ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Building that connection with customers requires a clear brand strategy to define why you exist and a solid marketing strategy to communicate that purpose with your customers. Getting your brand strategy right is critical to gaining and keeping customer attention. Understanding brand strategy vs. marketing strategy.

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Marketing Campaign Software Review Tulsa 128

ConversionXL

MAY 22, 2017

That was designed to allow information storage and manage customer contact information. SaaS stacks give companies the agility they need to move fast, but often they are the cause of a huge data fragmentation. Valuable customer data is buried in these disconnected tools. This is where the Customer Data Platform comes in.

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Customer Marketing Artificial Inteligence Clickthrough 92

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 26, 2022

Many B2B buyers now prefer digital meetings, digital conference calls, and negotiations. B2B enterprises would have to use various digital technologies like workflow management software to attain these goals. #11- 16- Customer focus. In 2022, businesses should be laser-focused on putting the customer first.

Software Review 122

Software Review Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Entrepreneur 122

View from Seed

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Most startups’ founding mythologies are full of the same phrases : “hard work,” “agile strategy,” “smart scaling.” The challenge, however, is that there will be people—VCs, potential customers, and employees—who don’t understand the concept, or don’t see the value of your product.

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Agile VC

OCTOBER 27, 2011

I’m not the first person to describe this trend, and my prior background has been primarily as a consumer web guy more than in B2B companies. But in the next 5 years the web and mobile app stores will increasingly be a force in selling and customer acquisition for busines software. The lessons learned from consumer Web 2.0

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Last week, in part one of the B2B versus B2C series, I explained there are several reasons as to why entrepreneurs should venture into “B2B” (“Business to Business”) service based companies as opposed to any form of “B2C” (“Business to Consumer”) company, “B2B” product-oriented company or strictly a web-based B2B firm.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 10, 2020

While chatbots promise to augment customer service and optimize the sales pipeline, they come with several potential drawbacks, including low-quality customer service and ambiguity around KPIs (key performance indicators) — both critical considerations for leaders who care about achieving long-term success.

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San Diego Algorithm B2C Artificial Inteligence 200

Women Entrepreneurs Can

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Businesses have a rising demand for singular, agile, integrated solutions. Whether you’re offering B2C or B2B SaaS, you need to make sure you’re employing the right sales strategies to drive revenue and get your offering into the hands of people and organizations who need it. . Looking For More Sales Strategies and Tips?

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 11, 2017

However, over-reliance on it can be a trap that puts you out of touch with your customers and can prevent you from building relationships that will help you get better at what you do and help you build a strong network and community. Putting systems in place helps you gain more clarity, control, confidence and customers for your business.

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Technical Review B2C B2B Agile 43

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

But B2B startups need to take a different tack. We invest in internet enabled companies at NextView and our portfolio is roughly equally split between consumer and B2B businesses. Business facing companies typically provide software or an online service for which their customers pay a fee.

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Revenue Product B2B Marketing 234

www.agilemarketingblog.com

JUNE 24, 2012

Agile Marketing Blog. Agile marketing. Agile marketing news. Categorized | Agile marketing. One model for an agile marketing plan. Upon further reflection, this comes back to the agile vs. waterfall marketer question I raised a month ago. With that in mind, here is my ideal agile marketing plan.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 10, 2018

is the transformation of traditional mechanical chains in production to “cyber-physical” chains where companies, suppliers, and customers are all connected through IT networks and production processes are fully digitized and automated. Start Engaging with Your Customers. What Is Industry 4.0? Essentially, Industry 4.0 Be Updated.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

It’s also a time when you are most agile to work on ideas and implement strategies without the crippling setbacks caused by decision hierarchy and process. Businesses invest a great deal of time and resources into marketing strategies and channels but not as much once the individual is within the fold of the sales funnel and customer-base.

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Metrics B2C B2B Channel 133

ConversionXL

APRIL 4, 2017

Though, increasingly, you can target with great granularity (especially on social) and set up custom audiences to create a holistic full-funnel paid strategy. This usually means you have a high lifetime value and it’s relatively cheap to acquire customers. Do you think you could turn some of those queries into customers?

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Channel Marketing Viral SEO 118

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Chasing funding versus chasing customers and a repeatable and scalable business model, is one reason startups fail. Chasing funding versus chasing customers and a repeatable and scalable business model, is one reason startups fail. Are there customers for what you are building? How many are there? Can it scale?”

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Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 267

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 28, 2009

Or, phrased more hopefully, "I see how you can use continuous deployment to run an online consumer service, but how can it be used for B2B software?" That mission critical customers wont accept new releases on a continuous basis. Most customers of most products hate new releases. Or variations thereof. Lets take each in turn.

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Continuous Deployment San Francisco Lean Metrics 122

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Take a look: This full-day Master Class focuses on how to build a startup from the ground up to focus on customers, markets, and speed of iteration. Im working on a future post where Ill share the details of how I used customer development to shape both the content and packaging of this event, so look for that soon. It was a disaster.

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Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment Software Review 60

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

It’s also a time when you are most agile to work on ideas and implement strategies without the crippling setbacks caused by decision hierarchy and process. Businesses invest a great deal of time and resources into marketing strategies and channels but not as much once the individual is within the fold of the sales funnel and customer-base.

Metrics 100

Metrics B2C B2B Channel 100

OnlyOnce

AUGUST 12, 2013

Outside In: The Power of Putting Customers at the Center of Your Business , by Harley Manning and Kelly Bodine from Forrester Research, was a good read that kept crossing back and forth between good on the subject at hand, and good business advice in general. “Customer Experience is a journey, not a project. .”

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BeyondVC

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

With a focus on seed investing in the mobile, agile, and smart enterprise and business models that harness the power of network effects, our entrepreneurs have successfully been able to raise over $200 million of financing following our initial seed investment. focus on the mobile, agile, and smart enterprise".

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Seed Stage Agile Viral API 110

VC Cafe

JULY 26, 2020

Ditch the business plan and when assumptions are proven wrong, pivot Customer Development: Build a product your customers want (vs. what you think they might need) by talking to customers and testing every aspect of the product features, pricing, etc. Agile Development: launch an MVP early and iterate quickly.

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Lean Seed Capital Startup Burn Rate 214

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

AUGUST 1, 2018

For example, Blockchain is typically thought of as a database technology, so the obvious applications are where databases are used now, like customer information, order entry, or patient medical records. Less typical is asking how it might be combined (used) with sales, marketing, distribution, purchasing, or the customer service experience.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 15, 2020

People saying, “This is what’s happening to B2B SaaS or this is what’s happening to this category.” Brian : I know it’s like an old Silicon Valley message, talk to your customers, but honestly this is one of those times where you need to be talking to at least a couple customers a couple times a day.

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Founder Conversion Technical Review Cash Position 36

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Lean Methodology consists of three tools designed for entrepreneurs building new ventures: The Business Model Canvas – to write down all the hypotheses about a new business; Customer Development – a process for testing those hypotheses outside the building; Agile Engineering – to rapidly build minimal viable products to test product/market fit.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2018

Amazon built its growth on top of these 4 pillars: Customer Centricity. The most important single thing is to focus obsessively on the customer” – Jeff Bezos. They may believe “the customer is always right” but how do they act? Corporate Agility. Aligning customers & business objectives. Lush example].

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Retention Artificial Inteligence Channel Email 106

Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

The challenge I want to take on is to be specific in the recommendations make, and to share how we can be very nimble and agile. The goal is for each company’s Google Data Studio to not look like a CDP (customized data puke), but to be a focused strategic dashboard with an emphasis on IABI. B2B / Enterprise Sales: Salesforce.

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Metrics Acquisition eCommerce Analytics 141

Agile VC

MAY 16, 2012

Back in 2010 we were observing more and more new B2B startups emulating the product and customer acquisition strategies of existing consumer web companies which my partners & I have long been familiar with. A good example of that is our theme around the consumerization of business software.

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Seed Stage Silicon Valley B2B Syndicate 124

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Before product-market fit… just care about speed of iteration according to your customer feedback. Use agility to your advantage and make speed a team priority. Put your users first: pretend that your customers have a seat at the table when you design your product roadmap. Remember that speed is the secret weapon of startups.

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Founder Startup Valuation Pre-Money Valuation 187

Up and Running

MARCH 14, 2017

The importance of speaking with potential customers. Social channels are as agile as they are flaky—one wrong word can make all the difference between massive participation rates (which can also lead to comments and shares), and being ignored. See Also: Our Best Resources to Help You Find a Business Idea.

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Business Plan PPC Lean Campaign 94

Agile VC

MARCH 8, 2012

The secondary wave of VC-backed IPOs has also come to fruition… both consumer facing (Yelp, Demand Media, Pandora, Carbonite, HomeAway, Angie’s List, et al) and B2B (Jive Software, Brightcove, Imperva, Responsys, etc). The pipeline of companies in registration has continued to grow.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 22, 2013

Then there is Agile for engineering. For example, they don't account for a smart company's ability to form relationships at scale via mobile, social platforms with past, current, and, most importantly, future customers. If we are in customer service, all we care about is trying to answer the phones quickly.

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Framework Marketing Metrics Audience 163

YoungUpstarts

MAY 23, 2018

Keep Your Customers in Mind. Whether you’re B2B or B2C, your customers are your lifeblood. A wise approach is to institute a formal method for interacting with your customer base. Welcome feedback and criticism, and make sure there are avenues in place in the form of adequate customer support functionalities.

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Management Startup B2C Forecast 191

Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 12, 2016

What guarantees that agility and innovation are present in your analytics practice? You got me, I am ignoring all the data layer and custom stuff! They only want to throw up a one page lead-gen form if they are B2B. In a world when your work will never be done, how do you assess that the core things necessary are present?

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Analytics DC Software Review Leadership 60

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 23, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, October 23, 2009 Case Study: Using an LOI to get customer feedback on a minimum viable product How much work should you do on a new product before involving customers? But other times, the right way to learn is actually to show a product prototype to customers one-on-one.

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San Francisco Customer Wiki Lean 144

Occam's Razor

MARCH 23, 2010

For big success you'll need to have a Multiplicity strategy: So when you step back and realize at the minimum you'll also have to use one Voice of Customer tool (for qualitative analysis), one Experimentation tool and (if you want to be great) one Competitive Intelligence tool… do you still want to have two clickstream tools?

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Analytics Web Metrics Channel 118

Agile VC

AUGUST 12, 2011

But unfortunately there’s no magic formula… not getting X million users if you’re a consumer facing startup, or Y customers if you’re B2B SaaS startup, or Z revenue, or whatever. Having little or no domain experience among the team means a steeper learning curve in disrupting an industry.

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Seed Stage Silicon Valley B2B Acquisition 113

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 9, 2012

Convert them to be revolutionaries for their companies and customers. 1 Customer expectations on the web are insane, will get super-insane. Aim to meet super-insane customer expectations and you'll future-proof your business. The web demands immense agility and flexibility from every company. We expect more.

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Marketing Analytics Web Channel 140