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[Review] The Social Customer

YoungUpstarts

To make one’s social CRM strategy come alive, the book proposes the following key ideas: 1) Adopt a strategy canvas approach (ala Blue Ocean Strategy ) to differentiate your business from the “red oceans” of competitors. e) Social Commerce (sales, reach and group marketing efforts, often by affiliates).

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[Review] The Social Customer

YoungUpstarts

Adopt a strategy canvas approach (ala Blue Ocean Strategy ) to differentiate your business from the “red oceans” of competitors. 2 Differentiate Social CRM from its components. 2 Differentiate Social CRM from its components. 3 Measure Social CRM holistically. 4 Craft detailed workflows and pathways.

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How to Build a Product Launch Strategy

ConversionXL

Develop a sales messaging guide to create consistency around how your team describes the product, showcases its benefits, and differentiates it from competitors. Points of differentiation. Done right, your PR campaign should incentivize media outlets to pick it up. Measurable value. The key to success is consistency.

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The Ultimate Guide to Starting a Software Company

Up and Running

Step 3: Brand and differentiate yourself. Whether you’re looking to stand out in an already-crowded marketplace, or to simply be a memorable company, figuring out how to brand and differentiate yourself is key. However, we have been able to differentiate [ourselves] and also excel by making enterprise software fun and enjoyable.

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Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

In this model, you take some fraction of the lifetime value of each customer and plow that back into paid acquisition through SEM, banner ads, PR, affiliates, etc. Paid - if your product monetizes customers better than your competitors, you have the opportunity to use your lifetime value advantage to drive growth.

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41 Entrepreneurs Share Their Favorite Business Quotes

Hearpreneur

” I say this to myself for my business, a freelance pr and media company called Blitz Public Relations, and I shared with my colleague here at Menorah Park where I work part-time as well as a pr media specialist. Thanks to MJ Pedone, Indra PR ! #25 . “People don’t want to be sold, they want to be helped.”

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Brand Measurement: Analytics & Metrics for Branding Campaigns

Occam's Razor

Paid Search or affiliates or email or display or YouTube or whatever channel you end up choosing. [ Very often when you run branding campaigns your goal is simply to introduce your business (like we are trying to do with Market Motive , our start up that provides certification courses in Web Analytics, SEO, PPC, PR etc etc).

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