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How to Know When It’s Time to Pivot Your Startup

Nearly every successful startup undergoes a pivot at some point. Steli Efti shares his advice for when and how to pivot your startup idea.

October 10, 2024

Ditch Your Business Phone—How to Set Up a Small Business Phone System Within Your CRM

Business Advice

My Seven Attempts to Get Into Y Combinator

Business Advice

More Money, More Problems: The Case for Bootstrapping Your Startup

Sales Operations

Inbound Sales: Top Strategies, Technology, and Tips to Boost Your Sales Process

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Sales Operations

The Founder’s Dilemma: Scaling Operations Beyond Solopreneurship

Every small business founder faces a choice: to scale or not to scale? Learn how to build systems and operations to help you grow beyond solopreneurship.

September 10, 2024

How Modern Sales Teams Can Use IVR to Maximize Deal Flows

Discover a new way to turn inbound leads into won deals using an Interactive Voice Response (IVR) system to strike opportunities while they're hot!

September 6, 2024

Startup and Small Business Sales

Feeling Generic? Here's How 10+ Coaching Businesses Set Themselves Apart (And How You Can, Too)

Learn to create core differentiators and build a personal brand that resonates with your target audience.

September 3, 2024

Prospecting & Lead Generation

Mastering Call Routing: How to Streamline Inbound Sales Calls and Boost Customer Satisfaction

Call routing is a lifesaver for time-strapped sales teams with lots of inbound calls. Learn about intelligent call routing, and how to make it work for you.

August 30, 2024

Meet the CRM built for how sales teams actually sell

Selling is hard. Your CRM shouldn’t be. Close is the easy-to-use CRM built with everything sales teams need to start closing deals today.

Sales Operations

The Ideal Client Profile: How Coaching Businesses Attract Their Most Successful Clients + How You Can Too

An ideal client profile helps coaching businesses to identify key qualities in their most successful clients—and target messaging to attract more of them.

August 27, 2024

Prospecting & Lead Generation

A2P 10DLC: How it Affects SMS and Sales

A2P 10DLC is transforming SMS marketing for businesses. Find out how gaining approval will impact your sales and customer engagement to help your team close more deals.

August 13, 2024

Kimberlee Meier

Prospecting & Lead Generation

18 Bulk Email Best Practices for Small Businesses: Never Land in Spam Again

Discover 18 bulk email best practices for small businesses. Get super practical tips for operations, marketing, and sales to avoid spam and get more responses.

Joanna Kaminska

How to Get More Coaching Clients With Cold Email

How can cold email help build your coaching business? Learn to find people you can genuinely help, craft a specific offer, and get more high-quality clients.