Hunter Walker

MARCH 27, 2017

Potentially the best founder <> fund matches come when both parties are clear about what needs to still be proven out -and- the venture investor has some ability to assist the founder in de-risking. Kirsten Green , Forerunner Ventures : “Customer risk….we

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Up and Running

AUGUST 24, 2011

Good questions, and since I get them a lot, I decided to answer them here: A business plan covers the entire business, including overall strategy, financial plans, target markets, sales, products and services, operations, and how they all relate to each other. Yes, a business plan almost always includes the marketing portion.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 24, 2018

Analyzing these metrics not only fundamentally changes marketing strategy (think tens of millions of dollars for large companies); their insights can change your company’s product portfolio, your customer engagement strategies and much more. Instead, if they are reporting Awareness, Consideration, Intent, Conversions, Bounce Rate… Sad time.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

By contrast, Staples closed down some underperforming facilities but increased its workforce by 10% during the recession, mainly to support the high-end product categories and services it introduced. Use that intelligence to inform product portfolio and investment choices.”. Where do your consumers fall? Survey design.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 27, 2018

Before you do anything else, you need to take time to understand the needs and expectations of your customers on an ongoing basis as you develop your product and business. Toxnot is a sustainable product and supply chain management software used by manufacturers and designers to eliminate problematic chemicals from their products.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

Greg was the first person to share with me the insights of mobile conversion and why with a simpler product selection and conversion funnel they would get higher conversion on mobile than on the web. And Greg was a perfect match for all of these. On each subsequent meeting I’d learn a little bit more.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 9, 2016

by Chris Lennon, Vice President of Product Management at BirdDogHR. Get in the habit of having regular, informal conversations with your employees, whether over coffee or at lunch. Each person on her team was given a set of green, yellow and red cards — to reward or penalize behavior as a referee would in a soccer match.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 21, 2012

But a few weeks ago after I sat on a panel about cofounders at Startup2Startup there was a small group dinner conversation to dig deeper on the topic. It doesn’t ultimately matter it if ends up being the right product, you will still have areas you disagree on throughout the process. There are plenty more and they are important.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 29, 2013

You’re supposed to demo the business, not just the product. The investors who come to Demo Day might nod politely when you talk about the features of your product. We use a red/green chart to measure startup readiness for Demo Day. Your job is to turn your column as green as possible before Demo Day – and beyond.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

The conversations usually go down the same path, ending with a you’re how old? Now my digital products, blog, classes and workshops serves women all over the world teaching them how to use yoga as a tool to juggle their busy life and kids without burning out! Greene, Land Carroll & Blair PC ! #20 Thanks to Keya F.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

That way, you can avoid that awkward conversation about your unemployment when home for the holidays. If, as a young professional, you are looking into going into a career in the media, then starting a YouTube channel could be the perfect match for you. They might then ask you to promote their products or services.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 1, 2016

They don’t require expensive training or degrees, fancy equipment, or lots of materials, space, or product. Mix and match services depending on what works for you; you could easily start a business involving full-service pet help, including walks, trips to the groomer, sitting during the day, and so on. Etsy business.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 22, 2016

This design is usually reserved for information products that don’t offer much value. But sometimes real products use this style as well, probably thinking that it is savvy and converts well ( don’t copy your competitors ). No, I just want to buy the product. The visual design should match the site’s purpose.”.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 13, 2020

Photo Credit: Sheryl Green. Thanks to Sheryl Green, Sheryl Green Speaks ! #3- I found my productivity and creativity had increased… as well as my boredom. 10- During a random conversation. During a random conversation, my husband suggested I begin charging clients for my help. That’s right.

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 4, 2012

My emphasis was on getting Analysts to move outside the paid search silo, look more broadly at search engine marketing, and to not stop at keywords but rather dive into astonishingly important data elements like Ad Groups, Matched Query Types and more. Why are the conversions so strong? So what can we learn from those landing pages?

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genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

If we mention a product or service that we received for free or other considerations, we will note it. You can follow this conversation by subscribing to the comment feed for this post. The letters and numbers you entered did not match the image. NPR Marketplace: Businesses save off green incentives. Small Business Blogs.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 31, 2017

It might take a second because of scale is different on both slides, but you'll ultimately get that the green bars are the same ones as before. Everything you see above is framed simply, it is pretty much the same data you saw in the green/gray bars above. They just seem to be different. Why have the fragmented view?

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 29, 2024

Does it match what the other co-founders wrote down? When we get to, for example, the tactic on building a product roadmap that has to directly tie to the organization level goals. From there, it says, let's go test the market before we've ever built product. Let's go start that product development process.

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Life Beyond Code

MARCH 19, 2013

I have known Dr. William Miller (co-founder of Value Centered Innovation ) for a number of years and every conversation with him on business model innovation and beyond has been delightful and insightful. Product: The products and services offered to customers. Hers is a quick interview with him on the topic.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

No, this is not a marketing gimmick; we've already had to reduce the size of the stage (and eliminate my personal gold-plated green room) in order to make more seats available. You can, of course, mix and match workshops and site visits, attending workshops in the morning and site visits in the afternoon, or vice versa.)

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pandodaily.com

JULY 18, 2012

More to the point, the relationships with vendors, know-how of product hunting and credibility in the design world took decades to develop. You just have to squeeze productivity out of a rock, getting work done in every spare moment you can. Follow conversation. Follow PandoDaily: Search. Skip to primary content. Get Tickets.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 11, 2019

If you want them to pop, if you want them to represent your products, this is a retouching service to make your images look great. You have to figure out what are their needs, and you have to present your products and services in a way that actually speaks to that. You’ve got to make those images look great.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

You'll tell them in 40 mins, leaving 20 for conversation. The goal will be to get to the point faster, and move the conversation away from the data to what should be done. I choose YOY Change for my sort (worst to best) as I thought that was the more important thing to drive the conversation.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 20, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! Green eggs and ham. Conversations make the difference in sales success. Many people love selling.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

He's also the founder and host of Traffic and Conversion Summit, the largest digital marketing conference in North America. Customers happen differently depending on the entry point of the, you might have fundamentally different value in growth engines for your different products in your product line. Work better now.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 3, 2019

It might be the products or the customers they deal with, or it could even be the fact that they are the ones in charge of it all. Being an entrepreneur is more than just about selling a product or service or the freedom to make my own hours and call the shots. Thanks to Penny Bauder, Green Kid Crafts ! #14-

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 11, 2014

The You May Also Like has a $50 Converse shoe and a Sperry Top-Sider Angelfish for $63. Most sites don't even do that (or do it badly like Zappos recommending Converse All-Stars with my Just Cavalli dress). I order the first three with the highest percentage in the match column. It is an uninspiring page. Look at any page.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 22, 2013

But the foundation to any company's success is to ensure that there is an attractive product/content for audiences to engage with in each of the three stages: See – Think – Do. This fact is patently clear when you visit any product page on their website. micro-conversion). ADD TO BAG. Outstanding.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 27, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! Shift the conversation to places where the competition can’t—or won’t—go. Create “thin ice” arguments.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

I wanted to put this as #3 because if it were a "conversion" campaign then it would not be a "branding" / feel good campaign. display campaigns did wonderfully in terms of conversion rate, but not in terms of the major goal of the campaign – sell more stuff. Phone Calls / Conversions Driven from Website.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 9, 2012

Recently I critiqued a number of websites (links at the bottom of the post) and made suggestions for improving their conversion rates. Fix these issues and watch your conversion rate improve. Use the following as kind of a conversion improvement checklist. Specific image to show the product in action. Lack of focus.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Your company’s brand is a promise you make to customers and prospects about your products, your services, and your company. Branding is a process designed to develop, among other things, a unique business name and custom logo design for a company, product, or service. How they interact with your products or buy your services.

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ConversionXL

JULY 19, 2013

Green Monday. This article on Web Marketing Today gives some really great advice on how to tackle the free shipping conversation realistically. Thanksgiving Day (Nov. Black Friday (Nov. Thanksgiving Weekend (Nov. Cyber Monday (Nov. Workweek of Dec. Still think “Free Shipping” isn’t something your business can do?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2020

"I really like that resilience word," Robert Rhinehart told me in our conversation about his new organization, The Corona Initiative. You can listen to our conversation on Apple , Google, or wherever you like to download podcasts. In addition, a complete transcript of our conversation follows the show resources below.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 9, 2016

Go to the Reporting section of our Store Demo account, click on Conversions in the left nav, then Ecommerce, and now Overview. The first bar to the second shows the number of visits during which people went from general pages on your website to product pages (places were there is stuff to be sold, add to cart buttons). A lame 26%.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

I don’t wanna change the name – it’s something I love, but I will be having some awkward conversations in a few years to explain why her name isn’t part of the business name. 10- Based on the main idea of my product. Thanks to Andy Halliday, Coreter Limited ! #7- 7- My lectures and speeches.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

But for the vast majority of people who run their own businesses, it's typically coming down to reduced profitability because of rework where people are having multiple meetings to get the same project, the same product, the same campaign done to the quality that was expected. So the cost of not listening is quite significant.

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