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Pricing determines your business

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Price is not an exercise in maximizing some micro-economic supply/demand curve, slapped post-facto onto the product. Marketing and sales spend is nil, so there has to be a reason it spreads by word of mouth, ideally virally as a natural result of using the product itself. $10/mo simple enough to be self-service).

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Finding new Market Opportunities in Food Business: A Case Study of GOPA Pakistan

Where to Play

Their root lies in a small ice-cream manufacturing and sale unit which was established back in 1988. In 2000, they included tentage into their portfolio and since then they have established themself as a premium brand in marriage event management. Time to revenue is low due to short transactional volume and the short sale cycle.

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Frictionless Sales (continued)

BeyondVC

As you know, I am enamored by frictionless sales. Frictionless sales means reducing the pain for customers to adopt and use a service/product and consequently reducing the cost of sales and marketing to get a customer and generate revenue. It means more qualified leads and a shorter sales cycle.

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270+ Tools for Running a Business Online

mashable.com

Bootstrap – Online bookkeeping software that lets you track sales and expenses, organize your records for tax time, and more. NetBooks – Marketing, sales, inventory and financial control in one place. ContractPal – Take your contracts and forms paperless and have them completed, validated, signed and processed online.

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10 Tips for Enterprise Software Startups

ReadWriteStart

Being enterprise scale means that your representatives have regular dialogue at CXO or at least VP level with Global 2000 accounts are they are bringing in millions of revenue from those accounts every year. In a consumer Web venture, the hustler/sales guy is non-core (a few biz dev deals are important but not core).

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