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5answers
66 views
Really low conversion rate, what does it mean?
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 evaluat …
0
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3answers
71 views
Getting Help with Sales
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. …
2
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3answers
100 views
Can one person do both Marketing & Sales/Business-Development jobs?
Context: We are a small 3-developer company that sells Windows desktop software for small businesses on our website.
We believe that we need both:
"Marketing" - i.e. one-to-many …
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2answers
79 views
Percentage revenue sharing for sales team
I'm thinking about a commission structure for a sales team I'd like to put together. I've thought about affiliates, resellers, and a sales team and I think I'm going for sales team …
4
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4answers
113 views
How to solve sales and marketing problem?
Dear All,
We are a team of developers that's started up a small software company with very few funds. We worked day and night without any salaries and finished developing two prod …
2
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3answers
131 views
First time meeting a CEO
Hello,
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 …
4
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3answers
69 views
International Expansion: Help!
We're a growing Canadian software company selling online (customers download freeware, later upgrading to a paid version)
We've received significant interest from customers and re …
4
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1answer
48 views
What are the pros and cons of repackaging our saas product as an OEM product?
We've started beta testing our WordonWiki software. WordonWiki is a Wiki with all the features you'd expect from a wiki, but it lets you create and edit pages with MS Word.
We're …
4
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5answers
69 views
What is your upgrade policy for a new release?
For a desktop business application, what should the upgrade policy be? Should upgrades be free? 50% discount? What if they just bought the old version last month?
4
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5answers
129 views
How to follow up a trial?
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 fe …
4
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4answers
67 views
How much data should I ask for in my lead contact form?
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 …
1
vote
3answers
129 views
How to set up sales office in the US?
If, for example, I have a company headquartered outside the US and going to work with US companies.
What is the best way? Set up sales office in the US or hire independent sales p …
3
votes
5answers
114 views
How to select a VP of Sales and Marketing partner
I've been working solo on my startup for longer than I'd care to admit. I'm a coder w/ a fleshed out website/webservice that's finally realized that I might actually need sales peo …
1
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2answers
43 views
“Segmenting” visitors to my sales website.
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 …
2
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6answers
100 views
B2B customer is not answering our calls. What to do next?
We are trying to sell a B2B product. I'm new to making sales calls so any advice would be appreciated.
We approached a customer three weeks ago over the phone. He sound interested …