Pipedrive - In early 2015, SoMe Connect began using Pipedrive to unify its business data and better manage sales activities. After a year, the company increased its close rate, shortened their sales cycle and more than doubled their annual revenue.
Read MoreWyzant - Learning a second language is one of the best things you can do for yourself. It challenges the brain, deepens your understanding of other places and cultures, and makes it easier—and more fulfilling—to see the world.
Read MoreSitepoint - It was fishkeeping, of all things, that lured Ken Hart, then age 43, to the world of web design. After years of caring for aquatic life in his own home, Hart started a fishkeeping blog using free website builders like Wix.
Read MoreBright Minds Marketing - Out of all the marketing channels you can use to promote your school, email is still top dog. The people of earth send more than 281 billion emails A DAY …
Read MoreThe Hard Times - After spending years teaching himself to communicate with his dog, junior programmer Tom Watkins was “shocked and disappointed” to discover that Jenga, his seven-year-old husky, pronounced “GIF” with a soft G.
Read MoreThinkProgress - Bernie Sanders has a headline problem. Although the presidential hopeful continues to raise money and climb the polls, much of the journalistic rhetoric surrounding Sanders concerns his seemingly preordained failure.
Read MoreWestword - Upon further research, Silent Bear learned that Music Road Records also put together a Jackson Browne tribute album, so he wrote a letter to Browne’s manager, informing the singer that he’d made — perhaps inadvertently — a very strange bedfellow.
Read MorePipedrive - The Office is a lot of things: ensemble comedy, mockumentary sitcom, workplace satire, beet farm propaganda. It’s also a show about sales.
Read MoreDope Magazine - A man pushes a platform truck of healthy young plants past grow room 6, which is packed to the gills with lush, bushy flowers on day 22 of their growth cycle. A sign on the wall reads “Arizonas,” an inexplicable relic from its days serving under GM.
Read MoreModern In Denver - You’d be hard-pressed to find a more honest mattress salesman than Rollins. His unflinching commitment to transparency and customer education strikes a chord with today’s increasingly disillusioned shoppers.
Read MoreWestword - Along with a black open-collar tee and simple jeans, Bridwell wore a baseball cap, presumably just so he could head-bang it off during “The Great Salt Lake.”
Read MorePando Daily - Sometimes there’s a video. I hover my cursor over the play button, holding an internal debate. If I click, am I contributing to the exploitation of a tragedy? Am I glorifying the shooter? Am I intruding on someone’s final moments?
Read MoreSitepoint - Working as a freelancer can be a double edged sword … or lance, if you want to get technical. Our flexible schedules afford us opportunities that the nine-to-five life simply can’t.
Read MoreVretta - It was 11 years into the job when Birtch’s wife had a revelation. “She said, all these different things you’ve done, all of these different certificates, degrees, diplomas you’ve got, you’re meant to be the mayor.”
Read MorePipedrive - Barry Maher nearly gave up shortly into his first corporate sales job. After five weeks of basic training, his sales manager had thrown him to the wolves with little practical guidance and virtually zero oversight.
Read MoreVretta - During a lesson on effective interest rates, Maria Sairoglou, Professor of Business and Finance Mathematics at Seneca College, decides to put down the textbook and have a little fun.
Read MoreZapier - The crowdfunding landscape looks much different now than it did a decade ago, before Kickstarter opened the floodgates in 2009.
Read MoreSitepoint - Once upon a time, clicking “Send” was the end of the line. There was nothing left for the emailer to do but sit back and wait around for a reply. Now, clicking “Send” is just the beginning.
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