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SuperMac War Story 6: Building The Killer Team – Mission, Intent.

Steve Blank

We will accomplish this through demand-creation activities (advertising, PR, tradeshows, seminars, web sites, etc.), The same was true for PR. And the results weren’t the traditional PR metrics of number of articles or inches of ink. The Potrero benchmark strategy was one component of this creating end user demand through PR.)

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SuperMac War Story 5: Strategy versus Relentless Tactical.

Steve Blank

Now as VP of Marketing, I could have sat back and let my PR agency handle the press. The head of the PR agency agreed that we would work together as a team. The Potrero benchmark strategy was one component of this creating end user demand through PR.) Theoretically, that’s why I hired them. You don’t delegate life and death.

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Going to Trade Shows Like it Matters – Part 2

Steve Blank

While one could argue that a trade show is just another demand creation activity akin to advertising or PR, trade shows are the closest eyeball-to-eyeball contact you’re company is going to have with customers, competitors and partners. These two posts were amazing. Anyways, here’s one question I have.

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How to Craft (Or Pivot) Your Agency Value Proposition

ConversionXL

And so, the concept for a digital PR service was born. Using my existing skills and resources (including an old domain name), I tested a productized digital PR offer. About 18 months later, we pivoted our messaging to evolve beyond digital PR. These days, many agencies start as a lean operation. Image source ).

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

Steve Blank

Or by a VP of Marketing who talks “branding&# , SEO/SEM, PR agency, etc. The goal is you to learn enough so you can’t be BS’d by a VP of Sales with a great rolodex and golf score. In the perfect world this happens when the founder(s) actually close the first few (3-3000 depending on market) paying customers themselves.

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The Customer Development Manifesto: Reasons for the Revolution.

Steve Blank

Finally, I’ll write about how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. The PR agency helps the company understand and influence key bloggers, social networks, industry analysts, luminaries, and references.

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The Leading Cause of Startup Death – Part 1: The Product.

Steve Blank

This series of posts is a brief explanation of how we’ve evolved from Product Development to Customer Development to the Lean Startup. Marketing starts to build a sales demo, writes sales materials (presentations, data sheets), and hires a PR agency.