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  1. DisLife

    What Are You Selling? Post Your Offer, Biz, Links to The Forum (April 2020)

    SELF-PROMOTION 
    I'm not sure how much of a market there is for this stuff here as our clients tend to be larger entities, but you never know. If you do need this kind of stuff, let me know that you found us on the Fastlane and we'll put some kind of discount in place for you. Xenemm provides hosting services...
  2. DisLife

    C0VlD-19 PPP Loans issues with Bank of America

    OFF-TOPIC 
    You can try going through fundera.com. My bank, azlo.com isn't doing loans directly, but they linked to fundera. I haven't used them, though, since I didn't need to apply for the loan.
  3. DisLife

    Progress Thread - Cloud Niche

    EXECUTION 
    Yep, the forum has definitely grown and changed in that time. I've made more than a few mistakes since joining, but I never gave up. I think there was a major mind-shift change that I needed to experience before things started to come together for me. Too bad it required me walking away from the...
  4. DisLife

    Progress Thread - Cloud Niche

    EXECUTION 
    I know it's been awhile since I updated this thread. We now have a few more clients on our hosting service. A couple of them were strategic partnerships with Oracle implementers where we gave them heavily discounted hosting with the understanding that they would push new clients towards our...
  5. DisLife

    Selling to the big guys

    EXECUTION 
    The large CRM products like Salesforce, Oracle, etc is that they try to be all things to all people. Really, it sounds like you have a customized bolt-on for a specific niche of their market to enhance the end user experience for that particular segment. Partnering with any of these guys...
  6. DisLife

    Eric from Erics Cheesecakes

    NOTABLE! 
    I think a lot of the frustration you see on this thread is that from what you've posted we don't see you exhausting every possible way to grow the business. You may have done some things outside of the thread that we don't know about, but our information is limited to what you've posted. I think...
  7. DisLife

    IT Consulting/programming

    SIDE HUSTLE 
    Depends on the niche. IT is a pretty broad range of things. I know/partner with companies that do hands-on work like filling a rack or pulling cable. That's pretty tough to outsource to India. Of course they hire the college students to do the manual labor, but the companies charge around a 75%...
  8. DisLife

    What should I think about for lead gen commission contract

    Hi All, I own a California based tech company. I'm working on expanding my sales funnel by farming out lead gens. I have my attorney working on writing up a contract, but I wanted to get a bit of feedback from some knowledgeable people about what things I should consider or account for. Any...
  9. DisLife

    [PROGRESS THREAD] ChickenHawk's Self-Published Fiction EBooks

    GOLD! 
    Thank you so much for sharing the journey and keeping it updated over the years. The thread's a novel in itself! I was curious if you'd ever thought about going the co-author route to increase your throughput and gain more readers by cross-pollination. What you've described in the last year...
  10. DisLife

    Progress Thread - Cloud Niche

    EXECUTION 
    Quick update for today. For one of the businesses I stopped at for my warm/cold visits last month the person I wanted to meet with was on vacation at the time. I sent a follow-up email last week where I referenced that fact that I was at his office and didn't get a chance to talk: Hi John, I...
  11. DisLife

    Andy's Inbound/Sales Braindump

    GOLD! HOT! MARKETING 
    Hey Thanks for the reply. I don't want to hijack your thread, but I did want to answer you... I worked for an Oracle consulting company for a long time (developer/dba/infrastructure) and was privy to the quotes they were sending out to companies. Generally, they would average around $150 an...
  12. DisLife

    Andy's Inbound/Sales Braindump

    GOLD! HOT! MARKETING 
    I see a lot of what you're talking about in what I've been doing, mostly because of your other threads. I think everyone in my circle knows what I do and I remind them on a regular basis. I still struggle with finding people outside of that circle to talk to, since the stuff I do is VERY...
  13. DisLife

    Progress Thread - Cloud Niche

    EXECUTION 
    Action Taken Today: This is dedicated to all the forum members that have repeatedly said to just take action. Like many here, I experience cold calling anxiety. I decided to take it head-on and go up a level by cold visiting several business. It was hard to do it. No doubt about it. The first...
  14. DisLife

    Progress Thread - Cloud Niche

    EXECUTION 
    Talk about long sales cycles. Go back to January of 2017. We'd just signed up our first customer. I knew this other company that was taking steps to get their IT systems into compliance and a Disaster Recovery site would be necessary to meet that compliance. I was confident they'd go with us, so...
  15. DisLife

    Progress Thread - Cloud Niche

    EXECUTION 
    Still got a lot to learn! Thanks GoGetter24!
  16. DisLife

    Progress Thread - Cloud Niche

    EXECUTION 
    Right now, I'm working through my networks of contacts (2nd tier and such) that I had when i was a consultant. This allows me to invoke my 1st tier contact's name in my opening email or phone call. I'm trying to keep the emails as personable as possible. Here's a sample of a recent cold email...
  17. DisLife

    Progress Thread - Cloud Niche

    EXECUTION 
    So since the last update I had 2 good prospects. One of them postponed to next year and the other one is still kinda hanging on out there. My question for you seasoned B2B sales guys. How often do you follow up with a client? I reach out once a week, but sometimes I feel like I'm becoming a...
  18. DisLife

    Using LinkedIn to get Clients

    HOT! MARKETING 
    Try treating that section like a cover letter. Instead of just a bullet point list of accomplishments, you could spell out how you can help people, use the bullets to highlight examples of how you've helped people and then put a call to action. This is basically you're advertising space on linkedin.
  19. DisLife

    Need some feedback on Article

    MARKETING 
    Hi All, This is my first stab at writing an article to advertise my business and I could use some feedback before I post it. I've removed the branding/contact info as I'm not trying to advertise my service here, just trying to seek advice. If this violates any forum policies, let me know and...
  20. DisLife

    Progress Thread - Cloud Niche

    EXECUTION 
    Thanks for the recommendation.
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