As a startup leader, what emphasis do you put on your sales effort?  The world of sales is complicated and noisy. Customers demand, competitors attack and pundits natter.There are too many messages “splashed and sprayed” at the market through too many channels; this relentless and constant bombardment is distracting and often gets in the way of people deciding who to do business with. Criti

Many sales pundits define 7 stages of the sales cycle, with closing a deal being defined as the end of the cycle.To most salespeople "the close" represents the welcomed end to a time consuming and laborious effort to get the client to buy. It is a time to get paid, take a deep breath, relax and move on to the next challenge.The close has its roots in our culture. A culture where we are taught in s

Traditional business strategy methods give us many tools and techniques to build the “perfect plan".  It offers structure in the SWOT process. It provides analysis in demand and forecasting models. It provides decision-making frameworks to assess the merits of various alternatives. It’s a mature discipline that has definitely helped organizations chart a course for their future.That said, I

NEVER has it been more important to carve out a distinctive and unique place for your new business in the market than it is today.The economy is unpredictable. Competition is intense as new competitors are entering the market at a blistering rate.New technology "rains down" relentlessly.Markets are cluttered with sameness; products and services are undifferentiated, relying on price to be the dif

Have you started working with vue and php phalcon, but wondering how to make these frameworks communicate with each other? In this article we will dive deep into creating API's (application programming interface) in php Phalcon. We will design these API's and program vue to call these API's using AJAX. In the previous articles, I wrote on the theory, on how to get started using vue and php (phalc

Are you looking for a simple way to get started on making php phalcon and vue.js work in harmony? No theory just code examples? If you have worked on php phalcon and worked a bit on vue.js as individual projects and now feel the need to link these frameworks together, this article is for you. You might have gone to the official vue-webpack git page and followed the steps. After getting started wi