Sales Questions
I need to move my cash flow now but know my target customer is really a larger customer but sales cycle too long for now. How do I start with finding the low hanging fruit to get things going? Some...
484 points
I get the trend is towards social media to meet potential prospects but for high tech companies selling to mid sized organizations do you think cold calling doesn't work anymore?
484 points
Ok so our software is typically sold to a large company who can force their vendors to deliver information to them electronically. On the other hand our same software can cater to a company who...
484 points
I am a start up and need to sell myself to a company have any advice?
484 points
From Wikipedia - "Freebie marketing, also known as the razor and blades business model, is the concept of either giving away a salable item for nothing or charging an extremely low price to...
We have a new product, which is targeted at wearers of eyeglasses. We sell quite nicely via our website, but we figured it was much more efficient to approach wearers of eyeglasses directly....by...
So I've been thinking a lot about important traits of startup founders. I keep coming back to the notion that the single, most indispensable trait of a startup founder is the ability to pick up the...
254 points
A lot of products and services come with free trials and money-back guarntees, which sets the bar pretty low for those who don't/can't provide either. Obviously, the trick is to establish value and...
Should we place an ad somewhere? Where? The jobs are as follows: people are handing vouchers out to people wearing eyeglasses. If people buy, then a commission is paid (voucher code). Many thanks...
I would like to get someone with me full time with good sales experience and contacts in my industry to help me get sales going but I don't have the budget to hire a sales guy? I expect your answer...
484 points
My startup sells a fairly expensive (2500$~) desktop product, we are new in a well-established market and it's been 2 months that we are selling the product. We do have an evaluation request page...
2,305 points
We are planning on introducing an annual maintenance fee for a new enterprise-level product we will soon be launching. How do you handle when the payments are to be made? For example, let's say a...
327 points
Most affiliate solutions are not designed to work with freemium or free trial business models. Have you seen an affiliate app that can: Make it simple to manage affiliate relationships Can...
First of all I know that "sales and marketing" is my business it's not something to outsource. However I'm in a different situation: I don't have budget and the long-term commitment position to...
2,305 points
We are in the process of getting a new project. It is our first project building a corporate website for a chip company. This is the first time we are going to meet a CEO. We are a small group of...
141 points
How do I find a sales person? I know a lot of people here think that you just put up Google Ads, wait for clicks, and then wait for sales, but I think sales is an important task. Following up with...
We have a contact form on each page of our marketing site. We ask for a name, phone and email. We made it simple b/c our goal was to get as many people/companies to submit their information....
346 points
I have made a simple sales web page to generate leads for my new business. One problem I think I have is that the current web page tries to be "all things to all visitors", when in actuality I...
What's the best practices to send a follow up email after the user's trial version expires? What questions to ask? Is a short survey good idea or an email which asks a generic feedback better? Is...
We have a web application we want to start selling on a per month basis. We have several resellers that we would like to have resell our application and make a margin on doing so. We don't want to...
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