Money will go towards scaling their production of hardware (built in Arizona) and building a sales and marketing team to spread the word about products.

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It implies that the sales and marketing team is actually in total control.

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Asus also appointed a single contact on its sales and marketing team to handle operator queries about its phones and tablets.

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The big reveal began when David Park, a young Samsung sales and marketing team manager gave us a 30-minute presentation of the phone.

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"New Zealand is a wonderful place, but it's 4 million people and it's 12 hours away from any major market, " says Nicholas Masson, the former head of global marketing and sales at RJ Reynolds International who is marketing Team Alinghi to sponsors.

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When a potentially popular movie is based on a book, you can imagine how much the publisher, its marketing team and the author hope for a big boost to sales.

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Appirio worked with Barry and his core sales operations team for managing the salesforce.com environment and doing the analytics, with the IT department for device management, with the marketing team for content creation and porting, and with the regional sales directors to drive adoption, use, and collaboration.

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While focusing on developing its technology, Lasso spent the first months implementing a team tasked with building corporate awareness, and iterating weekly on sales and marketing techniques.

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However, our ranking is based on the past year' earnings, and so it doesn't include the Galaxy contract, under which Beckham will get a cut of the revenue that the team makes from increased sales of shirts and season tickets, as well as of marketing contracts.

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