sales: How I built a business with no money - Part 2 of 2
- 03/19/08 08:21 AM
How I built a business with no money Part 2 of 2 ***Christian Piatt is an author, columnist and president of www.MyWordTree.com, providing writing, editing, marketing and design services for businesses.*** As business began to trickle in, I soon realized that the only way any of us would make enough money in the long run to make all of our work worthwhile was to increase our volume far more than I could do on my own. I needed a sales team, but I had no money to pay them. In order to make it interesting for salespeople, we had to carve out another pretty (1 comments)
sales: How I built a business with no money - Part 1 of 2
- 03/18/08 02:52 AM
How I built a business with no money Part 1 of 2 Back in the summer of 2001, I was in the final stages of loan approval to open a coffee shop just off the campus of a university in Fort Worth. I had the site selected, which was less than a block from the local dorms and major academic buildings, with no competitor within miles. I had a compelling pro forma laid out that seemed like a can’t-miss model. I had met with the Senior VP at my bank that was cheerily on board with my concept, and I had designers (1 comments)