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Start Loving Failure
Our lives are full of puzzle pieces with our triumphs large and flashy, but it’s the smaller pieces of failure that create the rich tapestry of our true success. It’s time to learn to love failure.
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End of Sprint is Start of Marathon: Seven Steps to Getting Your Partner to Generate Revenue
When your sales channels include selling your products and/or services through partner companies, signing the partnership agreement may seem like the finish line. In reality, it’s the start of your marathon. Want the trophy? Consider these steps to get you there.
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Your Human Network: Essential on Many Levels
You will encounter roadblocks, impasses, struggles, and challenges in your personal and professional life. Is your network of contacts who could possibly help you fresh enough that you would feel comfortable reaching out for help?
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What’s Holding Back Your Growth? An Introspection Guide.
One of the exercises that may be helpful for you, your team, and perhaps your entire company as you do your year-end assessments and approach your planning and goal setting for the coming year, is to pause and understand the psychology of doing something new.
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How You Can Engage Customers to Serve as a Reference
Even though it can be a difficult, uphill pursuit to get your customers to agree to serve as a reference, the reward in the end is worth it!
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The Value of Customer Storytelling in Marketing
Telling your customer stories makes for better marketing. So, what makes a good customer story?
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Operators Want to Hear About Other Operators. But You... Not So Much
Are you exclaiming “I’m so great” to the beat of your own drumming?
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Nobody Wants to Be Sold To But Everyone Has an Opinion
Nobody enjoys being sold to, but people have opinions and they're usually pretty happy to share. Learn how to harness a different approach to inform your business and improve your sales.
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To Avoid Marketing that Underperforms, Budget for Some ‘Marketing R&D’
When it comes to marketing planning and budgeting, most companies get stuck - and essentially skunked - because they keep casting their ‘hooks’ in the same ‘fishing hole,’ trying the same things and getting the same results.
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Three Brains in One: How Humans Make Decisions Should Drive How You Market and Sell
We’ve heard various adages about what makes us human. ‘You are what you think’. ‘You are what you eat.’ And while these certainly contain some truths, human biology determines behavior more than we realize.
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Beyond Customer Acquisition: A Marketing Team’s Potential Impact on Product Adoption, Customer Retention, and Upsell
Everything in a well-oiled marketing and sales ‘machine’ has one goal: winning new business. Unlock the full potential of your marketing department!
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Unlocking the Power of 'Maybe' in B2B Software Sales: A Guide
Salespeople work hard to get prospects to answer ‘Yes’ or ‘No’. But in B2B sales, especially software sales, there are more response options than this simple binary. More organizations (and individual salespeople) need to be equipped to handle ‘Maybe’ and ‘Not Now.’