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How repositioning a product allows you to 8x its price

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Clearly you can’t charge as much as the money the customer is saving on AdWords, otherwise the net result is no savings at all. Even indirect marketing like brand, events, and PR have the long-term goal of supporting growth. Who doesn’t want higher ROI. What can you charge for this tool?

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How to Get Sponsorship for Your Business, Book or Podcast

ConversionXL

Sponsors will have different reasons for backing your project: sales, lead generation, brand awareness, product launches , corporate social responsibility, etc. PR Week does this in a Twitter poll. This will mean the sponsor is offering genuine value while increasing brand awareness and lead generation opportunities.

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Are You Putting Your Rock Star Customers To Work?

YoungUpstarts

She might be a “promoter” of your firm in Net Promoter Score (NPS) surveys, a member of several associations that interest you, and an avid social media networker, he explains. Short, well-told customer story videos proved most powerful, exponentially increasing engagement and lead generation for Intel.

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Cracking The Code: The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008.

Cracking the Code

This single number is the key to determine your level of sales and marketing investment and is very simple to calculate by looking at a quarterly GAAP P&L: you just have to divide the annualized net gross margin added during the quarter by the sales and marketing costs of the previous quarter. Philippe Botteri. Bessemer SaaS Law # 4.