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Don’t Turn Your Sales Team Loose Without a Strategy

Harvard Business Review

When formulating a strategy, markets and segments are important categories to consider. But a market never buys anything. This is ineffective deal management, and it eventually leads to loss of positioning with customers, and, over time, the nurturing of “commodity competencies.” Only customers buy.

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The Secrets to TripAdvisor's Impressive Scale

Harvard Business Review

I remember last year settling into the booth of a café deep in the rainforest in Costa Rica and looking up to see a placard on the table begging for a positive TripAdvisor review. billion market capitalization as of this writing. and EBITDA margins are 47%. Scaling Lesson 1: Focus On Finding A Great Business Model.

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