ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The best ecommerce marketing strategies aid in: Aligning teams (alleviating the age-old marketing/sales rift); Setting and measuring against goals and KPIs; Reaching the right target audience (not just any customer who might fit); Achieving cohesivity across channels and creating an immersive user experience. Take Booking.com.

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eCommerce Marketing Social Media Retention 129

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 7, 2015

This is not just a product pitch, but must include all elements of your pricing, marketing, distribution and maintenance. A small advisory board of outside people with experience in your domain can give you the unbiased feedback you need, as well as connections for setting up distribution and sales channels.

Business Model 120

Business Model Technical Review Advisory Board Software Review 120

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Long-term value propositions to society, or paradigm shifts in technology, generate interest but don’t close sales in the time frame your startup needs to survive and prosper. Product distribution or service delivery. Physical products often require access to existing distribution channels. Sustainable competitive advantage.

Exit Strategy 120

Exit Strategy Technical Review Distribution Viral 120

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 9, 2020

Others do far too little, assuming the viral effect and word-of-mouth will soon kick in, and sales will suddenly grow exponentially. Continually add new marketing and distribution partners. Ask every employee to focus on sales. Aggressively enter new markets and sales channels.

Social Media 329

Social Media Metrics Viral Channel 329

Rembrandt Communications

JANUARY 1, 2024

Post your message on social media, add it to your newsletters and marketing materials, send an email campaign, distribute a press release… you get the idea. Remember, you may get a lot of “No’s” but just one “Yes” can provide a feature story that goes viral! Communicate in various ways so that your target audience responds.

Public Relations 130

Public Relations Viral PR Social Media 130

YoungUpstarts

MAY 13, 2020

Public Relations (PR) involves efforts to raise the profile of your company, manage your reputation, and build relationships with key people or organizations to attract customers and increase sales. Anchor Your Sales And Marketing Efforts. In this post, you’ll find out the importance of including PR in your business plan.

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Public Relations Business Plan PR Distribution 211

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Sometimes that’s defensible distribution channels. Find and focus on one reliable distribution mechanism before diluting your time diversifying. Or you can start selling to enterprise — nothing wrong with that — but then your high cost-basis of marketing, sales, and service will not scale downward. Sales” is not a dirty word.

Restful 202

Restful Founder Revenue Acquisition 202

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. My blog was wiped out. Folksonomy. Free product. Page 3: Competition.

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Venture Capital Term Sheet San Diego Viral 274

Rob Go

JULY 11, 2013

We tend to favor companies that have a “distribution advantage”. So what are some examples of distribution advantages? Legacy Distribution Power : Quite a few successful companies got a nice head start because of legacy traffic. Typically, I tend to notice two approaches to delivering product-oriented distribution wins.

Distribution 66

Distribution Vertical Viral B2B 66

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Where campaigns to build brand awareness and generate top-of-funnel sales drive traditional marketing, data across the entire customer lifecycle drives growth hacking in marketing. Where Airbnb recognized the value in another platform, Dropbox doubled down on the strength of its product as a distribution channel. The result?

Retention 113

Retention Marketing Acquisition Channel 113

www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

To compute the cost to acquire a customer, CAC, you would take your entire cost of sales and marketing over a given period, including salaries and other headcount related expenses, and divide it by the number of customers that you acquired in that period. (In SolidWorks 2: The best VAR management program in the world?

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Acquisition Cost Customer Entrepreneur 103

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

The “private sale” market phenomenon was started in France by Vente-Privee (literally means “private sale”) and was replicated in Germany by BrandsforFriends. Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. To be fair to Ben Horowitz – I think he thinks this as well. Time will tell. Total raised: $29.5mm.

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Partner New York City Cofounder Syndicate 240

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 5, 2022

Specifically, I plan on putting out one study per quarter that I'll send out to reporters and hopefully get viral coverage on social media. As a result, people will share my posts on their stories, increasing my sales. The sales got affected during the pandemic and online marketing was the only way to promote our company.

Entrepreneur 109

Entrepreneur Affiliate Green Cloud 109

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In consumer packaged goods, the benchmark for a “highly successful” product launch is no easy feat: $50 million in first-year sales. Successful product launch campaigns have a strong value proposition, multi-channel distribution, supporting content, and other trappings common to every marketing campaign. Image source ).

Product 110

Product Campaign Acquisition Social Media 110

ConversionXL

MARCH 6, 2019

Don’t copy the style of a popular video (especially a “viral” one) if you’re trying to drive home your unique value proposition or establish your brand. Compared to the B2C world, B2B attribution faces two challenges: Sales often take place offline. The sales cycle may last for months, or more than a year. Stay on brand.

Video 129

Video B2B Technical Review Campaign 129

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

For a Series A round you want to prove you have built a repeatable and scalable sales/revenue model and understand all parts of the business model. The goal of the product at this stage is not a sale, but to test hypotheses about customer product/market fit. Series B is about proving your net revenue model (can you be profitable?).

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Cofounder Seed Stage Valuation Metrics 429

ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

Sales intelligence platform Cognism cut their lead generation efforts by 90% in 2021. In this article, you’ll learn how to build a demand generation funnel that fuels the pipeline, shortens the sale cycle, and generates revenue. an ebook); Then you blast them with sales messaging (e.g., email, ads, retargeting, etc.)

Demand 124

Demand B2B Distribution Channel 124

Up and Running

JANUARY 22, 2020

So rather than trying to make a sale or advertising product reviews, for example, you should curate content about the endocannabinoid system, the science behind cannabis, and the “lifestyle.” Distribute live videos and copy that build cannabis education and the lifestyle. This requires having a blog with guides and how-to information.

SMS 101

SMS Marketing Affiliate Social Media 101

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2012

A target market is the group of customers that the startup plans to attract through marketing and sales their product or service. Sales/Marketing. Word-of-mouth and viral marketing are popular terms these days, but are rarely adequate to initiate a new business. Be specific on sales channels and marketing initiatives.

Business Model 242

Business Model Distribution Viral Green 242

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 26, 2018

Word of mouth and viral marketing alone are not adequate, and a website is not all you need for credibility. To get the visibility and distribution for scaling, plan on one or two levels of partner relationships, as well as real events and promotions early. Traction is marketing and sales results.

Angel Investor 147

Angel Investor Distribution Bootstrapping Viral 147

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2011

A target market is the group of customers that the startup plans to attract through marketing and sales their product or service. Sales/Marketing. Word-of-mouth and viral marketing are popular terms these days, but are rarely adequate to initiate a new business. Be specific on sales channels and marketing initiatives.

Business Model 246

Business Model Distribution Viral Green 246

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Market Type affects your spending and sales ramp after you reach product/market fit. Business Model Affects Metrics and Exit Criteria Web-based Business Model Exit Criteria In a web-business model you’re looking for traffic, users, conversion, virality, etc – not revenue. Almost all Web startups are dominated by market risk.

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Customer Development Web Developer Customer 219

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2018

This is not just a product pitch, but must include all elements of your pricing, marketing, distribution and support. An advisory board of outside people with experience in your domain can give you the unbiased feedback you need, as well as connections for setting up distribution and sales channels.

Product 137

Product Advisory Board Business Model Cofounder 137

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

If you want to have a grip on your sales and day-to-day establishment activities, using a DAM tool like daminion makes the already complex process simplified and automated with additional features of the system being user-friendly and easy to navigate. What Then is a DAM Tool? Nipping security issues in the bud.

Campaign 141

Campaign Software Search Security 141

www.clickz.com

JANUARY 7, 2013

While Facebook is too large to ignore as a marketing platform, its not as effective as other social media options for converting to sales. Then distribute this content on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter in addition to social sharing. Show your emotional side to increase virality. Think beyond Facebook for social media.

Social Media 86

Social Media Media B2C New York 86

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Most startups these days use one of three primary growth engines: the viral, sticky, and paid growth models. In sales terminology, the mechanism by which a company delivers it product to customers is called the sales channel or distribution channel. Channel pivot.

Silicon Valley 273

Silicon Valley Architecture Startup Channel 273

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JANUARY 14, 2013

Side benefits from a pillar effect may also include ongoing sales of your product or an affiliate product from within the article, a stream of new newsletter subscribers coming from traffic to the article, bookmarking of your site and an overall increase to your repeat daily readership and improved brand recognition. The Infographic.

Media 110

Media Audio Video Social Media 110

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

AUGUST 27, 2011

During lunch at school, he would have sales calls with customers and say that he had a hard stop at 1pm. To this day they have auctioned off $55m worth of websites with 55% of website sales ending above it’s initial sales price. Pick up a book on sales and negotiating. I’m going to have to try this one day.

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EC2 Social Network Distribution Demand 53

Brandanew

JUNE 15, 2015

Storytelling is the art of convincing your target audience to buy your products and services without actually giving them a sales pitch. This technique should not be misunderstood as complete eradication of advertisements; it only asks marketing professionals to make those ads more real in nature instead of aimed at their sales target.

Viral 100

Viral Marketing Social Media SEO 100

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 29, 2016

Others do far too little, assuming the viral effect and word-of-mouth will soon kick in, and sales will suddenly grow exponentially. Continually add new marketing and distribution partners. Ask every employee to focus on sales. Aggressively enter new markets and sales channels.

Social Media 120

Social Media Metrics Viral Channel 120

Rob Go

JANUARY 12, 2015

Your product may have gotten traction due to some distribution hack or novelty factor, both of which may not lead to sustained usage and growth. It is hard to translate rapid end user adoption with actual business success (eg: monetizing a large audience, or moving from end-user SAAS to enterprise sales). The Case for Traction.

B2B 28

B2B Early Stage Distribution Software Review 28

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 26, 2014

But what about sales and distribution? ” With iOS, Android, HTML5, and web apps, BookShout has created technology to power the sales and distribution of ebooks from nearly any site. BookShout has also taken the additional step to make sure the content is connected and the distribution is social.

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Distribution Viral Audience Revenue 155

View from Seed

JANUARY 13, 2015

monetizing a large audience or moving from end-user SaaS to enterprise sales). Great teams fail to build a product and get early distribution all the time. Generally speaking, this is because of what it takes to get early distribution in these markets. So, if you are going to pay up as a seed-stage investor, pay up for team.

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Seed Stage B2B Distribution Early Stage 120

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Most startups these days use one of three primary growth engines: the viral, sticky, and paid growth models. In sales terminology, the mechanism by which a company delivers it product to customers is called the sales channel or distribution channel. Channel pivot.

Lean 255

Lean Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Architecture 255

ConversionXL

JULY 7, 2020

If you’re looking for an alternative way to drive traffic, leads, and sales, Pinterest is an opportunity. Instead, think of Pinterest as a way to build an audience or an additional distribution channel for your content. Quit boards with a low virality score (which you can check in Tailwind). A good pin can’t rescue a bad board.

Marketing 114

Marketing Viral Campaign Search 114

crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 6, 2017

“Acquire a new set of stories, concepts, and tools to help you digitally create, distribute, promote and price products and services.” Prices range from $20 to a maximum of $300, but there are frequent sales and discount codes offered online. ” Digital Marketing, offered by the University of Illinois. ” Udemy.

Programming 73

Programming Technical Review Small Business Illinois 73

Hearpreneur

JULY 3, 2019

The only blog post I had ever written went viral in 2014. I set up my business to be distributed, so although my company is based out of Scottsdale, Arizona, I live in Thailand most of the time. I wear many different hats in my role, from CEO through sales and marketing to finance and HR. Eventually, I left.

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Entrepreneur Thailand Arizona Technical Review 105