In the following video, you’ll first learn how to create a minimalist layout, and then you’ll learn how to maximize the new design controls (and the entire Thesis platform!) to create a killer new layout that is bursting with color!
- Bill Rice
2010 is just around the corner, time to reflect on the year past, and what's happening next year. My 2009 list of online community and social media conferences blog post was one of my post popular articles last year. Use...
- Bill Rice
Nothing is more important to a marketer or lead generation company than lead acceptance. Sales needs to like your lead for it to have any chance of converting. Every other lead conversion metric is irrelevant until you get this part right. Brian Carroll, of the B2B Lead Generation Blog nails it: For this reason, I think cost-per-opportunity [...]
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You learn the best lessons from the simplest experiences. Here’s mine… Last night I crashed about 11:00 p.m., never even cracking my MacBook to take my typical final pulse for the evening. I was exhausted. My work is a bit chaotic (my business is in a full scale client-led strategic shift because of our new Eavesdropper [...]
- Bill Rice
Jason Fried of 37Signals has taken the stage at Y-Combinator's Startup School this morning at UC Berkeley. I'm taking my notes below on ...
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Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has taken the stage at Startup School, where Y Combinator's Jessica Livingston is interviewing him. I'm liveblogging ...
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Image via Wikipedia Looking for free lead management software? It is possible. The basic principles of lead management can be cobbled together with free tools. Depending on your sales goals and quotas, these just might do the trick. Let’s build a free lead management system. Lead Capture: Email, Contacts, and Spreadsheets Most sales leads are coming from business cards, [...]
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I always learn something from successful entrepreneurs. Three things that are consistent: 1. Never instant success, 2. Few are doing it the way they started, and 3. All made mistakes.
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Companies are deciding whether or not they should have a social media presence, and hence, a policy. Here is what your company needs to know.
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Image by travisepoling via Flickr I was an early follower of David Allen’s Getting Things Done (GTD) productivity philosophy. It immediately synced with my observations of what makes sales people productive. Allen’s techniques in personal productivity are most effective with busy people. Sales is a numbers game. Processing high volumes of opportunities–efficiently–makes GTD a bulls eye [...]
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Image by AlexWitherspoon via Flickr Too often we are looking for silver bullet systems or recipes for success, while ignoring the basics. In my experience 90% of big sales improvement comes from getting back to the basics. These basics will have an immediate, measurable impact on your sales numbers. Let’s put it to the test. Here are [...]
- Bill Rice