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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

YoungUpstarts

Other data, like who entered an order for 4,000 widgets, might not be that important and is just taking up space. You may want to hire an outside source to review security and, if you believe necessary, hire a professional hacker to look for holes in your systems. But you also don’t want to throw away anything of value.

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

YoungUpstarts

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. Space – offers a widget that enables users to host live audio-only chat directly on their website. Similar to Saga , a family-focused audio social network.

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Profit Per Impression - The Most Important Number in Your Business

Growthink Blog

Your competitor was selling a $500 widget, and the average purchaser bought 1.5 Your competitor's profit margin on each widget is 30%. Here's a summary of your competitors KPIs: 1% Response Rate 35% Conversion Rate $500 price per widget 1.5 Except, let's assume that you still charged the same $500 per widget.

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What Job is Your Customer Hiring You to Do?

OnlyOnce

My friend George, one of our co-founders at Return Path (according to him, the best looking of the three), has a wonderful and simple framing question for thinking about product strategy: what job is your customer hiring you to do? By asking customers the simple question — what are you hiring us to do for you? —

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How to launch a startup without knowing a line of code

The Next Web

Use copy-paste widgets from around the web like contact forms, Skype buttons, live chat, etc. If you have a bit more saved up, you can hire a local WordPress expert for a few hours of their time for small custom tweaks and a personal tutorial. And, if you don’t want hosting headaches, you can use WPEngine.