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30 Great Franchise Business Ideas

Neil Patel

A franchise business carries the success, credibility, and popular associations of established brands, reducing the need for extensive marketing and brand building for you as a franchise owner. This can save you much time and money as you focus on making your business more profitable. Think about it this way: What would be easier?

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Kustomer, Google Cloud, and Zenoss — August 8, 2019

SaaStr

What ratio of revenue is healthy for professional services to account for? So when Oracle acquired Siebel, funnily enough, they had this hidden gem, which was Siebel on Demand, which was a SaaS CRM platform, competing with the likes of SalesForce.com, that Oracle had acquired. How does Vikas think about professional services?

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Sales Hacker Recommends: 97 Best Sales Books for Peak Performance (2020 Update)

Sales Hacker

You Can’t Teach a Kid to Ride a Bike at a Seminar. Integrity Selling for the 21st Century. Strategy and Process. Predictable Revenue. You Can’t Teach a Kid to Ride a Bike at a Seminar : The Sandler Sales Institute’s 7-Step System for Successful Selling. The Little Red Book of Selling. Agile Selling.

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