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Why Some Startups Win

Steve Blank

His company had marched through customer discovery, learning about the customer problem, validated solutions and was now scaling sales and marketing. But he was getting uneasy that as his headcount was growing the productivity of his marketing department seemed to be rapidly declining. Help Engineering understand customer needs.

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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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Empathic Design: Mapping Your Brain, Brand, and Data

ConversionXL

In practice, however, empathic design seeks to identify latent customer needs in order to create products or messaging that customers didn’t even know they wanted. Mainly, you’re going to want to a gather a decent sample of people who have bought from you before (generally, we like repeat customers).

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Finding Your Voice And Using It To Make Ridiculously Good Content

Duct Tape Marketing

17:56] Would it be safe to say that if you are going to try to decide on a direction to go, the voice of the customer is always the best direction to go in? [19:30] White think of your advice? So what signals are you sending to an audience when they read your white paper or when they read your blog post mm-hmm. ,

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How “Tag Management” Can Improve Site Performance

ConversionXL

There are hundreds of services for tracking, advertising, site customization, and generally souping up your ability to measure, reach, and convert your visitors. Not only can it impact your visitors on site, but sluggish site load speeds can impact your ability to show up in searches that drive customers to your site in the first place!

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Marketing Metrics 101 for B2B Startups

www.rocketwatcher.com

For example I’ve seen folks track branded organic searches (where the person came to the site by searching on your company or product name) against a “pr&# lead source. There are also other thing to think about. It all depends on what programs you are running and how you want to measure the overlap. April Amrita Reply 13.

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