Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, November 7, 2008 Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online service, step-by-step If you want to build an online service, and you dont test it with a fake AdWords campaign ahead of time, youre crazy. If youre worried about disappointing some potential customers - dont be.

Demand 167

Demand San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 167

crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 26, 2011

This is what your potential customers will first see when they visit your website and is often the link listed on various directories like Yelp. Think about your potential customers. Remember too that many customers will find your restaurant’s homepage after reading reviews, so keep the content on your homepage focused and short.

Web 127

Web Design Flash SEM 127

Up and Running

JULY 26, 2016

The chicken-egg issue of getting customers to your platform while you don’t have any money to spare is a puzzle that many companies are unable to figure out at all. This is what our hiring landscape looked like over the past year: Pre-2015, we hired three founders: 1x hustler in charge of strategic growth hacking.

Revenue 60

Revenue Acquisition Channel Campaign 60

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 27, 2010

A strong website can help a small business to more effectively market its products or services – even if the small businesses’ customers are all local. If you need help, you can leverage crowdSPRING’s community of more than 67,000 designers and writers for your custom web design. Make your site easily accessible.

Small Business 123

Small Business Web Design Marketing 123

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 27, 2010

A strong website can help a small business to more effectively market its products or services – even if the small businesses’ customers are all local. If you need help, you can leverage crowdSPRING’s community of more than 67,000 designers and writers for your custom web design. Make your site easily accessible.

Small Business 122

Small Business Web Design Marketing 122

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

" Knewton ( www.knewton.com ) has developed the industry's first adaptive learning engine, customizing educational content to meet the individual needs of each student. A position where that will call on strategic and tactical execution, this person will design and execute a broad range of campaigns to facilitate customer acquisition.

San Francisco 92

San Francisco CTO Hire Developer EC2 92

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 24, 2018

Most small businesses and young startups can’t afford to hire marketers. That leaves those companies in a tough situation: they need to market to grow their business but they need to grow their business to hire marketers. Want to use a real powerhouse tool to reach new customers and monumentally grow your business?

Social Media 51

Social Media Marketing Analytics Audience 51

crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 4, 2016

But without a central digital home, you’re scattering your efforts and missing an incredible opportunity to engage and connect with your customers and potential customers through a dedicated site. Why would a potential customer remember your site when she has seen dozens of other sites that look just like your site.

Web 48

Web Small Business Design SEM 48

Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Over the last 13 years he’s worked with companies like Target, Jeeter and Shopify to implement performance marketing campaigns. Over the last 13 years, he's worked with companies like Target, Jeter and Shopify to implement performance marketing campaigns. Like everything is custom here, this is fractional CMO work.

Channel 65

Channel Acquisition Framework B2B 65

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 24, 2018

Most small businesses and young startups can’t afford to hire marketers. That leaves those companies in a tough situation: they need to market to grow their business but they need to grow their business to be hire marketers. Want to use a real powerhouse tool to reach new customers and monumentally grow your business?

Social Media 48

Social Media Marketing Analytics Audience 48

Austin Startup

MARCH 26, 2019

25 questions that DTC entrepreneurs should ask themselves before scaling customer acquisition So you run a direct-to-consumer (DTC) brand. You just spent a few thousand dollars on advertising and your paid customer acquisition cost (CAC) numbers tested well relative to your best guess for customer lifetime value (LTV).

Technical Review 49

Technical Review Software Review China Acquisition 49

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 2, 2018

Marketing is the bridge between your business and your customers. Almost any form of communication with your customers falls under its umbrella. Without marketing, your business may as well exist in an unlit locked vault – no customers are coming in and no sales are going out. Customers will beg to differ.

Small Business 73

Small Business Software Review Social Media Marketing 73

Occam's Razor

JULY 1, 2008

There is perhaps no challenge greater than tracking offline impact of your online presence (campaigns or other activity). You struggle to get budget to hire Analysts or Marketers. Your hair is thinning from repeatedly trying to get funding for online campaigns. It is perhaps one of the last few complex nuts left to crack.

Analytics 116

Analytics Conversion Campaign Redemption 116

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Announce a new product, start its PR campaign, and engage in buzz marketing activities. Marketing launch) Make a new product available to customers in the general public. Worse, if you are not geared up to make the best use of those customers when the launch sends them your way, its a pretty big waste. Help you raise money.

San Francisco 168

San Francisco PR Lean Early Stage 168

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 22, 2011

Qualitative Analysis: "What's Voice of Customer? Mobile Marketing and Analytics: Click-to-Call Mobile Ad Campaigns. Multichannel Analytics- Tracking Online Impact Of Offline Campaigns. Customer Personas, Customer Value, Customer Retention and Non-line Marketing. Tactical Analysis Articles.

Analytics 124

Analytics Metrics SEM Web 124

crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2013

Studies have shown over 60% of small business marketers devote as much as 10 hours per week to SM campaigns and tactics. 25% of a marketer’s capacity is a huge investment by any measure and outsourcing the effort starts to look attractive to many managers and many have hired outside consultants to help. Search is personalized.

Small Business 92

Small Business Securities and Exchange Commission Social Media Startup 92

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 26, 2008

Or we are insulted that they won't accept our recommendations, after all we are the experts here and that's why they hired us!! While most HiPPO's won't yield to your Chinese Torture, they don't have to, there are two things that they will almost always yield to: Customers & Competitors. Out of a 100.

Management 68

Management Analytics San Diego Web 68