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Are You Building Your Business With a Crock-pot or a Microwave?

Duct Tape Marketing

If you’ve been in business for about 10 years or more, think back – what was your sales cycle before the search engine ruled the world? I am willing to guess that if you said your sales cycle used to be 6 months, and you really look at the time from engagement to close today, it probably is 6 to 8 weeks now.

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Designing startup metrics to drive successful behavior | For Entrepreneurs

www.forentrepreneurs.com

The company has just missed its quarterly revenue forecast. aggregate pipeline created in a given week) could be altered reflexively by their measurement -- a sort of Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle for high-velocity sales. SolidWorks 2: The best VAR management program in the world? Great stuff!

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