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Why Some Startups Win

Steve Blank

But he was getting uneasy that as his headcount was growing the productivity of his marketing department seemed to be rapidly declining. The other departments gave the same type of logistical answers; the product-marketing department, for example, said their job was to get the product specs from engineering and write data sheets.

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Give Your Advertising ROI a Serious Boost by Maintaining Scent (11 examples)

ConversionXL

5 is overkill, 3 could work – but since the product is complicated (and probably not cheap), collecting emails would be a better idea than asking to read more. The only thing that matches here is that it’s the same type of product on the photo, but it’s not the same photo (should be). A metrics company!

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SuperMac War Story 6: Building The Killer Team – Mission, Intent.

Steve Blank

The other departments in marketing gave the same answers; the product-marketing department said their job was to write data sheets. To do that we will create end-user demand and drive it into the sales channel, educate the channel and customers about why our products are superior, and help Engineering understand customer needs and desires.

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Top 7 Mistakes That Kill Your Ads Conversion in 2017

Duct Tape Marketing

Yet, one assured method exists to generate lots of buzz about your business and advertising. This is the case when advertising defeats its own object, despite allowing you to learn from mistakes, draw out a lesson, and get feet under your table. Link product to a high-involvement issue. You focus on a product.

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See-Think-Do: A Content, Marketing, Measurement Business Framework

Occam's Razor

My solution to these problems was to create a simple framework we can use to put our customers first, evaluate our marketing programs, and right-align our view of success (metrics). Truly reflect on whether our marketing and advertising initiatives are broad enough and optimized enough for each customer consideration stage, and finally.

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LinkedIn's Series B Pitch to Greylock: Pitch Advice for Entrepreneurs

reidhoffman.org

But with so many investors still licking their wounds from the dot-com bust, many focused on proven business models, such as advertising or e-commerce. Normally, you’d expect us to explain our product — i.e., what “professional people search 2.0” The blue boxes identify the corresponding markets for those products.

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Empathic Design: Mapping Your Brain, Brand, and Data

ConversionXL

According to Wikipedia , empathic design is “a user-centered design approach that pays attention to the user’s feelings toward a product.”. In practice, however, empathic design seeks to identify latent customer needs in order to create products or messaging that customers didn’t even know they wanted.

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