Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 12, 2021

If you are a passionate technologist , it’s easy to forget that marketing is required to sell even the most compelling solution, to cut through the information overload everyone sees today on the internet. If marketing is not your thing, then you need to find a partner or outside expert to help you.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 5, 2011

Specifically what is often not in the DNA of founders are sales skills. The result is a lack of knowledge of the process and of sales people themselves. I had never had any sales training so everything we did for the first couple of years was instinctual. I boil it down to this: sales people are sales people.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

A listing on Google Maps is an invaluable marketing tool for local businesses. It helps businesses to be discovered by customers, to stand out from competing businesses, and drive traffic to the store that can be converted into sales.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2023

Of course, their answer is that the second intends to get to market faster, but every engine has limits regardless the fuel applied. Use social media for early marketing. Waiting until you have something to sell before bringing on a sales and operations staff. Getting a sales contract before manufacturing inventory.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

But the product/market fit of this first iteration is a swing and a miss. Marketing and capital expenses (new factory, high R&D expense) were predicated on consumer-scale sales. I got a preview of PhotoCD when I was the head of marketing at SuperMac , a supplier of hardware and software for graphics professionals.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 24, 2012

If you’ve ever been a trade marketing manager in charge of setting up an exhibition booth for your company in a trade conference or expo, you know the acute pain of trying to source for the right vendors who can build and run your booth at the right price. ” Up to three vendors may respond to each RFP.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Black Friday is just around the corner, and this is a great time to review your sales forecast goals and develop a strategy to meet them through your holiday campaigns. Here are 6 ways your business can build holiday marketing campaigns that help you increase holiday sales this season! This year, suggest the matching necklace.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Market research and a business plan should be the focus at this stage. Business owners know that growth as a business versus a startup requires replicable and documented processes, a focus on marketing and sales, personnel management skills, and detailed planning. Startup and development stage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 14, 2022

Market your solution and user benefits, not the mysterious technology behind it. There seems to be an insatiable demand from consumers for a better shopping experience, meaning they will pay a premium to a company that can present them a better match in products to their interests, without jeopardizing their good name.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 28, 2019

Due to this reason, marketers are having a prime platform for connecting with their customers and gaining more customers. Despite the contrary, now mobile phones are the most cherished and close channel for marketers. Buyers and consumers never want to get pounded with annoying marketing ads. Marketing Via SMS.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Don’t forget to market yourself before, during, and after your initial idea, through social media, websites, and events. Customer feedback, including blog comments, usability reviews, and early user testimonials, build relationships and provide credible marketing to the broader customer community.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

It does, and we brought world-class marketers to deliver keynotes full of value on growth and experimentation. Of course, we took care of the usual aspects of every offline marketing conference, and CXL Live 2022 brought together 300 returning attendees and first-timers, taking over a rooftop venue in downtown Austin. Great talks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Yet in this age when customers have a thousand alternatives, and are overwhelmed by a multitude of messages, sales efforts can make or break a business. In fact, I believe modern entrepreneurs need to be super sales people, in the most positive sense, to their team as well as customers. No pain usually means no sales.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2020

Of course, their answer is that the second intends to get to market faster, but every engine has limits regardless the fuel applied. Use social media for early marketing. Waiting until you have something to sell before bringing on a sales and operations staff. Getting a sales contract before manufacturing inventory.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2019

Very few entrepreneurs have the range of skills and experience to be the solution creator as well as business creator, or operational as well as sales leader. The challenge is to recognize and recruit that ideal partner match early with minimal cost and risk. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales.

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Up and Running

JULY 2, 2014

Sales forecasting is much easier than you think, and much more useful than you imagine. Since sales are intimate with costs and expenses, the forecast helps you budget and manage. You measure the value of a sales forecast like you do anything in business, by its measurable business results. Lines of sales.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

In this article, you’ll learn what growth hacking in marketing is and what it’s not. The goal of growth hacking as marketing is rapid growth, using strategies and tactics that leverage (and even exploit) technology, platforms, and behavior to reach an end goal. Why do people think growth hacking in marketing is controversial?

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 13, 2021

During the last few years, marketers have turned toward more personalized experiences to win customers over. What is personalized marketing? Personalized marketing is when a business delivers individualized content to current and prospective customers. Why is personalized marketing effective? Segment your audience.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 9, 2020

Affiliate marketing can be a great channel for business growth. It can help you gain new customers, drive more sales, create awareness for your business and generate traffic and word-of-mouth through relevant publisher partnerships. Because of this, I am committed to ensuring that affiliate marketing maintains its strong reputation.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

The Customer Development process is the way startups quickly iterate and test each element of their business model , reducing customer and market risk. In Discovery startups take all their hypotheses about the business model: product, market, customers, channel, etc. It’s A Marketing Problem. We Have a Marketing Problem. “So

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 31, 2023

Whether it’s marketing yourself as an expert, writing Shopify-specific content, or partnering with other Shopify Partners, fitting into the Shopify Partners and Ecosystem is one of the crucial steps. Shopify users often require contract work for tasks such as web development, marketing, web design, business development, and writing.

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View from Seed

MARCH 3, 2015

Ellie Mirman was the first marketer hired by the CMO of HubSpot, the Boston-based marketing software startup that IPOed in 2014. Below, she shares lessons learned from the earliest days of marketing the company and how this has translated to her second startup role as VP of Marketing at Toast. How did you address that?

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The Definitive Guide To Instagram Marketing written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Jenn Herman. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Jenn Herman. Hello and welcome to another episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast. Really, really eye-opening.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

The last thing you need in a startup is a false start, where you can’t deliver on a product change deadline, or a new marketing channel. Make sure they match before you commit. It’s important to separate optimism and dreams from market realities. Just because Google sales hit $1.5 How do I measure success?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 26, 2020

According to TheStreet , US IPO market results in Q2 2020 posted a strong bounce-back from Q1 with 58 IPOs, after a slow start due to the Covid19 pandemic. They are still nowhere near the rate required to match the yearly total of 486 hit way back in 1999. Market volatility usually hits public companies first.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Great product exposure and a sales team dedicated to improving the lives of your customer base act as the face of your company. In order to truly find success this must be matched by a development team that consistently strives to deliver truly life-bettering products and services that customers keep coming back for.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 21, 2012

Compared to social media and content marketing, email is a mature channel for engaging online consumers. Regardless of whether your business is in the B2B or B2C space, your email marketing effectiveness can be optimized. However, there are some components unique to email marketing that you should also test. Sender name.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 30, 2021

While you all recognize that reacting to weak market signals is critical to staying in business and staying competitive, I find that many don’t have the skills and focus to trigger change decisions on a timely basis. Scan for unmet needs to match new products. Establish and evaluate metrics at multiple levels.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2020

As they watched their market share dwindle instead, they realized too late that these segments were already defined, and they needed a new focused brand to attract customers from other segments. If the shopping process, delivery, and support level does not match their expectations, no innovative product features will compensate.

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Up and Running

MAY 29, 2015

First, allow me to deal with a very common problem: Business owners are often afraid to forecast sales. It doesn’t take spreadsheet modeling, much less econometric modeling, to estimate units and price per unit for future sales. New product or not, your sales forecast won’t accurately predict the future. That’s much harder.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2020

Market research and a business plan should be the focus at this stage. Business owners know that growth as a business versus a startup requires replicable and documented processes, a focus on marketing and sales, personnel management skills, and detailed planning. Startup and development stage.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

An article on growth and marketing in the middle of a crisis—the current one or any other—can seem tone deaf. This post surveys what people have done in the past—and what marketing leaders are doing now—to make it through tough times and thrive in the post-crisis era. Tim Stewart, trsdigital. But nothing gets better if we stand still.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

If you’re an e-commerce site, you’re probably always looking for new ways to generate more sales. And if you haven’t yet dabbled in influencer marketing, now’s the time to try it out. Keep reading for five tips for launching influencer marketing campaigns for your e-commerce business. Take a look at your social networks.

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Especially since VC pattern matching may inappropriately label people this way (can’t sell) who are merely nervous or new to their environment. Sales is just storytelling with a desired outcome at the end of the story. And what type of ‘sales’ you’ll mostly be doing. Or go to a flea market and haggle.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 11, 2024

It is a casual way to help enhance your website and to also make extra sales as you can link back to pages on your website or even particular products by talking about them in more detail. Really think about what you would want from an online business and ensure that your site matches your expectations.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

AI to make IRL matches – What if you could chat with a bot that learns about you on a deeper level and uses this information to make a curated set of matches? Technological Convergence – The global equity market value associated with disruptive innovation could increase to 60% by 2030. trillion by 2030.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 24, 2024

Leverage analytics Gathering customer analytics insights is instrumental in increasing engagement as it helps you tailor your strategies to match the characteristics of users. For instance, retailers reach out to buyers as soon as a new product arrives or a sale is about to end. Businesses can promote UGC in diverse ways.

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