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Why are Half of All Sales Reps Still Missing Quota in a Booming US Economy?

Understanding the Sales Force

During 2008 and 2009 more than half of all US sales reps were missing quota and considering the circumstances, that didn't seem to shock anyone. I remember it well as revenue at Objective Management Group dropped by more than 30%, almost overnight.

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The First-Mover Advantage, Explained

Hubspot Sales

By the time it burst onto the scene in 2009, Uber was not the first ridesharing company, but it was the largest and most successful, beating out pioneer Sidecar for eventual market domination. USA Today reports 48 million people will ride Uber in 2018 to Lyft’s 29.9 Debuting in 2012, Lyft became Uber’s most ferocious competitor.

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6 Outdated SEO Tactics to Avoid At All Costs

Zoominfo

Search engines quickly recognized this problem and in 2009, Google officially announced that they no longer use meta keywords as a ranking signal ( source ). As of early 2018, Google’s algorithm is now mobile first ( source ), meaning it emphasizes the mobile version of a page for ranking and indexing.

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4 Trends Putting the “Value” Back in Value-Added Resellers

Hubspot Sales

SaaS spending across the entire business has grown between 75-100% each year for the past six years, according to Blissfully’s 2018 Annual SMB SaaS Trends Report. Take this example from HubSpot’s own UI (user interface) in 2010 versus 2018. HubSpot Landing Page UI, 2018. And it’s not just happening across sales and marketing.

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One Millimeter Mindset Customer Retention Blog Posts 2017

Babette Ten Haken

When I started this blog in 2009, I focused on the thorny issues involved with communicating across the sales-engineering interface®. Better yet, take a good long think about the implications of these ideas and strategies for business growth, expansion and your own leadership in 2018. Take a read. Then, contact me.

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Why I moved to Miami

Grant Cardone

This happened back in 2011 and I had just navigated my family and my business through the worst economic contraction of my life with the 2008-2009 recession. 700,000 left in 2018 and some well-known people moved to Florida: Phil Mickelson — PGA golfer Phil Mickelson. Get On-Demand Access to Best Business Conference of 2020.

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How Will You Sell With A Restrictive US Privacy Policy Act?

SalesforLife

2009 - LinkedIn launches in its talent solutions - Career Pages, Recruitment Ads, Recruiter for staffing agencies. 2018 - Europe introduced the world's strongest data protection rules. Look at all the top 10 data breaches that happened in the world just in 2018. Most mobile phones were still used by business people.