Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Modern investors love to first read a two-page summary of your business plan, formatted like a glossy marketing collateral sheet, with text well laid out in columns and sidebars, and a couple of relevant graphics. Outline your sales and marketing strategy (direct marketing, sales channel, viral marketing, and lead generation).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2015

Investors like ideas based on market research from outside experts, like Gartner Research , proclaiming a billion dollar opportunity with a double digit growth rate. Build a business plan and model that is attractive to investors. It’s hard to build and scale a business on free high-support products.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Modern investors love to first read a two-page summary of your business plan, formatted like a glossy marketing collateral sheet, with text well laid out in columns and sidebars, and a couple of relevant graphics. Outline your sales and marketing strategy (direct marketing, sales channel, viral marketing, and lead generation).

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

They don’t yet realize the low-cost potential for lead generation, branding, customer loyalty, direct marketing and e-commerce. The elevator pitch should be the first few paragraphs of your business plan, your executive summary, your investor presentation, and the first page of your web site.

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Tim Keane

OCTOBER 8, 2008

Forward to the past: The (re) rise of direct marketing » October 08, 2008. Last week, our angel group reviewed a business with an online lie detector technology.  John Mullins: Getting to Plan B: Breaking Through to a Better Business Model. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC.

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Up and Running

JUNE 22, 2016

In fact, it returns the same ROI as social media marketing. According to a 2015 Direct Marketing Association report, in terms of response rate, direct mail outperforms all digital channels. If you haven’t already written your business plan, take a look through our library of free real estate business plans.

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www.chancebarnett.com

MAY 10, 2011

Again, on our call I talked about the company I helped with their business plan template marketing. The “finished story” here wasn’t the obvious – a finished business plan. It was having raised money successfully with the polished and professional business plan. It was farther removed than that.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

For anyone seeking a loan, a business plan is going to be essential. Even if you’re not seeking a loan, a business plan is a useful tool to help you figure out which of your ideas are feasible, and to remind you of your goals. You can find out more about writing a business plan on our Business Planning Guide page.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Tim Berry, entrepreneur and business planning evangelist, advises : Expect scope creep—clients asking for more after they’ve agreed on deliverables and price—and deal with it delicately, suggesting the extra work needs extra fees. First, you will need to choose the legal structure for your new consulting business.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 1, 2013

Business plans sit in boxes or on hard drives as their creators wait for the right conditions: funding, free time, better economic conditions. In 1983 he cofounded Direct Mail Express (DME) in Daytona Beach, Florida, with his siblings Mike and Kathy.

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Up and Running

JUNE 20, 2011

Venture Capitalists and financial institutions are extremely reticent to fund new enterprises unless they are confronted with bulletproof arguments as to the company’s success, leaving entrepreneurs scrambling for ammunition to prove that their business plan is the bomb. Return on Investment.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

They’re also two triggers that direct marketers and copywriters have been well aware of for years. In that time, exorbitant prices of new Internet companies motivated investors to invest into companies whose business plans included a “dot com” domain. Something For Nothing: The Power of Free.

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Tim Keane

JULY 16, 2007

A New old Idea: Direct Marketing Revisited » July 16, 2007. I just talked to a business owner the other day who has grown her startup nicely - 15% a year or so - up to revenue of a bit over $2.5MM. John Mullins: Getting to Plan B: Breaking Through to a Better Business Model. « When is the time?

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Tim Keane

JULY 20, 2007

« A New old Idea: Direct Marketing Revisited | Main. | Is Business Model Analysis Important To You? I was in Italy a couple of weeks ago at the request of the US State Department to discuss angel investing with IBAN, the Italian Business Angels Network. Startups and angels: Along the way to success.

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Tim Keane

OCTOBER 3, 2007

If you dont already know about it, check out the ECHO awards of the Direct Marketing Association. If you dont already know about it, check out the ECHO awards of the Direct Marketing Association. John Mullins: Getting to Plan B: Breaking Through to a Better Business Model. Resources for startups.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Triggered marketing is a promotion trend that uses data analytics and the target clients’ emotions to guide them into making a purchase that fits into a business’ plan. And many businesses today are jumping on the triggered marketing bandwagon to achieve marketing success.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2018

You may also need to adjust your business plan based on the commerce needs and wants of your demographic. There is a way to gauge potential success of your product and market it to a demographic before official launch. Content Marketing Basics. The Benefits of Content Marketing. Source: Pixabay.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 31, 2006

This is not a report, it is a conversation / investigation with your business partners and it is an extremely important step that any analyst needs complete. Is your company heavily into Direct Marketing (email, snail mail etc)? Are you spending excessively on PPC (Pay Per Click)?

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