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How to Write a Great Sales Letter

The Fearless Marketer

In the ABDO (Attention-Based Direct Outreach) Marketing process there are five main components: 1. Getting attention via email or other marketing activity. Directing your prospect to online information about your services (what I call a Sales Letter). But the most neglected part of this process is that durn* sales letter.

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84% of B2B Sales Start with a Referral — Not a Salesperson

Harvard Business

Outbound B2B sales are becoming less and less effective. In fact, a recent survey found that connecting with a prospect now takes 18 or more phone calls, callback rates are below 1%, and only 24% of outbound sales emails are ever opened. Why are more and more buyers avoiding salespeople during the buying process?

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When Writing Has Two Focuses: Invite Ideal Readers to Change and Assure Secondary Readers

Johanna Rothman

Now that we are close, Sales, Training, Marketing all need much more detail and information about how to use Nova and when they can expect it. Therefore, please use the attached guidelines for reporting status weekly. Thank you so much for your efforts to date. As a company, we need more demos and more data.

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Top Five Lessons Learned from My 16 Years as an “Interim VP Marketing”

Women in Consulting

:: Since founding my consulting company in 2001, I’ve been serving Silicon Valley CEOs as an interim VP marketing. Usually they are running smallish companies and either haven’t yet brought a full-time VP marketing on board or they just lost their VP marketing for some reason. If you have competitors, then you have a market.

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Servant Leadership: Principles, Popularity, and Payoff

Rick Conlow

The Container Store offers its employees competitive pay and benefits, as well as a strong focus on training and development. Without changes outdated polices and training on the topic, it is challenging to adopt and implement servant leadership principles. Study the literature, get training and coaching, and do your homework.

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When Consultants Should Facilitate, Coach or Train | Consulting.

Consulting and Organizational Management

When Consultants Should Facilitate, Coach or Train By Carter McNamara on April 13, 2010. There are strong feelings that consulting, facilitating, coaching and training are very different roles. Here are some guidelines for what roles to use and when. When You Might Resort to Training.

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The Dos and Don’ts of Working with Emerging-Market Data

Harvard Business

Applying this, however, is much easier said than done — especially among companies operating in emerging markets. Emerging-market data can be challenging to work with due to significant data gaps, biased data, and outdated or incorrect numbers. Of course, these issues can cause a headache for any company, in any market.

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