SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Paul Ollinger, West Coast Vice President of Sales of Facebook Paul Ollinger is the West Coast Vice President of Sales for Facebook. He has also been a Regional Sales Director and National Account Director for Facebook. LAUNCH.com, and The Improv Comedy Clubs. and SVP, Branded Content & Audience Creation at nitetime.net.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 5, 2012

.” Known for their “100% pure fruit” smoothies, juices and more recently vegetable pots, Innocent grew rapidly from a humble annual turnover of £ 400,000 in 1999 to become Europe’s leading natural smoothie company in 2010 with annual sales of £ 130 million. An Innocent Grass Van (source of image).

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 10, 2011

Business owners must learn to manage and juggle a complex and shifting combination of customer, partner, vendor, staff and advisory relationships in order to survive and grow. This is so critical if you plan to build a strategic partner platform. How about monitoring the relationship between internal teams like sales and marketing?

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Small Business Marketing Software Review Social Media 59

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 16, 2011

Creating ready made ways to amplify your customer’s desire to promote is one of the secrets to extending your reach and impact into new customer opportunities. Note: There have been some updates since I published th. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. : As the importance of Facebook as small business marketi. 5 Steps to Successful Fac.

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Customer Video Social Media Software Review 66

Austin Startup

AUGUST 24, 2019

At Coremetrics, I had to use mainframes and dumb terminals, clients and servers, the credit card industry, and any other analogy we could think of when explaining our idea to prospective investors, customers, and partners. this was 2005. Facebook partnered with us and keynoted one of our Client Summits. Then SaaS?—?Software

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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.

Small Business 66

Small Business Marketing Software Review Portland 66

The Entrepreneurial Mind

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

With a demonstrated market need and limited competition, Roland partnered with a custom software developer to co-found Abenity Inc. The team at Abenity has listened to customers and adapted its business model along the way since the company launched in 2005. to offer employee discount management to companies.

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OnlyOnce

OCTOBER 27, 2022

In 2005, I wrote a post called Unfolding the Map in which I looked at these two seemingly opposing philosophies from successful entrepreneurs: If you don’t have a map, you can’t get lost If you don’t have a map, you can’t get where you’re going. and tried to combine them when thinking about product roadmapping.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

Huge structural under-employment in much of the country and full employment in some niche tech markets where it’s impossible to hire developers, designers or sales professionals. An obvious example is Google who may have gotten less market attention if there would have been 8 well-financed competitors during the 2001-2005 timeframe.

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Saudi Arabia Valuation IPO Technical Review 309

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

To unlock buy-in and achievement, make your employees feel like valued partners by seeking out their opinions, ideas, and preferences. He just broke our Nashua, New Hampshire, store’s all-time sales record. They’ll be much more invested in your organization’s success because they had an active part in creating it.

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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. In many companies, employees in Sales don’t know much about what’s happening in Accounting. How is your family?”.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

If there are key companies in the industry your company is entering, consider partnering with them. The partnership will help boost awareness of your brand and also locks any copycat companies out of relationships with these partners. Form Strategic Partnerships.

Intellectual Property 180

Intellectual Property Startup Social Media PR 180

Hearpreneur

JULY 1, 2020

When I started Idea Grove in 2005, most PR firms had names like law firms – the name of the firm was the name of the owner or partners. We wanted our potential clients to view as a non-nonsense company that gets things done – upfront, blunt and honest; with the end goal being sales and revenue for them, not simply the idea.

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Mike Michalowicz

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

. – as business progressed from my “shop at home”, model, I stepped out in faith- and opened a Hunter Douglas trademark Gallery Store in Lincoln 2005- then a second Gallery Store in Omaha, 2008. . We kicked in 2020 with outstanding sales. million in sales, 2 showrooms, and 18 employees. Fast forward to 2020 .

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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. When I started my company in 2005, I spent too many years working so much both IN and ON the business that I burned out. I was doing my own admin, sales and marketing while doing operations (delivering what I was selling).

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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. Matter of fact, my sponsor GoDaddy, which I've had since 2005, it's remarkable. So Todd, welcome to the show. So you're right there with me.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 4, 2022

And that was, you know, 2004, 2005 was, I was realizing that it was no longer about working harder. Instead of the chief sales officer , but yeah, there's pretty much running the functional areas. So they need that partner, right. And then secondly was the text. It was about working smarter. So it's a title.

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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. Remember, making the sale is only the first step.

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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. Remember, making the sale is only the first step.

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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. Remember, making the sale is only the first step.

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Retention Customer Developer Programming 105

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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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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Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Merger Vesting 98

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. Remember, making the sale is only the first step.

Retention 98

Retention Customer Developer Programming 98

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.

Small Business 210

Small Business Retention Government Distribution 210

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Likely encouraged by various government schemes to grow the games and animation sector , the Singapore video games industry in recent years have expanded rapidly, growing from $87 million in 2005 to $285 million in 2007. It took the team of 20 some 14 months to develop both games, said Don Sim, the co-founder and CEO of Daylight Studios.

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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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Austin Startup

APRIL 27, 2019

At the beginning of Bazaarvoice in 2005, the market risk was whether or not we could convince retailers to embrace both the positive?—?and voice of their customers and talk them off the ledge that negative reviews wouldn’t tank their overall sales. and negative?—?voice It was one of the most gut-wrenching experiences of my life.

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www.inc.com

JULY 9, 2010

That was the thought behind Meebos decision to offer a $5,000 reward to anyone who referred qualified potential employees to the company that launched in 2005. The referrals the company got, especially from vendors and external partners were, in Perraults words, "spot on," and the experiment was a success. 500|5000 The 2010 Inc.

Intellectual Property 55

Intellectual Property Los Angeles San Francisco New York 55

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.

Equity 40

Equity Technical Review San Jose Stock 40

VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

That is because we do not sell, or use, anything other than “canned” software, for which we collect and remit appropriate sales taxes. He said that people who download “standard” software (like TurboTax) from the internet should pay sales taxes, just like someone who buys TurboTax in a box at BestBuy. Citrix Presentation Server 4.0,

Software 48

Software SQL Colorado Fractional CTO 48

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

He turned me down for a job in 2005. I spent time today negotiating it with him and getting my partners bought into some changes. I spent time today negotiating it with him and getting my partners bought into some changes. We call these investors “LPs” for limited partners. Fund raising. Marketing.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 23, 2007

The following chart compare the impact of the tsunami in 2005 on the website traffic vs. the viral marketing campaign that they launched in 2007 with Popular Media. Labels: internet , sales and marketing. Labels: internet , sales and marketing. Philippe Botteri Accel Partners London, UK My Bio. sales and marketing. (10).

Software Review 48

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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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Social Media SEO Programming Engineer 69

VC Cafe

DECEMBER 5, 2010

ClickFox , the Israeli-American startup developing optimization software for customer service centers, announced it has raised $18 million in financing from a syndicate led by Morgan Stanley Alternative Investment Partners (AIP). Israel’s Jerusalem Venture Partners sold part of its stake in Qlik Technologies Inc. JVP holds a 14.5

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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).

Small Business 53

Small Business Marketing North America Social Media 53

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.

Small Business 72

Small Business Customer Marketing New York 72