Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 12, 2024

written by Tosin Jerugba read more at Duct Tape Marketing The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I interviewed Jonathan Gandolf, the founder and CEO of The Juice, a B2B content platform aimed at solving marketers’ biggest pain points in distribution, reach, and audience engagement.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 1, 2013

We asked 10 founders to share what they think the future of personalized shopping holds (ecommerce entrepreneurs, listen up!). Amazons product suggestions are great because they have so much aggregate data. If they did, I could get an amazing aggregate view of whats relevant to me based on a more complete profile. Social Media.

eCommerce 108

eCommerce Technical Review San Francisco New York City 108

Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2019

AFWERX, who works out of Capital Factory’s Center for Defense Innovation, serves as a channel through which entrepreneurs can access the necessary resources to make their ideas a reality within the U.S. The issues primarily addressed AI automated systems, data aggregation, communication and streamlining pilot training.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Pamela Poole is a blogger, translator and tech writer, and founder of Francophilia.com , a social startup for Francophiles. Big names like Microsoft BizSpark and Sun Startup Essentials have a presence here, of course, and The Funded recently launched their Founder Institute in Paris as well. The Funding. But what about the little guys?

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France Technical Review Incubator Early Stage 163

Gust

JANUARY 4, 2012

I’d like to take a step back and discuss the significance of IP as a component of the overall value that founders intend to create as they grow the company. How much risk do IP issues in the aggregate pose to our business ? Large companies] win by locking competitors out of their sales channels.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, September 19, 2009 Support the Startup Founders Visa with a tweet Its been an exhilarating first day here in Washington DC for the Geeks on a Plane tour. We can remedy it by creating a special visa for startup founders. I think the benefits are a no-brainer. 2gov.org will take care of the rest.

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Up and Running

JUNE 23, 2015

Meg Wirth and Allyson Cote, founders of Maternova. I was fortunate enough to speak with co-founder Allyson Cote, and hear the Maternova story, as well as some of its exciting plans for the future. 90 percent of our clients are ordering more than one product at a time, so we’re an aggregator.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 13, 2017

by Stephen Sheinbaum, founder of Bizfi. Pursuing new sales channels while maintaining your current brand can help diversify your products and attract more customers to your business. Every entrepreneur starts out with dreams of success. According to a recent survey by UPS , the adoption of online shopping is accelerating.

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Small Business Small Business Administration Social Media Aggregator 100

Hearpreneur

JULY 8, 2017

Todd McGuire is the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of startup incentaHEALTH and we had to the opportunity to hear from him about starting business, the future of the company and what entrepreneurship means to him. I am the co-founder and CTO of the digital health care company incentaHEALTH. Tell us your story: .

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 17, 2016

by Anand Srinivasan, founder of LeadJoint.com. In its simplest sense, this is the process of rewarding customers for completing tasks that you measure and thus channeling your visitors through a funnel that drives conversion. One way to make these tasks less challenging is by building a loyal customer base. Virtual Currencies.

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eCommerce Social Network Aggregator Lead Generation 100

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

For much of 2013 I watched the press write articles about how the YouTube “MCNs” (multi-channel networks) were doomed and tried to square that with the data I was watching at the one I invested in, Maker Studios, who has had one hell of a year. Developing O&O (owned & operated) businesses (outside of YouTube).

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 26, 2022

I had gone to high school with the founders in the Seattle area, and we had recently reconnected. My boss, Jen Grant , was an incredible manager, and Aaron Levie, the co-founder and CEO, was a fantastic partner on all things communications. For any individual founder, all comms decisions should start with the desired business impact.

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Steve Blank

JULY 19, 2016

The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Peter Arvai , co-founder of Prezi , an interactive presentation platform. a company that aggregates data on treatment outcomes for hospital patients.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 13, 2015

So by segmenting your data, you can learn things you couldn’t from the aggregate data. How does retention differ among different acquisition channels? SALs are the goal for many enterprise marketing and sales groups, but knowing which channel brought them in is the key to really scaling your sales velocity.”

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

PernixData introduces a software-defined “Flash Virtualization Platform” that aggregates and virtualizes flash storage distributed across servers into a scale-out data tier for enterprise data centers to provide low cost, deterministic high performance to any out-of-box application.

Software 104

Software Flash Architecture Aggregator 104

VC Adventure

APRIL 30, 2020

I’m encouraging everyone to share the information about the webinar and the FAN on their social media channels and especially with small business owners in their networks. Lew Visscher is the founder of Lew’s List. The webinar is free and you can register here. I though it was worth sharing here as well.

Small Business 79

Small Business SBA Colorado Finance 79

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 18, 2010

Ash Maurya is the founder of WiredReach , a bootstrapped startup that he has been running for seven years. But instead of channeling all my energy towards building new features, I channel roughly 80% of it towards measuring and optimizing existing features. This case presents a further complication: desktop software.

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www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Sakti3 Founder Sastry to Step Down From U-M. Tech Channels ▾ Cleantech ›. Co-Founder and CEO, Wetpaint. Founder, DEKA Research and Development Corporation. Amazingly, nobody has aggregated this data before,” says Coats, who was previously a managing partner at San Diego’s Hamilton Bioventures. New York ›.

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San Diego Venture Capital Technical Review San Francisco 40

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Along with the announcement of the founding Mysupermarket has also made some significant changes in its managament team, by adding Alon Bloch as CEO, replacing the founder Amir Ofer. Bloch was previously a partner in Jerusalem Venture Partners and an active member of the board in the Israeli startup Wix.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

It should be even more important to the founders themselves, because it demonstrates that their business hypothesis is grounded in reality. These founders have not managed, to borrow a phrase from Steve Blank , to create a scalable and repeatable sales process. More on that in a moment. They are close to breakeven.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

Mass blasts of information are ineffective, because the broadcast channels are suffering from information overload (even in social media). Test-marketing is now easier than ever before, thanks to leveraged distribution channels like AdWords and Facebook. There are too many products clamoring for attention.

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Reid Hoffman

DECEMBER 4, 2020

I first met Joe when he was working as a General Partner for Entrepreneur First , a Greylock -backed early stage tech fund which has gone on to raise and run $200 million in capital for start-ups, creating a global portfolio with an aggregate value of more than $2 billion.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

She has a separate team, with its own culture and office, and a mandate straight from top management to innovate without regard to the company’s historic products, channels, or supply chain. She knows the internal politics are tricky, but she’s navigated them well. So far, so good.

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San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment Startup 102

ConversionXL

JUNE 20, 2019

Simply sign up using your Google account, create a channel , and upload your video files. Suggested videos encourage people to increase their watch time not just on your channel but on the platform as a whole. Here’s how Nextiny ’s channel appears on their website: Users can customize the look of a channel (e.g.

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Hosting Video Technical Review Software Review 127

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2019

Getting access to these insights allows teams to channel more resources ahead of time to reduce the risk and impact of a missed deadline. Vadim Katcherovski is the Founder and CEO of Project Management software platform, Easy Projects. Will we stay within budget?

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Artificial Inteligence Software Review Management Software Developers 168

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 16, 2010

Rashmi Sinha, co-founder and CEO of SlideShare , describes an early version of the analytics package that’s part of the Pro accounts the company announced today. Early this year, SlideShare launched custom channels. In the meantime, take a look at how SlideShare performed a significant pivot while still moving at full speed.

San Francisco 167

San Francisco Lean Analytics Continuous Deployment 167

Mike Michalowicz

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Renske Lynde, Co-founder & Managing Director, Food System 6 Accelerator. Be sure you understand how to make every aspect of the business repeatable and scalable: aggregation, ingredient purchasing, production, fulfillment, customer experience and customer retention. Young businesses have a lot of product lines and sales channels.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 11, 2012

The daily deals aggregator says they are seeing more and more merchants listing their deals on deal sites, and consumers haven’t quite had enough of scouting for such deals. All Deals Asia iPhone App.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 2, 2013

YouTube Video channel selector. This is the point where I need to tell you that this week’s guest on the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is Jay Baer, founder of Convince and Convert and author of Youtility: Why Smart Marketing Is about Help Not Hype. Content based autoresponder series – series of videos on how to do X.

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Marketing Social Media Aggregator Database 68

Austin Startup

JUNE 21, 2010

In early 2009, the founders of Sparefoot (then called Homstie.com) had a vision of allowing people with extra storage space in their homes to make a match with people who wanted to store things. During the summer of 2009 the founders did more research on the market, tested out some ideas and refined their offerings.

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Los Angeles Aggregator Early Stage Partner 72

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

Jen is the founder and former executive director of Code for America. How to channel your efforts and energy and stay informed. ( But a lot of it is also just getting the data, aggregating it, being able to take action on it. I think you can certainly channel some of your efforts that way. She served as the U.S.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 3, 2013

What used to come across as a blatant advertisement is not just an aggregation of user testimony, or photos, or a participatory experience. It’s time to make the valuable parts of this conversation visible across multiple channels to allow for further user interaction and amplification. Link to white paper – [link].

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

My Hubspot channel colleague Rachel Cogar at Puma Creative has a phase that I just absolutely love – she describes Inbound Marketing as a crock-pot strategy, not a microwave strategy. That lead you purchased from a lead-aggregator may be a perfect fit customer for your organization and purchase next week.

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Sales Cycle Forecast Charlotte Lead Generation 67

www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

This is a little harder to do for channel sales, but still extremely valuable. Like you I believe, that businesses who deliver information rich (highly configurable OR customizable) products & services via online channels REQUIRE the understanding of their KEY LEVERs if they are going to be successful.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Otherwise, consider using those marketing dollars to scale up your core distribution channel first. But the exceptions are rare and tend to be founders. Contrast this with a marketing team going after any particular channel—events, paid, SEO, community, PR, whatever. A properly scaled marketing channel can 10X your business.

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Conversion Technical Review Channel Engineer 133

Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

The most important customer acquisition channel for a new business is referrals. The talent and experience of the founder and team play a huge part in the customer’s decision-making process because an early stage startup does not have much in the terms of a business record. David Smooke ( @DavidSmooke ) is the founder of ArtMap Inc. ,

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www.kalzumeus.com

AUGUST 13, 2012

This is objectively suboptimal, because email is the best broadcast channel ever invented for business purposes. Email: Geeks Ignore The Best Marketing Channel Ever. Statistically speaking, you’re probably reading it either through a feedreader or on an aggregator like Hacker News. How are you reading it right now?

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