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[White Paper] How To Build An Online Network of Influencers

YoungUpstarts

As we head into 2011, we can safely say that to be effective within online PR , marketing, and communication we need to be social. The responsibility lies with you, the communicator, the PR professional, or the online marketer. Download the rest of this white paper here. Look, Listen and Love. It’s not that strange.

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Why Some Startups Win

Steve Blank

We will accomplish this through demand-creation activities (advertising, PR, tradeshows, seminars, web sites, etc.), competitive analyses, channel and customer collateral (white papers, data sheets, product reviews), customer surveys, and customer discovery findings. The same was true for PR.

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Profound Beliefs

Steve Blank

If we did enough discovery customers would have told us what features were important to them, how we compare to competitors, how we should set prices, and how to best sell to them Once I understood the strategy, the tactical marketing To Do list (website, branding, pr, tradeshows, white papers, data sheets) became clear.

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

Steve Blank

We will accomplish this through demand-creation activities (advertising, PR, tradeshows, seminars, web sites, etc.), competitive analyses, channel and customer collateral (white papers, data sheets, product reviews), customer surveys, and market requirements documents. The same was true for PR.

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SuperMac War Story 5: Strategy versus Relentless Tactical.

Steve Blank

Our first thought was to spread the news ourselves, perhaps in a press release or a “white paper,” (remember this was pre-Internet.) Now as VP of Marketing, I could have sat back and let my PR agency handle the press. The head of the PR agency agreed that we would work together as a team.

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Guest Post: Staying Innovative as Your Business Grows (Part Two)

OnlyOnce

Create sales collateral, white papers, lead generation programs, case studies and PR plan. Key Elements. Take client feedback from Pilot and apply to General Availability product. Create support tools required. Train internal teams to sell and service. Update business model with incremental investment required. •

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Strategy is Not a To Do List

Steve Blank

Second, when we found these customers, marketing’s job was to put together the tactical marketing programs (ads, pr, tradeshows, white papers, data sheets) to drive end user demand into our direct sales channel and to educate our channel about how to sell our product.