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4 Quick Methods To Gain Customer Trust

YoungUpstarts

You can gain customer trust by offering exemplary support. But when these avenues fail, customers want to speak to a real person. And this also means social media. Customers will scour social media for questions and answers. In the fast-paced, online world, live chat support is taking prominence.

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The Lean Startup Workshop - now an O'Reilly Master Class

Startup Lessons Learned

The response so far has been nothing short of overwhelming, and I want to especially thank those of you who participated in the survey and customer validation exercise that helped shape this event. Twitter about it or post it to a social media site? For now, Id like to ask a favor. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

The key tools of this new marketing are: targeting, filtering, and customer insight. Mass blasts of information are ineffective, because the broadcast channels are suffering from information overload (even in social media). The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium

Startup Lessons Learned

It requires separating the product launch from the marketing launch (see Dont Launch ) as well as other staple Lean Startup tactics: minimum viable product, split-testing, customer development and the pivot. SlideShare asked customers what they had expected in the product; the responses were often literal descriptions.

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Lessons Learned: Don't launch

Startup Lessons Learned

Do some Customer Development instead. We used social media to get alpha users as outlined here during Feburary. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers.

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Lessons Learned: Net Promoter Score: an operational tool to.

Startup Lessons Learned

The SOCIALtalty scoring methodology is the Net Promoter score for the new digital age measuring a company's use of social media to become more customer centric. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? What is customer development?

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

Github - Free public repositories, collaborator management, issue tracking, wikis, downloads, code review, graphs Pivotal Tracker – Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams.