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Celebrating 25 Years in Referrals: My Story

No More Cold Calling

My entire career had been sales and sales management, and my best business had always come from referrals. I asked salespeople and sales leaders I knew if they liked to get referral introductions. Decrease the cost of sales. That got me thinking. I had the germ of an idea, but I needed to validate it.

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How Getting Fired Actually Launched My Referral Business

No More Cold Calling

As I reflected on my career in sales and sales management, I realized my best business had come from referrals. I did my “feet on the street” research and interviewed sales leaders and salespeople. I had to figure out why everyone said referral business was the best business, but no one had a referral system in place.

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Sales Leadership – The Talent of Developing Others

Increase Sales

As sales managers to small business owners look forward to 2013, this sales leadership talent of developing others will probably become even more critical. Finding qualified sales people is an ongoing struggle for many small businesses. Then keeping those sales people is the next challenge. 2007 – #1.

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The 6 Best Ecommerce Platforms for Your Online Business

Nutshell

Store management : The best ecommerce platforms offer management systems for your business or offer integrations for these systems: Product management: The ecommerce platform must enable you to upload and manage your product listings. You can also manage your store on the go with the Woo Mobile App.

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The 6 Best Ecommerce Platforms for Your Online Business

Nutshell

Store management : The best ecommerce platforms offer management systems for your business or offer integrations for these systems: Product management: The ecommerce platform must enable you to upload and manage your product listings. You can also manage your store on the go with the Woo Mobile App.

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Becoming a SalesTech Entrepreneur: One Man’s Journey with Ankesh Kumar

SBI

John was the newly appointed CEO of GRiD Systems in the early ’80s. When he came to town, I took the opportunity to bring him along on an important sales call with a large defense manufacturer. That company was Cisco Systems – one of Silicon Valley’s great success stories. John Morgridge.

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What “Salesforce Native” Means (and why it’s important)

LevelEleven

Salesforce’s AppExchange officially launched in 2006 and has since evolved into the #1 business app store in the world. Native solutions must also abide by best practices established by the CRM giant and the security settings managed by your system administrator. It improves what you already know and love about Salesforce.