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How to Increase Sales With Real-Time Email Validation
Many web apps annoy you by making you re-enter your email and password when signing up. Some also make you stop what you are doing to click a link in a test email to verify the address works. How often have you given up at that point, or gotten distracted before getting around to finishing the sign-up flow and never ended up using a product?
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7 Steps to Design the Perfect Survey
When it comes to surveys, are we asking the right questions? Does the user flow make sense? Have we tested the skip logic and other questions enough? Here are seven tips to help you design the perfect survey.
My Boss Wears Flip-Flops to Work: Creating a Positive Company Culture
My career started in car sales and industrial sales, but in my current role at Lucid Software, I have discovered that selling Software as a Service (SaaS) shows the other two industries who’s boss. This is best demonstrated through a series of personal anecdotes that demonstrate the dos and don’ts of an effective sales organization.
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Planning a Project 101: Five Ways to Organize Your Thoughts
Ever had a million ideas zooming in your head of what you need to get done for the day or the week? Fortunately, there are a few methods that may give you the kick start you need to start organizing all you have to do when planning a project.
Decorating Your Office: 4 Simple Ways to Increase Satisfaction and Productivity
As an employer, it is important to note that millennials expect to be happy and are looking for an experience and not just a paycheck. Decorating your office space for them so they will feel fulfilled at work will not only help you in the hiring process but will also save you money because unhappy employees are more likely to take more sick days and be less productive.
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How We Lost $250,000 by Not Documenting User Flows
How much time do you spend searching for the big wins? Now, how much time do you spend maintaining the big wins? If you haven’t developed a strong process for maintaining the big wins, it could cost you. And cost you big. In my case, that mistake was worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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Getting An Edge on the Competition: Interview Advice From the Inside
What's going to give you a leg up on the competition when you apply for jobs? Razzle and dazzle your interviewer with this insider advice.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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