Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

In this time, building a successful business meant building a company that had paying customers quarter after quarter. It did not mean building a startup into a company to flip or hype on the market with no earnings or revenue, but building a company that had paying customers. They taught you about customers, markets and profits.

Silicon Valley 217

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. I loved every moment of our discussion other than the video angle, which I think I’ll be more particular about in the future.

Software Review 285

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Mike Michalowicz

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Seth makes extensive use of social networking tools, and web videos to maximize the impact of his training. Prior to starting his own firm in 2003, Seth worked at Biggs & Co., An accounting firm based in Santa Monica, CA, specializing in bankruptcy, from 2001 to 2003. Video tips are great to drive traffic to your website.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 24, 2011

In order to charge more and get what you’re worth you’ve got to take some time and get very serious about measuring one thing – value or results that a customer receives. Here’s how to do that Create a process that requires you to meet with every customer for something I call a “results review.”

Small Business 68

Small Business Marketing Software Review Social Media 68

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 1, 2020

The standout feature here is the dashboard that allows team collaboration, so your customer support agents can easily stay in the loop by recording calls, leaving comments, etc. However, Grasshopper does come with some interesting features and provides quality customer service. Grasshopper vs Google Voice. and Canada. The verdict.

SMS 150

SMS Canada API Small Business 150

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 7, 2011

The marketing strategy is delivered to and through the staff to the ultimate delight and inspiration of the customer. In fact, I’ve said it many times, your staff is likely delivering the same experience to your customers as they are receiving from you.

Small Business 60

Small Business Marketing Social Media Software Review 60

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Though you might not like to hear it, a substantial amount of your customers are going through the same thing on your site right now. A 2003 study put the effectiveness of both expert evaluation and usability testing methods under the microscope. This is inevitable. There may be serious flaws on pages you aren’t even looking at.

Software Review 48

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 10, 2011

Business owners must learn to manage and juggle a complex and shifting combination of customer, partner, vendor, staff and advisory relationships in order to survive and grow. Internal customer – How often do you take the internal temperature? It may be one of the most important reflections of the service your customers receive.

Small Business 59

Small Business Marketing Software Review Social Media 59

ConversionXL

APRIL 23, 2019

This post contains video, click to play]. Create customer personas and write user stories to design your site for real people. This is where customer personas come in. This is the first step to improving customer lifetime value, too.). audio-video equipment, apparel, etc.). What is information architecture?

Architecture 114

Architecture Metadata Vertical Design 114

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 3, 2018

The “classic” idea of content marketing—cranking out SEO-focused articles, ranking for hundreds of keywords, generating visitors, leads, and paying customers—doesn’t work in all industries. They’d built a range of products that completely solved the problem—but they couldn’t reach their potential customers.

B2B 133

B2B Marketing SEO Search 133

Hunter Walker

JANUARY 15, 2016

Ted Rheingold: In 2003 I owned and ran a web service business called OneMatchFire , and made a number of image sharing products for customers (or as side projects). Since selling Dogster I’ve been looking for just the services that we heard asked for in our forums, groups and customer interactions over and over again.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 48

crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Chapter 3: Brand Identity Research: Customers, Competition, and Your Brand. A brand is the sum total of the experience your customers and customer prospects have with your company or organization. Your company’s brand is a promise you make to customers and prospects about your products, your services, and your company.

Marketing 162

Marketing Charlotte Naming Design 162

crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 4, 2010

Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Inspiration vs creativity can it be taught?

Social Media 92

Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

The course includes lecture videos, quizzes and homework assignments. Multiple short video modules make up each 20-30 minute Lecture. Experienced entrepreneurs kept finding that no business plan survived first contact with customers. And in 2003 the Haas Business School at U.C. They’ve done an awesome job.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 16, 2011

Here’s an example: let’s say one of your business goals for the year is to increase renewal business from existing customers by 15%. To develop your marketing strategy, think about the marketing efforts it would take to get more customers to renew.

Marketing 53

Marketing Social Media Software Review Small Business 53

Up and Running

OCTOBER 2, 2014

often produce 5-6 minute videos that get straight to the point, add a touch of personality, and let you move on with your day. He’s worked for Starbucks Coffee and Whole Foods Market, which has afforded him with a deep understanding of what ignites passionate responses from avid customers. A nice touch: the folks at Close.io

Software Review 168

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2011

Explain how you love providing great service and encourage customers to review your service. Make customers aware of the review page via: Business cards – on the back: “Love our service? Note: There have been some updates since I published th. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. : As the importance of Facebook as small business marketi.

Web 47

Web Software Review Cofounder Small Business 47

Up and Running

AUGUST 23, 2016

In 2003, Matthew Kinsman was traveling around the world and found himself in Hong Kong. In any niche, quality visual representation can impress a potential customer. Kinsman says, “Brand activation is the process of introducing the brand to customers in an experiential way—so that they experience it first-hand.”.

Agile 60

Agile Viral Social Media Differentiation 60

mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

Top Stories Photo & Video Galleries Top Lists Trending Topics Twitter YouTube Facebook iPhone Google Video More Topics. World Videos Featured: Facebook. But there’s also the satellite-mapping company Keyhole, which in 2003 became the seed that sprouted Google Maps. Top 10 Most-Shared Disney Pixar Videos.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2010

For "cure for cancer" type businesses, there is no question about who the customer is and what the customer wants, and therefore there is no market uncertainty. In 2003 we started developing a martial arts motion sensing toy, a full three years before the Nintendo Wii changed the world of motion sensing. It actually worked. (A

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Continuous Deployment Technical Cofounder Cofounder San Francisco 164

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 27, 2010

A strong website can help a small business to more effectively market its products or services – even if the small businesses’ customers are all local. If you need help, you can leverage crowdSPRING’s community of more than 67,000 designers and writers for your custom web design. Consider Site Load Times.

Web 122

Web Small Business Design Marketing 122

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 27, 2010

A strong website can help a small business to more effectively market its products or services – even if the small businesses’ customers are all local. If you need help, you can leverage crowdSPRING’s community of more than 67,000 designers and writers for your custom web design. Consider Site Load Times.

Small Business 123

Small Business Web Design Marketing 123

Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Exclusive to new customers—upgrade and grow your business with ActiveCampaign today! And it's the same thing for individuals because at that early stage of a business, when you don't yet have a product, even sometimes when you don't yet have customers, you don't yet have traction and sales, how are you going to judge it?

Framework 70

Framework Cofounder Early Stage IPO 70

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 4, 2014

User experience guru Jared Spool was talking about the dangers of radical redesigns already back in 2003, Louis Rosenfeld was ranting against it in 2002, and so on. In 2008 Wal-Mart asked customers if they would like less cluttered stores, and the answer was “Yes, please.” Customers said they loved the change.

Conversion 124

Conversion Technical Review Design Framework 124

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 13, 2011

If you intend to thrill every customer, you will attract and retain. Related Posts: Follow-up Is the Momentum Building Power Tool What To Do When a Prospect Says Yes The Most Expensive Way to Grow a Business Who don’t you want as a customer? Note: There have been some updates since I published th. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. :

Small Business 72

Small Business Customer Marketing New York 72

Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

The response from customers and technology partners validates we are onto something big. Baughman was most recently with Polycom where he was Vice President, Product Management of a $700 million revenue video solutions group, and was key in managing Polycom’s strategic partnership with Microsoft. Naval Nuclear Power Program.

Naming 59

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Asocs – Founded in 2003, ASOCS develops and markets MultiComms™. AtlasCT – (Atlas Cartographic Technologies LTD) offers a wide range of products for LBS applications and services, with the ability to provide a complete solution, adjusted to the customer needs, for all types of platforms, with remote or standalone.

Mobile 109

Mobile IP SMS Networking 109

Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

My first eMetrics summit was June 2003 and as a young inexperienced person new in the field it was a great learning experience (eMetrics in Santa Barbara were the best!). Static or flash or video or social or whatever. Voice of Customer : iPerceptions, Ethnio, ForeSee, perhaps even self service mechanisms.

Analytics 98

Analytics Web Salary Non-Compete 98

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2016

Businesses see this as the Holy Grail for finally being able to predict who, where, and when customers will buy their existing solutions, and what their future solutions must look like to be attractive. By some estimates , humankind now captures the same amount of data in any two days than in all of history prior to 2003.

Social Media 120

Social Media Analytics Global Finance 120

Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 19, 2023

And it's the same thing for individuals because at that early stage of a business, when you don't yet have a product, even sometimes when you don't yet have, um, customers, you don't yet have traction in sales, how are you gonna judge it? You want a business that has the economic modes, the defensibility that it's gonna sustain.

Audio 86

Audio Cofounder Framework Early Stage 86

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

Here is the video link or click on the image above. Yes an online video startup in ‘99 that helped large media companies encode and distribute their videos through portals. In 2003 one of their first investments was Qiigo, Mike Yavondite’s company. ESPN, Forbes, AOL were customers. We’re a busy bunch.

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Vertical Curation Boston Burn Rate 265

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. If you want to watch the video version summary of my advice on fund raising it’s here. If it were a sales campaign to a CMO you would naturally think about having customer references. Fund raising is bloody hard.

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Developer Silicon Valley PR Las Vegas 366

SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

From the customer’s point of view, they would rather wait a little longer and have a better platform-specific solution, than simultaneously ship a generic product on all platforms. They had a couple experienced co-founders, including the now legendary Reed Hastings, but the problem was that they were stuck at about 300,000 customers.

Product 60

Product Technical Review Software Review Engineer 60

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 2, 2018

And even the above mentioned difficulties notwithstanding, it’s completely unclear how to pay those customers we’ve rented computing resources from. To the customer, the price in question would be really low: for instance, if we divide the price of renting the CompecTA supercomputer for one month by 10 000, we’ll get no more than 6 cents.

Search 129

Search Aggregator Distribution Framework 129

www.redmonk.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

But, why are there so many logging APIs in Java: log4j, SLF4J, sun logging, the layers on top, the custom bridges tools like Jetty add to bridge to one of them. And let’s face it, there a LOT of video-based sites cropping up all over the place, in the time frame, to deliver video recording and streaming on the web.

Java 43

Java Demand Web Framework 43

www.redmonk.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

But, why are there so many logging APIs in Java: log4j, SLF4J, sun logging, the layers on top, the custom bridges tools like Jetty add to bridge to one of them. And let’s face it, there a LOT of video-based sites cropping up all over the place, in the time frame, to deliver video recording and streaming on the web.

Java 43

Java Demand Web Framework 43

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 25, 2015

Businesses see this as the Holy Grail for finally being able to predict who, where, and when customers will buy their existing solutions, and what their future solutions must look like to be attractive. By some estimates , humankind now captures the same amount of data in any two days than in all of history prior to 2003.

Social Media 120

Social Media Analytics Global Media 120