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How Can You Measure a Year in Business?

525,600 minutes. How do you measure a year in the life?

Rent‘s most epic song “Seasons of Love” reminds us that, in this short life, every minute counts.

Our clients themselves saved 256,858 HOURS using our app this year — that’s 29 YEARS they’ve gotten back to service their clients more, to sell more, and, most importantly, to spend more time with their friends and families!

And the time they did spend inside our app was time well spent because about half of all the sales proposals our clients sent out were accepted.

Plus, while Quote Roller was created as a way to save you (and us) time writing persuasive business proposals, money ain’t so bad either. Our clients closed deals totaling more than $320 million last year!

So what is our New Year’s Resolution? To keep doing what we’re been trying to do for you: to create a business proposal software that is easy-to-use and persuasive for your clients to sign. We can only do that with your help! Which means YOU (yes, you!) need to keep giving us your great and thorough feedback as to what we can do to help you close more deals!

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6 Ways to Shape Up in 2014 with Quote Roller!

Let’s be serious, sometimes office work makes you fat. And just like we might get lazy with getting to the gym, we sometimes get lazy with our sales techniques too. Today we are here to offer you tricks to shape up both your life and your sales.

Remember, when you feel good and healthy, you exude confidence, which goes a long way to stirring trust in your team, your brand, your company.

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4 Top Tips for Saying ‘Thank You’ in Business

You’re always looking for ways to improve your business by building lasting customer relationships. Without doubt, you are aware that business communications is all about getting better at engendering rapport with everyone you encounter in your business.

But there is one important aspect of business communications that you might not have given much consideration up to this point. That would be the “thank you.” As simple as it may seem, showing gratitude is critically important to business. Just like real-life social protocol, there are however some dos and don’ts when it comes to saying thanks in a business setting.

And that’s what we’re discussing today – how to say thanks effectively in order to gain and retain allies of all types in the world of business. Read more →

The Business Proposals that Built a Billionaire: Nick Woodman Edition

“Do or do not. There is no try.” – Jedi Master Yoda, Nick Woodman’s favorite quote

Nick Woodman is the billionaire behind GoPro cameras. The high-quality portable cameras the company makes are taking the world, pretty literally, by storm. They’re everywhere, from being strapped to the wrists of cyclists, attached to the tops of track cars, and clipped to the top of motorcyclists’ helmets, to being mounted to legions of dashboards, alike.

In this second installment of our Business Proposals that Built a Billionaire series, we’re taking a look at Nick’s history in business. GoPro, by his own admission, was no overnight success. It’s been more than ten years in the making, and it wasn’t Nick’s first venture.

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Why You Should NEVER Work for a Startup

In the second half of my 30 years, I’ve had many different jobs in many different sectors, but this year is the first time I’ve worked directly for a startup.

However, I’ve spent the last two years interviewing and training more than 100 Spanish startups and I think I know startups. It is on these experiences that I base my soliloquy today. (But feel free to prove me wrong!)

A startup belongs to its own special breed. Us human beings are risk averse and inherently resistant to change — it’s on these survival instincts that has us standing tall at the top of the food chain.

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Escape the Vicious Cycle of Client Feedback: Take a Picture

No matter if you are working on a design, a web project or any other form of visual result for your clients, you know this situation: you finished the main part of the project, but the feedback about nifty details keeps going on for days, if not weeks. We all know it. But we don’t plan for that in our proposals and we don’t know how to manage that process properly. Let me show you tools and tricks to improve that process and save time and energy that you can spend selling new projects.

We heard it all before yet surprisingly it keeps coming back in projects like nasty boomerangs that slide through the air at high speed: the final phase of many projects is the most challenging one, because it is easy to get to 95 %, the final 5 % are the hardest part.

They are about details, edge cases, special configurations on the end of your customers and if you don’t happen to sit next to them (very unlikely), you will spend a lot of unproductive time on the phone, writing emails or responding to bug reports.

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How to Be a Bad Boss

People are the life of every company. They are the ideas and the talent. They create the atmosphere, and they bring the personality. People make companies interesting.

At the center of this community is the boss. Bosses supervise their people. They can either make or break their employees depending on how they choose to run their company.

It was just my luck to come across a boss who did everything a boss should never do.

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8 Must-Have, Life-Hacking Apps to Ease Your Day-to-Day!

I was thrilled to present our new product PandaDoc at TheNextWeb USA conference in New York earlier this month. I love talking pandas and documents and, well, just talking. And with that, I got the opportunity to meet a bunch of really cool startups that work as some serious life hacks and use mobility as solutions to day-to-day struggles. So today I couldn’t wait to tell you about some up-and-coming solutions to scheduling, social media, even baby photos! Let’s jump right into the apps you need to MacGyver your life, all from your smartphone or tablet.
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Five Tips for Upping Your Viral Internet Marketing Game

Am I the only one who cringes a little bit when I hear the word “viral” over-used in talking about every latest craze on the Internet? Of course, I’m saying that sheepishly, because I know first-hand the value of the social currency that is viral Internet marketing. I mean, who names these things, anyway?

Way back when, as your grandpa probably told you, going viral was something you were inoculated against, and if it happened to you, you surely didn’t tell anyone. But now, everything has changed – well, all of those things are still true in the literal sense (and in the computer sense,) but in the online world, it’s a dang good thing.

Creating a hot piece of viral Internet marketing material that spreads itself just like that monkey in Outbreak is the best thing that can happen for your campaign, be it blog, meme, infographic, or video, putting out content that your customers spread with what I like to call “word of mouse” is the ultimate goal of branding in the digital space.

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Are You Making the Most out of Google to Grow Your Business?

Author’s Note: Before I lead you to believe I’m the most maniacal Google fan boy around, allow me to explain that’s not the case. In fact, I prefer Zoho Mail (one of our integration partners!) and Dropbox to their Google equivalents.

There’s just no denying that the assortment of Google products and services effectively makes Google the bee’s knees when it comes to search. In this article, I’m attempting to highlight some points relating to how Google services can be used in concert to gain an almost unfair advantage when it comes to building a business through search relevancy.

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Quote Roller is now PandaDoc

We’ve taken the great features of Quote Roller and made them even better with PandaDoc. PandaDoc is a robust document management platform with Quote Roller’s CPQ functionality built-in.

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