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What Is a Business Model? Business Models Explained

Up and Running

It’s an explanation of how you deliver value to your customers at an appropriate cost. These tools let entrepreneurs experiment, test, and, well, model different ways that they could structure their costs and revenue streams. Everything it takes to sell that thing: marketing, distribution, delivering a service, and processing the sale.

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6 Reasons Why Technology Won’t Kill B2B Salespeople

YoungUpstarts

by Eliot Burdett, co-founder and CEO of Peak Sales Recruiting. Fears over technology stealing sales jobs is nothing new, it happened following the advent of both the phone and Internet. Job Forecast Study ranks sales jobs as the number one job employers are currently looking to fill, ranking 10% higher than technical positions.

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Why Publishers Will Tell You Anything But The Truth

YoungUpstarts

That’s because sales numbers are almost impossible to come by, and the numbers you can track down simply cannot be verified. Publishers are loath to provide accurate sales figures, for two reasons. So the numbers point toward the success level of a given book, but don’t provide precise sales data. So what’s an author to do?

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Twitter Link Roundup #149 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Twitter: It’s time for patent trolls to bear the costs of frivolous lawsuits – [link]. Another industry being disintermediated by technology: Gaming Faces Its Archenemy: Financial Reality – [link]. Neal Sales-Griffin ( @ nealsales ): Solving problems, making things and having fun – [link]. – [link].

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All GMV is not created equal

A Crowded Space

Weak marketplaces suffer from disintermediation, pricing pressure, and destructive competition. At oDesk, we started with a 50%+ take rate but quickly lowered that to 30% and then 10% as we became more self-service and also wanted to lock up the market and prevent any disintermediation. This is why productivity matters so much!

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9 Real Estate Marketing Strategies to Expand Your Business

Up and Running

Additional resources to consult for marketing-related activities: Estimating Realistic Startup Costs. Disintermediation refers to the mindset where customers wonder whether they really need a real estate agent or not. Disintermediation marketing targets such customers to convince them of the value offered by a real estate professional.

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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

Urs Cete, the Head of Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments , notes, “If you think you can provide just money, you will be disintermediated.”. Are they good sales people? They are making substantial exits and are not just cost centers. Entrepreneurs today expect more than just capital from their investors.