YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Perhaps you focus more on customer satisfaction than anyone in your field, or you have a knack for communication with clients. Start by defining your vision statement and company mission, which will help inform other areas of your business like marketing or sales. Hone your elevator pitch, not your sales pitch. Create a roadmap.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 13, 2011

Far too often marketers spend all of their attention on the chase and the sale and not enough on the retain and remarkable experience. It’s certainly a big topic, but I love that attract and retain are used in the same setting because they are certainly linked arm in arm in a business that wants to build any kind of marketing momentum.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 15, 2013

Otherwise, you’re just wasting time and ticking people off (which, for brands, means potentially losing customers). These days, many of the subscription emails in your inbox are real-time customized based on past purchases, recently viewed items, geography, and the device you open the message with. The rest is just digital noise.

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Software By Rob

MARCH 17, 2010

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← Free Website Feedback, Custom Card Designs, Finding Good Domain Names, and more… Paying the Price of Success → Joel on Software is Shutting Down. Long Live the King.

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 30, 2013

A strong brand differentiates your product or service from your competitors, and is easily recognized by customers in your market. And you will stay top-of-mind for customers since they will always be curious as to what they can expect from you next. When you make your product distinguishable, you can gain more customers.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 14, 2011

My take is that if you establish a strong marketing strategy, one that helps you build trust, and you fully understand the behavior and objectives of your ideal customer, then you can use almost any tactic to build your business. The technology is there to do this in small batches with hundreds of variations. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. :

Small Business 66

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

What I’ve honorably been able to do, however, is share the deck I used to pitch LinkedIn to Greylock for a Series B investment back in 2004. the consumer internet landscape in 2004 vs. today. In 2004, the consumer internet was just beginning to rebound. In 2004, investors regained interest in the consumer internet again.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 7, 2020

The first shows were created in late 2003, and the term itself was coined in 2004 by combining “iPod” with “broadcasting.”. Podcasting can drive traffic to a website, which, in turn, can generate leads or sales. For business-related podcasts, post teasers and episodes to LinkedIn, as well as supporting them with targeted advertising.

Syndicate 85

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 28, 2011

If indeed you have any vision of selling your business in the future you’ve got to focus on marketing instead of simply focusing on sales. In my opinion, a greater focus on these elements not only creates greater sales, it leads to the creation of a more valuable asset – or something you might indeed be able to sell.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 20, 2011

I’m no science wiz, but I’ve always loved the idea of resistance in physics as a metaphor for the kind of resistance many business owners encounter when trying to spark a sale. Many times we can present a solution and price that seems like the obvious and logical choice, but can’t seem to make the sale.

Social Media 67

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 14, 2011

Gives you the ability to initiate help and sales chats while visitors are on your site. Enloop – Automatically creates customized business plans are prepared, on-the-fly, complete with all text and financial forecasts. All rights reserved.

Small Business 56

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 28, 2013

Otherwise, you’re just wasting time and ticking people off (which, for brands, means potentially losing customers). These days, many of the subscription emails in your inbox are real-time customized based on past purchases, recently viewed items, geography, and the device you open the message with. The rest is just digital noise.

Email 62

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 25, 2011

Often times we want to make our stuff sound so important and wonderful that it comes off confusing and complex – confusion equals no sale! You can grab a couple of your customers and ask them to perform certain tasks on your site while you watch. Balancing both of these needs is the tricky part. All rights reserved.

Small Business 64

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 15, 2009

It’s almost like the clock is moving backwards to 2004/2005 when blogs when there was much less noise in the blogosphere, but a smaller audience of commited, early adopters. I’ve been posting more and more recently, and my audience has grown faster than at any point in this blog’s history.

Software Review 49

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 20, 2011

For more insights, download these four free sales tools. As sellers, our job is to serve our customers by providing them with ideas, insights and information to help them do their job better. After sharing a bit about the business outcomes you’ve helped other customers achieve, see if it makes sense to continue the conversation.

Small Business 44

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 20, 2011

Wendy Weiss Wendy Weiss, The Queen of Cold Calling™ , is an author, speaker, sales trainer, and sales coach. Do your products/services provide a benefit to your customers? Are you doing the best you know how to ensure that your customers get what they need? She is the author of the book, Cold Calling for Women.

Small Business 38

Small Business Social Media Matching RSS 38

Up and Running

MAY 6, 2015

Great way to get your business represented online and bring in new customers. Cody, the VP of Sales wants this lead form on the front page. We like listening to our customers and seeing what they do. Jonathan: Okay, so the homepage must convey that you are caring about your customers and you need to be mobile.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2011

To help website owners take full advantage of the most important online marketing opportunities, here are 3 things small businesses can do to attract and engage new customers. Tips, articles, videos and experts interviews provide customers with the information they need to buy and refer to others. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. :

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 19, 2011

His latest book, “ Flip the Funnel: How to use existing customers to gain new ones ,” presents a powerful hypothesis that retention can become the new acquisition through the strategic incorporation and elevation of customer service, customer experience and customer initiated word-of-mouth, content creation and incentive-based referrals.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

It has historically been the case that VCs would rather fund the promise of 100x in a company with almost no revenue than the reality of a company growing at 50% but doing $20+ million in sales. This “overnight success” was first financed in 2004. This is true in consumer but it’s also true in enterprise software. The second “exit”?—?Adly?—?innovated

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 19, 2011

Sonia Simone Sonia Simone is the senior editor of Copyblogger and a co-founder of Copyblogger Media , a company with a suite of valued marketing and training products and more than 55,000 customers. The fact is, all of us have recipes in our business — sequences of steps that can help our customers get what they want.

Social Media 41

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 30, 2015

It might be the products or the customers they deal with, or it could even be the fact that they are the ones in charge of it all. After taking another year to build a second email marketing startup (with Anvil running in the background), I finally decided it was time for me to commit to building my own team and Anvil grew in earnest in 2004.

Entrepreneur 48

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 16, 2011

How much of our sales are we willing to put into our Marketing? What are we willing to pay to keep an existing customer? What is the life-long value of a customer to us? If we could get them to buy more, what would we want them to buy and how much more money should they spend? What would be the ideal Marketing mix?

Marketing 34

Marketing Small Business Social Media Matching 34

ConversionXL

JANUARY 11, 2013

We connect them to hundreds of thousands of potential new customers using email marketing, social networks, and display ad campaigns. In only 18 months, it went from 0 to 500 000 customers. Another thing to note is that all their prizes for different campaigns are in-line with AppSumo customer interests. 80 000+ Facebook fans.

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BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 17, 2006

Our direct sales group markets and sells our solutions primarily using the telephone and web-based demonstrations. During the years ended March 31, 2004, 2005 and 2006, we achieved positive operating cash flows of $0.3 million for 2004, $1.9 million, $0.9 million and $1.8 million, respectively, and used $0.7

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ConversionXL

APRIL 24, 2019

Sales reps are also likely to be familiar with Salesforce because it’s the most widely used CRM, reducing onboarding costs for companies that use it. Takeaway : Customer data should improve the user experience, not make it tougher for people to leave. Until 2004, when the U.S. Pick a random job description for a sales position.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

In 2004 I began blogging. I have a few contractors to do the technical side of my work and a customer support person, but that’s it. I didn’t have that contractor doing customer support. The biggest deal I’ve ever done was a sale of a $100,000 website. I began placing advertisements on the website.

Technical Review 73

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 10, 2017

He is the Founder and CEO of ONTRAPORT, an award-winning web-based sales marketing and business automation software platform. John Jantsch: You have always been the CEO of an award-winning web-based sales marketing and business automation software platform so give us your story. Landon Ray: Yeah, that would have been 2004.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 7, 2022

Look, if you work in sales, wanna learn how to sell, and frankly who doesn't check out the sales podcast, where host Will Barron helps sales professionals learn how to find buyers and win big business ineffective and ethical ways. Simple examples of this would be things like advertising spend print budgets.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

10- Customer targeting and positioning strategy. My naming process actually started with my customer targeting and positioning strategy. I also wanted to future proof my business – to position it for growth, and ultimately sale, so giving it my name was out of the question. Thanks to Paul Koger, Foxy Trades ! #10-

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BeyondVC

SEPTEMBER 28, 2005

I have shared many of these thoughts in earlier posts like " The web-based platform " last October and " Web-based businesses circa 2004." Customer acquisition. Spend $$$, advertising. VC – $5 or trade sale. " Web 1999/2000. Critical Mass. GoToMarket Philosophy. If you build it, they will come.

Web 60

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

When he saw TripAdvisor.com start to pick up traffic, he decided to pursue an online advertising based business model with banner ads. The company agreed to be acquired by Expedia/IAC in 2004 for $210 million in cash, a huge win for all, particularly given their amazing capital efficiency: they had only raised $4 million in venture capital.

Part-Time VPE 54

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Customer Center. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. ignited the current trend by adopting a dual-class voting structure before its IPO in 2004. Sales Jobs |. Technology.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Advertising. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. Mr. Dreymann moved his family from Israel in 2004 after co-founding Goodmail in Mountain View, Calif., Businesses For Sale |.

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Mike Michalowicz

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Julie Wurzer (right) started Patch Abilities in 2004, after being “fired” (2 years prior) from her ag sales job at the local farmer’s cooperative … yes, fired. Julie grew the business from scratch to nearly half a million in sales in 2011. TSheets – The #1 customer rated time tracking solution! Show Quotes.

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Mike Michalowicz

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Julie Wurzer (right) started Patch Abilities in 2004, after being “fired” (2 years prior) from her ag sales job at the local farmer’s cooperative … yes, fired. Julie grew the business from scratch to nearly half a million in sales in 2011. TSheets – The #1 customer rated time tracking solution! Show Quotes.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 18, 2010

The strategy was brilliant: get loads of people using your product and eventually turn them into paying customers. Plenty of advertising systems work well on 0.8%. #4 Do paid and free customers have very different needs/priorities? Asking for the credit card up front is a good way to vet customers. Watson on 08.18.10

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