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Streamline Your Sales Process With These Five Proven Techniques

YoungUpstarts

They don’t buy a widget because they like having a widget; they do it because they need it and it fulfills a particular purpose in their personal or professional life. If you were a customer, would you buy from a prospective salesperson that you’re about to hire? Refine Your Sales Process. Are they generally likable?

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3 Tips For Treating Your Business Data With The Respect It Deserves

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by Penny Garbus, co-author of “ Mining New Gold — Managing Your Business Data “ Much of what keeps a business operating and profitable lies not on a store shelf but deep inside a computer system, where critical information such as inventory, customer mailing lists, employee files, sales records and vendor information is stored.

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How to Lose an Employee in 10 Days [with Video]

Up and Running

For our latest webinar, we discussed “How to Lose an Employee in 10 Days,” outlining major mistakes an entrepreneur or CEO should avoid if they want to hold onto valuable employees. Their mantra is “we love employees,” and this mantra really fits their culture. Great movie.

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Own A Small Business? Why You Should Consider Hiring A Bookkeeper.

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If a company sells widgets, then many tasks not directly related to widget sales get outsourced to a third party. Doing everything by yourself unfortunately is usually not scalable as a business grows, hires employees and becomes more complex. One of the most common trends the past two decades in business is outsourcing.

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Clubhouse put a big bullseye on social audio

VC Cafe

Spotify a cquired LA-based live audio app Locker Room and is reportedly on a hiring spree to launch their own social audio experience. 31 employees according to Linkedin, but seems to be bootstrapped. Space – offers a widget that enables users to host live audio-only chat directly on their website.

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Modernising Your Business: Time To Keep Up

YoungUpstarts

Mostly, they are sent out to customers who signed up for the newsletter on your company’s website, if you do not have an existing page or registration widget for it then consider implementing one. If you find yourself unable to manage, hiring a social media person or team might be a great option for you. A social media presence.

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How To Be A Great Leader

YoungUpstarts

Managers have employees. Managers make widgets. Writing a mission statement that you ignore in your hiring and firing decisions doesn’t make you an effective leader. Leadership by example is especially important when you’re hiring the best people who often are smarter than you are at the tasks you’re asking them to do.