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The Expert Guide to Creating a Marketing Growth Strategy

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To truly differentiate your brand, center your growth strategy around creating unique and personalized customer experiences. It outlines four major growth strategies: market penetration , market development , product development , and diversification. Product development. New channels. Acquisitions.

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Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

Paid - if your product monetizes customers better than your competitors, you have the opportunity to use your lifetime value advantage to drive growth. In this model, you take some fraction of the lifetime value of each customer and plow that back into paid acquisition through SEM, banner ads, PR, affiliates, etc.

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How come ability to hire isn't a criteria for investment?

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VCs talk about customer acquisition and competition as critical parts of the pitch--when 99% of the time the real answers are: a) Well, we'll do some PR, some social, some paid when we figure out what a customer is worth, some BD. Yet, where a company can *really* differentiate itself is in its ability to identify and recruit top talent.

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How to Model Your Marketing Against the Product Lifecycle

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These are the four stages of a product we’ll be focusing on. . However, on a more granular graph, the introduction phase would be preceded by a product development stage. This stage is used to determine the viability of your product and confirm when it should go to market. Slow skimming.

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Beware The Consultant

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For instance, if a consultant proposes to help you with public relations, pay them a commission equivalent to the greater of a flat fee per story placed or a percentage of revenue generated from the PR coverage. Such positions include: PR, Sales, Product Development, Lead Generation, Strategic Planning, Fund Raising, etc.

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Strategy Roundtable: Professional Investors Do Not Invest In $20 Million Markets

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technologies, there are many nuggets that will help you build an efficient, repeatable sales process.). He should then bootstrap his product development by using the consulting fees. I asked her not to spray and pray, and focus on her core, differentiated products - stretch mark and c-section mark removal creams for new mothers.

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90 Things I've Learned From Founding 4 Technology Companies

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90 Things I’ve Learned From Founding 4 Technology Companies. I firmly believe that in this age where the product development life-cycle is so short and user feedback comes so quickly, you will know within a year whether you are focusing on a worthwhile one thing. Build all of your own technology. Less is more.