Remove Advertising Remove Audio Remove Development Team Review Remove Sales
article thumbnail

Lessons Learned: The four kinds of work, and how to get them done.

Startup Lessons Learned

Now its time to start to think seriously about how to find a repeatable and scalable sales process, how to position and market the product, and how to build a product development team that can turn an early product into a Whole Product. Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online.

article thumbnail

Lessons Learned: What is customer development?

Startup Lessons Learned

Our goal in product development is to find the minimum feature set required to get early customers. In order to do this, we have our customer development team work hard to find a market, any market, for the product as currently specified. If I get sales I will expand on the site. This is a common mistake.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Episode 1: Business Loans, Website Tips, and the Apple Watch – The Bcast

Up and Running

Listen: Audio transcript: Business loans: Peter: Welcome to the all new Bcast, the podcast for small businesses where we’re going to be giving you some ideas, some insight, some tips and some thoughts on how to make your business better. Cody, the VP of Sales wants this lead form on the front page. I’m going to look.

SBA 60
article thumbnail

Optimizing Your Agency For Profitability

Duct Tape Marketing

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! Look, if you work in sales, wanna learn how to sell, and frankly who doesn't check out the sales podcast, where host Will Barron helps sales professionals learn how to find buyers and win big business ineffective and ethical ways. Like this show? Duct Tape Transcript.

article thumbnail

Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

Of course, the sales folks had new features as their #1 priority. We ended up rethinking our entire product development process, top to bottom, start to finish. But the results were excellent - customer satisfaction, sales, profits, quality, attitudes all improved dramatically. Top managements #1 was usually ROI.

article thumbnail

Episode 4: Signs You Need a Manager, Online Tools for Startups, and Our TV and Podcast Top Picks

Up and Running

Every week, we bring in business experts to discuss the latest trends in marketing, sales, and entrepreneurship. Audio transcript: Peter: We’re talking about an article today and it’s on bplans.com and that’s our style. Let’s just review them all and see what we like, see what we don’t like.

article thumbnail

How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

They log in to translate the documents, one at a time, marking each finished when done, which sends the file back to the company for review.” Also important: Only go for providers who have great reviews from many past customers. Decline bids from providers without many great reviews. The translator rejects or approves.