YoungUpstarts

JUNE 18, 2020

and a full-fledged production crew. Film productions, businesses that were aiming to spend big bucks on live advertising are now turning to various animated video styles to get the job done. What about real product demos? Many companies want to showcase their upcoming products. The bigger the team, the greater the cost.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 20, 2020

Contrary to popular opinion, viral marketing has not eliminated the need for old-fashioned lead generation to bring customers to a startup. Here is my summary of the seven most successful lead-generation vehicles he and I still recommend today, despite the popularity of viral marketing: Search-engine marketing. Trade shows.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

He has a really interesting background as a product manager and now an entrepreneur. Like many product managers, my background is fairly eclectic. That's where I learned I enjoyed interacting with customers and working with development teams to build and launch products. Tell me a bit about your background. How did it help you?

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 8, 2023

In contrast, it left several e-trends: augmented reality, zero coding, the marketplace boom, and product subscriptions are just a few of them. With the help of voice assistants, such as Siri and Alexa, you can purchase the product just by saying it while running errands. We will deliver product x every three months with free shipping.”

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2023

Consumers are becoming increasingly health-conscious and seeking to understand their options for treatments and healthcare products. For example, a startup SaaS company can use a specialized app to create a good product management process and keep track of the project's progress. Thanks to Sean Stevens, Immerse Education ! #5-

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 25, 2023

While platforms like Instagram offer a great starting point, the key to differentiation lies in the age-old strategy of Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Think of it from the customer's perspective – Why should this customer shop from your store instead of the other stores selling this product? Thanks to Chris Gerbig, Pink Lily ! #8-

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MARCH 24, 2021

Content marketing has become the bread and butter for quality website destinations and attracting traffic, especially with sensitive search engine algorithms like those being used by Google. However, site content literally produces the fresh material targeted by the latest search engine formulas. Online Content Basics.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 21, 2013

Creators of new products in environments of extreme uncertainty, startups face enormous risks. Through rapid experimentation, short product development cycles, and rigorous measurements of the right metrics, they can ascertain what customers really want. There are principally three engines of growth in any startup.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Price is as important as any other feature to determine product/market “fit.” ” How many times have you seen someone struggle with an inferior product because they cannot afford the better one? Price is inextricably linked to brand, product, and purchasing decisions — by whom, why, how, and when.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Enhance customer experience by incorporating different creative and trendy products that you know they’ll enjoy. And if you get viral content that spreads like wildfire, that is a sure-fire way to get an immense boost in sales. Be responsive and try to solve their problems quickly. Go ahead and spoil the customers.

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SVPG

JANUARY 12, 2011

” He’s actually done it already: build a great product customers love. Building a great product worthy of conversation is generally thought to be the product manager’s job. But if you’re in product marketing, you should contribute as well. When a product actually delivers, people talk about it.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Set your sights on Google’s Popular Products 4. To get to the heart of what customers care about, conduct customer interviews and ask open-ended qualitative questions such as: When did you realize you needed a product like ours? Who might their products and brand appeal to? Leverage FOMO in social media marketing 3.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Others do far too little, assuming the viral effect and word-of-mouth will soon kick in, and sales will suddenly grow exponentially. Introduce new products and enhancements every month. Growth requires market innovation as well as product. Continually add new marketing and distribution partners.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 8, 2020

To market your product successfully, it is important to capture the interest and fulfill the needs of your clients. Embrace compliments and criticism in a positive manner and as a stepping stone to creating noticeable products. Weeks or even months before launching the product, start contests and pre-launch giveaways.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2022

For example, it used to be that marketing via social media meant banner ads on Facebook, buying search engine results, and sponsoring blog entries, but these don’t suffice anymore. Brands need influencers working on their behalf because they provide the third-party credibility and social proof that validates their products.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 28, 2012

One explanation is that “growth hacking” is just a catchy way to rebrand marketers, but this begs the question as to why “growth hacking” went viral in the first place. Since this change in the OpenGraph, both products have seen their traffic decline. The best product fallacy. The best products do not always win.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

The “it” is a physical or web product they’ve often been locked-down, pounding away at, for many weeks. The product is so good, helpful, and easy to use that it literally almost does its own marketing organically through the product’s viral nature, just as Hotmail and Gmail have done since inception.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 11, 2013

Yesterday, I was talking to a startup founder about their MVP and they said something that finally got me to write this post: "I have a few investors interested but they want to see a product." It is almost never the case that you are building an MVP to "show" to an investor the product itself.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Read everything you can about viral marketing. Don’t use the same message on Twitter you developed for email blasts and postcard blitzes. Social media demands two-way communication, rather than outbound only. It’s not free, so budget appropriately, but not excessively. Start social networking with peers.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 4, 2017

This is generally split into two areas, though they’re often used together to some varying proportion: Search Engine Marketing. Search engine marketing is intent-based keyword bidding on search networks such as Google Adwords and Microsoft Bing. Virality and Referral. You know that multitasking is bad for your productivity.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

I break the answer to that question down into three engines: Viral - this is the business model identified in the presentation as "Get Users." Here, the key metrics are Acquisition and Referral, combined into the now-famous viral coefficient. If the coefficient is > 1.0 , you generally have a viral hit on your hands.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 6, 2012

Boasting resources for life sciences, bio-tech, medical devices, photonics, clean energy, and engineering, BU can help to incubate businesses in just about any physical technology. Engineering Translational Technology Center. At Boston University, there’s an incredible array on business incubation opportunities. Harvard Innovation Lab.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

So what happens when production is reduced by 99% and distribution bends to infinity? Content can go viral – the highest quality stuff is shared. Video production & distribution is becoming much more programatic. That would be like selling physical consumer products and deciding not to sell at Walmart.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 21, 2013

The buttons that customers need should be obvious, and it should be simple and intuitive to get from any page on your website to the product or service you offer, to the checkout page. Some companies choose to sponsor local festivals and charity events with products or services, financial support, or volunteer hours.

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Brandanew

MAY 29, 2015

What is Growth Hacking: A definition before we start: Growth hacking is a marketing technique developed by technology startups which uses creativity, analytical thinking, and social metrics to sell products and gain exposure. Sure-shot way to lose trust and potential customers (even if your terrible response does not become viral).

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

How much does it really take to build a product like Twitter or Instagram? With mobile development agencies and product incubators on the rise and more corporate “labs” spinning out each day, there’s no shortage of talent to help you build the next great Web or mobile app. Still, a product is nothing without scalability.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

For the rest of us, we need a business plan, as well as a product plan. Some of you may be convinced that your product specification communicates the product message even better than a business plan, so why be redundant? Professional investors and even customers invest in people, rather than just a product.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 22, 2020

Product links – Good content doesn’t only give general information but also makes recommendations. These links can be directed to internal products or affiliate links. Consequently, Google and other search engines pick these signals. Good content that’s likely to impress search engines contains the following metrics.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 26, 2011

If you’re a small business or entrepreneur that needs some quality, professional media production work but have no idea where to look for a reliable provider, ProductionHUB ( www.productionhub.com ) is probably your answer (or at least, it will give you your answer). The site sees over 3.5 million user sessions annually.

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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. Introduce new products and enhancements every month. Growth requires market innovation as well as product. Continually add new marketing and distribution partners.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 30, 2014

Your business plans are in place, perhaps you have sought out and won investors, and gotten a foothold in the market with your product. Viral Video Marketing. Like any good song, your product not only needs a hook, but a melody to provide the ear-worm and make your work a household name. Your company, your product, is your baby.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 22, 2020

But you’re still walking a tightrope with pay-per-click on search engines and paid social media advertising. This article will discuss how to conquer the following unpaid channels to enjoy serious returns and long-term profitability from your cannabis advertising efforts: Search Engine Optimization (SEO). CBD and marijuana industry.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2018

Contrary to popular opinion, viral marketing has not eliminated the need for old-fashioned lead generation to bring customers to a startup. Here is my summary of the seven most successful lead-generation vehicles he and I still recommend today, despite the popularity of viral marketing: Search-engine marketing. Trade shows.

Lead Generation 137

Lead Generation SEM Viral Social Media 137

Women Entrepreneurs Can

MARCH 10, 2024

Video is an excellent medium for sharing your business’s products and services, and it engages audiences in a way that written content simply can’t. But just posting a video to YouTube isn’t going to make it go viral or automatically drive consumers to your website. These days, YouTube is as big of a search engine as Google.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

In fact, you need to have at least a prototype web site published several weeks before you expect anyone to find yours, since it takes that amount of time for the web search engine “spiders” to find you and index your content. Finalizing the web site validates your product plan and sales strategy. Viral marketing needs a website.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 13, 2017

Jonathan Price wrote on the same Quora thread that he believes growth marketing to differ from regular marketing because it “is technology-centric and it blurs the boundary between marketing and product development.” A growth team, however, is largely overlapped with product, engineering, and design as well.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

Estimates show that only about 14% of engineers in 2012 were women (Crawford) and that number hasn’t gone up far in recent years. Women such as Grace Hopper and Ada Lovelace have been an essential part of Computer Science and Engineering (Gürer, 2). Engineering Still Needs More Women.” Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber.”

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