Sales | Page 4

Building a Business

Obsessing Over Your Product Can Hurt Your Business — Here’s What You Need to Focus on to Fuel Sustainable Growth

Forget about perfecting your product. Here's how sales-led startups thrive in any market.

By Will Fan

Building a Business

How to Identify the Pain Point in Your Customers To Skyrocket Sales

By Lydia Li

Building a Business

Why Your Small Business Growth Stalled — And How to Kickstart It Again

By Charity Hudnall

Marketing

Businesses Are Reviving This 1800s Holiday Tradition With a ‘Surprise and Delight’ Factor That Drives Sales — Here’s How One Buzzy Brand Is Making It Work

By Amanda Breen

Thought Leaders

What Are You Willing to Do to Succeed? 7 Ways to Build a Relentless Tenacity in Business

This guide explores seven strategies for building tenacity for entrepreneurial growth and success.

By Jason Zickerman

Building a Business

Boost Your Ecommerce Sales — 8 Proven Strategies for the Holiday Season

As the holiday season approaches, it's essential for ecommerce businesses to maximize sales by leveraging key shopping events like Halloween and Black Friday. These events present unique opportunities to engage with customers and drive conversions, but they require tailored strategies to succeed.

By Georgi Todorov

Business News

Microsoft Strikes Back at Salesforce, Announces New AI Agents That Can Take Over Finance, Sales, and Service Tasks

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff called Microsoft's Copilot AI "disappointing" earlier this month.

By Sherin Shibu

Building a Business

3 Ways Startups Should be Thinking about Building Systems to Scale

Working to create stable systems that are smart, self-improving and sustainable is critical to scaling any company.

By Chris Savage

Side Hustle

These Sisters Started a Side Hustle After a ‘Light Bulb Moment’ Led to a ‘Versatile’ Product. Now It’s Done Over $45 Million in Sales.

Co-founders Lauren Stephens and Kaki McGrath, along with their mother Bonnie Dudley, turned everyday-wear brand Dudley Stephens into a multimillion-dollar success.

By Amanda Breen

Business Operations & Logistics

Unlock the Strategy to Building a Thriving and Scalable Sales Team

Being happy in sales is more than the volume of revenue or the number of closed deals—it's about leveraging a holistic approach to selling and having sustainable, predictable growth.

By Jennelle McGrath

Business Accounting

What to Know About Selling Your Business

Selling your business can be both an exciting opportunity and a daunting process. This article will help you learn what you need to know before starting your sale process to ensure you get yourself on the right path to the desired outcome.

By George Deeb

Marketing

What to Do When Your Marketing Efforts Keeping Failing

Failure is part of the marketing, but there's a way you can bounce back quicker and smarter.

By Kimberly Zhang

Business News

Tesla Sales Show Demand Could Be Speeding Up For Electric Cars

Tesla's most recent earnings report shows the EV maker is selling more cars now than it was last year.

By Sherin Shibu

Business Accounting

This All-Too-Common Communication Mistake Is Derailing Your Company’s Sales and Profit Goals — Here’s How to Fix It

By moving away from traditional spreadsheets and embracing dynamic visual tools, finance teams can increase collaboration, gain real-time strategic insights, and improve their overall decision-making processes.

By Francois Lacas

Buying a Franchise

Why This Mother Daughter Duo Are Making a Killing on Consignment Handbags In New Jersey

For their business to work, Dianne and Gabrielle Melillo need more than customers. They need a community that has total confidence in them.

By Kim Kavin

Building a Business

How to Create a Winning Content Strategy Aligned with Your Buyer’s Journey

This article details the importance of aligning content with the customer journey for long-term success, from top-of-the-funnel content that captures attention and builds awareness to bottom-of-the-funnel strategies that foster loyalty and drive conversions.

By Cara Sloman

Marketing

How to Create a Winning Email Marketing Strategy to Increase Brand Loyalty and Boost Sales

Email marketing can boost awareness and sales for your startup. Here's how to create a strategy that works — and avoid costly mistakes.

By Liviu Tanase

Building a Business

His Ex-Boss Issued Him a Cease-and-Desist Order. Neither Man Expected What Happened in a Parking Lot Next: ‘I Bleed This Business. It’s Cold-Blooded.’

Austin Mac Nab wanted to hire Ricky Onofre as soon as they met. But the partnership would hit a rough patch.

By Amanda Breen

Buying a Franchise

You Won’t Have a Strong Sales Pitch Until You Follow These 6 Pitch Strategies

If you want to see improvement, you have to put in the work.

By Rob Lancit

Building a Business

Stop Storytelling and Start Having Brand Conversations That Convert — Here’s How

Discover how to move beyond traditional storytelling and embrace impactful brand conversations with the Brand Trifecta framework, designed to unify sales and marketing efforts, create trust with your audience and drive significant revenue growth.

By Kate DiLeo

Building a Business

3 Mistakes Keeping Your Services Business From Crossing the Million-Dollar Mark

Avoid these three mistakes to successfully scale your professional services firm.

By Beth (Saunders) Mazza

Building a Business

How to Connect With Buyers and Get Your Products on Store Shelves, According to the Founder of Daring and Cadence

Ross MacKay, founder and original CEO of the plant-based food company Daring Foods and co-founder of performance beverage brand Cadence, shares the strategies that have landed his products in over 40,000 stores nationwide.

By Dan Bova

Side Hustle

She Had Less Than $800 When She Started a Side Hustle — Then This Personal Advice From Tony Robbins Helped Her Make $45 Million

Cathryn Lavery built planner and conversation card deck company BestSelf Co. without any formal business education.

By Amanda Breen

Building a Business

Beware of These Risky Sales Tactics That Are Doomed to Fail or Backfire

Every business owner can learn from the failed sales tactics of a defeated car salesman. Know what they are to avoid losing your sale.

By Jason Foodman

Marketing

Don’t Copy Big Brands to Increase Your Sales on Amazon — Do This Instead

I'm an Amazon Consultant, and if you want explosive growth, don't look to the big brands' listings for answers. Here's what you need to do instead.

By Tanner Rankin

Business News

Morgan Stanley Analysts Named Apple a Top Pick Stock and Doubled Their iPhone Expectations — Here’s Why

Apple now has the highest market cap in the world.

By Sherin Shibu

Business News

Sales Could Top $14 Billion on Amazon Prime Day, Hitting an All-Time High — Here’s Why

Prime Day(s) is on July 16 and 17.

By Sherin Shibu

Building a Business

3 Ways We Banished the Summer Sales Slump on Our Way to $100 Million

Slow season? Say sayonara! Here are three tried-and-tested methods to keep revenues high when your "slow season" hits.

By Joy Gendusa

Building a Business

The Way People Sell Online is Fundamentally Flawed — Here’s What to Do Instead

Live launching and traditional evergreen strategies are outdated marketing tactics. Here's how to build an evergreen funnel that actually converts.

By Nicki Krawczyk

Building a Business

I Hit $100 Million in Annual Revenue by Being More Transparent — Here Are the 3 Strategies That Helped Me Succeed

Three road-tested ways to be more transparent and build relationships that can transform your business — without leaving you feeling nightmarishly over-exposed.

By Joy Gendusa