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The Five Reasons You Will Fail in 2015

[fa icon="calendar'] Dec 17, 2014 11:55:42 AM / by Matthew Iovanni posted in Sales, Company, Marketing

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It’s that time of the year when people start making resolutions. Many people will buy a gym membership, while others will quit drinking (or some other vice). At work, people are talking about how next year will be better than the current year. Business is 20% ideas and 80% execution and often times I find companies have great intentions without any capacity to bring them to fruition. To that end, here are the five reasons your business will gain little to no additional traction in 2015 than you did this year.

Not using CRM properly

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The Crazy Story of Starting My Own Company

[fa icon="calendar'] Oct 27, 2014 1:06:00 PM / by Matthew Iovanni posted in Sales, Company, Marketing

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Eight months ago, I was in a really good place, professionally speaking. At age 30, I was running the sales and marketing programs for a 100MM-dollar-a-year middle-market environmental services firm. I sat on the board of the company and had direct involvement in most major decisions within the firm. Our CEO was a brilliant businessperson whom I very much admired, and the guy had serious drive.

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