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SuperMac War Story 9: Sales, Not Awards « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Customers went into the store either looking for the SuperMac product by name (if our demand creation activities had been effective) or went in unsure of which brand of board to buy. Hopefully you and your co-founders are experts in one or two parts (agile development, SEO/SEM, etc.) That’s 10x what many websites convert.

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Learning is better than optimization (the local maximum problem)

Startup Lessons Learned

Instead, we try to accelerate with respect to validated learning about customers. Many optimizers are in favor of split-testing, too: direct marketers, landing page and SEO experts -- heck even the Google Website Optimizer team. There are often counter-intuitive changes in customer behavior that depend on little details.