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Lean Marketing for Startups and Small Businesses: How to Make the Most Impact with the Least Investment

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National television campaigns are definitely out. But, there’s plenty that you can do… if you embrace lean marketing principles. Lean marketing is a philosophy that emphasizes executing campaigns quickly, getting feedback from your audience, analyzing the results, and optimizing the campaign – all in rapid succession.

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Introducing Lean Planning: How to Plan Less and Grow Faster

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Today, I want to introduce a new approach to business planning: Lean Planning. Lean Planning replaces lengthy business plans with a 20-minute planning process that focuses on increasing your chances of success in business. Lean Planning is simpler and faster than writing a traditional business plan. Step 1: Create a Lean Plan.

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Use Milestones and Metrics to Turn Planning into Business GPS

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Taking steering one step further, let’s suggest that good planning, with milestones and metrics, is something like steering with the aid of a GPS. Metrics are like dials on the dashboard, indicators of how you’re doing, tracking your progress toward goals. Metrics give you tracking and accountability.

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Talking Lean Analytics With Alistair Croll

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When launching a new company or marketing campaign, your major concern shouldn’t be whether or not you can execute on the plan. This was the major theme behind a discussion my company hosted recently with “Lean Analytics” author Alistair Croll. It should be whether the idea is worth investing in at all.

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The Expert Guide to Creating a Marketing Growth Strategy

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This philosophy comes from The Lean Startup methodology , which relies on testing hypotheses to better understand your customers’ pain points and goals. A common framework for defining your growth model is Dave McClure’s Pirate Metrics for startups : the AARRR framework. Rewards program, contests, email marketing, campaigns; Revenue.

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Five case studies you'll see at the Lean Startup Conference 2015

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The following is a guest post by Kirsten Cluthe and Ritika Puri from The Lean Startup Conference team Wondering what’s new in the Lean Startup community? She wants to disrupt Hollywood with the Lean Startup method. It's Lean Startup storytelling for the Snapchat generation. Read about Prerna’s journey here.

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Lean Marketing Tips: Hyperlocal Marketing Channels

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These companies typically have limited budgets, thin resources, and strained capacity which combine to create a challenge for managers and owners: how to develop an effective marketing campaign using tactics that will work for their business. Related posts: Lean Marketing tips: not-for-profit edition. Outdoor and print.

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