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How To Start and Grow Your SEO Business — 2021 Guide

Up and Running

Outline your financial plan and forecast. Your financial plan will include your cash flow statements, estimated sales forecasts, profit and loss statements, and more. PPC is comparable to a speedboat — fast, agile, and quick to pivot but, as it requires constant refueling, it can soon get expensive. Present value with data.

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Search versus Execute

Steve Blank

Once your business model (market, customers, features, channels, pricing, Get/Keep/Grow strategy, etc.) Search versus execution is what differentiates a new venture from an existing business unit. It’s at this point the business needs an operating plan, financial forecasts and other well-understood management tools.

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The Ultimate Guide to Starting a Software Company

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In the tactics section, list your sales channels and describe how you will be selling your products. While it’s useful to be able to have a sales forecast and expense budget early on, it’s not something you need until you’ve validated your idea. Circle back and create a more detailed forecast.

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Measuring Market Penetration with Brand Tracking (+ Metrics & Examples)

ConversionXL

You work tirelessly to understand your customer, market, and competition so you can differentiate. Brand momentum can be calculated similarly to physical momentum (mass x velocity): Brand momentum = brand mass (your company’s size, reputation, and relevance) x brand velocity (speed of growth, agility in keeping up with industry changes).

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CXL Live 2019 Recap: Takeaways from Every Speaker

ConversionXL

Vanguard decided that focusing on customer experience would help them differentiate from their competitors: Set up experimentation around customizing and personalizing the customer experience. Then they noticed that they’d been cannibalizing other channels—people converting as referrals were leads already acquired from other channels.