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Coping With Late Payment – Managing Asia’s Slow Payers

YoungUpstarts

credit terms), a rise in daily sales outstanding, or DSO, affects the cash flows of local businesses. DSO is the average number of days that a company takes to collect revenue after a sale has been made. The accounts receivable turnover ratio is your annual net sales divided by your annual accounts receivable. Reduce inventory.

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What’s it Like Being a VC?

Both Sides of the Table

I have no quarterly sales targets for the first time in a decade – For anybody who’s ever been in a company with sales targets you can attest to what a fire drill the ends of March, June, September and December can be. I went to Ibiza in Spain with my wife and in-laws before we were married. Not any more for me.

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Short guide to sales and marketing for start-ups [Guest Post]

VC Cafe

You have to invest time and money into building a sales and marketing team to acquire customers beyond early adopters. To begin with, let’s illustrate the sales process with a simple graphic of the funnel that comes from an excellent post on Stratechery about marketing channels. Fear not – persistence will pay off!

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17 Entrepreneurs Celebrate Summer Business Accomplishments

Hearpreneur

Everyone on my team is obsessed with the products, so it’s been fun managing the social media channels. And hiked or biked every day, and enjoyed two weeks in Spain. It’s helped grow a better understanding of how our businesses can help each other, and because of the relationship we’ve been hitting new sales goals.

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The 4 Keys to Building Brand Loyalty with Millennials

Up and Running

For those who want to tap into this Millennial potential, there are four keys to building and retaining those customers: authenticity, digital messages, multi-channel marketing, and incentives and rewards. A brand’s sales pitch is of little to no importance to Millennials. Multi-channel marketing. Authenticity.

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Measuring Market Penetration with Brand Tracking (+ Metrics & Examples)

ConversionXL

You might find that, on average, your CSAT score is lowest at the handoff point between sales and service. Brand visibility is a measure of how frequently consumers see your brand through channels such as search, social, and email. This would show you exactly where your brand experience needs work. Brand loyalty. Brand visibility.

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25 Marketing Strategies For A Good Marketing Mix

YoungUpstarts

If this communication channel is misused and the emails are sent to massive databases that do not belong to the brand, it can be invasive for the user and would fall within the Interruption Marketing. This type of marketing has been established in the United States for years, but in Spain, it is still something new. Email Marketing.

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