Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 16, 2011

If done as pure education this can be a very powerful way to add value to your current client relationships and demonstrate the way you operate to these hot prospects. You invite other hot prospects to participate and then simply host and moderate the discussion among peers. Note: There have been some updates since I published th.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 4, 2021

No more 60 hour weeks at a job where the owners apparently were unable to run a successful operation. Even though I had very little money to start a business, I took a leap of faith and started a small jewelry company out of my two-bedroom apartment and grew it exponentially, generating over $500 million in retail sales. No hassles.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

billion for a company with less than $50 million in sales. What this meant for entrepreneurs and VCs was a bit more complex– the IPO market was all but closed (with the Google IPO in 2004 as a brilliant exception), but it was possible find a buyer for your company. My experience of 2001-2004 is very remote from what you are describing.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 10, 2011

How about monitoring the relationship between internal teams like sales and marketing? How happy is your staff? It may be one of the most important reflections of the service your customers receive. Event follow-up – A quick way to monitor how your webinar, conference or presentation went. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. :

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

The early history of MySpace is inextricably intertwined with that of Intermix, a small-cap publicly traded Internet company in Los Angeles where I worked as corporate counsel from 2004-06. Intermix was in a turnaround situation when I arrived in mid-2004, having been delisted from Nasdaq and nearly bankrupt.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Take the time to develop a strategic roadmap so you may better understand the ways in which you’ll achieve your operational goals. Start by defining your vision statement and company mission, which will help inform other areas of your business like marketing or sales. Hone your elevator pitch, not your sales pitch.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 30, 2015

Instead there are a lot of private jet operators around who rent out their aircraft or have people buy shares in such companies in return for use of the jets. This already sets them apart from competition and will help them further build on the current 70,000 plus flights made transporting over 165,000 passengers since 2004.

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techcrunch.com

APRIL 26, 2013

From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. with a $3 sale. Leena Rao is currently a Senior Editor for TechCrunch. She graduated from Columbia University in 2003, where she was. Crunchboard. The Queue: EDDIE_MURPHY_LAUGH.wav. About & Staff.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 1, 2018

Some real-life examples of this include: Martha Stewart, whose company, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, suffered and never fully recovered after she was found guilty in 2004 of charges related to insider trading. In fact, sales and profitability can fluctuate — sometimes dramatically — from one year to the next.

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Mike Michalowicz

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

She has studied the practical application of psychology for more than a decade in sales, marketing, and people management. My wife Mirta, a professional chef from Paraguay, and I started the business in 2004. Now we have 70 employees and serve 5000 children every day. Contact me at simon.rothschild@eltucano.de or 608-542-0880.

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David Teten

MAY 16, 2011

Joe Chernesky, Vice President and General Manager of Global Licensing Sales, Intellectual Ventures. Kupietzky held a variety of management roles in marketing, sales and product management at world-class technology companies: Digital Insight (Intuit), Loudcloud/Opsware (Hewlett-Packard) and Siebel Systems (Oracle).

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 28, 2011

If indeed you have any vision of selling your business in the future you’ve got to focus on marketing instead of simply focusing on sales. In my opinion, a greater focus on these elements not only creates greater sales, it leads to the creation of a more valuable asset – or something you might indeed be able to sell.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 13, 2011

Far too often marketers spend all of their attention on the chase and the sale and not enough on the retain and remarkable experience. It’s certainly a big topic, but I love that attract and retain are used in the same setting because they are certainly linked arm in arm in a business that wants to build any kind of marketing momentum.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

A key performance indicator (KPI) is a quantifiable activity used to measure how a key aspect of your business is operating or how much volume it’s receiving. For websites, this can include “sales volume,” “number of visits,” “average cart value,” and a variety of other metrics. What are key performance indicators? The gym membership.

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 30, 2013

For instance, if your company has been involved in public malpractice litigation, rebranding can help you get rid of negative connotations that may be hurting your sales. In 2004, despite warnings from their advertising consultants, Chrysler contracted Celine Dion for $10 million to promote the new Pacifica. The result?

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

What I’ve honorably been able to do, however, is share the deck I used to pitch LinkedIn to Greylock for a Series B investment back in 2004. the consumer internet landscape in 2004 vs. today. In 2004, the consumer internet was just beginning to rebound. In 2004, investors regained interest in the consumer internet again.

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Eric Friedman

JULY 12, 2016

Previously, Eric was the Global Senior Director of Sales and Revenue Operations for Foursquare. Eric graduated from George Washington University in 2004 with a degree in Marketing.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

In 2003, he was the founder of Nigeria’s first online-realtime Point of Sale (POS) electronic payment system and in 2004 created West Africa’s first locally issued and processed online-realtime international payment card: Ecobank MasterCard. “We The company now has more than 17 million users. Konga, Jumia and Gloo.ng

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

The founder of early internet startup Freeloader (acquired for $38 million in 1996) and anti-spam company Brightmail (acquired for $370 million in 2004), Paul went on to pioneer the ride-hailing space. In other words, what percentage of sales are available to pay for growth, and to reward investors for financing that growth.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Founded in 2004, it has grown in leaps and bounds along with NYC’s tech sector. West Coast VC’s are on monthly flights to NYC from SFO, Facebook announced an engineering office in NYC, Twitter established operations here, eBay bought Hunch and will hire 200 people in NYC (their new east coast HQ)….the the list goes on and on.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

Most of what I learned about operating startups I learned from the really tough years at my first company from 2001-2003. I was paid less in salary in 2004 than I was paid at the job I quit in 1999 (a job I had held 8+ years). But in our first year of sales (and those were really shitty years to be selling software) we sold $2.1

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

The importer should be a wholesaler or pharmacist licensed to operate in the United States. Similarly, it should be preapproved by the United States authorities for legitimate sales in the country.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 13, 2020

In 2004 I was a part-time flight attendant with a 10-year-old son living in Los Angeles. in December of 2004 with just our one little product, and by the end of 2005 we had sold 1 million Finders Key Purse(r). I had a taste of self-employment when I was in college with a part-time sales gig. Thanks to Andy Cabasso, Postaga ! #12-

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dashes.com

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

I would love to be plagiarized and embroiled in a lawsuit--the curiosity factor alone would boost my sales and name recognition exponentially. The trick worked and the hyper-sophisticated AC system hummed into operation, but he was still challenged. But moreover, thats just not how things work. Ideas are cheap. Execution is hard.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 7, 2022

Marcel is the CEO & Co-Founder of Parakeeto, a company dedicated to helping agencies measure and improve their profitability by streamlining their operations and reporting systems. John Jantsch (22:27): The, my longest running client, uh, has been a client since 2004. This is John Jantsch and my guest today is Marcel Petitpas.

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BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 17, 2006

Our direct sales group markets and sells our solutions primarily using the telephone and web-based demonstrations. During the years ended March 31, 2004, 2005 and 2006, we achieved positive operating cash flows of $0.3 During these periods, we have consistently incurred operating losses, including $0.8 million, $0.9

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Agile VC

MARCH 8, 2012

But even during the macroeconomic boom of 2004 to early 2008 (inflated by various credit bubbles – housing, sovereign debt, LBOs) tech IPOs were extremely rare and then the global economic crisis of late 2008 – 2010 only further dampened hopes for a recovery.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 24, 2019

Sales reps are also likely to be familiar with Salesforce because it’s the most widely used CRM, reducing onboarding costs for companies that use it. Until 2004, when the U.S. Moats built on efficient scale apply to a small number of businesses, like the aforementioned freight rail operators. Wide moats rely on several factors.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 11, 2013

They expressed desire to establish a way to increase brand exposure and gain the ability to directly communicate with end users to help increase the probability of a dealer/installer sale. Dodge brilliantly leveraged their NASCAR sponsorship to sell more cars and and built a database of new sales leads from the Northeast region.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Since founding my business in 1981 as a typing and editing service, I’ve operated under many names/websites. For this work, I operate under the name Going Beyond Sustainability. I also wanted to future proof my business – to position it for growth, and ultimately sale, so giving it my name was out of the question.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

A while ago, an HBR study famously claimed that a 1% improvement in price would increase operating profit by 11%, making it the most effective thing you can tweak for increased business performance. Some studies suggest consumers perceive a sales price to be better valued when it’s written in a smaller font. Pricing is important.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

In 2004 I began blogging. As I said, I have a very small operation and I’m able to make much more than the average person. The biggest deal I’ve ever done was a sale of a $100,000 website. I didn’t know anything about it, but I saw these two sets of forums for sale, so let me explain my attitude with this.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 30, 2010

The CEO must set the context that every employee operates within. Some employees make products, some make sales; the CEO makes decisions. In addition, executing well requires a broad set of operational skills. The Strategy and the Story. Decision Making. The larger the organization, the more elaborate the requisite skill set.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Klaviyo is a platform that helps growth-focused eCommerce brands drive more sales with super-targeted, highly relevant email, Facebook and Instagram marketing. I first wrote about this model in my first book called The Radical Leap, which came out in its first edition way back in 2004. Transcript. Love, energy, audacity and proof.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

. “We are proud to introduce a new era of SOHO-living, and an integrated lifestyle concept in Singapore where living, leisure, working and connectivity converge in one address,” says Chia Boon Kuah, Chief Operating Officer, Property Sales and Executive Director of Far East Organization. ” Small Office, Home Office.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

The company agreed to be acquired by Expedia/IAC in 2004 for $210 million in cash, a huge win for all, particularly given their amazing capital efficiency: they had only raised $4 million in venture capital. TripAdvisor And Expedia: From $4 million invested to $4 billion in value . and EBITDA margins are 47%. Think about that.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 25, 2011

These ideas cover the whole gamut of business themes: from marketing to sales, strategy to motivation, public relations to communications, branding, management, leadership and even cost-cutting. Each idea is also succinctly written and takes up only one or two pages – there’s no waffling here, which makes it easy reading.

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