Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 21, 2011

The cities chosen for the City Page beta test closely align with the first Google Offers beta tests and can be supported by the local Google sales and support staff. There’s also an interesting integration of acquisition TalkBin , a tool that makes it very easy for people send SMS messages to any registered business.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 10, 2014

Rather than losing respect for you as a leader, they’ll appreciate that you treated them as valued partners — and they’ll feel more invested in your company’s future because they had more of a hand in creating it. Sure, you originally hired each of your employees to do specific jobs. How is your family?”. I know you can do it.”.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 1, 2015

In 2005, David Choe was invited to paint a number of murals at Facebook’s HQ in Palo Alto. If you’re giving a large percentage of your company to someone (and yes, two percent is large), you’re entering into a contract that’s really a whole lot like marriage in that it creates a long-term relationship between you and the employee or partner.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

A network of friends and partners can also serve as a great assurance and reminder that you’re not walking. 9- Doing what I do best, and hiring others to do the rest. I stay motivated by doing what I do best, and hiring others to do the rest! 1- Celebrating the little wins. #9- Photo Credit: Lorrie Thomas Ross.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 4, 2022

One of my favorite episodes who should be your first hire, what's your funding plan, Dr. Lisa Cravin shares her top advice from building spotlight oral. And that was, you know, 2004, 2005 was, I was realizing that it was no longer about working harder. So they need that partner, right. And then secondly was the text.

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www.inc.com

JULY 9, 2010

500|5000 Conference Honorees Resources Press Apply 2011 ); Topics > Leadership and Managing > Human Resources > Recruiting and Hiring Employees > How to Attract Talent to Your Start-Up At a start-up, you need employees that are in it for the long haul and fit your unique culture. People would only get paid if the candidates got hired.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 26, 2014

If you lack a key component to running your business, consider finding a partner to handle that aspect. If you don’t want to bring in a partner, hire someone to fill in your “business gaps”, because it is exhausting to try to do everything yourself and invariably whatever you’re not comfortable doing won’t get done for the business.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

In a recent survey published on HubSpot, it was found that companies who put data at the core of their marketing/sales decisions improve marketing ROI by 15%-20%. Popular eCommerce site Threadless has had a “feature request” thread on their customer forum since 2005. Phase 1 – Research Your Customers To Find What They Need Most.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 15, 2022

And I think as we talk just a little bit, as we got started, you started in 2005. You need to connect with customers on a human level, make boatloads of sales and grow with Gusto. Todd Cochrane (14:37): You know, and it's even funny because I hired a service to help me get more interviews. So Todd, welcome to the show.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

In a recent survey published on HubSpot, it was found that companies who put data at the core of their marketing/sales decisions improve marketing ROI by 15%-20%. Popular eCommerce site Threadless has had a “feature request” thread on their customer forum since 2005. Phase 1 – Research Your Customers To Find What They Need Most.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

In a recent survey published on HubSpot, it was found that companies who put data at the core of their marketing/sales decisions improve marketing ROI by 15%-20%. Popular eCommerce site Threadless has had a “feature request” thread on their customer forum since 2005. Phase 1 – Research Your Customers To Find What They Need Most.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

We started the Barefoot Wine brand in our laundry room in 1986, made it a nationwide bestseller, and successfully sold the brand to E&J Gallo in 2005. We partnered with nonprofit organizations (NPOs) that believed in the same causes we believed in — specifically, environmentalism and civil rights. Of course you need to hire well.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Becoming an entrepreneur requires learning on so many levels from strategy, sales, marketing, and service. I love the fact that I have complete control over my business, my sales and my delivery. And we do this by serving our clients and the partners we work with each day with an excellent strategic product. I live for winning.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

In a recent survey published on HubSpot, it was found that companies who put data at the core of their marketing/sales decisions improve marketing ROI by 15%-20%. Popular eCommerce site Threadless has had a “feature request” thread on their customer forum since 2005. Phase 1 – Research Your Customers To Find What They Need Most.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Never missing an opportunity for a good war story, I’d like to revisit one high-profile transaction, the $650 million acquisition of MySpace by Fox Interactive Media in 2005, on which I spent many sleepless nights along with the rest of the deal team. The spin-out took a few months to negotiate and didn’t actually close until February 2005.

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genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Steve and Carolyn are partners at Emergent Research and Senior Fellows at the Society for New Communications Research. Member since 01/2005. They had a great managment team, A list VCs, great technology, excellent sales traction and market leadership in a very exciting space. MBO Partners State of Independence in America Study.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 20, 2013

My partners at Greylock and I have invested in a number of young founding CEOs who match this pattern and are doing a fantastic job leading their companies through hypergrowth, such as Brian Chesky of AirBnB and Drew Houston of Dropbox. Couldn’t we just hire a COO and have you stay as CEO?”. James and Jeff had worked together at Yahoo!,

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Hire smart. A good rule of thumb is to avoid hiring solely based on someone’s technical skill set. Instead, hire people with foundational qualities you can build on: integrity, enthusiasm, a willingness to learn, a sense of humor, and a sincere interest in your business, to name a few. You can always teach that.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 20, 2011

I’m no science wiz, but I’ve always loved the idea of resistance in physics as a metaphor for the kind of resistance many business owners encounter when trying to spark a sale. Many times we can present a solution and price that seems like the obvious and logical choice, but can’t seem to make the sale.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 20, 2011

Mahan Khalsa Mahan Khalsa is the founder of the Sales Performance Group of FranklinCovey , the creator of the Helping Clients Succeed sales improvement program taught in over 40 countries and 10 different languages. He is currently a founding partner at Ninety Five 5 (Less Nonsense – More Sales).

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 13, 2011

Far too often marketers spend all of their attention on the chase and the sale and not enough on the retain and remarkable experience. It’s certainly a big topic, but I love that attract and retain are used in the same setting because they are certainly linked arm in arm in a business that wants to build any kind of marketing momentum.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 28, 2011

If indeed you have any vision of selling your business in the future you’ve got to focus on marketing instead of simply focusing on sales. In my opinion, a greater focus on these elements not only creates greater sales, it leads to the creation of a more valuable asset – or something you might indeed be able to sell.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 14, 2011

Gives you the ability to initiate help and sales chats while visitors are on your site. The photo in the post is a favorite for the week from Flickr. Image kase3k via Flickr Good stuff I found this week: Olark – Very full featured real time chat tool for your web site.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 14, 2011

Use technology to produce postcards that invite each recipient to a personal landing page that features information tailored to their interests and alerts a sales team to initiate a further contact. The technology is there to do this in small batches with hundreds of variations.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 10, 2011

If you’ve ever wondered why your pure sales messages meet with resistance and deflection it’s because to most prospects you look like someone that is out to steal their money, time and attention – something akin to a predator. If you short either one of these conditions you’ll soon turn into the worst kind of foe.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 20, 2011

Jim Connolly Jim Connolly specializes in helping small businesses to make massively more sales and boost their profits, through common sense marketing. I Hate Selling, So Now How Do I Convert Leads 1 Many business owners attract sales leads, but feel uncomfortable converting those leads into paying clients.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 20, 2011

Mahan Khalsa Mahan Khalsa is the founder of the Sales Performance Group of FranklinCovey , the creator of the Helping Clients Succeed sales improvement program taught in over 40 countries and 10 different languages. He is currently a founding partner at Ninety Five 5 (Less Nonsense – More Sales).

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 19, 2011

When you want to get more “leads” into the top of your sales funnel, you have the option of not requiring people to register to get the valuable content that your company creates (an ebook or white paper perhaps). With a gate, each person downloading becomes a valuable sales lead. You have a choice.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 27, 2011

On the surface it’s a stock market like game where individuals and companies offer shares of stock for sale and that stock value is measured based on demand, actions taken on Empire Avenue and the collective participation and engagement in social media sites such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube. First off, what is it.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 25, 2011

Often times we want to make our stuff sound so important and wonderful that it comes off confusing and complex – confusion equals no sale! Balancing both of these needs is the tricky part.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Hiring an expert or a coach to walk you through this stage can help you minimize the chances of failure although identifying the problem first can be a great way to create a long-lasting strategy. Durant lost control of GM to a bankers' trust just two years later, in 1910, due to enormous debt and a crumble in automobile sales.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 16, 2011

Look for numbers like sales, units, leads, presentations, page views, downloads, and conversion rates. Which brings us to money, the reason why you want a marketing plan: better marketing planning means better marketing management which means more sales and managed, optimized marketing spending. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. :

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 20, 2011

For more insights, download these four free sales tools. Jill Konrath Jill Konrath, author of SNAP Selling & Selling to Big Companies, helps sellers crack into new accounts and win big contracts. I Hate Selling, So Now How Do I Convert Leads 2 Stop selling then – at least the way you think you’re supposed to.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 20, 2011

Wendy Weiss Wendy Weiss, The Queen of Cold Calling™ , is an author, speaker, sales trainer, and sales coach. Read all five posts in today’s series and come back each day this week for five new posts in this great educational series and another chance to win. She is the author of the book, Cold Calling for Women.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 20, 2011

Michael Schultz Mike Schultz, author of Rainmaking Conversations , is President of RAIN Group, a sales training , assessment, and performance improvement company, and publisher of RainToday.com. Those that turn their sales fortunes around stop hating it. I wish learning to love sales would be as easy as telling you, “Try it!

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2011

Word of mouth, referrals and buzz on social networks can increase awareness, build trust and influence sales. Social Media & Networking – 90% of marketers say that social media is important for their business according to the 2011 Social Media Marketing Report.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 19, 2011

You’ll find it’s much easier to promote this kind of high-quality free content, particularly with social media, than it is to try to jump right to the sale of your product or service. It will build trust and rapport, so that down the line you can fully explain all the benefits of what you do.

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