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Follow the Green Lights – Small Business Success is a Mixture of Strategy and Intuition

Strategy Driven

To succeed as a small business, simply engage a few basic strategies and follow the ‘green lights’ Of the approximately 543,000 new small businesses that start each month, only 50% will survive 5 or more years. Small business ownership is a life and a lifestyle that the owner chooses. So, why do they fail?

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The risk of 9 to 5. And the reality of BEFORE and AFTER.

Strategy Driven

Are you a member of a business development group like BNI? The key point of understanding is the difference between a job in sales, and a dedicated, relationship based sales career. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Have lunch with an existing customer once a week and bring a prospect for them.

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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. In 2015, a sales rep earned commission on everything they closed. clu/Getty Images. It was the right thing to do. ” Neither of those things worked. Employee skills.

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