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Accountability for Entrepreneurs: From Chaos to Clarity

Jackie Nagel

Your marketing and sales funnels are functioning beautifully and creating a consistent stream of clients for your business. And the worst part is being swamped with day-to-day operations when all you really want to do is focus on growing or scaling your business. You’ve proven your business model. Cash flow is shrinking.

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Tuning Your Growth Engine: How Insights Power Market Success

Chief Outsiders

What we realized is this: Operational excellence – no matter how good it is – can never be sufficient to win in the long term.

Insiders

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How To (Actually) Calculate CAC

Andrew Chen

CPA would be used for leading indicators to CAC, such as Cost Per Lead, Cost Per Sales Qualified Lead, Cost Per Trial or other points in the marketing and sales funnel. Key Question #1: How long between your marketing/sales touch points and when someone becomes a customer? Example 2: SaaS Company w/ Inside Sales.

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Hoping to Grow Your Ad Agency? Support Growth Goals With Existing Customers

Chief Executive

Touring factories, riding along with salespeople, operating trade show booths, and posing as secret shoppers are just a few ways account executives can get closer to their clients’ businesses. Increase exposure to the sales side. Oftentimes, you’ll find a line between marketing and sales.

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Candidate Sourcing: Your Ultimate 2024 Guide (+Tips & Strategies)

AIHR

A common technique involves creating an applicant funnel (similar to a sales funnel), from which automation can weed out and remove unsuitable candidates. Candidate sourcing strategies to consider Boolean search A Boolean search entails using specific operators to refine your search queries for candidates.

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Replacing the Sales Funnel with the Sales Flywheel

Harvard Business Review

I’ve been using the sales funnel for 28 years, my whole career. This year, I retired the funnel — threw it a party, gave it a gold watch, and congratulated it on its move to a condo in Florida. When I started my career, the most profitable application of force was in sales. clu/Getty Images.

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A Good Digital Strategy Creates a Gravitational Pull

Harvard Business Review

You can control what you say in an ad, sales meeting, or company memo, but when people connect peer-to-peer, you lose direct control over what is said or done. What proportion of interactions with your company are not directly related to a transaction, either as sales or service?