Steve Blank

MARCH 15, 2017

His company had marched through customer discovery, learning about the customer problem, validated solutions and was now scaling sales and marketing. But he was getting uneasy that as his headcount was growing the productivity of his marketing department seemed to be rapidly declining. Drive that demand into our sales channels.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

Five Easy Pieces – The Marketing Mission After a few months of talking to customers , talking to our channel and working with sales we defined the marketing Mission (our job) was to: Help Sales deliver $25 million in sales with a 45% gross margin. The same was true for the Product Marketing group. It didn’t take more.

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www.rocketwatcher.com

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

One other basic metric I’d add is “Cost per channel&# (web, print, tradeshow, etc…) and tie in how many each channel is generating, so you get a ROI by channel as well. Good post, -Hakan [link] aprildunford Reply 13. Oct, 2010 at 12:09 pm Hi Hakan, Thanks for the comment. April Amrita Reply 13.

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