Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The rising importance of predictive AI-driven analytics became clear, hinting at a future where forecasts will shape decisions. He's a former VP of sales at HubSpot, and currently specializes in helping companies grow by implementing sales and marketing excellence. This is John Jantsch, and my guest today is Peter Caputa.

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

Last weekend I caught Mashable announcing that Ebook Sales Surpass Hardcover in the U.S. One of my earliest excursions into market research was working for a research firm doing a 1979 forecast on ATMs. And if you’re a startup CFO, finance lead, bean counter, or presentation slide deck preparer, then you should read this book.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

In the tactics section, list your sales channels and describe how you will be selling your products. While it’s useful to be able to have a sales forecast and expense budget early on, it’s not something you need until you’ve validated your idea. Circle back and create a more detailed forecast. The business model.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2017

The combination of services and infrastructure traditionally housed under one roof – underwriting, research, sales & trading, supported by large back office operations, and monitored by compliance systems – will remain at the sector’s core. At least for investment banks the answer is not so clear cut. Underwriting.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 15, 2018

Once you’ve decided that you’re ready to start a small web design firm, you’ll need to develop a host of skills to help you run a successful business, including time management, sales and promotional strategies, and client acquisition. You should develop a sales process that covers the following: Finding new prospects. The bottom line.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 29, 2024

Will you opt for direct sales, subscriptions, or a freemium model? Develop a marketing strategy that leverages both digital and traditional channels. This involves careful budgeting, financial forecasting, and cash flow management. Revenue streams are another critical component of your business model.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

In other words, the future of financing is continuous funding, not discrete. Listening to first-time entrepreneurs talk about their competitive advantages is as predictably invalid as the local weatherman's 10-day forecast. Here’s an example in a direct sales channel. We have the most features. Silly, right?

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Up and Running

MARCH 26, 2015

Budget sales and spending. It’s a short, effective collection of bullet points, lists, and forecasts, covering all of the functions above: It starts with bullet points for strategy. Think about pricing, channels, social media, launch dates, products, services, features, and so forth. Manage cash flow. What’s a strategic plan?

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Up and Running

APRIL 20, 2016

Tactics are the key elements of a marketing plan, product plan, and finance plan. Pricing, products, promotion, messaging, channels, social media, support, lead generation—it’s all tactics. Make sure your messaging, channels, and promotions match. Metrics are sales and spending, of course. See Also: How to Forecast Sales.

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Up and Running

JULY 31, 2015

This week Peter and Jonathan talk to Tim Berry, founder of Palo Alto Software, about lean business planning, strategy, tactics, specifics (milestones), and the forecast. Strategy, Tactics, Specifics, and the Forecast – (11:45). “Here’s our forecast.” Tweet at us: @Bplans (include the hashtag #BCast).

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 15, 2019

Weather forecasts, revenue forecasts, fashion forecasts, and whatnot. Industry’s cost structure – In simple words, this factor allows you to estimate the cost of making a sale. In all of human history, people have worked ardently to predict the future. And, in all honesty, it has worked quite well. .

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David Teten

JUNE 6, 2011

Very enthusiastic about the potential for the NY tech ecosystem, leveraging our strength in finance. “Everyone is bringing them in nowadays” BROWN: Mobile is a delivery channel for capability. The trick is delivering business insights over this channel: use social networks to support relationship management.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Does that muddy up the forecasting, the models, or the accounting? [12:31] Look, if you work in sales, wanna learn how to sell or just peek at the latest sales news. Check out the sales podcast where host will Barron helps sales professionals learn how to find buyers and in big business in effective and ethical ways.

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OnlyOnce

JULY 9, 2013

Chapter 2: Defining and Testing the Story…Start Out By Admitting You’re Wrong, A Lean Business Plan Template, Problem, Solution, Key Metrics, Unique Value Proposition and Unfair Advantages, Channels, Customer Segments, Cost Structure and Revenue Streams. What About Sales & Marketing?, Part II: Building the Company’s Human Capital.

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K9 Ventures

JULY 21, 2016

Forecasting production quantities, planning for how many parts you will need and when, accounting for the lead times on those parts is all a complicated endeavour. This introduces new risks in terms of forecasting, financing, and logistics. What channels work best for you product? Try tracking that failure mode down!

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Sales representatives are often the ones that receive the billing instructions, but as they focus more on securing new leads, they tend to neglect the formalities that come after. Make sure your sales and billing are on the same page. See Also: When Does Invoice Financing Make Sense? See Also: How to Forecast Cash Flow.

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Up and Running

JULY 2, 2018

Communication channels themselves can foster a toxic culture. However, it’s not a good sign if the majority are bad reviews—this indicates a fundamental problem that needs to be addressed immediately or it will affect your sales. How can you keep on top of the finances from the start of your startup journey?

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Up and Running

JUNE 23, 2016

You’ll find information on sales and housing prices, forecasts, major trends, issues, and much more. BiggerPockets YouTube Channel. This is the industry’s largest trade association aimed at helping anyone engaged in the real estate industry, whether residential or commercial, stay on top of major trends and issues.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2019

Go beyond standard sources of voice of customer data ; better options are: Interview founders (the original “customers”); Thank-you page surveys; Usertesting.com; Mine sales calls; Mine support tickets; Mine Facebook comments ; Mine online reviews. Talk to your finance people: What performance indicators get attention? Tell Don’t Sell.

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www.entrepreneur.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Entrepreneur Homepage Startups Starting a Business Home How-To Guides Startup Basics Business Ideas Business Planning Startup Financing Success Stories Home-Based Business Starting a Business Play Video How to Take a New Product from Just an Idea to a Business (Video). Financing Some Jobs Act Proposals Make Headway. More in Financing.

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Up and Running

MARCH 27, 2017

Seasonal businesses are very common, especially in locales where travel and tourism are important industries, where the weather has an impact on outdoor business operations, and where retail sales slow during the winter months. Nurture forecasting. Seasonality makes forecasting more important than ever. Stay on top of changes.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 5, 2012

Once your business model (market, customers, features, channels, pricing, Get/Keep/Grow strategy, etc.) It’s at this point the business needs an operating plan, financial forecasts and other well-understood management tools. There are no sales, marketing or business development departments when you are searching for a business model.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2016

forward sales with some as high as 12x sales. Collectively we chose growth and the market was rewarding high growth rates over any other factor so we felt that we ought to bring in an experienced CEO who had taken companies public, who had led large, international sales organizations and who was poised to take Invoca to the next level.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

ROI per Marketing Channel. It’s crucial to keep a handle of ROI per marketing channel in order to optimize marketing spending. Keeping track of gross margin assures you know the value of each additional sale. This includes a general understanding of the finances. It’s not enough to check this every quarter.

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The Next Web

MAY 26, 2013

Understand your sales funnel. Having a robust understanding of your sales funnel will be tremendously helpful to include in your pitch and presentation to investors. Ideally, you can provide this cost per marketing channel. Let the investor see the assumptions you’ve built into your financial forecast.

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OnlyOnce

JUNE 9, 2022

Larger companies usually fall into the rhythm of doing quarterly all-hands meetings sometime after the end of the quarter, usually around a Board meeting, with a quarterly recap and forecast for next quarter. But for early stage companies, there’s no tried-and-true method. We struggled with that for a while at Bolster.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 8, 2010

Israel’s central bank, Morgan Stanley and other financial institutions have forecasted 3.5% Ratiopharm, a privately-owned subsidiary of German holding company VEM, was founded in 1973 and has annual sales of about $8.6 Teva, Israel’s largest company, has a market value of about $56 billion.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2010

If you’ve read any of my previous posts, you know I believe that: 1) a product is just a part of a startup, but understanding customers, channel, pricing, etc. How does it differ on the web versus other channels? General Marketing, Sales Funnel, etc. If non-web, build demand creation budget and forecast.

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Up and Running

APRIL 23, 2018

If no one buys a run of thirty skirts, for example, you’ve lost significantly less than if you finance a run of 20,000 without verifying that people will buy or that retailers will be interested. People trust platforms like this, and so these sales ultimately build your brand organically. How to market it right.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

The company has just missed its quarterly revenue forecast. So we know from this that the problem is not the quality of those sales people. They also know precisely how much additional traffic will need to be generated to reach the growth targets, and how many sales people are needed at a given productivity level, etc.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

The consequent increase in complexity of market, channel, supply networks and distributed facilities has rendered related planning more intricate and complex.”. Each time you borrow money in the form of loans or business credit lines, you are financing inventory and must cover that cost until your customer pays for their orders.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

Advertisers are brought to the site and driven mainly through self-service channels, so there is no need for a large sales force or account management team. The chart below shows their financial performance over the last few years, with forecasted 2012 revenue of $767M and EBITDA of $339M. and EBITDA margins are 47%.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

The converse of calculating exactly how you will make the first sale, and then the first 10,000, and ultimately work your way up to 1.6 You’ll want to get cozy with the numbers all over again based on some history and make decisions on operating spend and on financing strategies. million customers. million is a far more complex task.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

Carl was also worldwide head of stores at Home Depot when Hurricane Katrina hit, running sales out of the backs of trucks and accepting IOUs for payment. We can't make a 5-year plan or a 10-year forecast right now, but we know there are investments we can make today that will set ourselves up for success in the future. Go get them.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 5, 2016

My guess is that the reason for this is that while it’s one of the most important elements, it’s also one of the hardest to set up and analyze for someone that’s typically answering the phones, going on sales calls, fixing broken links and doing the work for which customers pay you. Typical sales dashboard metrics include: Leads.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 7, 2010

According to forecasts from Coda Research Consultancy, U.S. mobile commerce sales hit $1.20 Digby is poised for tremendous growth as retailers look to mobile commerce as a strategic channel that offers consumers a rich, engaging shopping experience – anytime, anywhere,” said Dave Sikora, President and CEO of Digby.

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