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The myth of overnight success: Don't quit your daydream
Successful people didn’t just get lucky enough to wake up one day with opportunity knocking at their door. They worked above and beyond the rest. When others would call it a day, they kept going. These superstars of success saw that the only thing standing between them and their million, even billion, dollar dreams was themselves. They understood that overnight success is a myth.
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- Professional development
Communicate Effectively, Retain Clients, and Increase Revenue With Lucidchart
Breakdowns in communication, clarity, and collaboration create substantial bottlenecks and mission failures. Extreme cases have the potential to bruise our brand, erode our primary capital assets, and create business development challenges, revenue interruptions, and even existential risks. Lucidchart offers a solution.
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- Lucidchart tips
10 Internet Marketing Tips I Learned As a Novelist
There are a lot of rules in writing, and I’ve found that many of them are universal—they can apply to most anyone, writer and non-writer alike. Here is a list of 10 writing rules that make the best internet marketing tips.
Topics:
- Marketing
How We Generated Thousands of Sales Leads By Mapping One Process
If many of your best sales leads are not coming from your support channel, you’re doing it wrong. Learn how to develop your own process map for sales leads.
Topics:
- Process improvement
- Sales
4 steps to build a sales process flowchart and boost revenue
A picture is worth a thousand words, and in sales, a visualizd process flow could prove to be worth millions in revenue. Learn the steps to build a sales process flowchart from Lucidchart's own VP of Sales.
Topics:
- Sales
8 Business Lessons from The Beatles' Touring Years
This week, I watched Ron Howard's new documentary titled The Beatles: Eight Days a Week. The film examines the group in the context of their touring years, and it's a compelling narrative of pluck and luck. I laughed, gasped, and surprisingly, spotted parallels with today's business world. In honor of the movie's title (a reference to the song), here are 8 business lessons we can glean from The Beatles' touring years.
Should I refactor? [Flowchart]
To refactor or not to refactor? That is (never) the question. Whether you're facing a screenful of spaghetti code, an elusive bug, or a project you inherited from a coworker who programmed in hieroglyphics, this flowchart will tell you if now is the time to refactor.
Topics:
- IT and Engineering
3 Things I Learned from Closing the Largest Deal of My Career: Trusted Secrets of Closing the Sale
One single deal changed my entire sales career and arguably my entire life. Read about the lessons I learned over the course of that 36-month sales cycle.
Topics:
- Sales
Warm up your cold calls: 7 cold calling tips to connect with your clients
Cold calling has gotten a bad reputation, but if you know what you’re doing, it doesn’t have to be so painful. Below are seven cold calling tips to warm up your cold calls. Try them out next time you’re calling outbound and see how much better your cold calls get.
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- Sales
3 Reasons Why Sales Should Have a Customer Success Manager on Every Call
A prospective client just asked you a technical question that you have no clue how to answer. It has taken two months to get this lead on the phone and the revenue potential keeps you up at night. What do you do? If a member of your customer success team had been in on the call, they would have been able to directly answer the client’s question and strengthen your pitch for another huge deal. Why didn’t you invite your customer success manager?
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- Sales
Which Programming Language Should I Learn First?
Deciding which programming language to learn first is a big decision: Which language is best for coding mobile apps? What’s the difference between Java and Javascript? Isn’t Python a type of snake? Fear not, future coder. This flowchart will guide you through the complex world of programming languages, which means you can stop researching and move on to learning.
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- IT and Engineering
Be a Sales Beast: 5 Sales Tips For Starting Your Day
We’ve all been there. We wake up and it’s... oh my gosh, I’m late! By the time we get into the office, half the morning is gone, which is a big deal when you work in sales. We muddle through some tasks we think might be important, and then it’s time for lunch. It’s not a good feeling. Luckily, it’s a situation that can be easily avoided with five simple sales tips.
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- Sales