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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. Product development.

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The Customer Development Manifesto: The Startup Death Spiral (part.

Steve Blank

This post describes how following the traditional product development can lead to a “startup death spiral.&# In the next posts that follow, I’ll describe how this model’s failures led to the Customer Development Model – offering a new way to approach startup sales and marketing activities.

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16 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Side Hustles

Hearpreneur

I run an early stage-startup called Smarthome NX that helps consumers discover Smart home technologies through content, collaborative partnerships and commerce. Currently, I am simultaneously growing my venture, Smarthome NX while also designing a management course in sales and marketing for UpGrad. 4- Home technologies.

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How to Use Growth Hacking to Increase Revenue 20x in Just 12 Months

Up and Running

1x hacker in charge of product/development. 1x hipster working with both product and growth. Aug-15: Head of Sales (growth team). Nov-15: Graphic Designer (growth/product). Nov-15: Graphic Designer (growth/product). Dec-15: Developer (product team). Google AdWords or SEM (expensive).

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Lessons Learned: Don't launch

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, March 13, 2009 Dont launch Heres a common question I get from startups, especially in the early stages: when should we launch? This is the usual reason given for a marketing launch, but for most early stage startups, its a failure. Instead, do your product launch first.

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How to Build Robust User Personas in Under a Month

ConversionXL

You use them to make better marketing, product, and business decisions and to keep your customer top-of-mind when doing so. They can be utilized across teams— UX , CRO, social media, SEM, SEO , etc., Teams were savvy enough to know that fully formed, completed descriptions of users are an impossibility at the early stages of design.

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How to Build Robust User Personas in Under a Month

ConversionXL

You use them to make better marketing, product, and business decisions and to keep your customer top-of-mind when doing so. They can be utilized across teams – UX, CRO, Social Media, SEM, SEO, etc., Development teams couldn’t use marketing personas to make design decisions, so they decided personas weren’t that useful. (It