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5 Business Plan Mistakes You Should Never Make

Pipeliner

The truth is, a business plan is a strategic tool that helps entrepreneurs prove the viability of their business, set expectations, and priorities, and increase the likelihood of business success and future financing. Many business owners don’t often recognize the importance of having a business plan. Think of a business plan as a road map.

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Allego Delivers Aggressive Customer, Product, and Employee Growth

Allego

In the face of the pandemic, successful companies have adopted sales enablement tools to help them adapt to changing market conditions and enable their sales teams to be successful. After adopting Allego, our pass rate [for becoming licensed mortgage loan originator] increased from 76%-78% to 83%-85% and test scores jumped too.

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The 8 Best Real Estate Designations for Prestige and Expertise

Hubspot Sales

Though you don't need a brokerage license to obtain this designation, it still suits experienced brokers more than other real estate professionals — and its required credentials reflect that. Complete two core courses in local markets and transaction tools. Have 10 or more years as a licensed real estate agent. How to Earn It.

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Adopting artificial intelligence in your sales process

PandaDoc

Developing an AI strategy should involve identifying pain points, setting goals, assessing infrastructure, calculating ROI, researching solutions, piloting tools, training staff, and tracking performance. Sales professionals must direct AI tools, validate outputs, provide context, and maintain ethical standards.

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How to Get Into Tech Sales

Crunchbase

There are a number of types of software solutions that tech sales reps sell to customers, including SaaS products that are provided on a subscription basis and run through the vendor’s servers, and owned programs that are licensed or sold to a customer and installed permanently on their hardware.

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A 2026 excursion to the future of sales training

Sales Training Connection

You have about an hour before reaching Nepenthe so you have downloaded a presentation from the Holographic Sales Training Journal about the present trends in sales training by Dr. William Beckett the Vice Chancellor of the Sales Domain for the Deep Learning Institute. By 2026 per heads pricing models have become almost completely nonexistent.

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Self-Employed: What You Need to Know to Be Your Own Boss

Hubspot Sales

You can create a portfolio by linking to your previous bodies of work on your website, or by using an online portfolio tool. Popular online portfolio sites include: Behance — This website has a portfolio creation tool for freelancers in the creative fields including graphic and UX/UI designers, illustrators, and video editors.