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SuperMac War Story 6: Building The Killer Team – Mission, Intent.

Steve Blank

Five Easy Pieces – The Marketing Mission After a few months of talking to customers , talking to our channel and working with sales we defined the marketing Mission (our job) was to: Help Sales deliver $25 million in sales with a 45% gross margin. Two paragraphs, Five bullets. It didn’t take more.

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Four Things I Learned From Asking My Customers

Software By Rob

is a tool that helps you edge into customer development. It’s a free tool put together by Sean Ellis and Hiten Shah as a way for product owners to easily survey their customers using pre-written questions. So two weeks ago I dove in head first and emailed the survey to all of our customers. Photo by Eleaf.

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How to Create a Compelling Unique Selling Proposition

ConversionXL

Why should customers buy from you? In this guide, you’ll learn how to differentiate your business and attract your ideal customers by creating a unique selling proposition. How a unique selling proposition (USP) attracts better customers and builds your brand (and where marketers get it wrong). The basics are important (e.g.,

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Marketing Metrics 101 for B2B Startups

www.rocketwatcher.com

For example I’ve seen folks track branded organic searches (where the person came to the site by searching on your company or product name) against a “pr&# lead source. There are also other thing to think about. It all depends on what programs you are running and how you want to measure the overlap. April Amrita Reply 13.

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How to Name Your Startup

www.rocketwatcher.com

But name your startup John Smith and Associates and you’ve got yourself a problem. I’ve never named a company but I’ve named products a handful of times with decidedly mixed results (See my post on product naming here ). 7 Startup Customer Discovery Questions. Name ( required ).

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