Steve Blank
APRIL 9, 2009
But my favorite was when the public relations manager said, “we’re here to write press releases and answer the phone in case the press calls.” My new head of Public Relations quickly learned that my admin could answer calls from the press. Two paragraphs, Five bullets. It didn’t take more. The same was true for PR.
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 3, 2009
The meaning of alpha test , beta test, and first customer ship are pretty obvious to most engineers. The plan calls for selling in volume the day Engineering is finished building the product. While the product is being engineered, Marketing begins to create web sites, corporate presentations and sales materials.
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Steve Blank
APRIL 15, 2011
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., They were engineers, certainly they could do better than that? but now they were actually trying to implement it. (If
Steve Blank
AUGUST 27, 2009
Combined with product costs, an engineering budget, and schedules, this results in a spreadsheet that faintly resembles the first financial plan in the company’s business plan. Engineering focuses on building the product; it designs the product, specifies the first release and hires a staff to build the product.
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 2, 2009
Marketing demand creation programs (Search Engine Marketing, Public Relations, Advertising, Lead Generation, Trade Shows, etc.) Very few companies can make the “Four Steps to the Epiphany” work financially – this is one reason having engineering located in a cheaper country from day one is a major plus.&#
Steve Blank
MARCH 19, 2009
If you believed the opinions in the marketing department, the customers were in science, engineering, color desktop publishing, and a variety of applications with no single industry or application dominating the list. Since this was the marketing department, I was going to be planning to spend some advertising and public relations dollars.
Hearpreneur
AUGUST 19, 2015
So we opened the goFlow platform from surfing-only to 10 new verticals: Paddle-boarding, Diving, Fishing, Skateboarding, Cycling, Golfing, Snow sports, Boating, Kitesurfing and more to come. And this was at a prestigious engineering school. I tried selling my knowledge and services in marketing and public relations and it worked!
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