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What Boston’s Top Consumer Tech Leaders Think About Boston’s Consumer Tech Struggles [#BostonB2C Recap]

View from Seed

On Tuesday, July 21, we hosted the first-ever Boston Consumer Tech Summit. Here’s Mike’s comment: Boston’s B2C problem is one of values. To become a truly special consumer tech community, Boston needs more pillar B2C companies. More functionally, Boston needs to improve its design, branding, and PR skills.

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

View from Seed

NVV: That’s not in any book about growing a startup — “Build an interactive app to start your marketing, then host a webinar for its users.” NVV: Lots of marketers are under pressure to come in and generate demand right away, whether because sales is asking for leads or founders are demanding PR or user growth.

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How Typeform Stands Out In A Crowded Market

Duct Tape Marketing

Karrie is Chief Marketing Officer at Typeform, leading brand strategy, advertising, PR, internal communications, and DEI efforts as well as overseeing the internal creative studio. Marketing Podcast with Karrie Sanderson. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Karrie Sanderson. Duct Tape Transcript.

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You Shouldn’t Have to Pay to Talk To Your Own Customers

Austin Startup

GetSatisfaction still hosts u nofficial customer communities , and links to them prominently on their website with designations like “37Signals is not yet committed to open coversation about its products and services.

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

For both origination and due diligence, a host of companies aspire to be the “Bloomberg of private companies”, including CB Insights , Crunchbase , DataFox , FuelUp , fundsUP , Mattermark , Qodeo , Quid , Tracxn , Unomy.com , and Zirra. 6) Negotiate deal. This information is used to automate screening during origination.

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5 Reasons Leveraging Events Is the Best Marketing Move for Your New Business

Up and Running

Hosting an event allows for interesting, new, fresh content that your followers will actually engage with. See Also: 20 Networking Tips From a PR Expert. Whether you are B2B or B2C, events allow your target market to directly interact with you as a professional, with your brand, and with what you offer. Sounding repetitive?

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How to Build a Product Launch Strategy

ConversionXL

When Airbnb entered the hospitality industry, they needed to showcase their benefits to two distinct groups: travelers who needed a place to stay, and hosts who wanted to rent their homes or property. Done right, your PR campaign should incentivize media outlets to pick it up. The key to success is consistency.

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