Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

With the content audit, you can understand which buyer personas and buying stages are poorly resourced, find and share content internally, access historical performance data, and identify what content should be archived or removed entirely. For example, tagging content to buyer personas allows you to see what personas you’re ignoring.

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Altgate

MAY 14, 2009

Rarely did you get it right the first time so you would have to repeat the cycle until you had a complete solution the market wanted. You would have to spend millions of dollars hiring software developers, renting real estate, buying hardware, etc. Bookmark the permalink.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

List the common sales objections that come up in the sales cycle, and provide answers to these on the web site. Tagged with Business Model , CAC , Inbound Marketing , Low Cost Sales Model , LTV , Sales 2.0. looking forward to reading the archives Evgeniy Mironov I would also consider another variable, CMC - cost to maintain a customer.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 13, 2022

How to improve A/B test results How to prioritize A/B test hypotheses How long to run A/B tests How to set up A/B tests How to analyze A/B test results How to archive past A/B tests A/B testing statistics How to do A/B testing: tools and resources. eMetrics London – The AB Testing Hype Cycle from Craig Sullivan. Instrument.

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cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

link] Closer To The Ideal » Blog Archive » If you have an idea for a startup, talk about the idea with everyone. [.] If you’re innovating discontinuously, those parties with whom you have early discussions are also likely to make up the ‘innovator’ class of the adoption life cycle. link] Voottoo Chief.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Since the Customer Development model assumes that most startups cycle through these first two steps at least twice, it allows a well-managed company to carefully estimate and frugally husband its cash. Customer Development Manifesto: The Path of Warriors and Winners (part 5) « Steve Blank (tags: business entrepreneurship startups) [.]

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Altgate

JANUARY 2, 2009

It’s times like these that test what you believe in, and I believe in the Business Cycle, Human Creativity, and the stimulative effect of massive Government spending. It sucks right now and will for a while but at the end of the day this is just another (perhaps deeper and longer) dip in the cycle of business. Bookmark the permalink.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development | Tagged: Customer Development , Early Stage Startup , Entrepreneurs , Tips for Startups « The End of Innocence The Customer Development Manifesto: Reasons for the Revolution (part 1) » 21 Responses Kulveer Taggar , on August 27, 2009 at 11:18 am Said: Great post.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Raising Money Using Customer Development « Steve Blank (tags: presentations presuation vc startup strategy customer-development) [.] Raising Money Using Customer Development « Steve Blank (tags: startups entrepreneurship) [.] Reply links for 2009-11-05 « Blarney Fellow , on November 5, 2009 at 4:16 pm Said: [.]

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Altgate

AUGUST 16, 2010

Wouldn’t it be great if there was research that used real data on the expected sales cycle, deal size and other parameters in various industries? What’s more, there are really passionate, successful enterpreneurs who could break the cycle mentioned about on how to fund/staff a sales department at a university.

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Altgate

DECEMBER 22, 2008

Interestingly, the data was not correlated with innovation and technology cycles either However, the implied assumption is that the ‘model’ is linear and we’re in such uncharted water that I’m not sure that’s true. Bookmark the permalink.

Europe 28

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

Startups have forced an accelerated cycle of creative destruction for large companies that didn’t exist in the first half of the 20th century. AKPC_IDS += "376,"; (No Ratings Yet) Loading … Posted in Leadership | Tagged Amp, [.] on June 24, 2009 at 4:31 pm Said: [.] carry on reading.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2009

Filed under: Air Force , Secret History of Silicon Valley | Tagged: Steve Blank « Watch This Space SuperMac War Story 4: Repositioning SuperMac – “Market Type&# at Work » 14 Responses Michael F. Evolution changes one thing per cycle or experiment and Chaos changes too many relationships in one cycle.

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Altgate

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

  Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Startups and tagged business cycle , economic cycle , economy , startup. .  Then take a hard look at your current business (or business plan) and ask yourself if it is a lawn mower or a snowblower. Bookmark the permalink.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

JUNE 25, 2010

How can I shorten the sales cycle for my enterprise product?” “I We didnt take them, they are a random sampling of the most popular photos on Flickr with the tag nature. I am wondering if it would actually be valuable to have people from different industries, different age, different professions to offer some fresh point of view.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

MARCH 27, 2011

And more importantly, I want them to buy existing services as opposed to requesting a job (which has a longer time-to-completion cycle). We didnt take them, they are a random sampling of the most popular photos on Flickr with the tag nature. Nowadays, I want clients to interact with TaskArmy more than before.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

JANUARY 20, 2011

And more importantly, I want them to buy existing services as opposed to requesting a job (which has a longer time-to-completion cycle). We didnt take them, they are a random sampling of the most popular photos on Flickr with the tag nature. Nowadays, I want clients to interact with TaskArmy more than before.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 2, 2015

How to Archive Past Tests? eMetrics London – The AB Testing Hype Cycle from Craig Sullivan. This can involve fixing, adding or improving tag or event handling on the analytics configuration.). Instead, you’ll want to predetermine a sample size and run the test for full weeks, usually for at least two business cycles.

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Altgate

DECEMBER 31, 2008

In terms of when, 2009 is the right year because it will be at or near the bottom of this economic cycle. Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Startups and tagged 2009 prediction , 37signals , microsoft , startup. The price will never be cheaper. And Microsoft is still sitting on a cash hoard. So why $300 million? … [.]

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

This taught me that we needed to having benchmarking tools incorporated into the development cycle from the beginning due to the nature of our product. this link: 25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time | ChubbyBrain Blog Tags: community-often, failure-post-mortems, list, notes-before, our-list, stories, things-don [.].

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www.seriesseed.com

MARCH 2, 2010

SeriesSeed.com Series Seed Financing Documents Blog Home Documents Blog Archives Subscribe 09/02/2010 Version 2.0   That said, I think this quote accurately captures the life-cycle of creating a simple set of documents for early stage investment. Tags: startupcto. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.”

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ConversionXL

MAY 24, 2013

It is a cycle of Measurement , Prioritization, and Testing. Each of these stages of the cycle have a goal and a purpose, leading to the next stage. Instead of using a noindex meta tag on your variaton page, use rel=canonical. Guess which variation has been more successful and see an archive of A/B tests. Which Test Won.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

MAY 16, 2010

I am really excited to enter a new cycle of productivity. We didnt take them, they are a random sampling of the most popular photos on Flickr with the tag nature. Type some stuff in the box, click save, and your new about section shows up in the footer. Wondering about those Flickr photos on the right?

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

MAY 16, 2010

I am really excited to enter a new cycle of productivity. We didnt take them, they are a random sampling of the most popular photos on Flickr with the tag nature. Type some stuff in the box, click save, and your new about section shows up in the footer. Wondering about those Flickr photos on the right?

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Tags: startup programming language startupcto. Ease of integration & adaptability (SoA, other components & processes) There are five or so fairly common languages that startup companies might use to address their needs. © 1996 - 2010 Reincubate Limited. XML sitemap. VAT registered #867 0159 09.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 24, 2009

The solution for app developers caught in this vicious cycle is to develop competency in positioning. Most people are going to hear about the site for the very first time via an organic notification, when a friend signs up for the site (or tags them in a photo, etc). For example, consider a site like Facebook in its early days.

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www.rocketwatcher.com

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

For long sales cycles, it is important to measure this to estimate marketing ROI for tactics in the short term. Subscribe in a reader Popular Latest Comments Tags 7 Rules for Perfect Press Releases Influencers Suck Selling vs. Buying: A Marketing Wake-up Call Twitter: Is Marketing Doing it Wrong? All Rights Reserved. Designed by.

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sharkseo.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

[link] Home Archives Search Game Who Is Shark SEO? There’s little excuse for a product that doesn’t have an embeddable content strategy at some point in the development cycle. Tags: startupcto. Does your product produce data, charting, pricing, jobs, salary data, images, videos etc? What would their reward be?

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Information architecture and non-reiterating code make for a great website, not module-like programming cycles resulting in incoherent, get-what-you-pay-for code. Their names are around but I would have to raid the garage archives. Tags: startupcto. Im very new to this and would appreciate any help very much. Your thoughts?

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