Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2020

Up-sell related products or cross endorsement. If your customers would benefit by having products from both companies, you might negotiate the opportunity to include the other’s product as an add-on. Both partners must not forget they are still competitors. Expand core competency and solidify strengths.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 19, 2020

Ready to scale is when you have a proven product and a proven business model, about to expand to new geographies and markets. A software product is a classic example of a scalable solution, since it costs real money to build the first copy, but unlimited additional copies can be quickly cloned for almost no incremental cost.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 23, 2014

One of the main reasons why hopeful business owners don’t succeed is not because they don’t have a worthy product or a well-thought-out business plan, but because they’re afraid of rejection. The same pattern can hold true for interactions with banks, vendors, distributors, and other strategic partners. Stop psyching yourself out!

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 22, 2024

In today’s competitive business landscape, differentiating your brand and amplifying your message requires more than just a great product or service. They are adept at identifying the unique aspects of your brand and strategically positioning them in the market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 9, 2010

Your goal is to find a way to partner with your "competitor" in such a way that both parties can substantially benefit from the other's resources - but without stealing customers or damaging anyone's credibility. Best of both creates a new market. Up-sell related products after the initial sale. Cross endorsement.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

This week’s guest was David Travers from Rustic Canyon Partners. Remember the whole controversy over Facebook’s Beacon product where a guy bought an engagement ring for his wife and it was published to a stream and ruined the surprise ? So my gut says this will be a youth-oriented product. 4mm in Series A.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 29, 2023

Following the collapse of California-based bank , Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), in early March 2023, startups and organizations that were caught in the middle of the catastrophe showed many other entrepreneurs and new business owners the importance of partnering with the right financial institution.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 23, 2018

Don’t allow yourself, your business partner, or team to become complacent. Direct marketing. More and more people are searching for information, entertainment, and products online every year. Your prospects are searching for products and services related to your business, but are they finding you?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2013

Ready to scale is when you have a proven product and a proven business model, about to expand to new geographies and markets. A software product is a classic example of a scalable solution, since it costs real money to build the first copy, but unlimited additional copies can be quickly cloned for almost no incremental cost.

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Hockey Stick Intellectual Property Startup Non-Compete 278

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 25, 2011

A year ago I invested, along with Dana Settle at Greycroft Partners , in a startup company called Maker Studios. They know this model of YouTube production & distribution better than anybody else that I’ve met in my 5 years in Los Angeles. .” It was founded by Danny Zappin, Lisa Donovan & Ben Donovan.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

JUNE 9, 2022

Improve Your Products and Services. Any number of things could be improved, such as upgrading from shortening to butter in bakery items to make them taste more luxurious or switching to better heavy duty steel rollers to make mining more productive – it’s really going to depend on what you do in your company as to how you improve things.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Products Home. Find road-trip partners on Zimride. Weve had some awesome people come through," says Kim Gardner, an associate product manager at Flavorpill. Visit our Partners: USA WEEKEND. Skip to Main Content. Tech: Blogs. Technology Live. Game Hunters. Science Fair. |. Talking Tech. Talking Your Tech. Kim Komando.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Ready to scale is when you have a proven product and a proven business model, about to expand to new geographies and markets. A software product is a classic example of a scalable solution, since it costs real money to build the first copy, but unlimited additional copies can be quickly cloned for almost no incremental cost.

Hockey Stick 120

Hockey Stick Intellectual Property Non-Compete Business Model 120

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2015

Ready to scale is when you have a proven product and a proven business model, about to expand to new geographies and markets. A software product is a classic example of a scalable solution, since it costs real money to build the first copy, but unlimited additional copies can be quickly cloned for almost no incremental cost.

Hockey Stick 120

Hockey Stick Intellectual Property Non-Compete Business Model 120

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Here are ten examples to get your creative juices flowing: Targeted direct marketing. Companies need the same service on partner and acquisition candidates, even vendors. Customer retention with churn modeling. Without predictive targeting, a retention campaign may cost more than it gains. Movie recommendations.

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ConversionXL

JULY 3, 2020

Google’s own research , done “in cooperation with our publishing partners,” showed that “even minor changes to the current sampling levels could degrade user experience and, as user access is restricted, unintentionally impact article ranking in Google Search.”. Start with 10 monthly clicks.

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Mike Michalowicz

SEPTEMBER 14, 2019

Business podcasts have become the most effective format of marketing that exists, as well as the most powerful way to retain an audience. And, you can easily increase customers when you have a solid 30-40 minutes of direct marketing and full engagement. For one thing, ensure your production quality is top notch.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

In Customer Development the goal of a minimum feature set is to pare the features of the first product release to the minimum necessary for early customers. This feature was crucial to direct marketers who did not want to send multiple ads to the same address.) But finding what those “minimum” features are can be an adventure.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 24, 2012

With this fundamental shift, businesses need to change their entire marketing model. Instead of persuading individuals to buy products or services, they should understand what consumers truly care about and find ways to align themselves in a meaningful (as opposed to a pretentious) manner. source of image ).

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! 5000 2006-2010), a leading self-service direct marketing provider to over 100,000 small businesses.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Why are people doing what they’re doing on the product page? They make good conversation partners, they are able to think on their feet, and call b t when they hear it. The person needs to be great at usability, psychology, persuasive copywriting, business strategy and direct marketing skills. Who all are involved?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Here are ten examples to get your creative juices flowing: Targeted direct marketing. Companies need the same service on partner and acquisition candidates, even vendors. Customer retention with churn modeling. Without predictive targeting, a retention campaign may cost more than it gains. Movie recommendations.

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Analytics Retention Social Media Campaign 177

crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Find partners or investors. You know a lot about marketing or finance or… whatever. See section 9 below to learn how to find a partner or investors.). Perceived value is the amount that a customer thinks a service (or product) is worth. Your branding can influence how your product is perceived, as well.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Here are ten examples to get your creative juices flowing: Targeted direct marketing. Companies need the same service on partner and acquisition candidates, even vendors. Customer retention with churn modeling. Without predictive targeting, a retention campaign may cost more than it gains. Movie recommendations.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 27, 2017

You set up meetings with potential partners, customers, and dormant leads who finally seem ready to take the plunge. Get more responses to direct mail. Texting can even give that old classic, direct marketing, a new spin. They’re important for networking, brand building, and lead generation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 12, 2013

Here are ten examples to get your creative juices flowing: Targeted direct marketing. Companies need the same service on partner and acquisition candidates, even vendors. Customer retention with churn modeling. Without predictive targeting, a retention campaign may cost more than it gains. Movie recommendations.

Analytics 246

Analytics Retention Startup Social Media 246

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Here are ten examples to get your creative juices flowing: Targeted direct marketing. Companies need the same service on partner and acquisition candidates, even vendors. Customer retention with churn modeling. Without predictive targeting, a retention campaign may cost more than it gains. Movie recommendations.

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Analytics Retention Social Media Campaign 120

Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Free FoundersCard membership, 24/7 online support through forums, discounts on products and services, offline events, the assistance of an editorial team to aid in the creation and dissemination of content for the purposes of brand building and media opportunities, and more. These relationships are always useful.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 30, 2015

Are you promoting the right products to the right people at the right time? Generating revenue via email marketing requires strategy. It’s not about batching and blasting or promoting as many products as you can cram into one email. Direct Marketing vs. Transactional: Which Is Best? Not necessarily.

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ConversionXL

JULY 20, 2019

Are you promoting the right products to the right people at the right time? Generating revenue via email marketing requires strategy. It’s not about batching and blasting or promoting as many products as you can cram into one email. Once you perfect your ecommerce email marketing strategy, conversions will soar.

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eCommerce Email Conversion Marketing 90

YoungUpstarts

MAY 8, 2014

You can pour your heart and soul (and life savings) into a venture, do all your due diligence, toil 80- and 90-hour weeks, and just when you’re on the verge of a breakthrough, a dark horse competitor sweeps in and decimates your market share. Or a partner defects with your top client. Or a key vendor declares bankruptcy.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 11, 2019

John Jantsch: This episode is a Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, and is brought to you by pixelz.com. If you want them to pop, if you want them to represent your products, this is a retouching service to make your images look great. John Jantsch: Hello and welcome to another episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Growth Hacking isn’t viral marketing (although viral marketing is part of it). Growth Hacking comes to solve a very common problem in consumer startups: getting to the first x thousand/million users quickly once the product has launched and the hype has passed.

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Mike Michalowicz

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Tony shares his success story with Speck products and how his company skyrocketed to profitability. 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. Corporate Partners. Our Guests. Scott Spiro .

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! 5000 2006-2010), a leading self-service direct marketing provider to over 100,000 small businesses.

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Small Business Marketing Cofounder Social Media 53

Pascal's View

AUGUST 21, 2011

Capital Markets Advisory Partners cleaves the demand for pre-public VC-backed equities into two worlds: “Demand Pull (Buzz) and Supply Push (No Buzz) companies. … We have a stock market that works for one kind of buzzy (Demand Pull) stock but is a disaster for the rest of the economy.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Not everybody wakes up one day and says, I think I'm gonna start a marketing business that caters to the senior living space. John , so well, myself and my business partner Andrea. I was in sales and marketing, and Andrea was in operations and dementia care. How's that kind of color your thinking in terms of marketing?

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