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Four Tools Every Business Leader Needs To Raise Their Personal Profile

YoungUpstarts

A recent survey of business decision makers reveals almost two-thirds are focussing on branding and PR in the post-lockdown recovery. Branding and PR allows us to take control of the narrative instead of leaving the door open for other people to make assumptions. Active social media profiles. Media training to boost credibility.

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Are You Putting Your Rock Star Customers To Work?

YoungUpstarts

Intel realized this when its initial forays into web-based and social media marketing were going nowhere. While its B2B social media team was attracting large audiences in its market, it failed to engage them because it lacked credible, regularly refreshed content. Wrong message, wrong audience.

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors. I previously posted a detailed presentation with sales technology tools useful for B2B sales. Relationship Science makes it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. 1) Market fund.

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The Trouble With Non-tech Cofounders | TechCrunch

techcrunch.com

Yes, you have good working knowledge of accounting, an idea of how to bring in sales leads, run a marketing and PR campaign, recruit people and build a great company culture, but that won’t help you build a product that customers want. If you still don’t know what product/market fit is, and why it matters, please read up on it.

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Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouhi

SoCal CTO

We do a lot of B2B and also have an "Early Stage Branding" practice for technology startups. Oh, and I forget to mention in my introduction about B2B. I need to get you into both the Southern California Tech Central and the B2B Marketing Zone. More general resources are: Tracy Williams at Olmstead Williams for PR.

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Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition | For Entrepreneurs

www.forentrepreneurs.com

Far more common is a need to acquire customers through a series of steps like SEO, SEM, PR, Social Marketing, direct sales, channel sales, etc. Some of the early B2B pioneers in this space were companies like JBoss ( story here ), SolarWinds, ConstantContact, HubSpot, etc. that will cost the company significant amounts of money.

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The 50 Best Marketing Strategies For Small Business

Mike Michalowicz

Create an interactive, regularly updated site or blog , or by build informative yet informal profiles on social networking sites like Facebook or Twitter. A great offer goes a long way quickly…especially through our favorite social networking sites! PR Marketing Strategies. Are you a thought leader? .: