Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

To turn your company’s stock into cash, you engaged a top-notch investment bank (Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs) and/or their Silicon Valley compatriots (Hambrecht & Quist, Montgomery Securities, Robertson Stephens). Twenty-five years ago, to go public you had to sell stuff – not just acquire users or have freemium products.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 24, 2020

If you’re a retail company that gains the majority of your business from people walking into your storefront and walking out with your product, then this puts you into a tough spot. This time period can provide you with the motivation to move more of your product online and create more of a digital presence. Through Retail 4.0

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 27, 2018

So how can you make sure your online business is poised to grab sales this holiday season? Plan and organize your upcoming sales and promotions. Ensure your product photos are high-quality and that they show your products in flattering light. Determine how you’ll get the word out about your products and sales.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 31, 2022

Stock Photographer . Products that were formerly considered desires are now turned into necessities, and that has a trend to move towards higher living standards. Youtube Channel . Direct sales . Online Clothes Business . Digital Marketing . Content Writing . Consultant . Dropshipping Business . Conclusion. Accounting .

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

In order for a business to succeed and grow, access to adequate cash resources(to pay bills, pay staff, replenish stock etc) is required. Monthly Sales Figures. Monthly monitoring of your sales figures, ensures that you will quickly know if sales are decreasing or increasing. Stock Inventory Check. Profit Margin.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Article: Behind Every Great Product. I titled the paper, “Behind Every Great Product” and it was inspired by the classic Good Product Manager / Bad Product Manager by Ben Horowitz. The paper proved popular and helped many teams to get a better understanding of just what product was all about.

Product 60

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 1, 2023

Strategies For Successful Product Launches written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with Mary Sheehan In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Mary Sheehan. She is an accomplished product marketing leader who has held marketing leadership roles at Adobe, Google, and many startups.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 18, 2020

Outright selling and overt marketing just don’t work anymore – you need to educate customers about your product and help them understand it better to convince them to use it. It shows their product in action and explains their brand positioning in an easy to understand manner. Use Short, Digestible Slides To Disseminate Info.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

We are also using AI writing assistants such as Rytr to speed up our content production for the hundreds of categories we publish daily. Our focus on digital channels like email and SMS has made it simple for us to engage customers and prioritize their needs. Our team is already using AI to verify fake and real reviews.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

But an increase in traffic doesn’t necessarily mean an increase in sales, profits, or customer loyalty. . Customer Lifetime Value is first and foremost, influenced by factors that are your KPIs: RFM distribution; Margin; Customer Experience (Product reviews, Net Promoter Score, Customer Effort Score, etc.); Product return.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 14, 2022

They can keep doubling down on advertising with the digital goliaths of today or begin to diversify and invest in other marketing channels, with an eye toward the future. What makes it scalable and more of a marketing channel is that it's managed using software. You get me the sale. It was like, don't ask, don't tell, right?

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Consumer shopping behaviors have changed dramatically since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, with ecommerce retailers seeing unprecedented growth in traffic and sales. Being transparent and open about your stock and delivery times is more important than ever. Some 71% of U.S. Give guidance on gift-giving.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

We want to see and touch and smell and try on and (sometimes) taste the products we’re buying, and the eCommerce experience can only go so far. million of inventory online and recovered all their lost POS revenue with online sales. We have a lot of SKUs, and Shopify made it really easy to set up products and inventory counts.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 25, 2012

This still ubiquitous book of business listings, made of the cheapest paper stock available and found on shelves and in recycling bins everywhere, has historically been a great way for businesses to reach local customers – from “ AAAA Auto Repair ” all the way down to “ ZZZZ Welding.”

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 30, 2020

In particular, we think the post-COVID world will see a permanent shift in the way people shop for groceries, personal goods, and other essentials; the retailers that provide a tech-enabled, multi-channel approach will gain a larger share. Let’s clearly define each trait which will lead to the winning retailers who thrive post-COVID.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 2, 2022

By the year 2021, my company had a strong sales force. In the end, though, we became the company's most successful sales team across the country and I surely played a significant role in this achievement. Taking a risk by increasing marketing spend (strategically), has paid off substantially, seeing our annual sales grow by over 30%.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 26, 2020

Once you have established your updated core values, you can create graphics and share them on your social channels, which will remind people of the reasons they enjoy being your customer. Continue to provide product availability updates when possible so they are aware of what is in stock and what will be available in the near future.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Identify the channels where your audience is most active and double-down. Start your brand awareness campaigns where you know your audience is active (turning up regularly, liking content, commenting, and sharing) and create content and creative that’s suited to those channels. Start with the channels you have experience in.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 11, 2019

Even in this day and age, businesses can boost their sales and enhance their sales with printed catalogs; they are considered as a direct form of marketing. It consists of all the products and services that you offer, details about all your online and offline stores, and all the contact information. That’s where they go wrong.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

(Almost) everything you need to know (but are afraid to ask) before you wistfully ask a product manager to coffee so they will help you find a job. TL;DR Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 23, 2022

It could be more revenue, hiring clients or launching a new product or service, but every new year is an exciting time because it’s ripe with opportunity. My primary priority for my product review website in 2022 is to increase the amount of video content I post. 9- Optimize sales process. Thanks to Bram Jansen, VPN Alert ! #8-

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 14, 2023

Ready to scale is when you have a proven product and a proven business model, about to expand to new geographies and markets. A software product is a classic example of a scalable solution, since it costs real money to build the first copy, but unlimited additional copies can be quickly cloned for almost no incremental cost.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

by Annie Tsai, author of ” The Small Business Online Marketing Handbook: Converting Online Conversations to Offline Sales “ Are your customers “connected consumers”? At least once a month, 65 percent of social media users use social media to learn more about brands, products, and/or services. and stay consistent.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 9, 2022

I’ve been asked by portfolio companies and plenty of others about how they should be changing their strategy given the stock market pullback and what they’ve been hearing on “VC twitter”. 2) Do you sell something that isn’t truly a must-have product to startups or other tech companies? If so, yeah, then I’d say I’d be concerned.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Omni-channel messaging will become even more crucial as more organizations adopt this strategy, especially during a pandemic. Consumers make purchases through a number of channels, ranging from YouTube to Facebook, making it difficult to categorize their behavior. A customer can purchase both a high-end and a low-end product together.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 19, 2019

Product market fit: Value hypothesis is validated. Value hypothesis: why a customer is likely to use your product. The role of product marketing is to define and operationalize the context. Use product lifecycle marketing to map campaigns to the stage of your product. Decline stage: product sales start to shrink.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 8, 2019

I won a fake stock market competition in elementary school. I put all my money in a few penny stocks — where prices are less than a dollar, and because of their small denomination, their value (as a percentage) fluctuates wildly. No matter how optimistic you are about those probabilities, the end product is a small number.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 30, 2019

Amazon – Develop a consistent, reliable multi-channel brand. Treat your social media profiles as extensions of your support and sales teams. Make it easy to communicate with your business through various channels. Maintain a consistent brand voice and user experience across all channels. What You Can Do.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JULY 5, 2011

It can help encourage people to pay a higher price for your product through the art of words. HOWEVER, if your actual product does not match the claimed value on your sales pages, then you will see your refunds rack up fast. You must know the true value of your products. Think Asda/Walmart or other big supermarkets.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2018

I’m still amazed at how many technical entrepreneurs don’t have a business pitch, and offer me their product pitch or product spec instead. I’m a technologist, so I always love to learn about the product, but every investor needs to make sure you have a business, as well as a product.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 14, 2021

You might find that, on average, your CSAT score is lowest at the handoff point between sales and service. Brand awareness can be influenced by negative factors such as scandals and product recalls, and while a brand can be well-known, this doesn’t necessarily mean they have a strong reputation. How often do you use [your product]?

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Metrics Marketing Campaign Audience 157

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Every year I teach classrooms full of students who leave class understanding the basics of how to search for product/market fit—and thinking their next goal is to “get funded.”. You (think) you have product-market fit with real customers and real revenue and need money to grow and expand. It’s sometimes called “product/market fit.”

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 20, 2022

Amazon Attribution measures performance on non-Amazon channels such as Instagram. Because this trend benefits both buyers and sellers, smaller brands have an opportunity to establish a community of followers and repeat buyers while larger brands can use it to consolidate their marketing strategy across all marketing channels.

Stock 167

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 19, 2020

Ready to scale is when you have a proven product and a proven business model, about to expand to new geographies and markets. A software product is a classic example of a scalable solution, since it costs real money to build the first copy, but unlimited additional copies can be quickly cloned for almost no incremental cost.

Hockey Stick 386

Hockey Stick Intellectual Property Startup Non-Compete 386

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’. For low dollar cost products, be somewhat liberal with sending product to influencers.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2010

It meant that the management teams hadn’t figured out a product / market fit for their own businesses. We said it was like two people who couldn’t swim across the English Channel (21 miles) putting their arms around each other and trying to swim across together. My version is, “you have a company with private stock.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 1, 2021

Naturally, it also needs to be PCI (Payment Card Identity) compliant, and if your B2B offers several SKUs (stock keeping units), your platform needs a well-designed search feature so that your customers can find what they need faster. Personalisation of multiple channel presence. Dashboard for sales reps.

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