Tag Archives: StartUp

Update on my projects

By Grant Grigorian | Published: November 30, 2009
Besides my full-time job, and I am also always working on several side projects. In the last several weeks, there’ve been two that have been eating up most of my free time: tutoring and honey. My tutoring company, No Excuses Tutoring, has had an unexpected bump in activity recently. I had several web leads that came in, [...]
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Inside Sales Analytics, Tracking Daily Activity

By Grant Grigorian | Published: September 17, 2009
As a data geek who’s recently switched careers into sales, I can’t help but think about analytics in my new role as a Lead Gen Rep. To me data is crucial in understanding what’s effective and what’s not. So, I decided to be really diligent about keeping track of everything I do on a daily [...]
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Business ideas are cheap

By Grant Grigorian | Published: June 6, 2009
I was talking about startups and business ideas with a co-worker yesterday, and was amused when he suggested that I keep my business idea private because he thought it was a good one. Being secretive with a business idea seems to be the initial gut reaction of most people I meet. The reality of course is [...]
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Asking for time in a business call

By Grant Grigorian | Published: June 1, 2009
When making a business call, whether it’s cold or warm, I’ve learned to always ask for the person’s time before bothering with whatever I have to say. I find it a professional, and a polite thing to do. But it’s a surprising easy question to mess up. Word Choice For one thing, the words you use matter. For example, [...]
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Change of direction at No Excuses Tutoring

By Grant Grigorian | Published: May 31, 2009
Check out my post about the change of direction at No Excuses Tutoring.
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Email Marketing, without permission

By Grant Grigorian | Published: May 31, 2009
For the last two months, for the first time in my life, I’ve been actively involved in marketing activities of a startup company and one of the main issues I’ve found myself grappling with is email marketing. First, let’s acknowledge that email marketing is really easy: Buy a list of contacts from a vendor Load them in an [...]
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The Decision to Change My Career

By Grant Grigorian | Published: February 14, 2009
Recently, I decided to change the direction of my career. Well, not that recently. It’s been brewing for almost 6 months now, probably since I got married last August. Getting married really made me redirect my attention to what I was doing with my life, and I found that I wasn’t as happy with my [...]
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The Boulder Denver New Tech Meetup

By Grant Grigorian | Published: December 3, 2008
I finally attended my first Boulder Denver New Tech Meetup last night and it was great! The auditorium was overflowing with people, standing room only. While I am not part of any start-up or internet company, I still felt very energized and inspired by all the cool new products demos  I saw. The enthusiasm of the [...]
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Google Sites

By Grant Grigorian | Published: February 28, 2008
I got this email from Google today: Greetings! We’re contacting everyone who’s expressed interest in learning of JotSpot registration re-openings on the JotSpot website. And today, we’re excited to announce that JotSpot is working on Google infrastructure and has been re-launched as Google Sites. Google Sites is the latest offering from Google Apps, a suite of products designed to improve communication and [...]
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