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The Expert Guide to Creating a Marketing Growth Strategy

ConversionXL

It outlines four major growth strategies: market penetration , market development , product development , and diversification. The goal of market penetration is to leverage new tactics to increase product sales , including existing customers and new customers within existing markets. Market development. New channels.

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Doing the Right Things is More Important than Doing Things Right

Both Sides of the Table

Here’s how it goes: You have a business development group with two people. Let’s say you have a marketing department with an incredibly talented leader who knows SEO, SEM, social media and how to hit the ball off the cover on press coverage. So you generate a ton of traffic to your website. I love that saying.

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

Steve Blank

SuperMac sold our graphic boards for the Macintosh through multiple distribution channels: direct sales to major accounts, national chains, independent rep firms, etc. SuperMac sold our graphic boards for the Macintosh through multiple distribution channels: direct sales to major accounts, national chains, independent rep firms, etc.

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How do I get my first few customers?

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

If you’re Oracle with 47 product lines in 100 countries and 20 languages with distributed teams of tech writers is this the best tool? I’m putting myself in the same boat now with the solution I’m developing so could you tell me: How did you reach out to your first customer? But this was 2003 when AdWords was new.

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15 Entrepreneurs Describe Their Leadership Styles

Hearpreneur

For instance, an authoritative style may not suit a business in its initial stages of development. When I’m managing our sales and marketing strategy, I’m making sure I’m looking at it from our competitor’s perspective. ‘How would I out-maneuver our SEM keywords? Sales pitch?’

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The Direct-to-Consumer Checklist

Austin Startup

How will you take advantage of SEO and SEM? You’ll usually get assigned a contact in the ad sales organization at Facebook or Google once you start spending big bucks. When is the right time to diversify your sales channel mix? Will your sales follow seasonal or cyclical trends? and others have natural cyclicality?—?e.g.

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The Most Misunderstood Facts About Building a Business on YouTube

Both Sides of the Table

YouTube takes too high of a revenue split (45% vs. 30% that Apple and many other distribution companies take – FWIW, YouTube argues this is because their costs are much higher since they host and stream the video). But you don’t need to spend money on SEM. YouTube is a distribution and marketing channel like any other.

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