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3 Reasons to Market Your Small Business Like A Drug Dealer

Sales and Marketing Management

This is meant for educational and training purposes because of the clear examples and useful insights that can easily be understood by analyzing what they do. For example, one of my clients, Tina Tang, owner of Iron Strong Jewelry has a business that creates jewelry to celebrate the fitness achievements of women.

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How Online Sales Can Help You Grow in Hard Times

Hubspot Sales

Take Blockbuster, for example. The 2008 recession accelerated their inability to adapt to changing consumer demand -- and by 2010, they filed for bankruptcy. Here are just a few examples of tech solutions for a variety of different industries, budgets and skill levels. I know that shift can feel daunting.

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Walk the Flight Line: Get Dirty With Your Troops | Sales Motivation.

The Sales Hunter

Have you ever spent a day with your channel partners and joined them on a few sales calls? Here are a few examples: Take one person out to lunch each week from a department other than your own. December 2010. November 2010. October 2010. September 2010. August 2010. April 2010. March 2010.

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Yes Social Media Works for Small Business Owners

Increase Sales

Finally in February of 2010, I started this blog. For example Evan Carmichael wrote the introduction for my book, Be the Red Jacket in a Sea of Gray Suits and Jeb Blount of Sales Gravy published that book. Along the way, I reviewed books over at Amazon; opened a Twitter account; Facebook and several others.

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Discretionary Spending Increase in 2010 - Drives Value Based Sales / Marketing Tool Needs

The ROI Guy

All major analyst firms are predicting better times ahead for technology vendors in 2010, with many estimating a modest 3% growth. For example, an acceleration of datacenter and PC virtualization to meet growing application computing and management maturity demands. growth for US tech market, and 8.2%

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

Hubspot Sales

If you're an IT reseller, value-added reseller (VAR), or channel partner advising clients on any part of the front office (marketing, sales, or customer success) -- especially for businesses under 1,000 employees -- there are a few trends you should be aware of. Four Software Trends IT Resellers, VARs, and Channel Partners Should Watch.

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How to Craft a Winning B2B Sales Strategy

Pipeliner

In fact, there are entire companies that use this as their primary marketing channel. Just like they did in the 2010 movie by Leonardo DiCaprio. This is one example of a LinkedIn article, from B2B SEO expert Garit Boothe. You might be surprised to know that commission-only door-to-door sales is still a thing. People hate this.

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