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7 Key Startup Activities Where Follow-Up Is Critical

Startup Professionals Musings

Product development. For a great idea person, the product details keep changing for the better, but nothing ever gets finished. Customer retention. More customers are lost to apathy after the sale than poor service or quality. They expect prompt formal follow-up to questions. Professional relationships.

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How To Survive The Loss Of A Main Customer

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sales to product development), the problems will continue to exist. For instance, in their efforts to close a deal, sales representatives may not want to address roadblocks or faults in the process. Invest time and thought into your sales processes and structures.

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The Expert Guide to Creating a Marketing Growth Strategy

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It outlines four major growth strategies: market penetration , market development , product development , and diversification. The goal of market penetration is to leverage new tactics to increase product sales , including existing customers and new customers within existing markets. Product development.

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Top Entrepreneurs Have Follow-up, Not Ideas Alone

Startup Professionals Musings

Product development. For a great idea person, the product details keep changing for the better, but nothing ever gets finished. Customer retention. More customers are lost to apathy after the sale than poor service or quality. They expect prompt formal follow-up to questions. Professional relationships.

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Seven Things Your Customers Can Do Better Than You

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You take that money and invest a good portion of it in traditional sales and marketing efforts — including product developers, creative people, and salespeople, all of whom are paid to figure out what buyers want and to say good things about your company — in a quest to get even more customers. Close the sale.

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For Entrepreneurs, Success is Ideas With Follow-up

Startup Professionals Musings

Product development. For a great idea person, the product details keep changing for the better, but nothing ever gets finished. Customer retention. More customers are lost to apathy after the sale than poor service or quality. They expect prompt formal follow-up to questions. Professional relationships.

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3 Ways Fast-Growing Startups Are Building Sales Teams Differently

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by Keith Johnstone, Head of Marketing of Peak Sales Recruiting. That is, if they have the right sales team in place…. Ahead of CES, product development teams scrambled to make sure their shiny new product was ready for prime time. Here are 3 ways fast-growing startups build sales teams differently: 1.

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