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Growth Marketing: The Skills and Frameworks You Need

ConversionXL

The first distinction between traditional and growth marketing models is that traditional marketing, which is often product-focused, is oriented toward top-of-funnel efforts. Traditional marketers work to build awareness and emotional connections to product and brand. Search engine marketing: Driving ROI from searchers.

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How to Do a Competitive Analysis: A Step-by-Step Guide

ConversionXL

Ask them to use the words they would naturally use when looking for a product or service you offer. What products or services are offered and for whom? Not only can they tell you how satisfied they are with a competing product or service, they can also clue you in as to why they picked the competitor in the first place.

SEO 126
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A Step-by-Step Guide to Conducting Competitive Analysis

ConversionXL

Ask your customers who else they considered for the same product or service. Ask them to use the words they would naturally use when looking for a product or service you offer. What products or services are offered and for whom? What I am looking for is common trends within that vertical. What results show up?

SEO 131
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eCommerce: A VC Story [guest post]

VC Cafe

They are accustomed to more frictionless buying, easier payments, smarter recommendation engines, sharper display (product images, 3D, HD), short fulfillment time, and excellent customer service. Today’s e-consumers are reaping the benefits of eCommerce’s cornerstone: Superior technological innovation.

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

Up and Running

If you’re building a startup, you’re likely to be in one of these two situations: Launching and selling a new product that nobody’s ever heard about, and probably don’t even know they need, or… Improving an existing product or service, which means that you’re going head on against someone with more traction, people, and money than you.

Revenue 60
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The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 5: Customer Relationship Hypotheses

Steve Blank

Many of the students had heard phrases that fall under Customer Relationships before; “customer acquisition, SEO/SEM, public relations, Social Network, Advertising, Loyalty programs, cross-sell and up-sell” etc., For some of the teams their expectation was if they built the product customers will come. The Nine Teams Present.

Customer 260
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Why Metrics Get Worse With Scale

Seeing Both Sides

In the class I teach at Harvard Business School , the first module of the course is dedicated to examining startups when they are pre-product market and struggling to find product-market fit while the second module is dedicated to what the challenges of scale post product-market fit.

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