Steve Blank

MARCH 15, 2017

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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Rembrandt Communications

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Do you have all of your public relations, or PR, and marketing ready for this year’s holiday season? After all, most print publications fill their available advertising spots months in advance. When you secure your advertising early, you not only have more choices, but you can also save a lot of money. Save money.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 24, 2013

The new Dragon Mobile Assistant is fully location-aware and offers several additional proactive assistant features Current advertising and public relations startups are already poised along these lines, all the way from clothes shopping, art galleries, online advertising, to managing press releases.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Why You Should Find Product-Market Fit Before Sniffing Around For Venture Money | Co.Labs – crowdspring.co/1sRVsv5. Why Google’s Reported CPC Declines Can’t Tell The Story Of “A Mobile Advertising Problem” – crowdspring.co/1wkmIU1. What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company? |

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 1, 2018

Facebook is an advertising platform. We’ll have to accept Facebook as largely an advertising platform. Messaging apps are actually the #1 social media trend advertising and marketing executives say they’ll be focused on for 2018. Any comments they make about your content or your products or services. Like these: 1.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 28, 2022

I want to listen to them deeply about our products. I've been working in this industry for a few years now, and there are two kinds of businesses: those that focus on their products and services, and those that focus on their customers. social media advertising. #3- Increase engagement with customers.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 18, 2014

Ad Fraud Creates Worry For Some, Opportunity For Others | Advertising Age – crowdspring.co/1kXIaGI. 24 Creative Birds Inspired Products | InstantShift – crowdspring.co/1m4ctNu. Why Amazon Is Copying Zappos and Paying Employees to Quit | Harvard Business Review – crowdspring.co/1ijCiIW.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 6, 2013

Tie Your Ego to the Product, Not the Process | Cap Watkins – [link]. “Real companies build real value by building real products that address real problems. Productivity’s Worst Enemy — And How to Conquer It – [link]. Creative Typography Used in Advertising – [link]. – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

Blurred Lines: Is Native Advertising Bad Or Good? 6 Ways to Make Your Product into a Habit – crowdspring.co/1wVgto3. What Your ZIP Code Says About You | Co.Design – crowdspring.co/1wq8nG0. crowdspring.co/1tA9EuP. Why Jewelry Stores Hide The Price Tags | Planet Money – crowdspring.co/1DjnHWC.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 17, 2014

5 Massive Advertising Campaign Wars Between Rival Brands – crowdspring.co/1dx93zY. Native advertising: 12 fascinating examples of good and bad practice | Econsultancy – crowdspring.co/1cW7VVb. How Marketers Can Make the Most of Facebook’s New Algorithm | Advertising Age – crowdspring.co/1eJlzMW.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

How can you price your products & services to demonstrate value? Create products that people love by validating your idea first - crowdspring.co/188qOFM. How can you price your products & services to demonstrate value? Create products that people love by validating your idea first - crowdspring.co/188qOFM.

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Rembrandt Communications

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

But is it sending the right message to your customers, partners, advertisers, sponsors, and more? Your busy and you don’t have the time or money to do public relations. What else can you do to get the word out about your products and services? Sure, your release appears all over the web and on the search engines.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2014

A Deep Dive Into Today’s Advertising Landscape crowdspring.co/1z7nHKJ. Your 5 Procrastination Excuses, Debunked | Fast Company | Business + Innovation crowdspring.co/1qnKxEK. How To Be Efficient: Dan Ariely’s 6 New Secrets To Managing Your Time – crowdspring.co/1z4kz2e.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 14, 2021

One difference between marketing a startup and an established brand is that consumers are getting to know the brand story and the product simultaneously. Given that the product may still be in development, the marketer also needs to be agile and ready to respond to unexpected obstacles with an early startup marketing strategy.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 29, 2013

Product/Market Fit is a Continuum | Startup Management – [link]. Facebook’s share of digital advertising growing fast, thanks to mobile | GigaOM – [link]. 26 Creative and Unique Advertising examples for your inspiration – [link]. 26 Creative and Unique Advertising examples for your inspiration – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 20, 2014

How To Turn Good Ideas Into Great Products – crowdspring.co/T83uRB. How many SaaS companies still have freemium products? If SaaS Products Sell Themselves, Why Do We Need Sales? If SaaS Products Sell Themselves, Why Do We Need Sales? Good insights for entrepreneurs & investors – crowdspring.co/1nQhSc9.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2021

Many entrepreneurs never get past their first-stage focus on their innovative product, to scaling the business globally, organizing a structure to handle thousands of employees, and concentrating their focus “on the business” rather than working “in the business.” Switch your focus from product development to sales.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

In the past, it was possible to achieve these goals through promotion and advertising. It also found that 84% of people were convinced to buy a product or service based on a brand’s video (a key step in securing loyal customers). It also gives Benefit the chance to sell the product. However, the rules of engagement are changing.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 15, 2018

A style guide can contain rules for any aspects of communication you want to be handled consistently by all who represent your company (customer service, marketing, public relations, sales, etc.). Share real-life stories about how your services and products have helped your customers. Don’t bite off more than you can chew.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 30, 2014

Photography Post-production: Lightroom & Photoshop Tutorials | Abduzeedo – crowdspring.co/1lDsOWD. What are the best Craigslist advertisements of all time? Photography Post-production: Lightroom & Photoshop Tutorials | Abduzeedo – crowdspring.co/1lDsOWD. The A to Z of Adobe Photoshop – crowdspring.co/1lDsGGR.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 12, 2013

If People Don’t Get Your Product, It’s Your Fault, Not Theirs – [link]. The 9 Golden Rules for Dealing With Bad Publicity | Technori – [link]. Global mobile advertising growing nicely, but North American market share is declining – [link]. 65 Brilliant Product Packaging Examples – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Facebook Admits Organic Reach of Brand Posts Is Dipping | Digital – Advertising Age – crowdspring.co/1gJLZ0O. Facebook Brand Pages Suffer 44% Decline in Reach Since December 1 – crowdspring.co/1gmLRHe. The Top 5 Brand Twitter Fails of 2013 | Digiday by @sweissman – crowdspring.co/19g0x6F.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 24, 2023

You don’t always buy the cheapest product or service, if you have a good relationship with the people involved. That’s a lot cheaper and lot longer lasting than the best advertising and public relations you can buy. Consideration is the discipline to do and say things to people that are important to them.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 17, 2013

“As a founder, your job isn’t to make a great product. It’s to build a great team that makes great products.” Startup PR Tip: To Get Press, Don’t Pitch Your Product – [link]. Which are some of the funniest, most clever advertisements? 20+ Effective Public Interest Ads – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 22, 2013

The Future of Advertising: ‘Pay-Per-Gaze’ Is Just the Beginning | Mashable – [link]. Some great advertising by Droga5 for Newcastle Brown Ale – [link]. Blaming the blockers: What’s the future of online advertising? 30 Funny Signs Advertisements And Commercials – [link]. GigaOm – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Minimum Viable Product: Build a slice across, instead of one layer at a time. “Everyone who doesn’t have his head up ass knows online advertising is a corrupt freak show of cosmic proportions” crowdspring.co/1G2J5lp. Digital to Overtake TV Ad Spending in Two Years: Forrester | Advertising Age - crowdspring.co/1x56P4i.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

Twitter link roundups ads advertising animation branding copywriting crowdsourcing design entrepreneur entrepreneurship facebook industrial design innovation leadership marketing mobile motion design package design pr product design public relations small biz small business Social media startups twitter visual effects writing'

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 9, 2014

With IPO Hopes Fading, Square And Box Face Reality Of Commodity Products | TechCrunch – crowdspring.co/1rWbako. The Answer to the Organic Reach vs Advertising Problem on Social Media Channels – crowdspring.co/1rTUmdM. 33 Spectacular Package Designs for Product Branding | SpyreStudios - crowdspring.co/1fr1Ogt.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2014

These 44 Apps Will Make Entrepreneurs and Small Business Owners More Productive – crowdspring.co/YGV8Dp. These 44 Apps Will Make Entrepreneurs and Small Business Owners More Productive – crowdspring.co/YGV8Dp. Crowdsourcing: the great advertising agency debate – crowdspring.co/1BeP9SE. – crowdspring.co/1qPCsY8.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Good whitepaper on advertising measurement metrics | by Ben Kunz – crowdspring.co/HsVIMR. Good whitepaper on advertising measurement metrics | by Ben Kunz – crowdspring.co/HsVIMR. Entrepreneur PSA – Advertising Businesses are Hard | Seth’s Blog - crowdspring.co/1aHHgHS.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2022

Initially, all companies sell to customers who are the easiest to reach and most excited about the new product. Scrappy guerilla marketing based on personal contacts and word-of-mouth campaigns gives way to more expensive customer acquisition using advertising, trade shows, and a marketing agency.

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Hockey Stick Guerilla Acquisition Startup 265

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 5, 2013

“Products take off not just because of WHAT they do but HOW they make us feel.” “Products take off not just because of WHAT they do but HOW they make us feel.” “Products take off not just because of WHAT they do but HOW they make us feel.” The Law of Timing in Negotiations – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2014

10 Massively Successful Minimum Viable Products – crowdspring.co/1mVcFD5. The ROI of Blogging: What the Groove Blog is Worth to Our Startup – crowdspring.co/YUXa2r. Passion Alone is Not Enough to Open a Business – crowdspring.co/YVlAZA. The Ultimate Startup Marketing Strategy | by Venture Harbour – [link] crowdspring.co/1xxV8lb.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 10, 2013

“Working in 90-minute intervals turns out to be a prescription for maximizing productivity.” How to Set Yourself Up for a Productive Day | by Michael Hyatt – [link]. How to Set Yourself Up for a Productive Day | by Michael Hyatt – [link]. 50+ Creative Advertising Print Ads | Grafix Designs – [link].

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Rembrandt Communications

OCTOBER 1, 2021

It’s that time of year when frightful thoughts and messages fill the air for Halloween… but your marketing messages and public relations’ pitches should not be part of this! Does all of your messaging focus on the features of your products and services and how wonderful you are? Do you talk about how great you are? News flash!

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Marketing Flash Public Relations Media 264

crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 22, 2013

How to Modernize a Public Relations Strategy That’s Stuck in the Dark Ages | Hubspot Blog – [link]. Creative Examples of Bus Stop Advertisement Ideas | GraphicMania – [link]. 30 Crazy Billboard Advertisement Ideas and Designs – [link]. Creative product designs #11 | Designskilz – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 10, 2014

The surprising secret of happier, more productive organizations: conflict – crowdspring.co/1qscUpx. The surprising secret of happier, more productive organizations: conflict – crowdspring.co/1qscUpx. 4 Mistakes New Product Managers Make – crowdspring.co/1rXNZrC. More in the Other section below.

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