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8 Priorities When Offering A New Product Or Service

Startup Professionals Musings

Every one of you business owners I know periodically introduces new products and services to sustain growth, fight off competitors, or take advantage of new technologies. The cost of any new product these days must include education and rollout marketing, perhaps equal or greater than the development costs.

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Boosting Your Brand: How to Effectively Use Promotional Products

The Startup Magazine

Promotional products have long served as a tangible and influential link between businesses and their targeted audience. The Power of Promotional Products The first and foremost advantage of using promotional products is that it gives your brand exposure. These items serve a dual purpose.

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Why You Should Be Doing Product Discovery

YoungUpstarts

So you’ve just had a lightbulb moment and stumbled across the perfect business idea, one that is going to revolutionise the world and disrupt the market. Before rushing to build your concept to push out to consumers, it’s important to first undertake product discovery. Why is product discovery important? It’s genius!

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Brand Marketing vs. Product Marketing: What’s the Difference and Which Should You Invest In?

ConversionXL

In 2018, after two short years and $3 million raised in startup funds, recruitment AI company Ansaro shut down due to bad market fit. Muun found a market need but failed to compete with bigger names that provided customers with authoritative content and resources. Both companies suffered from a fatal lack of marketing.

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17 Things We’ve Learned from Top Product Marketers

ConversionXL

Product marketing is today’s most critical marketing function. The best way to think about it: product marketing is strategy. Product marketers work to understand the market and what motivates customers. They choose the market segments to target. Start with product features.

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A Guide to Reputation Management: Build an Audience of Superfans

ConversionXL

Achieving this growth starts with identifying and connecting with your audience of superfans. Find your audience of superfans. This network isn’t mutually exclusive with building an audience of customers. Rather, you’re building an audience of people who don’t just buy what you do, but why you do it, to paraphrase Simon Sinek.

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5 Tips for Optimising Your Affiliate Marketing Strategy

The Startup Magazine

In a nutshell, affiliate marketing is a form of performance-based marketing. This is where a company will reward one or several affiliates for every customer or visitor brought by the affiliate’s own marketing efforts. The main purpose of an affiliate marketing strategy is to influence others to buy from you.

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