Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2016

Even the best products and solutions won’t go anywhere unless you sell them through the right channels. For example, if you watch the TV show “Shark Tank,” you will remember several entrepreneurs with specialty products doing well online who want money to move into big box retail. Resist the channel sales pitch for exclusivity.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 30, 2020

5 proven business tips for increasing eCommerce sales. All I asked — What is your best advice for online businesses to get sales? Once your business is up and running and as new customers buy your products, referrals will start rolling in organically. Strategies that we’ll cover in this very article. Let’s get started!

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Which terms are people using to search for your products? Dig into your sales data too. Detail the customer demographics that purchase certain products or services. Next, look at the current state of your market: Who’s interested in your product or services? Use content advertising to fight rising costs.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

In fact, some of the biggest company expenses start off as cost-cutting measures. Cutting costs vs. cutting corners. It can also be a result of second-rate cost-reduction tactics. Are you cutting costs or merely cutting corners? Are you cutting costs or merely cutting corners? Have you been making the same mistake?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Products that can be easily produced and sold via multiple channels, including the Internet, are more easily scaled world-wide. Minimize one-time sales in your business model. Take advantage of low-cost modern tools and automation. Develop a product line and add alternate channels.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Now that the volume of VA footwork has rapidly increased and jacks of all trades are no longer productive enough. This article will examine one vital activity and see how trained VAs can help your company improve sales. Neglecting this communication channel could be a crippling disadvantage for a growing business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Here investors are looking for feature problems or quality issues on the current product. A hard look will be taken at the technology maturity, the current development progress, and customer satisfaction with early product shipments. Status of the solution. In addition, manufacturing and inventory levels will be reviewed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2019

In the interests of helping you work smarter and last longer, I would like to offer my top ten list of key resource drains to avoid in early businesses and startups, based on my years of advising entrepreneurs and my own business experience: Expanding your product line too quickly for scaling. Use multiple small orders at first.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 4, 2017

How you decide to invest in marketing channels can make or break your business. Okay, so it’s important to capitalize on effective channels that are conducive to growth at scale. An Overview of Common Digital Marketing Channels. That sounds like an obvious statement, but not a lot of people think about it critically.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 21, 2011

This week they were testing their hypotheses about the sales “Channel” – how a company delivers its value proposition (i.e. its product or service) to its customers. There are two major channels: physical channels and virtual (web/mobile) channels. The Nine Teams Present. All that we expected. Next was D.C.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Millennial CEOs in today’s business climate face a changing role from the traditional leadership image of the suit in the C-suite, especially when it comes to sales. It’s becoming increasingly important for top leadership to work directly with their sales managers to develop a stellar sales process.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

To succeed in today’s crowded market, you need to harmonize product marketing and brand marketing. In this article, you’ll learn the difference between brand marketing and product marketing, and how to balance both to stand out above the crowd. Brand vs product marketing: Friends or foe? They rely on each other for success.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2022

A marketing playbook helps you achieve brand consistency across channels and campaigns. In this article, we’ll explain how to create a marketing playbook to align your teams and boost your sales opportunities. What’s inside will differ depending on the channel or marketing campaign. Content channels. Positioning.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Black Friday is just around the corner, and this is a great time to review your sales forecast goals and develop a strategy to meet them through your holiday campaigns. Here are 6 ways your business can build holiday marketing campaigns that help you increase holiday sales this season! Offer special discounts to loyal customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2021

The old approaches of controlling distribution channels, saturating retail, and methodically scaling your brand awareness don’t protect you anymore. As a simple example, the Wal-Mart website now shows shoppers more products that they may like, based on previous purchases. One thing hasn’t changed in the business world – competition.

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Rembrandt Communications

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The holiday season is here, and it’s time to boost sales by year-end. 5 Quick Tips to Boost Holiday Sales Fast (at no cost)! Are there businesses near you that complement your products and services? Think about one feature story on your local television news channel would do for your business this holiday season!

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 2, 2023

They poured their hearts and souls into creating an innovative product fueled by the desire to make a difference in the lives of their target audience. Startup X reached out to a product design services provider, and with their help, they were able to turn their fortunes around. The good news is that there’s hope!

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

But, increasingly, the Apple hype-fests are a marketing—not a product—showcase. For product launches, long-term success relies on cornerstones of marketing research and execution, like a strong value proposition and full-funnel campaign. Yet while product launches are a risk, they’re not as risky as you think. Image source ).

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Designing the Perfect Sales Process written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Where there used to be clear delineation between the sales and marketing teams’ roles and responsibilities, things are a lot murkier nowadays. So it’s sometimes unclear where marketing ends and sales begins.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2021

Here investors are looking for feature problems or quality issues on the current product. A hard look will be taken at the technology maturity, the current development progress, and customer satisfaction with early product shipments. Status of the solution. In addition, manufacturing and inventory levels will be reviewed.

Technical Review 379

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2018

When you’re trying to grow your startup, there are all sorts of things to concentrate on, such as marketing effectively, providing excellent customer service, streamlining processes, thinking about new products or services to offer and more. Read on for some top tips for handling sales leads properly today. Source: Pexels.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Having a carefully-developed sales strategy is crucial if you want to grow your business. Whether you’re setting up your sales strategy for the very first time, or updating your current document, here’s our top pointers for developing a clear and well-rounded plan that will help drive your business’ growth.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 25, 2023

As soon as you have 2-3 months' worth of sales data to work with, use a formula to calculate stock reorder levels to ensure you always have stock ready to go, especially if you're promoting your products on platforms known for viral content, like TikTok. Every element on the page needs to be tuned to help convert visits into sales.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

Small fine-tuned models as an alternative to giant generic ones – when finely tuned with appropriate data, smaller, specialised LLMs can yield comparable results at a fraction of the cost. Iterating with intelligent editors – products that enable users to take an existing output and refine it (ex.

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Up and Running

JULY 2, 2014

Sales forecasting is much easier than you think, and much more useful than you imagine. Since sales are intimate with costs and expenses, the forecast helps you budget and manage. You measure the value of a sales forecast like you do anything in business, by its measurable business results. Lines of sales.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

For example, early adopters may be easily sold, but new technology product success really hinges on adoption by certain demographics, perhaps more influenced by celebrities or mommy bloggers. The last thing you need in a startup is a false start, where you can’t deliver on a product change deadline, or a new marketing channel.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

The Role of Sales Materials in a Digital World written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. With these digital marketing channels doing so much of the heavy lifting in representing your brand, do you really still need sales materials? Sales materials still hold an important place in the customer journey.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Sales is all about how to get more customers, and relationship funnels prioritize establishing a genuine connection with your customers. Relationship funnel vs. sales funnel — What’s the difference? It’s easy to confuse relationship funnels with traditional sales or marketing funnels, however, they differ significantly.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

By delegating specific tasks—like outsourced sales for startups—to third-party experts, internal teams can focus on core competencies. This not only boosts productivity but also ensures that every function operates at peak efficiency. It’s not just about cost-cutting.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Measuring customer acquisition for peak effectiveness How to calculate ecommerce customer acquisition cost Calculate much your customers are worth: LTV MRR, churn rates, and other factors that affect your LTV/CAC ratios Find and fix customer acquisition funnel leaks 5 customer acquisition strategies to increase sales and loyalty (with examples) 1.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Where campaigns to build brand awareness and generate top-of-funnel sales drive traditional marketing, data across the entire customer lifecycle drives growth hacking in marketing. Growth hacking is about caring for and optimizing the user experience to build trust and keep customers using your product. The result? Image source.

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ConversionXL

JULY 21, 2022

When researching a new product, buyers use 10 or more channels to interact with companies. Each channel presents a chance to make a good impression. Optimize each channel, and you’ll win new customers, enjoy higher order rates , and retain customers. Each channel is a piece of the same puzzle.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Set your sights on Google’s Popular Products 4. Your ecommerce marketing strategy is the blueprint and high-level vision that guides how you’ll interact with prospects, the channels you’ll use to reach them, and the messaging you’ll develop to communicate benefits and build your brand. Leverage FOMO in social media marketing 3.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

If your new business is going to distribute products in the U.S. retail market, that means your business needs to get its products into what people call “the channel”—also known as channels of distribution, or retail channels. I’m talking about getting your product into stores.

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Transformify

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Lots of businesses today recruit contingent workers, be it freelancers, independent contractors, consultants, or other off-payroll workers to benefit from vast skill sets for a specific duration while cutting costs and keeping the bottom line low. 8 Tips to keeping your freelancers happy and boosting their productivity and loyalty: 1.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

It’s not an easy decision, but several factors need to be considered before deciding whether or not to build your own online B2B Marketplace or use an existing online marketplace — such as Alibaba, Alibaba,comGlobal , eBay, and SeeBiz — or sell your products or services on Shopify or Amazon. Consider SEO.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 25, 2020

This was also the time when major companies set up their online properties to sell and buy products. This new shift impacted as much as a 4% improvement in total sales of brands that had made the shift. This transition from the traditional business model to a complete online sales became a popular revenue trend during this time.

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