Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2011

In other words, once they are convinced that the product works, they assume their price, sales channel, and marketing will bring in the customers. For example, one CEO I know gave away his software product to the first ten customers. Iterate and improve the fit until your test customers are delighted, not just tolerant.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 5, 2010

In other words, once they are convinced that the product works, they assume their price, sales channel, and marketing will bring in the customers. For example, one CEO I know gave away his software product to the first ten customers. Iterate and improve the fit until your test customers are delighted, not just tolerant.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2018

According to most investors I know, traction is some clear evidence that the “dogs are eating the dog food” – usually meaning that you have at least one customer paying full price for your solution. Another term often mentioned is “momentum,” or growing visibility and advocacy within your customer set.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 7, 2015

Businesses require an equally elegant business model, with the right price, messaging and delivery channel to the right target customers to keep the dream alive and growing. The founder had simply not done the work to validate a price and customer segment. Test your channel and support strategy.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 11, 2016

We were trying out different cities, and I was flying around the country, and we were trying different campaigns and various things, and ultimately they were not working. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show. Seen was recognized as the “Innovation Game Changer” at the 2012 Ohio Interactive Awards. .

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 11, 2016

We were trying out different cities, and I was flying around the country, and we were trying different campaigns and various things, and ultimately they were not working. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show. Seen was recognized as the “Innovation Game Changer” at the 2012 Ohio Interactive Awards. .

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Columbus Entrepreneur Ohio Cofounder 120

Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Talked about the, the idea of getting your customers, your prospects in the habit of buying from you or listening to you or following you habit based marketing, download, nudge, wherever you get your podcasts. (00:47): Semrush is your one stop shop for online marketing build, manage and measure campaigns across all channels faster and easier.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2018

In my experience with technical entrepreneurs, they work hard on creating an innovative and elegant solution, and assume that customers will flock to them (“if we build it, they will come”). The founder had simply not done the work to validate a price and the perfect customer segment. Finalize your channel and marketing strategy.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 20, 2010

Is the customer intent contained in the keywords telling you how to change / improve the page? Some very effective SEO strategies like allowing users to add reviews and comments and extend the scope of the page do not work as well with b2b as it is a differ net type of engagement and experience with your customers.

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www.rocketwatcher.com

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Timeframes Days target to prospect – this will vary depending on your campaign but over time you will be able to track and compare similar tactics to each other. I do this by program/campaign so I can compare email campaigns to pure advertising (for example). It can also indicate the effectiveness of your salesforce.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 17, 2013

In using such a scattershot approach to social media, these organizations are missing out on major opportunities to engage with potential and current customers, manage their reputations, and more — and they may be alienating social media users in the process. Branding: Be consistent across all channels. speak’ with a unified voice.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 20, 2019

As a SaaS company, we have had pretty good success in acquiring new customers for our business using various techniques: organic traffic, paid ads, email marketing, etc. This is one of the biggest problems in SaaS – churn is essentially the number of customers you lose every month because they cancel their subscription.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Customer service. Google Custom Search Engine. Campaign Monitor. Customer Relationship Management. great web customer acquisition tutorials. Read post Why Learning should be your top 2013 new year’s resolution  for a full list. Codeacademy. Steve Blank.

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