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Always Right: Five Risks You Must Take With Your Customers

YoungUpstarts

After all, if you get too chummy with customers — or even appear too interested in or sympathetic to their personal circumstances — they might start to want more from you: better pricing, extended credit, lengthier conversations, access to your services on nights and weekends, etc.

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Launching a Portfolio Acceleration Platform at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Fund

David Teten

Customer Development. A VC can build out relations with the innovation groups at the Global 2,000, which turn into lead-gen for portfolio companies selling to the Global 2,000. A well-developed model is Andreessen Horowitz’s Executive Briefing Center. Numerous VCs. Neither proprietary nor marketable. Minimal cost. .

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Lead Generation – A Complete System

Duct Tape Marketing

Lead Generation – A Complete System written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Leads are the lifeblood of every business. Clients are actually the lifeblood, however, without leads there are no clients, but that’s a topic for another post. Lead generation is essentially a game of channels more than tactics.

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Everything You Need To Know About Designing Valuable Customer Surveys

ConversionXL

Conversions are mostly about being relevant to your customers. If what you offer and the way you present it is relevant to your visitors they will convert to buying customers. Then again if you don’t understand who your customer is or worse it’s “everybody” then you have very little change of being successful at it.

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Seven Things Your Customers Can Do Better Than You

YoungUpstarts

Girls from around the world were eager to get into the conversation — and P&G was able to market its products more subtly and effectively than before. The bottom line is that customers are more apt to trust and care about information when it comes from a peer rather than an organization. Finally, the site took off.

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Are You Putting Your Rock Star Customers To Work?

YoungUpstarts

At first, Livengood and his team tried traditional pdf customer success stories on the corporate website. Finally, it began experimenting with content delivery, and was among the first firms to exploit the power of video to tell customer stories. Community marketing is the best way to leverage Rock Star customers.

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Microcopy: Tiny Words That Make A Huge Impact On Conversions

ConversionXL

When you think about optimizing your website to increase conversions, what are some of the first things that come to mind? Like Ott had mentioned in the Mastering The Call To Action a study of Visual Website Optimizer’s customers shows most people are testing: CTA Buttons – 30%. How Microcopy Can Improve UX & Conversions.