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Every founder wants to hire only the best. But human beings are complex creatures. We all have our own unique strengths and weaknesses. So what do you do when you find someone who seems like the perfect fit, and then discover they suck at something important?..
Note from Steli: We’re excited to announce that Nick Persico has officially “re-joined” the Close.io team as our Head of Growth. He’ll be working on special projects across our Sales, Marketing, and Success teams. In addition, he will be spending some of his time helping our customers and sharing his thoughts about sales and marketing operations and entrepreneurship on our blog. Show up. Follow up.....
Interviews are like first dates, where the candidate and the interviewer try to pass off the best versions of themselves. Candidates sell you on their immaculate resumes, and some canned responses. You sell them on unlimited coconut water, and a foosball table. No one really knows if it’ll work out or not. But the burden of proof falls on you as the interviewer, not the interviewee. If you want to.....
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In our recent blog post titled "Six simple steps to getting started with cold sales emails", we discussed the basics of cold emails and offered some simple benchmarks on what results to expect. Feature Announcement Email Sequences: email drip campaigns for salespeople. Schedule sequences of emails to be automatically sent over days or weeks. Learn more or try for free. Many of you asked us to foll.....
People keep saying cold calling is dead, but many successful businesses rely on cold calling to drive revenue. Whether they're Fortune 500 companies or high-growth startups, they all have sales reps eagerly dialing numbers day in and day out. But if you're still doing cold calling like it's 1995, you might as well not do it at all. Too much has changed in the past 20+ years, which is why we've put.....
If you’re doing inside sales, you know that a phone call can be an incredibly effective tool to reach out to potential customers and close deals. Feature Announcement Email Sequences: email drip campaigns for salespeople. Schedule sequences of emails to be automatically sent over days or weeks. Learn more or try for free...
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