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Why Some Startups Win

Steve Blank

But he was getting uneasy that as his headcount was growing the productivity of his marketing department seemed to be rapidly declining. The other departments gave the same type of logistical answers; the product-marketing department, for example, said their job was to get the product specs from engineering and write data sheets.

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Give Your Advertising ROI a Serious Boost by Maintaining Scent (11 examples)

ConversionXL

5 is overkill, 3 could work – but since the product is complicated (and probably not cheap), collecting emails would be a better idea than asking to read more. The only thing that matches here is that it’s the same type of product on the photo, but it’s not the same photo (should be). A metrics company!

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Search: Not Provided: What Remains, Keyword Data Options, the Future

Occam's Razor

We can guess our brand terms and product keywords, but the wonderful harvest of category-type, and beyond, keywords is gone. Another important reason historical data becomes stale pretty quickly is that any nominally functioning business will have new products, new content, new business priorities, and all that impacts your search strategy.

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SuperMac War Story 6: Building The Killer Team – Mission, Intent.

Steve Blank

The other departments in marketing gave the same answers; the product-marketing department said their job was to write data sheets. To do that we will create end-user demand and drive it into the sales channel, educate the channel and customers about why our products are superior, and help Engineering understand customer needs and desires.

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How and Why I Use BuzzSumo

Duct Tape Marketing

Sharing isn’t the only metric we use, but it’s an important one. With this feature, you can create a list of things such as brand names, product names, competitors, journalists and even key employees and receive daily digests for any mentions. Competitive research. Alerts have been with us for a while.

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Amazon SEO Isn’t Google SEO: 6 Differences That Matter

ConversionXL

Did you know that Amazon has surpassed Google as the go-to search platform for shoppers looking for products? When customers have a specific product in mind, more turn to Amazon search than Google. If you’re porting over your SEO “best practices” from on-site product pages to Amazon product pages, you’ll struggle.

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Top 7 Mistakes That Kill Your Ads Conversion in 2017

Duct Tape Marketing

They forget about users on the other side of the screen, willing to communicate to people rather than brands and products names. Link product to a high-involvement issue. A first-rate headline doesn’t simply state what you offer but explains the benefit behind your product. You focus on a product.