Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 25, 2019

7 Reasons Why Proposal Software Will Boost Your Sales written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. If you’ve been writing a lot of them, you may have thought about investing in proposal software to make the process easier. For sales purposes, writing can be extremely daunting.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2023

Redefining Success In Sales With The Unsold Mindset written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with Garrett Brown and Colin Coggings In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Garrett Brown and Colin Coggins. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! Like this show?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 9, 2010

By definition, if you're a startup founder you're explicitly not your customer. founder Blogger & Twitter. "If Repeat after me: You are not your customer." — Eric Ries , Lean Startup leader (repeating a conversation with a startup founder). You and I know you have the ability to build cool new software.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

by Donald Chan, founder and Business Director at IMPACT! Here, we’ll show you 6 tips on how to turn your website into a booming source of leads, enquiries and red hot sales. Keep in mind that the purpose of your website is online user conversion. Let’s say your company is in the B2B Software as a Service (SaaS) space.

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Eric Friedman

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

To help teams answer this question I have collaborated with Steve Schlafman to create a product – an exercise, to be completed by those founders building a company. Today we are launching a way for co-founders and founding teams to understand themselves and each other better. He knew me as an operations, sales, and BD guy.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 19, 2010

No wait, I forgot, actually the question is: What happens when employee #2 makes off with your code and roadmap and marketing data and customer list, moves to Bolivia, and starts selling your stuff world-wide at one-tenth the price? But now she has the vision and ability to design her own software, capitalizing on modern trends (e.g.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. 3) Raise capital.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 16, 2020

When is the next payroll due? Purchase of fixed assets like machines, vehicles, real estate, or capitalized software. What are my top 5 expenses as a percentage of sales? Good targets include: Underperforming sales agents. This is done to eliminate administrative complexity, focus sales strategy, and reduce inventory.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JUNE 20, 2011

I recently helped a friend broker the sale of his small, bootstrapped company. This is a smart guy with experience and a logical approach to such things, but the way he was initially trying to value his company was not only wrong, but the wrong way to think about the entire sale. To stoke an existing sales channel.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Saurya Velagapudi is a senior software engineer at Google, based in their Cambridge, Mass., I recently chatted with Saurya about how he approaches hiring engineers at Google and what founders can learn. We also talked about how he’d want to be interviewed if approached by a non-technical startup founder. (I’ve

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David Teten

JANUARY 23, 2021

Yohei Nakajima, Founder of Untapped.vc , said, “Before pitching LPs and building my firm, I talked with over 50 people I knew to get feedback.” . Set up a Data Room, with a filled-out Due Diligence Questionnaire (“DDQ”). Treat this as a formal sales process, and aggressively maintain your CRM. . Lastly, gather feedback.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Since the term “cloud computing” was coined in 1996—at least as we have come to understand its meaning—the software as a service industry has exploded. If you use software like LivePlan, you can create this initial “lean plan” in under an hour and then spend your time where it really matters—on validating your idea. The business model.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Ask a technical founder about his startup, and he'll proudly describe his stunning software — simple, compelling, useful, fun. Great," I always exclaim, sharing the thrill of modern software development, "so how will people find out about this brilliant website?". We're going to get reviews on blogs.".

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

He came to work in our offices at Upfront Ventures as an EIR and immediately began building software to improve how storage was picked up, photographed, scanned and routed to a warehouse. At MakeSpace we had to build complex models to tell us how our pricing and conversion compared down to the neighborhood level.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

I feel like “conversion rate optimization” is in 2013 what “social media marketing” was in 2009. Not because they have a conversion problem but because they never really nail the product or how to market it. This is not a conversion problem. Most startups fail. This is a customer development problem.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 13, 2023

The Fastest And Least Expensive Way To Double Your Sales written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with Amanda Holmes In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Amanda Holmes. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! Like this show? Like this show?

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Up and Running

MARCH 20, 2018

Sales—the one word that most employees fear, but the only word that co-founders think about. It’s safe to say that if any startup could master the art of sales, then cash flow and most other problems in business would be minimal. Let’s say you don’t have the proper resources to create your own goal setting software; that’s cool.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

A Startup Journey With GrubHub Founder Mike Evans written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! He's the founder of GrubHub and he founded in his spare bedroom and grew it to a multi billion dollar online food delivery. Marketing Podcast with Mike Evans.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 22, 2021

The rise of no-code and low-code tools means it’s never been easier to set up and build an online business. However, for a first-time founder, the prospect of building a fully-functioning marketplace can feel quite daunting?—?you’re My big tip here for any new marketplace founder is to go niche. London) and category (e.g.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 28, 2021

Whether you’re looking to improve conversions or retention CDP’s can provide a holistic view of both your opportunities and areas for improvement. David Raab Founder at CDP Institute. If your customer service team has insights into why customers are churning, but your sales team is left in the dark, that’s a problem.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 13, 2022

The IT industry is made up of a wide range of sectors, such as software development, hardware manufacturing, and telecommunications. Despite the issues in the translation industry, I'm optimistic about it due to its continual market growth & how it will still be an integral part of any business wishing to expand globally.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 1, 2015

Pioneered by co-founders of HubSpot Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah, inbound marketing is a leading Business-to-Business (B2B) digital marketing strategy. The most iconic element of inbound marketing is the ubiquitous marketing or sales funnel. Do you know what Inbound Marketing is? c) Tracking.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 14, 2021

In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview John Warrillow, Founder of the Value Builder System which is a simple software for improving the value of company. Questions I ask John Warrillow: What does this new book add to the conversation about selling your business? Do people wait too long? Like this show?

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Austin Startup

MAY 19, 2018

As Bryan stated below, there are no shortage of “How to pitch” or “How to behave” articles by VCs but really very little advice for VCs by founders. Anyone notice there's a ton of VCs giving founder advice, and almost no founder advice for VCs? Lines Not Dots Raising money from a fund is a process, most founders get that.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 5, 2017

She was an academic on leave from Stanford now selling SAAS software to large companies, but was being inundated with marketing communications advice. “My For example, our goal could be: Create demand for our products and drive it into our sales channel. Often there are multiple people in a sales process worth influencing.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 11, 2022

Husband and wife co-founders, Todd and Laure Fisher founded CallTrackingMetrics in 2011 in their basement and together have grown it into an Inc. 500-rated, top-ranked conversation analytics software serving over 30,000 businesses around the world. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! Like this show?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2016

= profitable and companies like Amazon who chose to focus on growth > profitability were not losing money on each book sale (ie they were gross margin positive). So it might actually be more productive for you to improve your conversion than to improve your ad buying, for example. This is how much you spend to get a new customer.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 13, 2020

Q1 2020 marks Reset ’s two year anniversary, from when we had our first conversation about how we could help distributed teams find affordable space to meet and work. Your partner matters To all those solo-founders out there?—?kudos kudos to ya’ll. Especially with the state of the funding for female entrepreneurs.

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Up and Running

APRIL 9, 2019

I believe in it because the SWOT phase was vital to my planning process as I grew Palo Alto Software from zero to over $5 million in annual sales. It’s a great tool for bringing your team and your stakeholders in on the conversation. Why add a SWOT analysis into your business plan and the strategic planning process?

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Even when someone is aware of what a CTO does, they often have limited context due to the wide variety of CTO roles. If outward facing, they will attend important sales calls and speak to the technology strategy and vision. They will review and negotiate all related contracts. Security needs to be top of mind for any CTO.

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 14, 2010

And after talking about this subject at length, I found myself again evangelizing it last week at the Business of Software conference. And these days with how easy it is to build an application, your code isn’t worth much, either. Ideas (and in many cases the code itself) are not worth as much as we think.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 20, 2018

This is true of any buying process where a customer has to make a large investment decision on your software or when an investor must decide whether to give you $5 million. I spend a lot of time coaching entrepreneurs through their fund-raising processes by doing “pipeline reviews” of all of the firms with whom they are speaking.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

DocuSign combines both to fuel its sales funnel. It flips the traditional sales funnel on its head, ditching the one-size-fits-all approach to marketing in favor of a land-and-expand approach. This required complete alignment across marketing and sales teams to engage, then close the deal. The result? most commonly popped up.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Keep in mind the difference between marketing and sales: to present the product and encourage sales vs. the selling of the product. With any of your initial founders, to build a strong startup, building strong relationships is foremost. Your initial marketer needs to focus on both aspects.

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Software By Rob

JUNE 23, 2010

I was a judge at last night’s 59 days of code startup competition here in Fresno. The Categories There were two categories: zero-code and in progress. Zero-code meant you had to start with…um, zero code on day 1. June 23rd, 2010 | Cool News, Links & Reviews Building your startup?

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ConversionXL

MARCH 4, 2016

We often talk about online conversion optimization without mentioning that many businesses, especially B2B, rely on offline sales to produce revenue. There’s a lot we can do online to help our sales teams close deals. It starts with sales enablement. What Is Sales Enablement and Why Should You Care? Image Source.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 23, 2018

by Penny Garbus, co-author of “ Mining New Gold — Managing Your Business Data “ Much of what keeps a business operating and profitable lies not on a store shelf but deep inside a computer system, where critical information such as inventory, customer mailing lists, employee files, sales records and vendor information is stored.

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