically, less than 50 percent of small businesses are still operational after five years. million in 1999, Zappos is now worth $1 billion. These include the hiring of virtual assistants, which lowers operational costs while increasing the level of productivity. . Running a small business is a daunting challenge.

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Economic Moats: Who Has Them? And How Do You Get One?

ConversionXL

The concept of “economic moats” came from a 1999 Fortune article by Warren Buffett: The key to investing is [.] An effective moat doesn’t require Amazon’s distribution network or Microsoft’s monopolistic software strategy. Pick a random job description for a sales position. There are two ways to build a moat: Dig a wide moat.

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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

The HBR study contrasts Office Depot and Staples during the 2000 recession: Office Depot cut 6% of its workforce, but it couldn’t reduce operating costs significantly. At the same time, the company contained its operating costs and came out of the recession stronger, bigger, and more profitable than it had been in 1999.

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Customer Data Platforms: The Next Big Shift in SaaS Marketing Stacks?

ConversionXL

Though it wasn’t intended, the last two articles I wrote on the PlainFlow blog have formed a series: The Modern SaaS Stack and the Unexploited Amount of Data is a walkthrough that shows how companies use Modern SaaS Stack to cover their Marketing/Support/Sales activities from day-0. All manual operations.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

Both Sides of the Table

After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. Distributed version control model – first in the industry like ours and we are filing patents. My blog was wiped out.

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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

abovethecrowd.com

Unfortunately, either information asymmetry or physical distances and the resulting distribution costs can both cut against the economic advantages that would otherwise arise for all. In 1999, Jack Ma created Alibaba , a Chinese-based B2B marketplace for connecting small and medium enterprise with potential export opportunities.