Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Visit reference customers, partners, and vendors. In any case, before the process starts on your startup, you should be doing your own reverse due diligence on the investor, as outlined in this article I published a while back. Use this opportunity to validate their satisfaction and support for your company and your solution.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 9, 2021

It’s a shared workspace so buyers and sellers can work together throughout the laborious B2B sales process—making it a lot more collaborative and a lot less painful. . As part of the founding sales teams at Stripe (Ross) and Google Cloud (Ryan) saw how little innovation there was around the buyer <> seller relationship.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2021

Visit reference customers, partners, and vendors. In any case, before the process starts on your startup, you should be doing your own reverse due diligence on the investor, as outlined in this article I published a while back. Use this opportunity to validate their satisfaction and support for your company and your solution.

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Technical Review Due Diligence Term Sheet Bankruptcy 379

Rembrandt Communications

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

However, PR can provide many benefits that can actually catapult sales and give you a competitive edge cost-effectively. Also, if you share your media clipping with potential investors, partners, sponsors, and more, it can be an important selling tool. Specifically, here are…. Gain third-party credibility you can’t buy.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

In this article, we will explore the benefits of eBay fulfilment through a 3PL provider, a service designed to streamline your order management needs and optimise your eBay business. This ensures that your customers receive prompt and professional assistance, even after the sale. Best of luck!

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 19, 2013

This article initially appeared on TechCrunch. The era of VCs investing in successful consumer Internet startups such as eBay led to a belief system that seemed to permeate many enterprise software startups that hiring sales or implementation people was a bad thing. These are the lifeblood of your sales organization.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 17, 2021

From long sales cycles to trying to stand out from the sea of sameness, B2B companies face an uphill battle from the start. I recently surveyed and interviewed over 200+ B2B executives, marketing & sales leaders to find out exactly what challenges they currently face and what they are doing to overcome them. So what does it take?

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ConversionXL

MARCH 31, 2021

Agencies looking to grow have traditionally relied on fostering strategic relationships to land deals and increase sales. In this article, I’ll outline how to create an agency content strategy that fuels your business development efforts and generates the optimal kind of organic traffic. Collect data sources for quantitative insights.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JANUARY 14, 2011

I just wanted to clarify that Leigh wrote this article to highlight many of the best and most important articles hidden away in the archives of this blog. Make Your Article Popular, Again And Again None of us start with 1000+ blog readers. If they read through that article, who is to say they will not read through another one.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 10, 2022

Bitcoin’s most significant and controversial use case is that it is known for its use on the dark web for illegal activities such as money laundering, drug purchases/sales, murder-for-hire assassins stories, etc. These benefits make Bitcoin very appealing, but until recently Bitcoin has been banned in many countries and economies.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 25, 2019

If you’ve decided to take your company global or expand outside of your native country, the first step is going to executing your entry strategy with the right business partners in play. There is a lot of planning that goes into selecting international business partners. Unfortunately, that’s easier said than done. Do Your Research.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 23, 2023

If you are an owner of an online store or the marketer for one, then promoting your online store is a crucial undertaking that helps boost your sales. When you plan on starting a promotional campaign but want to know what strategies you shouldn’t miss, this article has a few to consider. Check them out.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

This article first appeared on the Harvard Business Review blog. In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World, ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2014

Finally we move to the left side of the canvas to teach the supporting elements of Resources, Partners, Activities and Costs. Therefore we’re going to teach the class in the following order: 1) value proposition, 2) customer segments, 3) activities, 4) resources, 5) partners, 6) channel, 7) customer relationships, 8) revenue/costs.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

External users, such as customers, media publications, and influencers then contribute to your reputation through reviews, articles, forum posts, comments, journalistic investigations, and interviews. Instead of always using a straightforward sales strategy, consider reciprocation and interact with your consumers. Improve yourself.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

In this article, you’ll learn the difference between brand marketing and product marketing, and how to balance both to stand out above the crowd. It partners with sales to close more revenue, informs product teams to deliver better products, and in some cases, co-owns demand generation activities with marketing teams.

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Up and Running

MARCH 8, 2022

That’s what we’ve set out to do here, in this article. A standard business plan includes the following sections: Executive Summary Products & Services Description Market Analysis Marketing & Sales Plan Organization & Management Team Financial Projections. Start with a sales forecast. Outline your expenses.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

External users, such as customers, media publications, and influencers then contribute to your reputation through reviews, articles, forum posts, comments, journalistic investigations, and interviews. An unsavory news article, misguided social posts from employees, or a slew of public complaints can quickly catch fire.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Create a sales plan. We discussed these options previously in our article 15 Tips for Turning Your Craft Hobby Into a Successful Business : A sole proprietorship is the “most basic type of business to establish” according to the SBA (Small Business Administration). Create a Sales Plan. Develop your brand. Spread the word.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Whether it’s a loan officer reading your business plan or a potential business partner, you need to make sure you get your plan right. You also want to ensure that business partners are on the same page as you and that you agree on the services you are providing, what you’re going to charge, and how you are going to deliver those services.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JULY 5, 2011

This article is the second in the series on Maximising Profits with good pricing strategies. In the first article, “ What Is The Perfect Price Point To Maximize Profits? The comments I received after the article were very interesting, yes, I read and try to reply to all of them (especially the ones that are thought provoking).

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

In this article, we’ll look at the nine retail trends shaping the new world of retail and how marketers can adjust. million of inventory online and recovered all their lost POS revenue with online sales. Despite the challenges retailers face, there are opportunities to not only survive but to thrive. Image source ).

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 22, 2009

Building Your SaaS Sales Compensation Plan. Compensating the sales force is a difficult task and the key is usually to keep things simple, so that each sales rep knows what he needs to optimize to make more money at the end of the quarter. which is very close to the typical 8% paid for sales commissions.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Find the right partners. So, you need to find mentors, partners, and employees who are. Now, not every business can immediately hire more employees, and you may not have someone you want to bring on as an official partner. You can be increasing revenue, growing sales, and maybe even cutting costs.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 27, 2017

This article originally appeared in the Harvard Business Review. If they select a business model that targets industry incumbents, they don’t have to worry about upsetting existing customers, partners or distribution channels. Here’s one reason why: Startups can do anything. The company has more rooms available then any hotel chain.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 23, 2022

9- Optimize sales process. Partnerships, pay-per-click ads, resellers, direct-sales people and social media are all ways in which our organization generates revenue. It's been working well so far but I know that, with a little more effort, I can expand these sources of income to generate almost as much money as I do from sales.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

In this article, we brought together 17 of the best product marketers from companies like Gong , Privy , HighSpot and Vanguard (most of them are your instructors in CXL’s Product Marketing Minidegree ) and asked them for their best advice for those who want to rise through the ranks of the most in-demand marketing role today.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2022

In this article, you’ll learn how to build a powerful ecommerce marketing strategy using customer research and messaging development, and how to use it to determine which marketing tactics will best reach your target audience. Above, the average order value and sales conversion rate equally impact total sales growth.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 26, 2022

In this article, you’ll learn how to gain traction on TikTok to grow awareness, traffic, and acquisition. The benefits of TikTok for ecommerce brands don’t start and end with a sale. TikTok now accounts for 90% of the brand’s sales, helping it grow from small business to six-figure company with over 182k followers.

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Seeing Both Sides

JULY 11, 2013

I''ve been thinking a lot lately about scaling sales. . Before this occurs, the sales process is a craft or an art - custom-made by the founder or evangelist sales VP. How do I build a repeatable, scalable sales process that is like an industrial machine - not a crafts project? 1) Enterprise Sales.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

DocuSign combines both to fuel its sales funnel. In this article, we’ll look at both disciplines, explaining what they are and when they’re best used. It flips the traditional sales funnel on its head, ditching the one-size-fits-all approach to marketing in favor of a land-and-expand approach. The result?

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Reports are vital for establishing the success of marketing campaigns and tracking sales trends. In this article, we’ll cover the basics of Google Data Studio—what it is and what it does—and provide you with the know-how to build a custom dashboard for your sales report. Sales performance is measured against preset goals.

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Rembrandt Communications

AUGUST 1, 2022

You distribute articles, blogs, emails, newsletters, videos, podcasts, press releases, and more… but you don’t see results. Your content can improve sales, customer relationships, positive online awareness, and much more… but only if you put the appropriate time and effort into it. Does Your Content Give You The Results You Want?

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

In 2019 we partnered with several revenue-based lending providers, effectively creating a marketplace. “. We collect more data on an individual business than, to our knowledge, any other RBI investor, through our application process, data partners, and various public sources online. Bigfoot Capital.

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BeyondVC

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

How does the bottom-up model work versus the traditional top-down enterprise sales model? and many others… Dom NiCastro from CMSWire has a great article on this: Don’t Expect Slack to Dominate Enterprise Collaboration — Yet. Salesforce – has Quip, do they keep adding layers on top?

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ConversionXL

APRIL 29, 2013

In this article we’re going to dive deep into a discussion about creating content for your autoresponder campaign. This article is about how to not sound like a robot and keep that personal vibe even when your content is on auto-pilot. That’s not what this article is about. And then what?

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 30, 2023

As Index Ventures Partner Mark Goldberg put it in a WSJ article : “there is a shallow trough of disillusionment” Startups that enjoyed the buzz are now realising that they also need to become good businesses, not just cool technology, to survive. But not all is rosy.

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