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The 3 Things to Know Before a Sales Meeting with an Executive

LSA Global

A Sales Meeting with an Executive is Always High Stakes Solution sellers who get a sales meeting with a target company’s executive consistently close more complex deals than those who sell at lower levels. Financials: income statement, balance sheet, and key ratio trends ?

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Would a Bund by any other name smell as sweet?

Tom Spencer

Firstly, the German Debt Agency ( Finanzagentur ) normally retains part of any new Bund offer, so a partial sale of Bunds is pretty standard. Thirdly, European banks are currently focused on building their balance sheets not on lending. Get Email Updates (It’s Free). -- Australia’s premier consulting blog.

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Getting Your Deal Done

Martinka Consulting

Originally published on ibainc.com blog in February 202! You may think it sexy to make something but if you’re a sales type with no manufacturing experience it’s probably a road to disaster. Have a strong balance sheet. I recently saw a business for sale and on the surface it looked great, with $1 million of earnings.

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5 Steps to Hiring the Right Talent

LSA Global

Certainly, it’s always great to have someone who can be a team player but, if you are hiring for a sales position, it may be more important for them to be articulate and self-motivated. Use some sort of balance sheet to look at the pluses and minuses of each interviewee. Make the Decision.

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Google Chrome Approaching World Domination?

MishTalk

A few moments ago a reader was having difficulty with an ad on my blog. That got me wondering what browsers people were using to read my blog. Search Engine Traffic Search engine traffic (if someone found by blog via a search rather than a bookmark) looks like this. For all of 2014, every country in the world visited this blog.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job: Disruption and Activist Investors

Harvard Business

With refrains of “unlock hidden value” and “increase shareholder value,” and powered by over $120 billion in assets , activist investors like Trian look for companies like GE (or Procter & Gamble) whose share price is underperforming relative to its peers (or that have large amounts of cash on their balance sheets).

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Reader Q&A On Bitgold

MishTalk

Remember, the card is loaded with currency using proceeds from metal sales. At BitGold that means gold metal sales. This makes silver an unattractive element for high velocity payments as we subsidize the storage fee from our own operational balance sheet. Hi Mish, Thanks for the blog on BitGold. Reader Tom Writes.

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