Austin Startup

MARCH 26, 2019

I frequently see promising startups with a great product and strong initial economics hit a wall due to the piling up of problems relating to these questions, or what I like to call the ‘DTC death by a thousand cuts’. Even pre-launch, there’s work you can do here to differentiate yourself. How will you take advantage of SEO and SEM?

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

Freshdesk First, Girish Mathrubootham from Chennai, India, pitched Freshdesk , a SaaS company that provides small and medium businesses with on-demand customer support software that offers multi-channel social support. Now, if the communication can be smoothed, the entire process will become a great deal more productive.

India 123

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Up and Running

MAY 1, 2014

Accommodate your investors, and keep explanations of your product simple and direct, using terms that everyone can understand. Products and Services. If you need more space for product images or additional information, use the appendix for those details. This is your product or service. > Don’t be intimidated.

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Transformify

JUNE 5, 2019

Whatever your next career goal is, becoming a leader that inspires and motivates everyone around will definitely help you to achieve it. Identifying and mitigating risks is likely to be the difference between launching a super successful product and the failure of introducing to the market a product that has not been properly tested.

Restful 56

Restful Differentiation Hiring Partner 56

Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

Lloyed explores the intricate art of harnessing the community’s strength as your ultimate acquisition channe l, brand differentiator, feedback source, retention lever, and catalyst for transformative change. Lloyed Lobo (03:13): Definitely. Lloyed Lobo (11:48): Definitely. And I like that you brought religion.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 4, 2024

Uncover diversified monetization strategies, including advertising, consulting, and info products, ensuring a sustainable and profitable newsletter business. Maybe explain how you differentiate your content based on maybe where somebody is in a potential buying situation. John (06:53): Yeah. What would Jerry say? Russell (07:08): Yeah.

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Revenue Advertising Email ChatGPT 77

Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Noah has been a key figure in the making of LivePlan, our own SaaS product. A description of the problem you’re solving for your customers, and your solution to the problem, which is usually your product or service. In the tactics section, list your sales channels and describe how you will be selling your products.

Software Review 74

Software Review Software Delaware Forecast 74

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2023

07:00] How do you differentiate your content based on somebody who is in a potential buying situation? [09:42] 21:34] How has AI impacted content production? Maybe explain kind of how you differentiate your content based on maybe where somebody is in a potential buying situation. What’s your editorial strategy? [07:00]

ChatGPT 91

ChatGPT Advertising Email Viral 91

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Podcasts are and will continue to be an amazing marketing tool that gives you a way to build a community and gives you a platform to advertise your products and services. So, so what was kind of were, was that a real differentiator for you as a CPA or was podcasting just a side gig? So, so what's been your history. It could be, yes.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

07:11] With so many tools claiming the same space, how does Databox differentiate itself? [08:43] But yeah, so they definitely made a bunch of changes. 06:08): And those partners are big enough and capitalized enough to be able to offer a breadth of services that help the customer implement the entire HubSpot product suite.

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Metrics Analytics Forecast Software Review 74

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 9, 2012

Now consumers can compare a product’s price while they’re in a store to what it’s going for at other brick-and-mortar and online stores before they even step out of the aisle. Its Price Check app allows shoppers to compare prices of in-store products with Amazon’s. Know the real definition of “wholesale.”.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 21, 2013

Startups are usually so focused on selling more of their branded product or service to their own customer base (organic growth) that they don’t consider the more indirect methods (non-organic growth) of increasing revenue and market share. Fresh customer base. Economies of scale. New management skills.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 18, 2017

Today, there are so many ways, and the channel isn’t the important part. Though, blogging has the benefit of SEO, which lasts a lot longer than other channels. Speaking at events works as well, and there are many that allow newer speakers, like Measure Camp, Product Camp, and local marketing meetups. Productize.

Conversion 87

Conversion Framework Revenue Analytics 87

ConversionXL

MAY 29, 2019

What does it take to grow a YouTube channel? Is a channel more than the sum of its video parts? Some solutions are simple—you need a consistent visual presentation on your channel page and across videos. If YouTube channel growth has felt unattainable, you’re not alone. Are most companies’ YouTube channels succeeding?

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Channel Video Audience Software Review 106

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 17, 2012

Startups are usually so focused on selling more of their branded product or service to their own customer base (organic growth) that they don’t consider the more indirect methods (non-organic growth) of increasing revenue and market share. Fresh customer base. Economies of scale. New management skills.

Entrepreneur 249

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Questions I ask Liz Lathan: [1:11] I read one of your recent LinkedIn posts and you said that community-first companies are growing 30% faster than product-first companies – what is a community-first company in your definition? [6:53] First off, what's a community first company in your definition?

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Community Framework Advisory Board Viral 81

Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Podcasts are and will continue to be an amazing marketing tool that gives you a way to build a community and gives you a platform to advertise your products and services. John Jantsch (04:52): You know, you mentioned that, I mean, it was such a great differentiator, right? So, so what's been your history?

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Austin Startup

JULY 12, 2010

One, a focus on great customer care has become, in the era of Zappos, not just a requisite checkbox, but an opportunity for differentiation, and a primary means of acquiring and retaining users (customer care as a revenue generator, not just a cost center). Two trends since that incident have made the issue even more important today.

Customer 80

Customer Harvest B2C Technical Review 80

Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

Let’s say you have zero traction, an unknown product, and no budget to speak of. Your product should address and be the solution to a problem, so your communications should reflect that with clarity. See Also The Definitive Guide to Building a Brand. Every company nowadays has a blog and social media channels, so do it better.

Marketing 60

Marketing Social Media Churn Rate Elevator Pitch 60

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

Investing in something new is a gamble, so how do you get stores to begin carrying your product? What is one tip you have for getting a brand-new product into major retail chains? Getting a new, untried product into the market is tough. To get your product into retail, first choose the right chain for you. The customer?

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Product LLC Matching Demand 118

Steve Blank

JULY 29, 2013

Here are my definitions. It’s important to differentiate between ideas that have been or can be patented and ideas thought up late night in a dorm-room. They deal with the daily crisis of product development and acquiring early customers. I think we’ve been imprecise in defining three different roles.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 1, 2015

The Curious AI Company , a General AI company whose first venture is waste sorting (the very definition of unsexy but lucrative), reportedly aims to sell its AI software as a toolkit. Large corporations have access to huge datasets and can acquire more (pace IBM’s recent acquisition of The Weather Channel data assets for $1.5bn ).

Artificial Inteligence 60

Artificial Inteligence Algorithm Software Review Startup 60

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Startups are usually so focused on selling more of their branded product or service to their own customer base (organic growth) that they don’t consider the more indirect methods (non-organic growth) of increasing revenue and market share. Fresh customer base. Economies of scale. New management skills.

Startup 232

Startup Merger Bandwidth Acquisition 232

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2015

Image via Pixabay.com Startups are usually so focused on selling more of their branded product or service to their own customer base (organic growth) that they don’t consider the more indirect methods (non-organic growth) of increasing revenue and market share. Fresh customer base. Economies of scale. New management skills.

Merger 120

Merger Acquisition Differentiation Channel 120

Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 13, 2022

The Profit First Professional organization is designed to support accountants, bookkeepers, and other financial professionals to substantially differentiate themselves in the market. I wanna point out how to make money with your current products, man, such an important lesson about leveraging what you've already done to get more from it.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Companies are working hard to differentiate themselves, so it makes perfect sense if they work doubly hard to keep their secrets safe. Establish clear communication channels and be proactive in scheduling regular catch-ups. Yep, you heard that right. Want to prevent your trade secrets from spilling?

Non-disclosure Agreement 147

Non-disclosure Agreement Due Diligence B2B Differentiation 147

Up and Running

MARCH 8, 2016

Products that sold best, and that were used most by the commercial cleaning industry, included brands such as Pine Sol, Fabuloso, and Clorox Clean Up. Cleaning managers cited high quality and effectiveness of the products, as well as a low price point as key to adding value. Cleaning products business plan. Making it legal.

SBA 60

SBA Technical Review Software Review Business Plan 60

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Those interactions vary – from mentorship and product feedback to learning about unmet needs in a market or understanding whether a sales channel is worth pursuing. GLG Share is really a membership more than a product, and we want to serve our members however we can. Who are they? It varies case-to-case. It’s just not true.

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New York Technical Review Networking Advisory Board 114

Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 6, 2022

And I think one of the challenges sometimes is out of necessity, people have tied together, hacked together, or whatever we wanna call it a zoom and a note taker on Zoom and Slack, and you know, obviously Slack channels have, you know, exploded. This is the design and product pod. John Jantsch (19:22): Definitely two sides to that one.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 5, 2012

One of the things startups have lacked is a definition of who they were. Within this definition, a startup can be a new venture or it can be a new division or business unit in an existing company. Once your business model (market, customers, features, channels, pricing, Get/Keep/Grow strategy, etc.)

Search 324

Search Business Model Customer Development Agile 324

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 24, 2019

Transcript of How to Turn Your Product Idea Into a Business written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Eastern we launch and reveal the story of one innovative manufactured product from a small business. We look at three hundred products a week. Back to Podcast. Transcript. Jules Pieri: Sure, so every day at 10 a.m

Product 60

Product Sweat Equity Naming SEO 60

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 26, 2010

Startups are usually so focused on selling more of their branded product or service to their own customer base (organic growth) that they don’t consider the more indirect methods (non-organic growth) of increasing revenue and market share. Fresh customer base. Economies of scale. New management skills.

Acquisition 214

Acquisition Merger Startup Bandwidth 214

The Equity Kicker

MAY 11, 2016

He was talking about what most of us describe as vertically integrated ecommerce, and gave the following definition: The primary means of interacting, transacting, and story-telling to consumers is via the web. The name of the brand is on both the physical product and on the website. It’s a brand, and that brand is vertical.

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Vertical eCommerce Differentiation Distribution 60

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 28, 2022

In the context of an equity definition, the “share” price refers to the relative value assigned to the corporation’s earning potential depending on various variables. To make preferred shares more marketable, different companies issuing the shares include several characteristics that differentiate them from common stock.

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Valuation Equity Warrant Common Stock 108

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

How to move from a free to a paid product without losing all your users. How to differentiate yourself in a crowded market (and when perhaps you shouldn’t try). We been managing the field by plan more than 75 enterprise customers and channel partners. It’s like GTD products. What’s your question then?

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Widget Cofounder Technical Review Software Review 204

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

You get increasing growth by optimizing the viral loop , and you get revenue as a side-effect, assuming you have even the most anemic monetization scheme baked into your product. Paid - if your product monetizes customers better than your competitors, you have the opportunity to use your lifetime value advantage to drive growth.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 28, 2021

I've written seven books on the topic, and I'm curious, you look at the SBAs definition, doesn't really apply in my view. The products we offer are all designed to help small businesses succeed. And we have promotional products where you've got a great logo. I get the assets question all the time. These are common challenges.

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