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How do I get my first few customers?

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Marketing, advertising, positioning — they’re all forms of persuasive writing, just like an op-ed in the New York Times. If you’re Oracle with 47 product lines in 100 countries and 20 languages with distributed teams of tech writers is this the best tool? But this was 2003 when AdWords was new.

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Customer Data Platforms: The Next Big Shift in SaaS Marketing Stacks?

ConversionXL

It was 2003. Organizing multi-channel campaigns, segmenting audiences, and distributing personalized content, suddenly appeared to be easy, like never before. This happens in advertising all the time. Just like cars with a great engine but no wheels. Marketing automation (as we know it today) was just born. Image Source.

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Behind Every Great Product

SVPG

Necessity being the mother of invention, this is where the queue, the ratings system, and the recommendation engine all came from. In three month’s time, the team redesigned the site, introducing the queue, the rating system, and the recommendations engine all in support of Netflix being a subscription service.

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27 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

Africa Travel was established over 25 years ago, so there was no such thing as search engine optimisation back then. Back in the days of straight advertising, it was important to have a name that explained what your company specialised in so the audience would be drawn to it. Thanks to Chris Wain, Africa Travel ! #4-

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Podcast Strategy: A Roadmap for Businesses

ConversionXL

The first shows were created in late 2003, and the term itself was coined in 2004 by combining “iPod” with “broadcasting.”. Make sure you have a strong open and close that includes calls to action like subscribing, sharing a link to your website, thanking sponsors, or reminding interested parties to advertise on your podcast (if relevant).

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Evolution of a Founder: Lessons I have learned

om.co

We recently wrapped up our strategy offsite, an annual event that brings together the members of our very distributed team – 12 different cities in four different countries – to discuss what our aspirations and ambitions are for the coming year. I found it hard to deal with advertising related stuff. STARTING IT UP.

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Weekend Favs June Eleven :: Small Business Marketing Blog from.

Duct Tape Marketing

The Referral Engine – Teaching Your Business to Market Itself – by John Jantsch. Very cool service from HP that allows you to upload PDFs or publications and print them for distribution. (HP Good stuff I found this week: HP MagCloud – publish, print and ship anywhere in the world. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. :