YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

by Kevin Faber, founder of Silver Summit Capital. For instance, how many cold calls have lead to conversions vs. direct marketing sales letters? His experience in credit analysis, finance, and management led him to be the founder of Silver Summit Capital. Sales is often a numbers game. He graduated at UC Davis with a B.A.

Sales 100

Sales Finance Conversion Email 100

www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

TaskRabbit has (people) making over $5,000 a month in San Francisco," says Craig Shapiro, founder of Collaborative Fund, a venture-capital fund specializing in sharing sites. Inspired in Zimbabwe The founders of Zimride were inspired by drivers in Zimbabwe, who pick up strangers and give them a lift for a few bucks. Thats real money."

San Francisco 105

San Francisco Technical Review Zimbabwe New York City 105

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Family relationships influence founders and their startups. Daniella Yacobovsky , co-founder of online jewelry retailer BaubleBar , and Jane Moritz. Daniella Yacobovsky , co-founder of BaubleBar , previously worked at American Capital Securities and UBS Investment Bank. If you can’t hear the clip, click here.

Entrepreneur 120

Entrepreneur New York Cofounder New York City 120

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

This feature was crucial to direct marketers who did not want to send multiple ads to the same address.) And no amount of sales and marketing hand waving was going to fix the problem. Founder Too. My engineering co-founder and I had a great relationship. You’re An Idiot. Lessons Learned.

San Francisco 228

San Francisco Database Advisory Board Silicon Valley 228

ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

Take Ross Simmonds , Founder and CEO of Foundation Marketing. Simmonds is a powerhouse on Twitter and has developed a large following for his insightful and actionable thought leadership posts on content marketing. Use direct marketing to continue the conversation. Avoid taking a “spray and pray” approach.

Lead Generation 107

Lead Generation Demand Audience eCommerce 107

Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

Hopefully you and your co-founders are experts in one or two parts (agile development, SEO/SEM, etc.) But the rest; sales, marketing, bus dev is actually customer development that the founder needs to understand. Or by a VP of Marketing who talks “branding&# , SEO/SEM, PR agency, etc.

Sales 120

Sales Silicon Valley RSS Las Vegas 120

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Four key elements go into making a sales offer irresistible, says direct marketing consultant Beth Smith. Only 2 percent of sales get closed on the first meeting, and 80 percent of prospects say “no” four times before they say “yes,” according to Marketing Wizdom founder Robert Clay.

Sales 100

Sales Direct Marketing Conversion Small Business 100

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

We had an excellent opening panel on early-stage investing with Dave McClure (Founders Fund – NorCal), Brad Feld (Foundry Group, Boulder) and Andy Sack (Founders Co-Op, Seattle). He displayed a deep mastering of the power of the Internet, direct marketing and Twitter to manage his business.

Silicon Valley 228

Silicon Valley Cofounder Hawaii Semantic 228

www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

werent direct marketers. We didnt even know when we startedthat our users were called "direct marketers." Organic ideas are generally preferable to the made up kind, butparticularly so when the founders are young. 2 ]In retrospect, we should have become direct marketers.

Startup 98

Startup Direct Marketing Open Source Software 98

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2011

Janine Popick Janine Popick is the CEO and co-founder of VerticalResponse (Inc. 5000 2006-2010), a leading self-service direct marketing provider to over 100,000 small businesses. Janine is VerticalResponse’s CEB (Chief Executive Blogger).

Small Business 41

Small Business Social Media Engineer Matching 41

OnlyOnce

MARCH 31, 2011

While that certainly CAN be the case, it can also be the case that outside views and suggestions and healthy debate, as long as incentives are aligned, people are smart, and founders manage the discussion well, can be enormously productive for a business.

Institutional Investors 72

Institutional Investors Direct Marketing Founder Management 72

Seeing Both Sides

DECEMBER 20, 2010

The story CEO and founder Andrew Mason told in his interview with Charlie Rose last week was that when they offered helicopter flying lessons in one of their daily email blasts, they sold 2,500 in one day. But haven’t we seen this movie before in the world of direct marketing?

Direct Marketing 50

Direct Marketing Database Advertising Email 50

Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

10- Professional Organizations Photo Credit: Michael Dodd As a founder of an event management software startup, I have found networking in groups such as ILEA, MPI, and NACE crucial in building my personal and professional network in the events industry. #19- Thanks to Emir Bacic, Pricelisto ! #10-

Community 92

Community Architecture Entrepreneur Networking 92

Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 28, 2013

Some of the surest successes in history have come from founders who created a product to meet a personal need and discovered a business by virtue of doing so. 2) The market understands the offering. Some entrepreneurs dream of locking themselves in a padded room for a year or so and emerging with the world’s greatest innovation.

Product 68

Product America Widget California 68

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2011

Brian Halligan Brian Halligan is CEO & Co-Founder of HubSpot , a marketing software company he co-founded four years ago to help businesses transform the way they market their products by “getting found&# on the internet. Brian Clark Brian Clark is founder of Copyblogger and CEO of Copyblogger Media.

Small Business 54

Small Business Marketing Cofounder Social Media 54

Mike Michalowicz

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Scott Spiro is founder and President of Computer Solutions Group, Inc (CSG), and author of the book “Hassle Free Computer Support”. Tony Lillios is a serial entrepreneur and most notably a co-founder of Speck Products, the protective case maker for mobile products, which was acquired by Samsonite in 2014. Our Guests. Scott Spiro .

Fractional CTO 60

Fractional CTO Cofounder Early Stage Social Network 60

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 9, 2017

Hello and welcome to another episode of the Duct Tape Marketing podcast. David thanks for joining me. So I think your website is still important and I wouldn’t encourage anyone to think of it as anything but that.

Search 31

Search Technical Review SEO Small Business 31

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 30, 2015

There’s really no denying that email marketing still plays a vital role in generating eCommerce revenue. Direct Marketing vs. Transactional: Which Is Best? There are two primary types of emails that you should be concerned with in eCommerce: direct marketing and transactional. Not necessarily. Example: Etsy.

eCommerce 48

eCommerce Email Conversion Marketing 48

Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Effective Ways To Differentiate And Scale Your Business written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Debbie Howard. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Debbie Howard. Listen to marketing, its grain, wherever you get your podcast. (00:55):

Differentiation 73

Differentiation Sales Cycle Audio Networking 73

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

My parents were entrepreneurs from the time I was born, specifically in retail and direct marketing. As the founder, that was more of my personality at that time, having grown up as a programmer. Brant Barton, my co-founder, also played a major role as did Sam Decker, our founding CMO. in honor of my mother.

Software Review 48

Software Review Sales Cofounder Analytics 48

crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Good points about need for startup founders to have friends, not just mentors – [link]. Is Three Founders One Too Many? Applying Traditional Direct Marketing Principles to the Digital Age – CRM Magazine – [link]. Bye Bye, Bill: How Nguyen Doomed Color from the Start – [link]. – [link].

Social Media 91

Social Media Small Business Design Media 91

Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 11, 2019

John Jantsch: Hello and welcome to another episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast. He is the CEO and co founder of the messenger marketing platform known as ManyChat. It used to be that you could be doing only one channel, only one digital channel, that has direct marketing, which is email.

Marketing 40

Marketing SMS Channel Conversion 40

ConversionXL

JULY 20, 2019

There’s really no denying it: Email marketing still plays a vital role in generating eCommerce revenue. There are two primary types of emails that you should be concerned with in ecommerce: promotional (direct marketing) and transactional. Promotional vs. transactional emails. Does one work better than the other?

eCommerce 90

eCommerce Email Conversion Marketing 90

Mike Michalowicz

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Roger Dooley is a speaker and author of Brainfluence: 100 Ways to Persuade and Convince Consumers with Neuromarketing , the popular blog Neuromarketing , and Brainy Marketing at Forbes. He is the founder of Dooley Direct, a marketing consultancy, and co-founded College Confidential , the leading college-bound website.

Tennessee 60

Tennessee Cofounder Direct Marketing Engineer 60

Mike Michalowicz

APRIL 27, 2015

Roger Dooley is the author of Brainfluence: 100 Ways to Persuade and Convince Consumers with Neuromarketing , and writes the popular blog Neuromarketing as well as Brainy Marketing at Forbes.com. He is the founder of Dooley Direct, a marketing consultancy, and co-founded College Confidential, the leading college-bound website.

Tennessee 60

Tennessee Cofounder Direct Marketing Engineer 60

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 7, 2010

Many optimizers are in favor of split-testing, too: direct marketers, landing page and SEO experts -- heck even the Google Website Optimizer team. When you read stories of successful startups in the popular and business press, you usually hear about how the founders anticipated several of these challenges in their initial vision.

San Francisco 154

San Francisco Lean Metrics Design 154

Up and Running

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

It was created by Taylor Reid, the founder of Beginning Farmers. You’ll find guidance on developing a marketing plan for your farm, advice on how to market local food, organic marketing resources, a farmers’ market specific marketing guide, and information on direct marketing.

Colorado 60

Colorado Southern California Business Plan Oregon 60

Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 30, 2019

John Jantsch: Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Duct Tape Marketing podcast. He’s a marketer, a Wall Street Journal cartoonist, a bestselling author, and the founder of cartoonists.org. This is John Jantsch, and my guest today is Stu Heinecke. That’s amazing. That’s kind of a typical response rate.

Marketing 32

Marketing Campaign Naming Sales 32

Occam's Razor

JUNE 6, 2011

Certification Courses: If you want to jumpstart your education (and this is in addition to the above, not a replacement) consider taking a course with Market Motive (Disclosure: I'm the co-founder), University of British Columbia or the University of California at Irvine or Universite Laval. Also, think Web Analytics 2.0,

Analytics 125

Analytics Web Salary Non-Compete 125

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 25, 2010

Sure you want to pitch your stuff, but this is a fantastic opportunity for direct market research on your potential customers! Meet the founder if she's there. Even just a simple "Are you interested in [thing you do]" is better, although still weak. Ask questions, don't just transmit. Try to skip past their salespeople.

Software Review 287

Software Review Sales Email Naming 287

mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

Originally founded by PayPal co-founder Max Levchin Slide.com was known as the largest third-party developer of Facebook applications until Google purchased it to “make Google services socially aware.”. This is a emerging industry and GLIIF is poised to capture a large market share in a very short period of time. On2 Technologies.

Acquisition 104

Acquisition San Francisco Social Media Mobile 104