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Cannabis Marketing Without Paid Ads: How to Do it Right

Up and Running

But you’re still walking a tightrope with pay-per-click on search engines and paid social media advertising. unpaid) channels can be a goldmine for cannabusinesses today— if you know how to do it correctly. Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Instead, leveraging organic (i.e.

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SuperMac War Story 6: Building The Killer Team – Mission, Intent.

Steve Blank

Five Easy Pieces – The Marketing Mission After a few months of talking to customers , talking to our channel and working with sales we defined the marketing Mission (our job) was to: Help Sales deliver $25 million in sales with a 45% gross margin. Two paragraphs, Five bullets. It didn’t take more.

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Stories of Opportunity from the First Round Capital Key Hire Wire – VP of Sales, CTO, VP of Engineering

This is going to be BIG.

I tried to make it a little more entertaining than your average job RSS feed. VP of Engineering, AppNexus - New York, NY "It's over a billion ad impressions a day, we got a full tank of venture capital, half a pack of cigarettes, the future of ad networks is dark, and we're wearing sunglasses.

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The Customer Development Manifesto: Reasons for the Revolution.

Steve Blank

Yet startup companies have traditionally used this model to manage and pace not only engineering but also non-engineering activities. The flaw in this thinking is that “first customer ship&# is simply the date when engineering thinks they “finished” the 1.0 release of the product. before you ship.

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SuperMac War Story 10: The Video Spigot « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

A month or two before the QuickTime public announcement in May, the SuperMac hardware engineers (who had a great relationship with the QuickTime team at Apple) started a “ skunk works ” project. So SuperMac engineering also developed video compression software, called Cinepak. The software was idiot proof.

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SuperMac War Story 5: Strategy versus Relentless Tactical.

Steve Blank

Since no benchmarks existed, we enlisted our engineering department in a serious software development effort and wrote our own. We listed the editors, writers, what they had previously had written, deadlines, what the competitive products were, how our benchmarks stacked up, what “upgrades” our boards needed from engineering to win, etc.

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Finding The High Converting PPC Keywords That Are Right Under Your Nose

ConversionXL

Learn the release schedules for new products, new content, new campaigns within other channels. Advanced Targeting Tactic: Set up alerts for all three major search engines (Google, Bing, Yahoo) and use the intel from here to: Stay informed of breaking news that could impact your day to day operations.

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