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21 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

My father and I started the business back in 2002 with the following dream: “our mission is to support USA families and jobs by producing high-quality clothing, in the USA, at an affordable price. Gaining valuable skills such as sales and marketing can be applied to every single business and leveraged to build your own.

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The Gamification Behind Loyalty Cards

Up and Running

Launched in 2002, the Sainsbury’s reward card finds particular strength in integrating ‘food for thought’ (excuse the pun): If you have your own bags, for example, you can redeem points. Operations & Productivity Sales & Marketing brand loyalty customer relationships customer retention' Point Reward Cards.

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Making Decisions in Context

Austin Startup

Compensation decisions obviously affect hiring and retention. Of all your hires, if you have commissioned sales people, those will give you the most problems if they’re not all given an equal chance to make their quotas and achieve their personal earnings goals. You’ll just never create the sales momentum you need. Not really.

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Square IPO: Is Square A Good Payments Business?

Agile VC

The other tiny portion (1%) comes from sales of hardware, like the tablet stands and POS like cash drawers that some businesses use to process Square payments. With Square there are other costs like fraud which they report below the line in operating expenses rather than as a cost of revenue. Given the unit economics above (e.g.

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53 Top Conversion Optimization Tools Reviewed by Experts

ConversionXL

The services offered post-sale are not necessarily well-regarded and in the worst case may be considered “nickel and dime” – though that may be changing. But don’t worry it’s a strong sales culture with great salesmanship that may certainly help you out at renewal time.”

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

net is the only framework in which you can build an app for all the major mobile operating systems (iphone, android, wp7). Hiring manager: If one has a lot of experience with large building cranes and operations, the hiring manager rules them out. It’s an *freaking open source*.net net implementation. Checkout [link].net

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