Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 18, 2024

Gain Freedom With The Hands Off CEO Blueprint written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I interviewed Mandi Ellefson. 01:03): Hello and welcome to another episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 17, 2013

I grew the business that I currently lead as CEO from a start-up to more than 60 million dollars in revenue in less than six years. My simple process has worked to spur growth and revenue for every business I have headed. Identify a Large Total Addressable Market. By Wain Kellum, CEO of Vocalocity.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

There are other channels, of course, but these numbers give us a hint that, well, marketing isn’t getting any cheaper. To put your SaaS in the best position to win, you need to pick a go-to-market strategy that will place your SaaS on high ground. Put Your SaaS Go-to-Market Strategy on High Ground. The sales-led GtM strategy.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

For the uninitiated, Zoho introduced a CRM system that was one-tenth the price of Salesforce.com and penetrated the lower end of the market using an Indian cost structure. The company already has paying customers and a validated business model. You can read more about Freshdesk on the 1M/1M Incubation Radar today.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 15, 2016

But to do it, you need to actually have a sustainable business model. Starting a business is too risky. We assumed we had product-market fit and all we had to do was keep selling. The problem was had the wrong business model at the time. Our revenue model was wrong. It’s too hard.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Here’s a short summary of the discussion: Guy, you launched Snyk in 2015, and a large part of your success was driven by your freemium model. With COVID, we’re getting into a world with tighter budgets and likely longer sales cycles. It took us longer to get into revenue, but the freemium was a real accelerator for us.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 14, 2021

Every marketer knows these are important questions, but finding the answers can be a challenge. In this guide, you’ll learn how to differentiate your business and attract your ideal customers by creating a unique selling proposition. million in monthly recurring revenue (at time of writing). Why should customers buy from you?

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 15, 2016

But to do it, you need to actually have a sustainable business model. Starting a business is too risky. We assumed we had product-market fit and all we had to do was keep selling. The problem was had the wrong business model at the time. Our revenue model was wrong. It’s too hard.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 9, 2012

They are launching their next book, a true field guide for entrepreneurs, called The Lean Entrepreneur: How to Create Products, Innovate with New Ventures, and Disrupt Markets. Market segments drive your business model. The market segment you pursue is inextricably linked to the other aspects of your business model.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

The important lesson in order to gain market share was that in order for new users to try Microsoft Excel, they had to be able to work with the files their coworkers were creating. It helps with sales cycles because customers know that they can switch away if they so choose. Marketing materials. Pricing information.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

First up was Brad Barrett presenting GrillGrate , a grill accessory with which Brad has built a year-to-date revenue of $400,000. Now, the Web self-service software market is very crowded with major players like RightNow already deeply entrenched. an e-commerce storefront building software for the Indian market. GrillGrate.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Blog About Log in Register Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition In the many thousands of articles advising entrepreneurs on what they have to focus on to build successful startups, much has been written about three key factors: team, product and market, with particular focus on the importance of product/market fit.

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Hippoland

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

I’ll give you an example with my own startup LaunchBit and how our understanding of the problem and the customer became more refined over time: V1: Helping online marketers get customers profitably. V2: Helping online marketers who have previously bought ads in email lists get customers profitably. But the execution is hard.

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Hippoland

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

I’ll give you an example with my own startup LaunchBit and how our understanding of the problem and the customer became more refined over time: V1: Helping online marketers get customers profitably. V2: Helping online marketers who have previously bought ads in email lists get customers profitably. But the execution is hard.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Validated learning about customers Would you rather have $30,000 or $1 million in revenues for your startup? All things being equal, of course, you’d rather have more revenue rather than less. And yet revenue alone is not a sufficient goal. More on that in a moment.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

You can check out part one of this series here: Part 1: Which Is The Best Business Model For Your Startup – B2B Or B2C? B2B” – means that you are selling a product or service to other businesses. staffing in conjunction with sales recruitment. What Is “B2B&# ? Most products tend to be commodities.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 12, 2017

Let’s talk first about an angel round to individual investors, all of whom may be duly accredited but many of whom may have no background that enables them to understand fully your idea and your business model. Is third-year revenue of $10M good or bad? You got some feedback from the market or investors that was favorable.

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NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

This means that even though founders invest many years of their life studying markets and building their companies, and even though experienced investors pour billions of dollars into startups every year, 90% of the bets are wrong. It isn’t good enough to just say ‘what does halving my revenue do to the business?’

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Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

Diving in a bit more into some thoughts here: 1b) Ad-based revenue streams generally have terrible unit economics. A typical ad-based revenue stream on a media website is around $5 per 1000 eyeballs ($5m CPM and give or take $1-$20ish CPMs). Marketing first. Sales cycles matter though. Product second.

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Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

Diving in a bit more into some thoughts here: 1b) Ad-based revenue streams generally have terrible unit economics. A typical ad-based revenue stream on a media website is around $5 per 1000 eyeballs ($5m CPM and give or take $1-$20ish CPMs). Marketing first. Sales cycles matter though. Product second.

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Hippoland

AUGUST 16, 2018

But outcome-differentiation is probably lacking – people who use Mailchimp use it to increase revenue by selling more products / services via their emails. 3) Your business model seems flawed OR is not the right fit I talked a lot about unit economics and sales cycles in my last post.

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BeyondVC

DECEMBER 7, 2005

As you know, I am enamored by frictionless sales. Frictionless sales means reducing the pain for customers to adopt and use a service/product and consequently reducing the cost of sales and marketing to get a customer and generate revenue. Free software grows revenue opportunities.

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Hippoland

AUGUST 16, 2018

But outcome-differentiation is probably lacking – people who use Mailchimp use it to increase revenue by selling more products / services via their emails. 3) Your business model seems flawed OR is not the right fit I talked a lot about unit economics and sales cycles in my last post.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Slow sales cycles. Business Insider wrote about our investment in the company yesterday. Lily Liu can sell--and she's selling into a huge market. I'd bet that anyone who looked at this company's early sales traction would have asked her, "Wait. Ugh, right? Except that its working. how many salespeople do you have?

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 4, 2011

Manoj has deep domain knowledge in the CCS market segment and has designed a solution that addresses the missing real-time data dashboard functionality of the industry. Manoj is experiencing a long sales cycle of close to 12 months, but he has already created a sustainable company that has revenues and profits.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Only after reaching $1M in CMRR should you consider hiring European sales and services execs behind customer demand. . Be prepared to cross the desert - SaaS requires R&D and sales expense up front for a multi-year stream of revenue, so it demands enough investment capital to fund 4+ years of runway. at 11:09 AM.

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

There is an inherent conflict in a consultant’s business model and the needs of a startup. For instance, if a consultant proposes to help you with public relations, pay them a commission equivalent to the greater of a flat fee per story placed or a percentage of revenue generated from the PR coverage. Pyramid Power.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

The company has just missed its quarterly revenue forecast. As they ask management what happened, a common answer will be that the market was really tough, and deals just didn’t close the way that they hoped. Lets take an example, and look at how they might do this: They will be able to tell you that revenue is composed of deals.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 7, 2010

The new strategy gained Pudding some momentum in South East Asia and the company managed to secure agreements with mobile carriers in Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and others, however, they did not translate into revenue. So what went wrong? According to Ariel, Pudding Media’s CEO, the company was ahead of its time.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 16, 2012

How to Build a Business That Cannot Fail This content from: Duct Tape Marketing. There are many reasons why businesses don’t make it, but undoubtedly, the primary culprit is a lack of profitable clients. Get customer discovery and sales right and you can’t fail. Jagz Mario via Flickr.

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BeyondVC

AUGUST 26, 2008

I have written a number of times about frictionless sales and how on-demand companies have a huge opportunity to reduce their sales and marketing costs and subsequently scale their business more efficiently. " The lowest friction sale can be a user clicking on a web page and the content owner getting paid for it.

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Tim Keane

APRIL 14, 2008

Now, as their revenue grows substantially, its time to make the shift toward a more quantitative management environment. As one example, think about forecasting sales based on market potential and competition, rather than simply on historical results by salesperson. Posted at 03:18 AM in Managing Company Growth | Permalink.

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