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5 Simple Guidelines to Achieve The Right Marketing Mix

Up and Running

The right approach would be to arrive at a marketing mix that will help you consistently win new sales while sustaining customer lifetime value over a long period of time. Direct sales? Create realistic, measurable sales goals. You should focus on realistic sales goals that are easily measurable. Simple, eh?

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Don’t Settle When You Decide Where to Settle

Austin Startup

The leadership centers of the microcomputer world shifted from Albuquerque to the San Fernando Valley (LA), the Bay Area, and Seattle. You have to chase Fortune 500 customers in places like Dallas, Atlanta, LA, NY, and Chicago by clever sales and marketing if you want to maintain your base in laid-back Austin.

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Do Things that Don't Scale

paulgraham.com

But for a startup to succeed, at least one founder (usually the CEO) will have to spend a lot of time on sales and marketing. [ And no, you cant avoid doing sales by hiring someone to do it for you. You have to do sales yourself initially. This cant be how the big, famous startups got started, they think.

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