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‘Duh’ Post of the Week: B2B Sales- Let Informed Customers Make Informed Decisions

Posted in Simon Baer, Training, tagged , , , , on November 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Man am I glad that sales pitches are totally ineffective. By no means is this breaking news but I think that most people under-think what’s behind this.  Many an old school salesman will lament about how relationships used to matter and now it’s all about the convenience and the bottom line.
That seems like a BS [...]

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The Greatest Asset

Posted in Management, Simon Baer, Training, tagged , , , , , , , , on October 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

My first post will be about trust. Not the most thrilling topic but a crucial element at a startup. I say this because in many ways trust is a very real assets at a start-up, it’s free and it can be used to create a very dynamic and productive work environment.
Admittedly, I’ve had my doubts [...]

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Hiring the Right Way Builds a Great Sales Organization

Posted in Management, Training, tagged , , , , on January 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »

One of the key things we are doing as an organization right now is building a sales team. We are looking at 2009 as our breakout year with a goal of $1 million + in sales and a big part of hitting this goal is hiring talented sales people.  A few weeks ago I sat [...]

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Social Media Workshops

Posted in Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Training, socialmedia, tagged , , , , , , , , on January 20, 2009 | 4 Comments »

As we move into building a sales team for Artistic Hub, we have been analytically looking at sales channels. We have been evaluating which markets we want to go after. Then we look at each market and see if we should diretly sell into that market or work through another channel. Charities for example we [...]

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Connect.org – Springboard

Posted in Entrepreneurship, Management, Training, tagged , , , on October 1, 2008 | 5 Comments »

Today I would like to share the best program we have found to launch your business and highly increase the probability of success, Connect’s Springboard program.

Here is their summary of what they do:
Springboard offers free guidance and development to life sciences, clean-tech, high tech and consumer product companies in all stages of development, ranging from [...]

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Corporate Blogging

Posted in Management, Training, tagged , on August 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »

The goal of this blog is to not only tell our story, but hopefully to also share ideas with other company founders so we can support each others success.
At Collar Free we have started 4 company blogs and we hold a 30 min weekly discusssion for training and to learn from each other.
We have found a [...]

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