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Forget the elevator pitch. Forget the press release. Forget the PowerPoint deck. If you were making a "Twitpitch" about your business, it would be over by now. A what? A Twitpitch forces you to tell your company's story in 140 characters (about 20 words), the maximum length of a message on Twitter, a microblogging platform that is gaining p  More...
Most sales people skip the essential sales step for each and every prospect that’s worth converting to a customer/client. It’s an investment that honors the buyer’s time; it signals to the buyer that your interest lies in their best interest, not yours. The "slow down and sell more" secret lies in creating value before the call.  More...
Learn one of the best kept sales secrets: the power of humor to close the deal.  More...
Ken Gaebler knows that winning investor money is all in the pitch. A serial entrepreneur, Gaebler has raised $24 million for seven companies since 1995. Now, he sits on the other side of the conference-room table, as president of private-equity firm Gaebler Ventures in Chicago — and routinely watches newbie entrepreneurs present their ideas in a b  More...