Business Plan Blog

JANUARY 9, 2014

Steve Rowles has been serving the San Diego startup ecosystem for over 20 years. Beginning in 1987, he worked in the garages of the first companies to come out of UC San Diego. Avoid chart junk, wild forecasts and top-down sales forecasting. Top 10 Reasons Why Startups Fail. Half Baked Business Plans.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 27, 2019

Brands that ignore the selling capabilities of social media platforms are missing out on significant sales opportunities. Establishing a social sales channel is especially important if you are planning to expand your online store to global markets. Relying Only on Big Name Influencers.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Intel’s advanced technical sales platform lab manager Thaine Creitz runs a speed test showing how an Ultrabook employing the 3rd generation processor can complete a series of tasks almost twice as fast as a non-Ultrabook version. Here’s a closer look at the Orange San Diego and the Xolo.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

I’ll publish the final post in this series this week and then move on to my next series – sales & marketing. I’ll be covering my PUCCKA sales methodology. Examples: There is a company called GreenLink Networks based in San Diego and Philadelphia. It will be controversial – I know.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 28, 2018

Getting into the mind of your customers is often a top priority for businesses because it is essential for sales and marketing success. Manish Dudharejia is the President and Founder of E2M Solutions Inc, a San Diego Based Digital Agency that specializes in Website Design & Development and eCommerce SEO.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Apple’s sales increase of close to $234 billion reiterates its commitment to quickly release superior devices to the consumer. It aims to one day expand into a media company; this objective appears more probable as GoPro’s sales continue to increase at a steady rate. Netflix: An Ever-Growing Video Streaming Presence.

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Mike Michalowicz

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

His practice, Complete Family Vision Care Optometry, is in San Diego, California. They work towards that goal by driving sales month after month and trying to keep an eye on cash while keeping costs as low as they reasonably can. First, optometrist owners should flip the outdated formula of Sales – Expenses = Profit.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 1, 2017

I found myself pushed into entrepreneurship after being laid off from a Marketing Director position with a San Diego based high tech company in 2003. I was turned on to the concept of coworking in 2010, when I hosted a networking event, for an organization I was leading, at San Diego’s first coworking space, the Hive Haus.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 23, 2021

Another thing to consider is that if you don’t take the necessary steps, steps may be taken against you, such as an employee getting a San Diego sexual harassment lawyer. You should have a standard operating procedure for everything an employee does, whether that is answering the phone or making a sale. Dress codes.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 8, 2019

My first interaction with John Jantsch was in April of 2016 at the annual Social Media Marketing World conference in San Diego, CA. A copy of John Jantsch’s presentation at the 2016 Social Media Marketing World conference in San Diego, CA.

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Up and Running

APRIL 13, 2016

We talked with two dispensary owners from pioneering states: Mitch Woolhiser, owner of Northern Lights Cannabis Company in Denver, Colorado, and Lincoln Fish, CEO of OutCo Labs, which manages the dispensary Outliers Collective in San Diego, California. There is a map online that shows all the San Diego county compliant properties.”.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 10, 2020

While chatbots promise to augment customer service and optimize the sales pipeline, they come with several potential drawbacks, including low-quality customer service and ambiguity around KPIs (key performance indicators) — both critical considerations for leaders who care about achieving long-term success.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 9, 2017

I started a business when the salon where I was going to rent as a young esthetician wanted to charge me a percentage of my retail sales. I started my business in San Diego in 2007. I wanted to move to a city… San Diego was a little too boring for me. #3 – Taking a Piece of My Pie. 16 – Laid Off.

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techcrunch.com

APRIL 26, 2013

San Diego Meetup. San Diego, CA. with a $3 sale. Disrupt NY 2013. New York City. Disrupt NY Hackathon 2013. New York City. Austin Meetup. Austin, TX. Seattle Meetup. Seattle, WA. August Capital Party 2013. Menlo Park, CA. Crunch With Us. Download the TechCrunch App for iPad in the Apple App Store.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 9, 2012

From Lean Startup Machine , Lean LA and San Diego Tech Founders , to countless speeches and workshops, I have seen the impact that their leadership has had first hand. Or will you need to staff and finance a whaling ship to be out at sea for months at a time to catch two or three whales (enterprise sales model)?

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ConversionXL

MARCH 5, 2019

A sales pitch on Twitter or Facebook has the potential to be seen by thousands of people, but anyone who isn’t checking their timeline right then will likely miss it. Sure, it may get the message opened—but it won’t get you any closer to a sale. As Jason Lemkin notes , “Senior folks are super -engaged with their inbox [.]

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 11, 2022

The fact that we have been able to overcome the pandemic blues, improve our market outreach, make some well-timed hires and increase our baseline sales (over 30%) is something I am most proud of in 2022. I was born and raised in Mexico but currently, I live in beautiful San Diego California. Photo Credit: Brian David.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Frank Cowell is a speaker, best-selling author, and entrepreneur in the San Diego, California area. With over 20 years of sales, marketing, and leadership experience, Frank serves as Chief Revenue Boss at his latest venture, Revenue Ranch. So what is our number one blocker towards True North? One is True.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

by Andy Paul, author of “ Zero-Time Selling “ The time it takes to get a sale can be reduced significantly. In my new book, “ Zero-Time Selling “, I set forth ten essential steps to accelerating sales. The sales representative evaluates every step of the customer’s buying process.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 30, 2014

understand who their core and tertiary customers are, and the sales and marketing process required for initial clinical sales and downstream commercialization. This has been nearly a 4-year journey,” said Schonthal who prior to moving back to Chicago in 2011 had been working in healthcare venture capital in San Diego.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 28, 2018

Number of sales? That means that if you’re a florist in San Diego, and someone is in desperate need of flowers in that geographical area, you can ensure you’re the first name they see when they type “florist near me” into their Google search. Number of conversions? Percentage of revenue growth?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. I had planned a balance of large companies and SMB/divisional sales but have changed my thinking. Reasons: cost of sales executives, long sales cycles, deep functional requirements.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 20, 2018

Sales won’t grow, employees won’t be inspired, and you’ll be wondering what to do next with your company. Maybe you are in San Diego and come move to an office that sees more sunshine. Innovation inspires people to be creative and come up with new ways to share your business with the world.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MARCH 10, 2024

Consider turning to an experienced video production agency, such as Pretzel Logic Productions in San Diego, for the highest-quality YouTube videos. Make sure your target audience and others see it by boosting your video SEO. Any agency with experience making YouTube videos will have insight into SEO and how to achieve higher rankings.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

Today we’ve announced that we’ve made new investments in LeadPages (a company in Minneapolis) and 3D Robotics (a company in Tijuana, San Diego, and Berkeley). Need split-test landing pages, launch pages, sales pages, and other conversion pages? Need a drone? That would be 3D Robotics. That would be LeadPages.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

While it’s likely that you have a general city in mind, there’s a lot more to finding commercial real estate in Houston , San Diego, and even the smaller cities in between. From basics regarding sales to how to create the perfect customer experience for your brand, training can have a large impact on the success of your storefront.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Jeremy Liew, a respected VC from LightSpeed, obviously saw the change to ramp up sales. I openly talked on the show at my embarrassment for never getting to look at this deal since it’s in my backyard (San Diego) and I had had fairly frequent online communication with the founder, Chester Ng, an ex exec from DivX.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

In fact, 50% of our investments are in Southern California, from Santa Barbara to San Diego. But putting no time into anchoring your beliefs because you’re too busy executing sales, marketing, support, product & engineering is an easy recipe for leadership drift. We could all do better – I’m sure.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JULY 8, 2018

[ Download MP3 | Transcript | iTunes | Soundcloud | Raw RSS ] On a recent visit to San Diego for a couple of marketing conferences, I met a lot of new friends who were from… Vancouver! That’s not really strange given I had just moved (back) to Vancouver and.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JULY 8, 2018

[ Download MP3 | Transcript | iTunes | Soundcloud | Raw RSS ] On a recent visit to San Diego for a couple of marketing conferences, I met a lot of new friends who were from… Vancouver! That’s not really strange given I had just moved (back) to Vancouver and I was already friends with […].

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 5, 2023

I remember standing on stage in San Diego about five, six years ago. I used it yesterday to write a sales page, the video script for the sales page, five different hooks for ads, then to write the ad, then to ask the questions for the application process on the back of the sales page. It was phenomenal.

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Business Plan Blog

JANUARY 30, 2013

Serial Entrepreneur and CEO of The Startup Garage Tyler Jensen speaks with Market Pulse on ESPN 1700 in San Diego. In this hour long interview Tyler talks about his first business , his journey in the launch , growth and sale of VaVi Sports and Social club, and how to avoid the mistakes he made as a first time entrepreneur.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

However, in catching up with the VP of Sales of Ardent last night, I was reminded one of the few times I did return for closure. In my career I’ve been involved with lots of sales deals, and for some reason losing this was the one deal I never forgot. It was for sale on Ebay. I liked to fail fast, move on, and not look back.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Since 2014, when co-founders Zorik Gordon and Michael Kline launched SERVIZ, we have expanded from serving Los Angeles County to four markets now, including Orange County, San Diego County, and our newest addition in Phoenix, which just launched this summer in July. We even had one partner come and start working inside our office.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

This was as part of the annual conference of Small Business Development Centers, starting today in San Diego. Yesterday I had the pleasure of spending all day with about 90 people who teach and advise entrepreneurs and small business owners at various Small Business Development Centers ( SBDC s) around the country. How to start?

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

San Diego, California) Jobs Comentum is a dynamic and cutting edge company.Be How iPad Magazine Sales Stack Up [REP. a part of an exciting team, building web applications such as social networking, ecommerce, games, sports, contact management, CMS and more.Re. Its Not Just Facebook: MySpace Trans.

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techcocktail.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Make sure someone is thinking about overarching plans around PR, marketing and sales and spends time crafting the right messages, understanding audiences and figuring out distribution channels. Tech Cocktail Connecting, educating and amplifying the startup technology community and having fun doing it since 2006.

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