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SuperMac War Story 9: Sales, Not Awards « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

And the final lesson was that we were keeping score on our packaging with the wrong metrics – it wasn’t about awards, it was about sales in the retail channel. We had been outsourcing an important part of our demand creation strategy – packaging – to an outside agency without having the expertise to judge or manage the results.

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Transcript And MP3 Of My $180,000 Website Flipping Presentation

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

The actual goal here is really to increase the main metrics – the amount of money it generates and the amount of traffic it gets. He runs that as a passive income stream, so that’s another strategy, especially if you already understand direct marketing and that’s your business. It’s entirely up to you. Increase traffic.