Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

The book lays out a disciplined approach to make sure this period doesnt last forever, and clear criteria for when you know its time to move to an execution footing: when you have a repeatable and scalable sales process, as evidenced by early customers paying you money for your early product. If I get sales I will expand on the site.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Now its time to start to think seriously about how to find a repeatable and scalable sales process, how to position and market the product, and how to build a product development team that can turn an early product into a Whole Product. As the company grows, this kind of work generalizes into "executing the companys current strategy."

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

Sales intelligence platform Cognism cut their lead generation efforts by 90% in 2021. In this article, you’ll learn how to build a demand generation funnel that fuels the pipeline, shortens the sale cycle, and generates revenue. an ebook); Then you blast them with sales messaging (e.g., email, ads, retargeting, etc.)

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

When a business increases it’s webinar attendance by 1000% & net $40,000 in the first 3 sessions, you should probably listen to what they’re doing right. Also, because many ConversionXL readers have expressed an interest in an audio-only format, I’ve included the interview in Mp3 format below. & a lot more.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

The startup didn’t work out, but I found ways to be around it, whether it was on the sales side in Goldman for a few years. So they have about 60 million customers now, and they have a view of the net present value of each customer when they’re onboarding them and their models to show it. Jonathan Siddharth. Sounds great.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

The full audio and slide deck are included above, and the full transcript can be found below: Sabrina: Hello, everybody. She’s a seasoned entrepreneur, a professional speaker and small business coach, and she develops audio video and written content to fulfill her mission to end small business failure. You need something to help you.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

The net result was powerful: within six months of starting the company, we were able to get a basic version of our product into open beta. Although customers didnt flock to this offering at first, we had enough of a developer program active to start recruiting early adopters to start creating 3D objects for sale in our catalog.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 4, 2009

Thanks to those of you who were willing to fill out the survey, I learned my net promoter score (about 25) as well as some clear other segmentation insights: about 80% of you are founders of or work at a startup, you read many of the same other blogs, and many of you would like to engage with Lessons Learned in formats and venues beyond this blog.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

And Keion Flanigan is brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network, the audio destination for business professionals. But HubSpot helps your team feel so connected, they can finish each other's sales pitches. I believe the audio book is issued tomorrow the 25th. powered by.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 17, 2023

The audio destination for business professionals creative elements goes behind the scenes with today's top creators. And thirdly, I called cast of white or net and I renamed it a more accurate scientific correct phase, which is build your brand and grow your mental availability. It's brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I previously posted a detailed presentation with sales technology tools useful for B2B sales. Many VC funds rely on general-purpose CRM and sales funnel solutions like Copper , Pipedrive, Salesforce , Streak , and ZenDesk. Skype and Zoom are useful for video/audio conferences. She is a model for us all!

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 1, 2014

Creating Audio Authority One Interview at a Time written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. Podcasts are back in fashion again, but my view of why you should be creating interview style audio content hasn’t changed since I started podcasting back in 2005 or so.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 4, 2023

It's brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network, the audio destination for business professionals. John Jantsch (10:42): You're gonna get, you're, you're gonna get a sales call from the Wall Street Journal now, I. John Jantsch (00:00): This episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is brought to you by Nudge, hosted by Phil Agnew.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

DECEMBER 28, 2011

You can listen to this audio interview by subscribing on iTunes , subscribing to my usual RSS feed in your podcast-listening-system-of-choice, or just download the mp3. But what we found that there’s a much wider net out there of people that are starting businesses. So let’s address it right now.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

John Jantsch (10:42): Gonna, you, you're gonna get a sales call from the wall street journal. You know, a lot of companies marketing is assisting with sales and kind of provides M QLS or SQLs to sales leadership. It all has to be, it's quite, it's a lot more scientific than I had anticipated. That's okay. Maybe these are hard.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 21, 2014

The full audio and slide deck are included above, and the full transcript below. You need to get to a point in your funnel where you have enough people coming in that you can get to that conversion rate that will get you the sales that you need to drive your business forward. Sales is obviously the company’s paycheck.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 19, 2011

His popular blog and audio podcast, “ Jaffe Juice ”, provides daily and weekly commentary respectively on all things new marketing. You are addicted to acquisition as you cast out that wide net, which just happens to be full of holes. Joseph Jaffe Joseph Jaffe is President of jaffe, LLC. And you’re not alone.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 8, 2022

It's brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network, the audio destination for business professionals. Jason Bay is a leading sales expert, and he talks with other leading sales experts to get you the information you need. I have recent episode. He talked about how much time you need to spend prospecting. powered by.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

So as marketers, we have to look at this shift and say, “It’s not enough for me to do the same old thing I’ve been doing, push the sale, push the sale, push the transaction, I actually maybe have to earn some trust, and after the sale I have to continue to demonstrate the value of the service.”

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Discover the secrets and strategies of how your business can achieve the frictionless sale. So there, in order to have a really good network, you know, everyone's probably heard that saying, you know, your network is your net worth. You're going to have to work. powered by.

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Designmantic Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Net Worth – $34.3 Net Worth – $150 million – Twitter: @benandjerrys. Net Worth – $150 million – Twitter: @sundarpichai. Net Worth – $2.3 Net Worth – $100 billion – Twitter: @Walmart. Net Worth – $2.7 Sergey Brin – Co-founder of ‘Google’. ” 2. .

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Mike Michalowicz

MARCH 8, 2013

Send A Net. On behalf of your client, send a bed net to a family in Africa —where every thirty seconds a child dies from malaria. For just $10, you can send a net and save a life. 100% of your contribution goes directly to purchasing bed nets, distributing them, and educating communities on how to use them. It’s simple.

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A Crowded Space

AUGUST 4, 2011

I actually started as the Director of Sales, which was a big career change for me. But on the very first sales call that I was doing, I was talking to the customer and showed them a demo of the oDesk platform, and they basically just took it away. Audio transcription provided by Speechpad.com. They were like, “Oh my god!

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Mike Michalowicz

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Send A Net. On behalf of your client, send a bed net to a family in Africa —where every thirty seconds a child dies from malaria. For just $10, you can send a net and save a life. 100% of your contribution goes directly to purchasing bed nets, distributing them, and educating communities on how to use them. It’s simple.

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Mike Michalowicz

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Send A Net. On behalf of your client, send a bed net to a family in Africa —where every thirty seconds a child dies from malaria. For just $10, you can send a net and save a life. 100% of your contribution goes directly to purchasing bed nets, distributing them, and educating communities on how to use them. It’s simple.

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Up and Running

APRIL 29, 2014

I’ve included the full audio and slide deck above, and the full transcript below: 5 Critical Tips to Reduce Your Business Taxes This Year. The advantage there is that we can designate part of their net profit that they can distribute to the owner as either tax-free distributions, or as owner salary.

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Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

Audio transcript: Peter: You ready? Peter: The net result is they ended up self-publishing under this company called Robot Paper. Jonathan: Are there other resources that you can tap into in order to get information, like big data information, at the sales level? #BigData for Small Businesses – (24:06). Are you ready?

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VC Cafe

APRIL 20, 2022

Voice – synthetic voice algorithms are already powering audio ads on podcasts, using text-to-voice. Synthetic Audio – a lot of people prefer audiobooks to real books for their convenience, as they are able to ‘read’ a book while walking or driving. AI generated NFTs – NFT sales hit $17.6

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Up and Running

JULY 14, 2015

Audio transcript: Jonathan: Hey guys before we get started with today’s episode, I just wanted to read an email that we got from one of our listeners. I’d implemented a business plan including marketing, engagement, sales strategy and realized a few months in that it wasn’t servicing a key influence or in the sales process.

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Small Business Force

OCTOBER 15, 2016

Your browser does not support the audio element. It's the first sale. In an interview with Rick Anthony of The Entrepreneur Network Radio , “The Entrepreneur’s Yoda” discusses “Boomerpreneurs,” the over 50 crowd moving into entrepreneurship. RA: And what is it you do? And I have fund doing it.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 16, 2008

At that point, theres no opportunity for marketing or sales; the battle is already won or lost in the persons mind. But if your new positioning message improves your engagement loop by more than the cost to your viral loop , you have a net win on your hands. Its analogous to walking down the aisle in a supermarket.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 22, 2010

In the past two decades, they have accounted for nearly all the net job growth in our country. These companies produced over $52 billion dollars in sales in 2005, and employed 450,000 workers that year. In the past two decades, they have accounted for nearly all the net job growth in our country.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

What about video and audio capture of family or digital albums? However, enough on digital, so Sarah, please stop with the positive news- where will VC go to invest outside of net negative or zero ROI on green? you are right about link sale forum not having good quality links. Might be kinda large market., just my opinion.

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Up and Running

MAY 13, 2015

Audio transcript: Jonathan: So Peter, episode one in the books. Peter: Let’s go on to what I think most people not necessarily try to avoid, but maybe feel like is a little daunting, which is the sales and marketing section. To boost sales, we offer occasional discounts and promotions. Send us an email: Bcast@Bplans.com.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Our products enable users to transfer, backup and restore content from cellphones, including: Phonebook contacts, SMS messages, Pictures, Videos, Ring tones and Audio files, regardless of the mobile vendor, model, technology or carrier. WipAir 6000 is the most advanced carrier class wireless backhaul in 700-900 MHz, 2.3-2.5, 4.9 & 5.x

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

The full audio can be listened to above, and the transcript can be found below. One of the things that we’ve done fundamentally I think it creates this difference is that we focus on sales. Crosstalk 00:51:17] put your efforts into actually making sales. I can hire a development team.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

Audio transcript: Peter: All right. For a lot of small businesses, they start to think they’re making some sales, they’ve got a product. Then, of course, more effective sales down that sales funnel. It basically is Google for sales team. The Federal Minimum Wage – (20:31). Jonathan: All right.

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