CHAPTER 15

Getting your customers

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The magic number 4

The sales funnel

Identifying your first leads

You’ve got your idea, funding, marketing, premises. You are ready to get cracking. Now comes the important stuff.

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Sales are the single critical success factor in your business

Customers are the fuel for your spaceship. It doesn’t matter how wonderfully packaged your product, how good your systems, how well kept your books. If you don’t have any fuel, you’re going nowhere.

Put aside the myth that if you build a better mousetrap, your customers ...

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