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6 Tips on How Human Resource Leaders Can Boost Sales Team Performance

Vantage Circle

Sales professionals' skills and productivity strongly impact an organization's ROI and reputation. So, hiring the right resources and managing sales talent is crucial to winning and retaining customers, thereby building a successful business model. Tip 1: Understand the Different Sales Roles. What's more?

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How to Increase Cross-Selling to Grow Faster

LSA Global

Cross-selling is an effective business sales training technique designed to: Increase revenue Improve margins Expand average deal size Add value to existing relationships Establish broader credibility Grow current accounts Deliver your brand promise Differentiate you from the competition. Presumably, they already have a sales quota.

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Doing Business in India Requires a Mobile-First Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Here are just a few possible opportunities in some of the industries that will benefit the most: Entertainment : India’s entertainment industry produces the highest number of movies compared to any other country in the world, but rampant piracy has limited revenues to genuine producers.

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Scaling Customer Service as Your Startup Grows

Harvard Business Review

Along the way, I’ve talked to hundreds of founders, sales and marketing leaders, customer success VPs, and front-line reps about how to build a customer-first SaaS organization. Stay focused on revenue growth, not gross margin. I’ve spent the last seven years building the customer success function at HubSpot. What to do.

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The Countries That Would Profit Most from a Cashless World

Harvard Business Review

In 2009, over two-thirds of all ecommerce payments in China were cash on delivery. for example, incurs a cost of $200 billion annually to keep cash in circulation; nearly a third of all store sales are still cash based despite its long history with plastic money. China on the other hand while well ahead of the U.S.

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How GE Built an Innovation Lab to Rapidly Prototype Appliances

Harvard Business Review

The FirstBuild community does everything from product concept through design, engineering, manufacturing and sales on a micro scale. Ecommerce sales netted another $3 million, and demand stayed strong even after the manufacturer’s suggested retail price (MSRP) was raised from $329 to $499. Replicating the Experiment.

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a16z Podcast: Why paid marketing sucks, Network effects, Viral Growth, and more

Andrew Chen

So not revenue per CAC is that you know typically there’s cost associated to user. You know, ecommerce, a lot of companies struggle with, “Okay, how do I get organic ecommerce traffic?” I mean, eBay had enormous levels of engagement early on for an ecommerce app in particular. LTV is lifetime value.