Dr. Cindy Gordon, founder and CEO of SalesChoice, explains her enterprise customer acquisition and verticalization strategy.
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“I think we've decided we're going to really double down hard on just two industries. I think we've maybe gone a little bit too broad. I think the two that are the most promising are probably the transportation logistics and probably the broad technology sector.”
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“No, no. We basically are averaging a much higher ratio than four K a month on our clients.”
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Opinion
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Insight
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Gordon: Purolator is SalesChoice's largest client account
“Purelator would be, it's a two billion dollar company. So that's one of our largest accounts where we're, you know, running all of their insights for, you know, all channels in the company.”
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