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Are You In Control Of Your Business?

YoungUpstarts

In order to be able to make these sound, informed business decisions you need an accurate and efficient operating system. Does your spreadsheet allow you to see trends and forecast at a glance? But this is where online software such as TradeGecko’s inventory and sales management system provides an ideal solution.

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Scaling Sales: Arming & Aiming – A’s, B’s & C’s

Both Sides of the Table

In the first part of this post I talked about how sales in a startup is often evangelical , requires as consultative sale and needs constant adjustments based on customer feedback. The next few posts are going to talk about scaling your sales operations as you move out of the evangelical phase.

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Critical Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for Founders

Up and Running

This metric helps determine how much cash you need for operation and expansion. Open opportunities by stage: monitor the number of leads you have at each stage of the sales cycle and how you can best allocate resources to pursue them. Activation rate: measures how many visitors are engaging with your website or app.

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7 Approaches To Help You Generate More Referrals

Duct Tape Marketing

In this series, I’m presenting what I’m calling the seven grades of referral fuel. Success story features Q and a sessions with successful business leaders, keynote presentations, conversations on sales marketing. I'm actually in this series going to present what I'm calling the seven grades of referral fuel.

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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. PadduG David, we were discussing about these metrics yesterday since we are planning to present a funding request proposal to a group of angels in the next couple of days. SolidWorks 2: The best VAR management program in the world?

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A practical guide to a first board meeting: Advice from the pros

This is going to be BIG.

You have to let the entrepreneurs and management team operate the business and make all the key decisions. Each board pack should have the history of performance over the past year, a comparison of performance relative to plan and your forecasts going forward. But that doesn't mean you can't help them. Understand variances from plan.