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SuperMac War Story 9: Sales, Not Awards « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

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.

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Landing Pages That Convert

www.chancebarnett.com

Testimonials- these are the tried and true workhorses of the direct marketing and copywriting world. Take care Paul [link] Simple Techniques Direct Marketers Use To Ensure Success Before Even Launching Products. Present the image of these sources (CNN, Newsweek, etc.) early on and prominently on your landing page.

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Excellent Analytics Tip #7: The Adorable Site Abandonment Rate Metric

Occam's Razor

Segmentation examples would include: By “campaigns” (this would include PPC, Pay Per Click, / SEM, Search Engine Marketing, and direct marketing and other campaigns you run). This can be great source of actionable insights.

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Standard Metrics Revisited: #3: Bounce Rate

Occam's Razor

In your web analytics tool simply go to the Referring URL's / Sites report and take a look, you'll find something like this…… For this site Google Analytics illustrates that both myspace.com and simplyhired.com is not sending great traffic, while their direct marketing campaigns (#2 and #3 above) seem to be doing much better.

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