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Vera Stewart Doesn’t Take No For An Answer | A Story of Persistence

Sales Gravy

After graduating from the University of Georgia (Go Dawgs!) But Vera missed the sense of self-reliance that having an income brought her, and started a catering business out of her home kitchen in Cartersville, Georgia. She approached a station in Savannah, GA with a pitch to syndicate her new show.

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7 Companies Hosting Great Virtual Conferences

Hubspot

In my pajamas with a bowl of popcorn, I was able to watch Miranda Lambert, Thomas Rhett, and Florida Georgia Line perform from their own living rooms. In April 2020, I attended the two-hour special " ACM Presents: Our Country ". Their virtual conferences (including SheConnects, FinTech, and Digital Health) have amassed over 4,000 attendees.

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Sales Pipeline Radio, Episode 154: Q&A with Anthony Iannarino @iannarino

Heinz Marketing

This year there will be 1000 people in the World Congress Center Georgia Ballroom, and we’ve extended it from a two-day event to now a three-day event. As Anthony said, The Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta. In a sponsored-driven conference, there tends to be a lot of pitching from the stage. Just pitch them.

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There is No Such Thing As an Offline Business Anymore

Hubspot

Now Douglasville, Georgia is a town of about 31,000 people. Don't use your blog for sales pitches. We ask our questions on Google, and spend a few minutes checking out the results before we start evaluating solutions to our problem. It's not tiny, and I'm sure they have more traffic lights than my hometown. But it's not huge either.

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Decacorns & Unicorns in 2020: Founders Fund Keith Rabois and SaaStr’s Jason Lemkin (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Jasom Lemkin: Georgia doesn’t suggest it. Truthfully, the facts in Georgia don’t suggest that it’s as big a problem as people thought. When you find out, when you go out to pitch people, when you need money in the next year and the critiques start raining down on you, it’s too late to fix most things.

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The last 22 (part IV)

ConversionXL

You’re just presenting the pitch written by the publisher, that’s it. Use Arial or Georgia. I bet it will be a boost. I don’t feel you’re selling the book enough – you don’t make people WANT to buy the book. Add more value! Mention which students you’re able to help.

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Using Product Led Growth as an Indicator for Investment w/OpenView Venture Partner, Ashley Smith (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

My background, I’m from Georgia. GET Lab, I was there through the series A, helped raise the series B, and as we were raising the series B I got the venture bug and realized that I actually wanted to work with the people I was pitching to. I have a clicker, a microphone and a computer. That’s me. I don’t like it.

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