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The Rise of AI in Advertising

Duct Tape Marketing

Duct Tape Transcript Email Download New Tab John Jantsch (00:00): This episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast was brought to you by the MarTech Podcast, hosted by my friend Ben Shapiro, is brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network, the audio destination for business professionals with episodes you can listen to in under 30 minutes.

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How To Launch Your Book Online Through Your Author Platform

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

The effort has paid off as in December 2010, The Creative Penn was voted as one of the Top 10 Blogs for Writers and is also in the Top 5 writers’ blogs in Australia. I offered review copies to people if they liked the genre and asked for Amazon reviews which are critical for good sales. The tech world is finally catching up!

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Andrew Chen: Growing renewable audiences

Startup Lessons Learned

In an enterprise sales context, this is called a "repeatable and scalable sales process" - once you know how to do this, your company can graduate from early adopters and make an attempt at the mainstream. Problem is, you inevitably become yesterday’s old news. Startup Lessons Learned - the Conference (April 23.

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How to get beta signups for your startup in 9 steps

thenextweb.com

TNWs Daily Dose - 24 hours of tech news in 5 minutes [Audio]. Apples first weekend iPhone 4S sales surpass 4 million. Shareables. Social Media. Latin America. Middle East. United States. Previous story. Next story. -->. How to get beta signups for your startup in 9 steps. 16th September 2011 by Harrison Weber.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

For a startup, having great sales DNA is a wonderful asset. This is the magic of sales: by learning about each customer in-depth, they can convince each of them that this product would solve serious problems. But here’s where a truly great sales artist comes in. They are closing orders.

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Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot

Startup Lessons Learned

To acquire new money managers, the company makes traditional sales calls, which means they’ve interviewed many, many professionals and gotten a strong sense of their needs. .&# says Rachleff. At the same time, whenever a customer closes an account, kaChing contacts the person to find out why; most agree to a short phone interview. .&#

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Lessons Learned: What is customer development?

Startup Lessons Learned

The book lays out a disciplined approach to make sure this period doesnt last forever, and clear criteria for when you know its time to move to an execution footing: when you have a repeatable and scalable sales process, as evidenced by early customers paying you money for your early product. If I get sales I will expand on the site.