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Replacing the Sales Funnel with the Sales Flywheel

Harvard Business Review

I’ve been using the sales funnel for 28 years, my whole career. When I started my career, the most profitable application of force was in sales. Around 2005, marketing became a bigger force driving growth. clu/Getty Images. It was the right thing to do. Sales reps leveraged that information gap to create a lot of trust.

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Black History Month: Inspiration Women Leaders Who Changed the World

HR Digest

Wells saw lynching as a violent form of subjugation — “an excuse to get rid of Negroes who were acquiring wealth and property and thus keep the race terrorized and ‘the n *r down,'” Wells also organized economic boycotts long before the tactic was popularized by other civil rights activists, who are often credited with its success.

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Exclusive: Chris Garrett Reveals His Secrets of Success (and More.

Terry Starbucker

How do you balance those two things in successfully moving forward with your career? The lessons do hold up surprisingly well, but then the core of the book is about creating something of value and being true to yourself and your audience, rather than obsessing about specific technologies and tactics.