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The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development

Startup Lessons Learned

I believe it is the best introduction to Customer Development you can buy. As all of you know, Steve Blank is the progenitor of Customer Development and author of The Four Steps to the Epiphany. This new volume also tackles examples from the Internet and wireless startups of today, both B2B and B2C. I think theyve succeeded.

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Marketing Your Startup: A Billion-Dollar Company’s First Marketer Reflects Back

View from Seed

Ellie Mirman: When I came in, Mike [Volpe, HubSpot’s CMO] had a to-do list of the things he wanted us to do, the top one being to start a webinar series. Initially, we promoted it to a list that we’d already developed through Website Grader, the free app our CTO Dharmesh Shah had built before we even had a product.

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How to Build a Beloved Product Without Email Marketing

ConversionXL

Gamification isn’t the domain of B2C or gaming sites alone. There are ample ways of bringing competition and interactivity to B2B processes, too: think bringing quizzes to webinars, adding certifications to professional development add-ons, and creating in-app experiences that make completing a task a joy.

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How To Get Ready To Participate In An Acceleration Program

YoungUpstarts

Follow them on Twitter and/or other forms of social media, in order to find out about Q&A webinars they host or to contact them directly. Our business model back then was very complex, and it included a B2C as well as a B2B business model, that wasn’t being implemented yet. It was all hypothetical. We needed to be more specific.

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A Quick Primer on B2B Conversion Optimization

ConversionXL

Some of the same underlying principles apply, but because of the inherent differences in buying decisions and sales cycles, pulling B2C optimization practices straight from the book might be a bad idea. When would you ever try to produce less sales in B2C eCommerce? Webinars perform particularly well in a B2B context.

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7 Social Media Tactics Your 2013 Budget Needs to Succeed

www.clickz.com

B2C Email Marketing Email Marketing Optimization Advanced Email Marketing Email Marketing Best Practices Email Marketing. Webinars Conferences & Expos. Actionable marketing tip: Develop useful content shoppers seek before they purchase. B2C Email Marketing. SEO Paid Search Search Marketing. More Categories.

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Best and Worst Practices (Plus FAQs) for Layoffs

OnlyOnce

I held a webinar recently with about 20 CEOs on this topic, and there were a number of questions that came up with interesting crowdsourced answers. In a B2C organization, you’re likely either going to do something public like a short, empathetic blog post, or nothing at all.

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