Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2012

Viral marketing is a deliberate marketing action, designed to grow attention at a compound rate, without further stimulus, by word-of-mouth. Someone has to design and create those entertaining or informative messages that are designed to be passed along in an exponential fashion, often electronically or by e-mail.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

He then pointed out that for service-based businesses every slot that went unfilled the provider had very high fixed costs and very low marginal costs and people ought to be willing to sell low-demand or last-minute expiring times at a discount while selling premium times at full price or even a surge price. So there you have it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2011

Viral marketing is a deliberate marketing action, designed to grow attention at a compound rate, without further stimulus, by word-of-mouth. Someone has to design and create those entertaining or informative messages that are designed to be passed along in an exponential fashion, often electronically or by e-mail.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 26, 2022

Thanks to Masha Mahdavi, SEM Dynamics ! #10- Even workforces are becoming more agile, on-demand, & entrepreneurial. 26- Increased demand in mental wellness businesses. It'll still be about taking risks and being your own boss. 10- Artificial intelligence advancement. Photo Credit: Daniel Foley. Photo Credit: Evelyn Ott.

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Transformify

AUGUST 18, 2021

If you’re wondering whether you have what it takes to take on freelancing, here are some of the popular types of freelance work you can start with: Web Development and Designing. Creative Design. Graphic Designing. Search Engine Optimization or SEO, SEM. Logo Design and Illustration. Teaching and Tutoring.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2010

Viral marketing is a deliberate marketing action, designed to grow attention at a compound rate, without further stimulus, by word-of-mouth. Someone has to design and create those entertaining or informative messages that are designed to be passed along in an exponential fashion, often electronically or by e-mail.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 26, 2013

On the enterprise side of our business, we’ve seen the increasing demand from traditional large corporate buyers looking for ways to manage a more distribute workforce,” Cooper said. “In Speaking of freelancers’ specializations demanded by clients nowadays, it seems that there are no “traditional” freelance jobs anymore. “If

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 14, 2022

The rise of the on-demand webinar has happened over the last ten years. We turn any video into an interactive webinar that you could set on a recurring schedule or join on demand. I mean, there, there's certainly a place for on demand because you know, you and I are talking it's 10 o'clock at night for you when you're talking.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

In this model, you take some fraction of the lifetime value of each customer and plow that back into paid acquisition through SEM, banner ads, PR, affiliates, etc. For eBay, this is caused by the incredible network effects of their business (so-called demand-side increasing returns and supply-side increasing returns).

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

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. The design was actually a negative drag on selling anything off a retail shelf. From grumbling skeptics, they all became packaging design converts.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

One of my former colleagues, Rob, is an SEM guru—with zero coding background. Marketers without jQuery skills rely on testing tools’ visual editors to design and publish A/B tests, often with bad results. The basic view is the classic “command line” design. How SQL solves real-world marketing problems.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Storage is what’s known as “highly fragmented,” meaning easier for a new entrant to get traction if it could design a better product / service / experience. You may have paid marketing: SEM, Social Media Ads, Banner Ads, email lists, etc. The top 5 players combined control less than 25% of the market.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

Not because they didn’t want to do Pay-per-click (they are huge buyers of SEM) but because they didn’t want other people to know what they paid for clicks! They would launch quickly and test whether or not there is any demand. His first “real&# business came in college where he designed audio speakers.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

There isn’t a sales problem, the problem is that marketing just did not understand its customers and how to create demand or position the product. Isso sem mencionar que, dependendo do problema, em alguns casos fica bastante difícil “voltar atrás&#. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. Blog at WordPress.com.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 24, 2018

Ahrefs is one of the best Search Engine Optimization ( SEO ) and Search Engine Marketing ( SEM ) tools available for anyone who prefers to make data-based decisions in their marketing strategies. SendWithUs also handles drip marketing but focuses on sending messages directly from your app or website using email designs created by you.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 24, 2018

Ahrefs is one of the best Search Engine Optimization ( SEO ) and Search Engine Marketing ( SEM ) tools available for anyone who prefers to make data-based decisions in their marketing strategies. SendWithUs also handles drip marketing but focuses on sending messages directly from your app or website using email designs created by you.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Far more common is a need to acquire customers through a series of steps like SEO, SEM, PR, Social Marketing, direct sales, channel sales, etc. Extensive use of software to automate all processes such as SEO, SEM, social networking, lead scoring, lead nurturing, CRM, etc. that will cost the company significant amounts of money.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Design and maintain a roadmap of projects to meet demanding business objectives, taking advantage of trends and new technology where appropriate. Where developing a new system in a start-up environment, work with the business to develop use cases, user stories, user experience design and wire-frames.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Today, Knewton delivers test prep courses for the GMAT, LSAT, and SAT that bring the brightest and most experienced teachers directly to students worldwide via a live and on-demand online video classroom. Knewton's educational platform, however, can power any educational content, enabling students of all types to learn more effectively.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Connect with John Jantsch on LinkedIn This episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is brought to you by the DeskTeam360 Desk team 360 is the #1, flat-rate, digital marketing integration team, that helps small businesses and marketing agencies with graphic, web design, and on-page marketing services. Like, is there demand for this content?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

If youre trying to design an architecture to maximize agility, how can that work if some people are working in TDD and others not? Platform selection and technical design - if your business strategy is to create a low-burn, highly iterative lean startup, youd better be using foundational tools that make that easy rather than hard.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Or more accurately, startups are a temporary organization designed to search for a scalable and repeatable business model.) There are few courses which teach aspiring entrepreneurs the skills (business models, customer and agile development, design thinking, etc.) If non-web, build demand creation budget and forecast.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2011

Alon: BlazeMeter is the first testing cloud with a sole focus on load testing, designed to simplify performance and load testing for developers and QA testers. It’s quick, it’s on demand, it’s inexpensive – there is no longer a need to compromise on quality. We aim to sell through direct internet sales.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Only after reaching $1M in CMRR should you consider hiring European sales and services execs behind customer demand. Be prepared to cross the desert - SaaS requires R&D and sales expense up front for a multi-year stream of revenue, so it demands enough investment capital to fund 4+ years of runway. Philippe Botteri.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Cash Flow – When you can no longer balance cash demands and expenses in your head, you better rely on a weekly cash flow report. Tools like SEMRush and MOZ can give you lots of information about SEO and SEM – things like keyword ranking, backlinks, and even AdWords spend. I also rely heavily on a service called RivalIQ.

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market-by-numbers.com

DECEMBER 7, 2009

The driving force helps shape technology choices, importance of design, market segment, and business model as well as company culture, growth plan and exit strategy. The “encroachment&# of business or engineering on design is (theoretically) dependent on the driving force, rather than personal bias. Please Share!

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

If you want to learn more about search engine marketing, I suggest you read 10 Practical Small Business SEO and SEM marketing tips. Also, there are numerous resources available for Google Docs, such as wireframing templates for web designers. Google Analytics. Google Alerts. You can apply here.

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