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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Marketing Communications

Steve Blank

I reminded her that all the Lean tools she learned in class–Customer Discovery, business model and value proposition canvases– contained her answer. For example, our goal could be: Create demand for our products and drive it into our sales channel. Audience(s), Message, Media, Messenger. Here’s how. with a strategy.

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How to Craft (Or Pivot) Your Agency Value Proposition

ConversionXL

And so, the concept for a digital PR service was born. The goal was simple: validate demand or move on. Using my existing skills and resources (including an old domain name), I tested a productized digital PR offer. About 18 months later, we pivoted our messaging to evolve beyond digital PR. Image source ).

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How to Craft a Digital Advertising Strategy that Combats Rising Costs and Captures New Customers

ConversionXL

Use this information to identify what interests your audience. This will help you build a picture of the target audience that will underpin your digital advertising strategy. By conducting competitive research , you can spot new opportunities to grab audience share. Which terms are people using to search for your products?

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How to Map Out an Ecommerce Business Plan in 1 Hour

Up and Running

Whether your product is an add-on or completely new, innovative solution, the core of your business idea should be about your audience—not you. However, rather than selling to a wide market, with a variety of expectations and preferences, you need to narrow your audience to a specific group with identifiable and targetable needs.

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Beyond the garage

Startup Lessons Learned

The Lean Startup movement has made tremendous progress in the past year. If you recall, around this time last year we were still fighting various myths , such as “ lean means cheap ” or that we don’t support having a big, world-changing vision. This year, the word pivot has become over-hyped ( even on TechCrunch ).

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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

Greater discipline during boom times offered more flexibility during lean years. And getting it right during the lean years, Bain reports , has a massive impact on companies’ growth rate after things improve: ( Image source ). As the recession wrapped up, they had to remind consumers of lean times. Progressive. Image source ).

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SuperMac War Story 6: Building The Killer Team – Mission, Intent.

Steve Blank

To do that we will create end-user demand and drive it into the sales channel, educate the channel and customers about why our products are superior, and help Engineering understand customer needs and desires. We will accomplish this through demand-creation activities (advertising, PR, tradeshows, seminars, web sites, etc.),