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Brand Marketing vs. Product Marketing: What’s the Difference and Which Should You Invest In?

ConversionXL

Product marketing informs strategic positioning and ensures alignment across the company. It partners with sales to close more revenue, informs product teams to deliver better products, and in some cases, co-owns demand generation activities with marketing teams. Use brand marketing strategies to build brand equity.

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[Interview] Robert Morton, Toronto Business Leader and Former Home Capital Executive On New Product Development

YoungUpstarts

New product development is an essential part of the entrepreneurial landscape. For companies of all sizes, from big corporations to small businesses, new product development is crucial. New products help companies continue to grow, thrive and generate revenue. Why would a company want to introduce a new product?

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10 Steps To Second Stage Success For Your New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

They need a large infusion from venture capitalists, private equity, bank loans, or mezzanine financing. Switch your attention from product development to sales. Second-stage growth usually requires a formal sales model, an experienced and disciplined sales team, and a well-defined process to meet your new goals and demands.

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The End Of Marketing As We Know It

YoungUpstarts

Nearly four in five CEOs complained that CMOs can’t explain how brand equity can be linked to recognized financial measures such as firm equity. In circumstances like this, most firms call their legal departments and start issuing cease and desist demands. But LEGO took a smarter approach. Help customers build social capital.

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Your B2B Demand Generation Funnel: How to Create One and Mistakes to Avoid

ConversionXL

This value-based model bringing all the right customers to their yard is called demand generation. In this article, you’ll learn how to build a demand generation funnel that fuels the pipeline, shortens the sale cycle, and generates revenue. Like SEO, demand generation is a long game. Demand generation is no exception.

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What to Look For in a Business Partner

Up and Running

At the end of the month, we’d evaluate the partnership and discuss equity. At our one-month meeting, my equity offer reflected this feeling, which in turn, led my potential partner to pursue other opportunities. I wasn’t just going to boss around the product guy and make demands. I could hustle.

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Practical Strategies For Starting A Business

Duct Tape Marketing

An untapped pool of demand is waiting for this to come along now, right? Steve Hoffman (07:08): Your, your most important task at the beginning is to be a demand hunter to go into the market. If we're looking at their concept, their investor deck, we're saying, where is that demand? Show us that demand. You got something.