Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Lately I’ve been having to say things I thought I’d never have to remind people, like, “getting to positive gross margin in several territories is a very low bar to claim success” or “profitable excluding marketing costs” is not actually a real thing. But not doing basic research makes no sense.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

In fact, the secrets that have helped differentiate brands are far more enduring. asks Nick Greene. Because commodities lack appealing secrets, a farcical backstory—masquerading as a differentiator—fills the void. Weak secrets may act as short-term differentiators, but the benefits don’t last. Why is it kept secret?”

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

In fact, the secrets that have helped differentiate brands are far more enduring. asks Nick Greene. Because commodities lack appealing secrets, a farcical backstory—masquerading as a differentiator—fills the void. Weak secrets may act as short-term differentiators, but the benefits don’t last. Why is it kept secret?”

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Transcript of How to Turn Marketing Costs Into Profit written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. That’s not really true, but in this episode of The Duct Tape Marketing podcast I do speak with Joe Pulizzi and Robert Rose, authors of Killing Marketing: How Innovative Businesses are Turning Marketing Costs into Profit.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 11, 2019

Fossil fuels won’t be able to compete on cost. This will be further enabled by automation and manufacturing where the low-cost labour market trading advantage evaporates. Global e-commerce, lower living costs and higher living standards will create a renaissance for non-city places of great beauty.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 28, 2021

And of course, a number of small businesses have found brilliant ways to differentiate against these big competitors and also to harness the internet. We can put the logo on merchandise, which is a very cost-effective way to promote your brand and to have customers engage and use a product with your name on it. That's terrific.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Talks of the cost of living crisis and recession worry me — I’m sure this will induce stressful days at work ahead, but I also know that all of us will be feeling that extra pressure from everywhere else in our daily lives. I'll also need to find ways to differentiate my product or service from my competitors so that I can win market share.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2011

My picks for favorite startup sectors to improve your fundability in the new year include green, biotech, and renewable energy (also called alternative energy or sustainable energy). In previous articles, I’ve put some definition around the green and biotech investment categories, so I’ll try to do the same here for renewable energy.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

and a differentiated feel in terms of fabric, design, sustainability, etc. Quality If you think about where Amazon excels it’s because they have a huge assortment of products, they have unbeatable delivery options & costs, they have very flexible return policies and they provide good value. Not so much.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2012

You can’t succeed in business without an operational model that delivers value to customers at a reasonable price, with an underlying cost that allows you to make a profit. The key issues here are time to market and cost. Cost structure. What are your costs? How will you differentiate your product or service?

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

You can say, John, you may like the red sweater, I really like a green sweater however. It is the essential stuff that works, the timeless strategies that differentiate you, that make you become the authority in marketing and get noticed. And then also AI gives you a way to personalize. John Jantsch (10:48): Marketing platform.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 17, 2020

You can even add cool colors to differentiate your labels. Tap the green checkmark on the bottom right of the screen to draft your message. WhatsApp is the clear winner in terms of cost, efficiency, interface, and customer preference. You can set up Labels to your chats, to help you remember and organize your messages.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2011

You can’t succeed in business without an operational model that delivers value to customers at a reasonable price, with an underlying cost that allows you to make a profit. The key issues here are time to market and cost. Cost structure. What are your costs? How will you differentiate your product or service?

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 5, 2021

However, it’s more difficult to process than cost-based pricing. A modern-day business seeks USPs (unique selling propositions) to differentiate itself from rival brands. So, brands produce “green” (eco-friendly) products to get inside the audience’s good books. Conclusion.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 16, 2014

Shipping Costs. In another part of the study, they found that 47% of effective users of social media (in green) report collecting and tracking customer reviews, whereas when combined with everyone else, that number drops to be 1/3 of all businesses. Social Proof. Return Policy. Financing Options. Customer Education. image source.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

High costs and frustration often go hand-in-hand with building outdoor kitchens from scratch, which can deter people from even looking into purchasing them. Our catchy, distinctive name infers our offering of making advertisements quick and easy and captures the essence of our brand identity, differentiating us from the competition.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

They are the classic case of the Innovator’s Dilemma because they fundamentally can’t innovate on their product and can’t lower costs or their business craters. And it’s easy to run circles around them as our product differentiation shows. They have high-priced property and zero innovation.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 17, 2018

To ensure that your product or service stands out amongst the crowd —making the sacrifice in time, money and sanity worth it—you must differentiate. Prioritize the items and then determine the costs of all of it, and where you should splurge versus pinching pennies. This is where your niche comes into play.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

One of our most recent ventures has been setting up our diploma program in financial trading as financial illiteracy is a growing issue, especially with the cost of living crisis. This not only helps to support a social cause but can also help to differentiate the company from its competitors and improve its reputation and loyalty.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

It also helps you emphasize key differentiators, like price, ingredients, production process, and mission. By choosing recycled and non-toxic materials, using the bare minimum amount of packaging, and letting your consumer know all of these things, you’re building your green credibility and trumpeting it loudly to your customer base.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 4, 2015

After venturing into the telecommunications industry, I had a vision to create company that provides the highest quality service at the most affordable cost. I thought of all combinations of synonyms for Green, High, and Stone(d) that had a domain and social media handles available. No Hassles. Only a Guarantee.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 5, 2017

He helps people specialize and position their business in a way that allows them to get more profit, to drive the cost to acquire customers down, to become really known as the expert in their field of specialization. First of all, so many other people are doing the exact same thing, so there’s no meaningful differentiation.

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Brandanew

DECEMBER 9, 2016

Needless to say, building brand differentiation and a narrative requires careful thought. The anti-brand branding strategy can also appeal to consumers interested in green issues and anti-capitalist movements. Your customers should be able to distill your brand’s essence in your stories, marketing activities and products.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Is it differentiated from other products in its competitive set? You might ask a marketing firm to write and design your pitch book, which is pretty much the cost of admission to an angel’s office. Most firms will schedule a consultation with you at no cost. Is there a well-defined, sustainable market for your product?

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

These digital tools can help streamline the construction process, increase efficiency, and reduce costs. This approach can help reduce construction time, lower costs, and improve safety on the job site. By focusing on worker safety, companies can reduce lost work time, worker compensation costs, and legal liabilities.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 19, 2014

Two factors: cost and range (and charging infrastructure, to a lesser extent, but that will be remedied when there is more demand). The Nissan Leaf battery pack alone costs about $18,000 (though government incentives bring down the overall vehicle cost to the customer). The real barrier to adoption is cost.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

4:10] What are you finding that not listening in the way is costing people? [5:34] There's a huge differential between the speaking speed of the speaker and their thinking speed. The other costs of not listening are great employees who leave before they should because they don't feel heard, valued, or seen in the workplace.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 17, 2013

Their shipping costs will eat up any money they save. We’ll differentiate with a funny safety video and by not being a**holes. We’ll differentiate with a funny safety video and by not being a**holes. To make you feel richer, we’ll make them green. Virgin Atlantic – airlines are cool.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 7, 2016

The Power of Green. The green building market has been expanding exponentially; in 2013, the market reached $260 billion, 20 percent of which was new commercial real estate construction. These buildings offer lower operating costs and higher indoor environmental quality. The proof comes in the form of tangible savings.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Marc Mawhinney (07:23): You with the little army figures, it goes Bart Simpson, one of the episodes of the Simpsons, he was melting the little green army guy. There are no contracts, no additional costs based in Latin America with incredible English, proficiency and business experience work better. They're just complaining that much.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

If we can’t determine where the traffic comes from, we can neither attribute conversions to their original sources of traffic, nor can we find out the true cost per acquisition (CPA) or return on ad spend (ROAS) for each marketing activity. If there’s a cost associated with running a campaign (i.e. Campaign Grouping: A hybrid approach.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

If you are genuinely passionate about it, that will shine through and you will immediately be differentiated from the many sales people that attend these events. Opportunity cost is very real for any stage company, but it is critical for an early-stage one. For us, this was the color green and our SellStrong bands.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Your brand positioning explains how your company differentiates in the marketplace and how you are different from your competitors. Google’s USP might be in the way they connect people with information, whereas Amazon’s might be providing whatever product you need quickly, efficiently, and at as low a cost as possible.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

might have been a lot less differentiated. So along come companies like Slide, RockYou & Zynga who wanted to build apps across all the social networks but were green-lighted the hardest by Mark Zuckerberg. This is an awesome trend and will further lower the cost of startup development. companies versus the Web 1.0

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 1, 2009

Having so few products means Apple can dedicate enormous resources to each project once it gets the green light. Which comes to the second major principle: halt work that leads to more waste, even if it means abandoning sunk costs. Discover whats in customers heads, and tackle problems where design is a differentiator.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 3, 2016

At a fraction of the cost of traditional advertising, Facebook ads are built right into a user’s newsfeed so these ads become an overall part of the Facebook experience. and must be at least 2 times your cost per click bid (CPC). With the right eye-catching imagery, videos, and text, these ads are difficult to ignore.

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ConversionXL

JULY 20, 2016

This study analyzed user reactions to 78 watch websites and 81 car websites, and it looked purely at design elements as differentiators. Things like: Mean RGB (Red, Green, Blue). the real effort required to use the site): the perceived cost drives the initial assessment of the site’s expected utility. Number of colors.

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