Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

It says that selling an airplane ticket for $500 and getting paid a $5 fees by the airlines (1% gross margin) is not the same thing as selling $500 of software that you built (>90% gross margin). Sam did all this analysis before even deciding to build V1 of his software and before we put serious money behind him launching.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! And if you've got a culture that rewards people for hitting the metrics and the objectives for their particular silo, ignorant of how that may or may not actually hurt other parts of the business, that's a problem. Connect with Jon on LinkedIn , X (formerly Twitter), and Instagram.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 4, 2024

Learn crucial metrics for success, from open rates to the quality of subscribers. 15:09] What are some of the metrics that showcase success in Newsletter writing? [17:17] Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! And a lot of times you can hire somebody to go do a lot of it from there. John (06:53): Yeah.

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Up and Running

JUNE 27, 2018

Differentiate yourself. Too often, business owners are tempted to hire the crème de la crème right at the outset. The value of hiring slow: Hiring high-caliber staff early in the game may take its toll on your time, money, and other resources. The good news here is, you don’t necessarily have to hire in-house marketers.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Since the term “cloud computing” was coined in 1996—at least as we have come to understand its meaning—the software as a service industry has exploded. If you use software like LivePlan, you can create this initial “lean plan” in under an hour and then spend your time where it really matters—on validating your idea. The business model.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2023

[07:00] How do you differentiate your content based on somebody who is in a potential buying situation? [09:42] 14:58] What are some of the metrics that show you’re doing things right? Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! And a lot of times you can hire somebody to go do a lot of it from there.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 6, 2021

If you’re looking for a way to differentiate your business in your space, expertly written copy is the way to do it. Here are some best practices from Search Engine Journal for good SEO hygiene that small businesses can apply: Keep your website code clean. However, if you have time to do marketing, you have time to review your efforts.

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Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

We recently had Tim Berry, Palo Alto Software founder and business planning expert, present our Bplans audience with his latest advice on lean business planning. What taglines are you using to differentiate yourself from other people, other businesses that might be similar. I’m the CEO of Palo Alto Software.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 12, 2010

Ok not boom overnight… but over the course of a few months the org started to be more data driven, because analysts we hired produced analysis. Please click on the above image for a higher resolution version , including all the other metrics.]. That fed a virtuous cycle. More analysts. More insights. Say it ain't so! :).

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Up and Running

MAY 1, 2014

You’ve reviewed what a business plan is , and why you need one to start and grow your business. The company overview provides a quick review of the company’s legal structure and location, as well as some background on the company’s history if you’re writing the plan for an existing business. Milestones and Metrics. Read more ».

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 21, 2014

For example, Palo Alto Software focuses primarily on helping small businesses realize their dreams of starting a business. Many people reading this guide will already have an idea of what that is – perhaps a tutoring agency, or a restaurant, or a software company. Are you going to be hiring employees?

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 20, 2023

Rodney highlights the significance of selecting the right areas for transformation that can deliver a differentiating value, plus the importance of upskilling and reskilling existing talent within digital changes. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! Like this show? That's right.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 6, 2022

16:25] Number nine — using metrics to understand what works and what doesn’t – if you don’t have a plan to measure, you’ll be guessing. [18:02] Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! In many cases is going to allow you to differentiate your business example. Number nine metrics.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

17:30] How deep into financials and metrics do you get before taking a client on? [19:01] Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! You get unlimited graphic designs, website, funnels, CRM, email automation, integrations, automations, really anything that requires you to log into software. You want to grow?

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The ad that performed the best on average , especially for quantitative metrics, delivers your typically inoffensive McDonald’s spot—the safety scissors of the ad world. But they back that up by addressing a primary anxiety in higher education and a barrier for many: “pay no tuition until you’re hired.”. Sacrifice reward; avoid risk.

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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’. Even pre-launch, there’s work you can do here to differentiate yourself. How will you take advantage of SEO and SEM?

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

There are three parts to a good competitive analysis: (1) defining the metrics and identifying the competitors you’re comparing, (2) gathering the data, and (3) the analysis. Your brand positioning explains how your company differentiates in the marketplace and how you are different from your competitors. Social media.

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

My delusions of coding grandeur quickly subsided and realized that I was not going to hack it. Additionally, if you want to hire more engineers, how hard will it be to find people using this language. Need to hire others: This communicates they might not be as good as you want or just can’t hack it and solve the initial problem.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

This success was aided by the fact that it did just one thing extremely well – its lack of extra features emphasized its differentiation. Over time, such teams either explode due to irreconcilable differences or dramatically slow down. No vanity metrics should be looked at. So which is it? Is "good enough" good enough?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

How to differentiate yourself in a crowded market (and when perhaps you shouldn’t try). At Smart Bear we were selling a code review tool, and if you paid $600 for Perforce, it was very hard for me to charge $600 hundred for an add-on to Perforce that did code review. That’s what I think it is.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

How to differentiate yourself in a crowded market (and when perhaps you shouldn’t try). Bob: I’ve come around to the opinion that the metric of how many people join X service is pretty worthless when it comes to monetization. I actually sold lots of software to Intuit at Smart Bear. Let me let Bob get in now.

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betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

To this day, not a single pixel gets on our website or apps without my input, review, and approval. Likewise, not a single designer gets approved to sell on Fab without Bradford’s input, review, and approval. The most important hiring criteria for your executives is cultural fit. As CEO, you are responsible for every hire.

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om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Lesson Learned : Build a peer review mentoring culture. I decided to launch WebWorkerDaily in 2006, because it was obvious to me that distributed work was an eventuality we could not escape and soon, will live in an on-demand world that would extend from music, to movies, to work related software. Back to the top. I smiled to myself.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

When an acquirer looks at your company, if your gross margin is dropping consistently year over year, they’re going to draw the conclusion that you’ve lost your marketing differentiation. I love looking at cost per account acquired as a key metric to share with potential acquirers. So it’s important.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 12, 2015

Recently, Palo Alto Software CEO Sabrina Parsons hosted a webinar for our Bcast members on how to use LivePlan to create a better business plan, pitch your idea to investors, and track your business. For example, in the building that Palo Alto Software is in, on the first floor, we have a great coffee shop. It just is.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2008

The credit is due to much smarter people than me, and to the incredible power of necessity, that mother of invention. You may have to staff up a large customer service department to review and approve all of the items. Those problems were the necessary consequences of some decisions we made early on. Heres what I mean.

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Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 6, 2020

Moreover, the indicators that show founders are ready to take on new capital in order to progress to the next phase of company-building – be it hiring, expanding into a new market, launching a product or more – can vary from company to company. WHAT METRICS SHOULD A FOUNDER SHOW TO RAISE A SERIES A FROM A VC FIRM LIKE GREYLOCK?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

Examples: how a market will evolve, what competitors are investing in, whether new marketing campaigns will be successful, or how an important new hire will perform. If we do feature X, we earn more deals (through differentiation). Also we gain some (less measurable) generic brand benefit from being differentiated.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2020

Differentiation is about standing out from the noise and giving people a reason to choose you over others. Let me tell you why that is, and how you can differentiate. Sameness is the combined effect of companies being too similar in their offers, poorly differentiated in their branding , and indistinct in their communication.

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