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    Thoughts on hiring first sales person?

    PEOPLE 
    One of the best plans I ever saw, that minimized arguments about this very thing, worked like this. Come up with your absolute bottom line price that you would sell your widgets at and setup a flat commission for selling one at that price (so for your example, maybe 5 cents commission). Then...
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    Thoughts on hiring first sales person?

    PEOPLE 
    Salespeople are smart, they will figure out your compensation package to work to their advantage, so make sure that is aligned with what you want them to do. If new sales are more important than "maintaining clients" make sure the get a bonus every 5-10 new clients. Make sure they have a...
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    Learning to Program is STUPID! (or SMART?!)

    GOLD! HOT! 
    if at first you don't succeed..... I have not suggested this anywhere in the thread. So if someone is new to the game, how long before they will be able to have the knowledge you recommend to be able to create a solid bug free project? On the Insiders Call I am hosting May 10th, I am going...
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    How to fix bad seo?

    MARKETING 
    Some good stuff on SEO... Is SEO Destroying Your Business?
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    iOS App Development Question

    WEB/DIGITAL 
    I use an iPod Touch and an iPad to test my apps.
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    How to fix bad seo?

    MARKETING 
    I have lots of ranking data to prove otherwise. If he got hit a year ago, I might agree, but his penalty came around the beginning of the year. Recovery is possible.
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    Stanford - Mobile Health

    I am signed up for this one. Any of you health minions want to join up? Mobile Health Without Borders | Stanford Online
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    Need Help Marketing My Niche Site to Generate Sales

    MARKETING 
    No, the easiest way is to buy traffic. Good content is the best LONG TERM solution.
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    If you were sick and you went online what service would you search for?

    Yes, medical tourism is hot, but there is no clear cut way to monetize it.
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    If you were sick and you went online what service would you search for?

    Please, Please, don't use Wikipedia for ANYTHING health related. Next, how about a search aggregator for all the major health websites, so I go to your site, or app. Type in my phrase and you go hit, WebMD, MayoClinic, Johns Hopkins, HealthStatus.com, American Cancer, NHLBI, American Diabetes...
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    Learning to Program is STUPID! (or SMART?!)

    GOLD! HOT! 
    Look here: Book Recommendations for Entrepreneurship Marketing and Success in the sales/marketing section.
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    Learning to Program is STUPID! (or SMART?!)

    GOLD! HOT! 
    Hi, Your English is fine. The headline of the thread is a "marketing gimmick" IF you would have read the entire thread, my main point is people with little or no money, have somehow convinced themselves that they can become a professional level programmer in about 3 months of reading a...
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    How To Test Your Market And Generate Sales Before Importing From China

    SOURCING 
    Can you buy a dozen off of ebay to get started with?
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    Waiting on others. How to remain productive?

    PEOPLE 
    Find a second source, start developing that, then work the two against each other. So you work with A1 and A2, you call up A1 and say, "I really want to work with you, but your delays are killing me, and A2 has a _______ that is almost as good as yours and if I have to I will go that way."
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    Methods to identify needs / problems

    WEB/DIGITAL 
    Ask your visitors. Use a poll, survey, social. What is your biggest problem regarding ____________? If you could find a solution to _______ what would it be worth to you?
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    My app company

    Either with an app or a higher margin SaaS, software or whatever, if you don't have a process to get your product in front of a stream of visitors that need the product it is not going to work. And just putting it in the app store and hoping it gets featured is NOT a mechanism for getting traffic.
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    My app company

    Right now you should be building a list of people with the problem you are going to solve. You need a site with a small amount of content on the subject and an email capture with a promise to solve their problems if they sign up.
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    Losing Focus

    MINDSET 
    Don't confuse relief or feeling less stress with happiness, which you may be doing.
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    Losing Focus

    MINDSET 
    You are probably suffering some depression of your own. Can you get a couple week change of scenery, something REALLY different and TOTALLY new (not the same old vacation stops you have done before). New experiences re-engage the brain and kicks you out of auto-pilot. If it involves a lot of...
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    How to deal with a teen who doesn't value traditional education

    See if you can get him to the end, then work backwards. What does he want to be? What are the minimum education requirements of that? It may be a moody phase as well.

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