Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

They don’t know if they should move to social networks for lead generation, branding, customer loyalty, or for direct marketing and e-commerce. Develop a marketing strategy specific to this media. Don’t use the same message on Twitter you developed for email blasts and postcard blitzes.

Social Media 289

Social Media Small Business Media Technical Review 289

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 2, 2013

They don’t know if they should move to social networks for lead generation, branding, customer loyalty, or for direct marketing and e-commerce. Develop a marketing strategy specific to this media. Don’t use the same message on Twitter you developed for email blasts and postcard blitzes. Or are you too busy?

Social Media 267

Social Media Media Social Network Viral 267

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 9, 2012

Outline your sales and marketing strategy (direct marketing, sales channel, viral marketing, and lead generation). A final important element is not even in the executive summary, it is the paragraph you use in the email that introduces your company and has the executive summary attached. Executive team.

Business Plan 244

Business Plan Elevator Pitch Viral Lead Generation 244

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2011

They don’t know if they should move to social networks for lead generation, branding, customer loyalty, or for direct marketing and e-commerce. Develop a marketing strategy specific to this media. Don’t use the same message on Twitter you developed for email blasts and postcard blitzes.

Social Media 261

Social Media Media Marketing Social Network 261

Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

And the final lesson was that we were keeping score on our packaging with the wrong metrics – it wasn’t about awards, it was about sales in the retail channel. We had been outsourcing an important part of our demand creation strategy – packaging – to an outside agency without having the expertise to judge or manage the results.

Sales 120

Sales Silicon Valley RSS Las Vegas 120

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Outline your sales and marketing strategy (direct marketing, sales channel, viral marketing, and lead generation). A final important element is not even in the executive summary, it is the paragraph you use in the email that introduces your company and has the executive summary attached. Executive team.

Elevator Pitch 226

Elevator Pitch Viral Lead Generation Metrics 226

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Outline your sales and marketing strategy (direct marketing, sales channel, viral marketing, and lead generation). A final important element is not even in the executive summary, it is the paragraph you use in the email that introduces your company and has the executive summary attached. Executive team.

Elevator Pitch 138

Elevator Pitch Viral Lead Generation Business Plan 138