Sales are the monetary sum of the goods or services that have been sold or exchanged with customers for money. It really means the action of getting money in exchange for a product or service. For example, selling 1.5 million products worth $2 each, results in sales of $3 million (1.5 million X 2). 

Sales

Project management is the guidance, control and operation of a project. A project, in turn, is a set, usually time-bound and goal-bound endeavor. Businesses often rely heavily in project management.

Project management

Email marketing is a digital marketing technique that uses email messages to access and persuade potential customers to buy products or services. Email marketing includes any commercial email.

Email Marketing

Innovation

Leadership is the position as well the action of giving overall guidance, control or management of a group of people or organization. A manager, for example, exercises leadership over the company or department. 

Leadership

Coaching

Entrepreneurship is the process of setting up a business, including deciding the business model, acquiring and organizing the necessary factors of production such as funding and human resources. The entrepreneur takes the overall responsibility over the new business.

Entrepreneurship

Digital Strategy

Electric Vehicles

Marketing Strategy

Social Media is the internet based information and communication system that uses websites and computer applications to enable users share information directly to each other. Social media typically creates networks or communities of users who exchange or share text messages, images or videos in real-time through the internet.

Social Media

Social Media Marketing

Marketing the promotion of a product or service as a way of persuading people to buy or use it.  Marketing involves spreading awareness of the positive attributes of a product or service, including the price, and often also includes research and advertising.

Marketing

SEO, short for 'Search Engine Optimization' is a combination of techniques used by digital marketers to improve how website content is 'read' and ranked by Search Engines. 

Digital marketing

Tech

Business Development, which some also refer to as 'BD' or 'biz dev', is the creation of partnerships that a business needs typically not related to sales. It could be strategic partnership that brings in revenue or one that provides technology or a service a company needs.

Business Development

Business Strategy

Healthtech

Product Development

Public speaking

Cofounder is a person who is part of a team that initiates or begins a business or organization. A person who joins such a team after the company has been initiated but before it is funded is still a cofounder. 

Cofounder

Hey FDers,<div><br></div><div>I have a bootstrapped company, KPIs are strong; 4 figure CLTV (5 in some cohorts), 3% m/m customer churn, negative revenue churn, and awesome companies in pipeline. I'm thinking it's time to boot up sales to kick things up a notch. </div><div><br></div><div>Any advice on finding that #1 sales person when all you can offer is commission?</div>

Rails developer and startup junkie. Founded AccelGolf (TechStars Boston '09) and now hacking on AppBlade a profitable product that I spun off from Raizlabs.

Discuss

How do you bootstrap a sales team?