The Lost Book of Sales

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Charlie counts preparation, patience, discipline and objectivity among his most fundamental guiding principles. He will not deviate from these principles, regardless of group dynamics, emotional itches, or popular wisdom that “this time around it’s different.” Few businesses survive over multiple generations.

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Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

So the principles of psychology are fixed and enduring. Basically, our brains acclimate to anything our senses experience on a consistent basis. Our brains don’t evolve that fast. Human nature is perpetual,” writes Hopkins. “In In most respects it is the same today as in the time of Caesar. People get used to things.

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Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Practice Success Habit 1: Challenge yourself to test the principle of proactivity by doing the following: 1. However, Covey notes that none of these centers are optimal, and that instead we should strive to be principle-centered. We should identify the timeless, unchanging principles by which we must live our lives.

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SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2019

Scaling the company’s employee base, sales teams, marketing, and operations—all while preserving its culture—has required a laser focus on first principles, smart processes, and effective hiring. Here’s a quick recap: Use your principles. So using your principles, what does this mean? Dare I say SaaS.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 18, 2019

These are basic principles of UX —but they also have an impact on search performance. We all endure recipe sites that require a lengthy scroll to get to the recipe. For Transactional queries, is the next click clear and easy to find? Users who don’t find answers immediately are likely to bounce straight back to search results.

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SaaStr

MARCH 18, 2019

Scaling the company’s employee base, sales teams, marketing, and operations—all while preserving its culture—has required a laser focus on first principles, smart processes, and effective hiring. Claire Johnson: So using your principles, what does this mean? So first of all, these are operating principles. Dare I say SaaS.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

And so, she can, and Anthony just finished up basically going from the first sales hire at Gainsight at almost 100 million in revenue and has just retired. Phase one, it was like my job was basically managing all the agencies. And what am I missing from your journey. Maria : No, that’s great, that’s great. Anthony : Yeah.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 11, 2018

In their era, it usually meant convincing someone to endure a pitch from a door-to-door salesman. Two others—Cialdini’s “commitment and consistency” principle and the “mere-agreement effect”—also surface in academic studies. Commitment and consistency principle. Keys to applying foot-in-the-door principles.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 15, 2020

It’s crucial to reduce the duration of this learning phase, which is when you endure the worst performance. It sounds good in principle (and actually used to work that way). Assuming you’re doing the basics properly, those kinds of wins are hard to come by with traditional expanded text ads. It’s gut-churning to wait it out.

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The Lost Book of Sales

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Three principles for ensuring alignment. Here Bungay studies and applies historical military principles of leadership, strategy and management to the challenges of modern organizations in an eye-opening way. Brief thoughts from reading the book. Part 1: Uncertainty leading to organization complexity. Execution versus mere activity.

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The Sales Hunter

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Yet, the best sales managers work longer hours, endure more stress, and have greater responsibility than the salespeople they manage. Unfortunately, the sales profession is a grave yard littered with the corpses of failed sales managers who had they embraced one important principle might have gone on to become superstars.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 28, 2016

How to Apply These Principles to Design. As a result, its memory trace will be more enduring than if you passively read the information or even are given information that appears flawlessly organized. So, basically, it used to be essential to our survival that we remember positive and negative emotions very, very well.

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SaaStr

JULY 5, 2021

While some truths are enduring, those are the truths that are most obvious and conventional, and your parents are just not going to be able to help you with hidden truths. You need to do the step functions as well, if you’re going to build a great and enduring company. Kaitlyn: Right. Auren Hoffman: Yeah, exactly. Great stuff.”

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