Sales Questions

When you need a translator to accompany you to factories, what rate do you think is reasonable for an English-Chinese translator in Mainland China?

Pricing Sales

asked May 1 '11 at 14:13

Steven
1 point

So you understand our scope : We are a custom software development company who have 2 primary markets Mid sized companies who have ongoing internal needs for...

Sales Software Recommendations B2B Consulting

asked Apr 18 '11 at 15:46

Robin Vessey
8,394 points

I'm an independent software consultant who is looking for referrals. I've paid for referrals before and have noticed that sometimes I was happy with the price and sometimes I was not. For example,...

Sales Consulting Leads Referrals

asked Apr 22 '11 at 06:39

Timid Developer
30 points

In the not so distant future, I will be launching a site that is mostly for businesses and is largely Software as a Service. I am wondering what you think about the pros and cons of having a pretty...

Marketing Sales Saas Web App

asked Apr 22 '11 at 11:02

User9886
21 points

I'm an independent software consultant who is looking for referrals. I've come to the conclusion that perhaps I should pay for them and earlier today posted this question about a teired commision...

Sales Consulting Leads Referrals

asked Apr 22 '11 at 13:46

Timid Developer
30 points

I'm joining a software startup as a (co-founding) CTO. I am also bringing my industry contacts into the venture, and will be the only person taking initiative on business development. My contacts...

Sales Compensation

asked Apr 22 '11 at 16:24

Aaron Smothers
56 points

Say you had a tech product that could be applicable to a various verticals like Healthcare, Financial, Education, Insurance, Manufacturing, etc... and you decided to ramp up your sales. Would you...

Sales

asked Apr 9 '11 at 20:53

Chain
313 points

For the last 15 months we've been working hard to build a cloud-based platform that helps companies localize the software they build (named Amanuens ). It all started from our own needs and we...

Marketing Sales Saas Localization

asked Apr 12 '11 at 21:24

Deleted
655 points

Following on from my previous question about outsourced marketing can you outsource sales effort as well in b2b senarios? Once marketing has brought in a qualified lead someone has to get the...

Marketing Sales Outsourcing

asked Apr 4 '11 at 10:55

Robin Vessey
8,394 points

I have treated my first few business customers of my software product very well. They are senior managers of medium sized companites. My problem is that I cannot get them to sell my product in...

Marketing Sales Incentives

asked Apr 6 '11 at 07:31

David
1,567 points

I get a lot of leads and I only want to do demos for qualified people. By qualified, they have to have access to $100k or more in capital. Before, I was putting them in our sandbox (software),...

Sales Leads Prospecting

asked Mar 24 '11 at 06:47

Sparagi
346 points

I have successfully launched a startup. It is a niche school management system for Montessori Schools. It's profitable but doesn't produce a lot of income (translated: can't quit my day job). My...

Marketing Sales Lean

asked Mar 26 '11 at 03:57

Keyton Weissinger
126 points

EDIT 1: So in short, is there a free way for me to get $1 from a customer and send that $1 to my bank account. If free is not an option, what is the cheapest way for me to get that $1 to my bank...

Sales Ecommerce Finance Payments

asked Mar 16 '11 at 19:09

Oshirowanen
201 points

Groupon has been hiring sales people like crazy. Their turnover is probably very high but the sheer number of salespeople that they are adding to their company every month is something crazy to a...

Sales Hiring Salary

asked Mar 18 '11 at 23:15

Michael Pryor
2,250 points

Testimonials seem to be a great idea (social proof, etc), but I'm not sure they have any meaningful impact on sales. And they could actually be causing problems for our existing customers. For...

Marketing Sales Internet Referrals Testimonials

asked Mar 4 '11 at 13:58

Steven
1 point

I'm trying to decide whether to change my pricing scheme from 'the same price for everyone' to 'a different price depending on which customer you are' (price discrimination / price...

Pricing Marketing Sales Business

asked Mar 4 '11 at 20:13

Steven
1 point

We are an early start up (7 months old), and we are in talks with 3 - 4 clients. We are building an E-learning kind of tool and looking for building the content as well. I kind of sensed one...

Marketing Sales Funding

asked Mar 5 '11 at 00:40

Karan
54 points

My company provides fee-based online services in addition to a free basic online service and product. We have not bothered until now much with ToS before but with increase of fee-based clients...

Marketing Sales Legal Terms And Conditions TOS

asked Mar 5 '11 at 14:57

Gennady Vanin Novosibirsk
133 points

What's the best book you've ever read on pricing?

Pricing Marketing Sales Business Business Services

asked Mar 6 '11 at 00:58

Steven
1 point

I have a startup called Snip that makes software for stylists and salons. At this point, I'm doing something similar to sales but not exactly. I'll explain: at this early stage, I have a product...

Sales

asked Mar 11 '11 at 05:10

Jason Swett
555 points