Sales Questions

We are a startup building an e-learning tool for the medical education market, and we had a few meetings with colleges. One potential client is taking a long time to decide whether to use our...

Sales Conversion

asked Feb 25 '11 at 03:35

Karan
54 points

If you are doing a direct sale and don't have any client references to offer, and the prospect is interested in going forward but needs client references what do you do? How can you still get the...

Sales Entrepreneurs

asked Feb 25 '11 at 06:57

Stacey
484 points

We are a start up company, buiding a E learning content for our medical schools/college and we are in good situaltion with the E learning tool however we do not have the content for our tool. We...

Sales

asked Feb 27 '11 at 22:51

Karan
54 points

Any tips to collect testimonials? I have some clients. They seemed to be satisfied with my services, but they were reluctant to write a written testimonial. Please advise.

Sales Service Testimonials Clients

asked Feb 27 '11 at 23:42

Steven
1 point

What do you do when you don't receive any inquiries from potential clients for consecutive days?

Marketing Sales Inbound Marketing Business

asked Mar 1 '11 at 23:49

Steven
1 point

My partner and I started a website development company a few years ago which specializes in making high quality (great graphics, functionality, and SEO) websites/applications for small-medium...

Marketing Sales Web Dev

asked Feb 9 '11 at 08:56

Metropolis
118 points

I have two companies that have interest in licensing my business's content (training materials). I want to offer exclusive and non-exclusive pricing options, maintenance fees (for annual updates),...

Pricing Sales Legal Licensing

asked Jan 31 '11 at 07:22

User6935
36 points

A little background. We are a small company developing our own product in the market. And we are quickly approaching the release deadline. We have a few weeks to finish up some testing and work...

Marketing Sales Product Launch

asked Jan 13 '11 at 21:53

Whoami
108 points

I have received a great offer for the domain name techhotbed.com and techhotbed.net (all of which I own under a company name). A very powerful blog building company approaches me last week and made...

Sales Exit Strategy Domain

asked Jan 19 '11 at 05:54

Donald
136 points

I started my own business about 7-8 months ago. Everything looks great and we are growing very nicely. I like web apps to keep my business organized (teamworkpm for project management, freshbooks...

Sales Application Forecast Apps

asked Jan 21 '11 at 16:57

Julio
19 points

I'm an English-Chinese interpreter and receive prospective clients' email inquiry about my services from time to time. However, I found quite a few clients become unresponsive after I reply to...

Marketing Sales Inbound Marketing International Purchasing

asked Jan 21 '11 at 18:18

Steven
1 point

What's the difference between a retailer, dealer and trader? Do they all mean the same thing? Are they all buying goods from distributors and selling them to consumers, and therefore at the end...

Sales Definitions

asked Jan 26 '11 at 03:08

Tim
101 points

My start-up is finally coming together; however, I am in dire need of a solid sales team to go out into the market and attract customers. I want to pay them per store they sign-up. Can anyone refer...

Sales Employees

asked Jan 12 '11 at 18:20

User6528
149 points

Any recommendation? Is sale a process to deliver comfort which is declared in the book "E-myth revisited"?

Marketing Sales Entrepreneurs Business Selling

asked Dec 19 '10 at 16:11

Steven
1 point

Possible Duplicate: What books do you recommend? Being an entrepreneur, we may need to learn from books. What was the last book you read? To me, it was "Founders at work".

Marketing Sales Books Entrepreneurs Learning

asked Dec 20 '10 at 00:30

Steven
1 point

I found some commodities in China, and I'm very interested in import them for reselling in my country. However I'd like to verify the commodity's status before make my first buy. Do you know a way...

Sales China

asked Dec 22 '10 at 15:05

Sd Reyes
156 points

Happy New Year! I am beginning to write a business plan for a future startup based on an innovative software technology I developed. An actual product is still in development. I am using a...

Sales Business Plan

asked Dec 31 '10 at 12:57

Eternal Learner
168 points

Over the past several months, we've been expanding our marketing efforts to include developers and other techies. One thing we've noticed is that these front-line folks don't want to talk. At...

Marketing Sales

asked Dec 10 '10 at 11:39

Alex Papadimoulis
5,901 points

The other day, I asked Why do developers/techies avoid salespeople, and found some great insight. To sum up the answers on the question, it's a matter of introversion and arrogance. So how does...

Marketing Sales

asked Dec 11 '10 at 08:06

Alex Papadimoulis
5,901 points

What are the pros and cons of using FatFreeCRM? It appears to be a lightweight, open-source CRM package. What important features in other CRM packages is it lacking? How difficult is it to...

Sales Software Recommendations CRM Productivity

asked Nov 20 '10 at 05:27

Joseph Turian
895 points