Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 18, 2024

With her expertise, she’s boosted hundreds of agencies to millions in revenue, attracting premium clients willing to pay 50-600% fees. Key Takeaways Mandi Ellefson, founder of Hands-off CEO, shares her journey from overwhelming debt to multimillionaire status by transforming consulting agencies into self-sustaining enterprises.

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Framework Sales Cycle Sales Hiring 64

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 29, 2011

We founders unwittingly focus on how to make the best customer experiences better , rather than making the worst experiences less worse , and sometimes this is a mistake. For the same reason that I keep recommending Bill. Another thing we can do is literally measure customer “happiness&# and intercede before it goes from bad to 32B.

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Technical Review Software Review Reputation Sales Cycle 236

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

In the case of Freshdesk, their main competitor, Zendesk, is operating with a San Francisco - Copenhagen cost-structure and will find it harder to compete with this strategy. The founders, Sunil Guttula and Abinasha Karana, are experienced IT professional with 15 years of experience between them solving various enterprise IT problems.

India 123

India Bootstrapping Non-Compete Entrepreneur 123

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 19, 2020

These founders all seem to be pushing their technology, rather than highlighting their solution to a painful need. Nice to have does not motivate a revenue stream. Technologies that cure world hunger may find that that hungry people don’t have money, and government agencies as customers are a very long sales cycle.

Technology 317

Technology Marketing Sales Cycle Social Media 317

Small Business Force

AUGUST 27, 2017

During this initial period, not one sales person was there longer than seven months and most had less than four months on the job. The company didn’t have great results over this time, with only two sales, generating minor revenue. The CEO and founder, who hired and fired the staff, blamed the lack of sales on two things.

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Sales Sales Cycle Product Technical Review 30

ConversionXL

APRIL 28, 2020

In that unannounced meeting, Brett Hurt, our CEO and co-founder, laid it out for us. To have the future we wanted, we needed to shift away from monetizing our open-data community and toward enterprise sales. To do that, we built a demand funnel that took us from nothing to 44X revenue growth in a single year. Image source ).

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Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

At Hustle Fund, we back both first time founders as well as repeat founders. One thing I’ve noticed is that almost every repeat, previously-successful-founder focuses on the same thing for their respective startups: customer acquisition. Unit economics are something I’ve found most entrepreneurs (and investors!)

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Founder Sales Cycle Affiliate Retention 48

Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

At Hustle Fund, we back both first time founders as well as repeat founders. One thing I’ve noticed is that almost every repeat, previously-successful-founder focuses on the same thing for their respective startups: customer acquisition. Unit economics are something I’ve found most entrepreneurs (and investors!)

Founder 48

Founder Sales Cycle Affiliate Retention 48

Where to Play

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Adrien Briod , the co-founder, envisioned how a collision-tolerant drone would assist in managing such dangerous situations. It can fly or roll on any surface, and will actually be able to operate in a wide range of temperatures and pressures. They call it Elios. The Challenge.

Agile 54

Agile Technical Review Sales Cycle Distribution 54

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Validated learning about customers Would you rather have $30,000 or $1 million in revenues for your startup? All things being equal, of course, you’d rather have more revenue rather than less. And yet revenue alone is not a sufficient goal. More on that in a moment.

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Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167

NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The statistics show that even though most founders bet their time and resources that their startups will be the best in the world, 90% of those new startups won’t be in operation in 10-15 years. For example, “How will unit cost affect our capital requirements and how will product pricing affect revenue?”

Startup 69

Startup Sales Cycle Down Round Revenue 69

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2014

These founders all seem to be pushing their technology, rather than highlighting their solution to a painful need. Nice to have does not motivate a revenue stream. Creators of technologies that cure world hunger may find that hungry people don’t have money, but government agencies as customers are a very long sales cycle.

Technology 286

Technology Startup Sales Cycle Social Media 286

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 19, 2016

These founders all seem to be pushing their technology, rather than highlighting their solution to a painful need. Nice to have does not motivate a revenue stream. Technologies that cure world hunger may find that that hungry people don’t have money, and government agencies as customers are a very long sales cycle.

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Sales Cycle Social Media Viral Technology 120

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Understanding CAC by each channel helps you identify areas of opportunity and streamline operations for better ROI. This is due to factors such as maturity, sales cycle, product value, purchase frequency, and customer lifespan. Strong customer relationships fuel loyalty, which results in more sales and recommendations.

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Acquisition eCommerce Cost Customer 22

ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

Sales intelligence platform Cognism cut their lead generation efforts by 90% in 2021. Then they increased their revenue from $2M to $6M in six months. In this article, you’ll learn how to build a demand generation funnel that fuels the pipeline, shortens the sale cycle, and generates revenue.

Demand 124

Demand B2B Distribution Channel 124

ReadWriteStart

MAY 4, 2011

First up, Manoj Dharap presented EzeeBank , a core banking solution for credit co-operative societies. Manoj is experiencing a long sales cycle of close to 12 months, but he has already created a sustainable company that has revenues and profits. Indian In A Box. You can register for the upcoming roundtables here.

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India Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Massachusetts 116

infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

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. If a consultant claims they can enhance your marketing efforts, pay them based on their direct impact on your incremental sales.

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Equity Silicon Valley Cofounder Technical Review 40

Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Debbie is the co-founder and CEO of Senior Living SMART, a full-service marketing agency focused exclusively on the senior housing and care industry. She is the co-founder and CEO of Senior Living Smart, a full service marketing agency focused exclusively on the senior housing and care industry. Marketing Podcast with Debbie Howard.

Differentiation 74

Differentiation Sales Cycle Audio Networking 74

ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

Marketers raise brand awareness to capture leads that are handed to sales teams to convert into customers. DGMs see that demand is maintained throughout the sales cycle. 70% of buyers are already clued up on a product before they talk to sales, if they talk to sales at all. How does your DGM operate?

Demand 95

Demand Management B2B Campaign 95

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Back in 2016, I read a book called Sprint by Jake Knapp, founder of Google Ventures. These days, many agencies start as a lean operation. I know this language sounds formal and stuffy, but high-ticket service sales cycles are long. And so, the concept for a digital PR service was born. niche down”). Image source ).

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

But you don't have any lords and masters to answer to and the pay out goes entirely to the founders and management team. Guest author Bernard Lunn is a serial entrepreneur and business adviser to start-ups and is ReadWriteWeb's former Chief Operating Officer. He is currently Co-Founder of CapitalMarkets.com and Editor Of SaaSInsights.

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Software Startup Architecture Bootstrapping 127

www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

The company has just missed its quarterly revenue forecast. Lets take an example, and look at how they might do this: They will be able to tell you that revenue is composed of deals. To compute revenue, you multiply average deal size by number of deals. Bookings is the pre-cursor to Revenue. Obvious, isn’t it?

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Metrics Design Entrepreneur Startup 55

ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

Account-based marketing (ABM) accounted for 79% of all sales opportunities in 2020. Fullfunnel co-founder Andrei Zinkevich says, “ABM is not that complicated, and it’s also oversimplified.”. How uniting reporting increased revenue from target accounts by 21% for Schneider Electric. Results of iRidium’s ABM efforts. The result?

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Marketing Campaign Artificial Inteligence Sales Cycle 105