Posts Tagged ‘conversation’

Industry meetings

Thursday, June 25, 2009 13:38 5 Comments

Yesterday night I was in an informal meeting that discussed China as an export market for Finnish industries. We had interesting set of people giving short presentations of various issues that must be addressed. As usual, presentations were not the thing I went to check out. I was there because of leads.
WORN OUT ADVICE ON [...]

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Having a conversation with a brand

Monday, May 18, 2009 23:07 No Comments

I’ve been unvavering follower of the infamous AdContrarian for about a year now. With an old mans newly found viagthusiasm he gnarls at new media conversationalists. I must say that he is absolutely correct - Viagra gives whole new meaning for hoist the flag. Also his claim about people won’t have conversations with brands is [...]

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Made a sale today

Saturday, March 14, 2009 0:19 No Comments

Actually I made 3 sales today, but two of them were small only about seven thousand euros per order, which makes them too small to mention. The curious thing is that while I take a look at my statistics it is clear that small deals comprise about half of my sales volume. I have to [...]

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Social media selling

Sunday, February 15, 2009 11:24 1 Comment

How can you use social media to reach moms? Actually Noa Gafni defines the task little differently in Mashable, like this:
How to: Attract and engage social media moms
I DON’T WANT TO HAVE AN ENGAGEMENT
I don’t know about you, but what I want from moms is not their engagement I just want to sell to them. [...]

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Irrational demands on schedule

Friday, February 13, 2009 23:48 No Comments

In my line of work it generally requires a full day of work to produce a quotation for a customer. Given normal workload on top of that and usual quotation part of the sales cycle is about a week.
BUT WAIT - THERE’S MORE
I only hope it would be that easy, but before we reach the [...]

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