crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 21, 2013

Lean Business: Save Money, Save the Environment – [link]. Identifying Pain is the First Step in a Sales Process – Here’s How | by Mark Suster – [link]. Identifying Pain is the First Step in a Sales Process – Here’s How | by Mark Suster – [link]. Lean Business: Save Money, Save the Environment – [link].

Social Media 93

Social Media Small Business Design Media 93

Steve Blank

JUNE 3, 2013

Roominate , one of my favorite Lean LaunchPad teams came out to the ranch last week for a strategy session. But we were meeting to talk about sales and marketing. They outlined their retail channel and PR strategy and told me about the type of consultants they wanted to hire. Hiring Channel Sales. “So Hiring PR Agencies.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

Our sales guys were on the front line and heard what they needed to win deals. He decided that our largest customers would be involved in the setting of our priority lists (we did some of this internally in the early years but we saw it mostly as a sales process). The Outside In organization had a one-way flow.

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Customer Technical Review Software Review Mexico 280

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 21, 2010

Creating Urgency in Your Sales Copy – [link]. 3 Rules for Building Features in a Lean Startup – [link]. 4 reasons why PR firms are taking over social media – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. – [link]. – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 93

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Lean Marketing: Facebook advertising for newbies – [link]. Lean Marketing: Facebook advertising for newbies – [link]. One Strike and You’re Out: In Relationship Era, Bad PR Pitches Will not Be Tolerated – [link]. Lean Marketing: Facebook advertising for newbies – [link]. – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 28, 2013

An Initial Sales Rep Comp Plan to Lower Your Stress Level, Increase Cash, and Make Everyone Money – [link]. An Initial Sales Rep Comp Plan to Lower Your Stress Level, Increase Cash, and Make Everyone Money – [link]. Lean Marketing Tips: Public Speaking – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 94

crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Lean Startup 101 for Developers – [link]. Startup Sales – Why Hiring Seasoned Sales Reps May Not Work – [link]. Great talk by Jonathan Zittrain: “Minds for Sale&# (video) – [link]. Beware the Nile perch – [link]. Silicon Valley’s Disruption Deficit Disorder – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 90

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 25, 2013

The Three Phases of Startup Sales – [link]. Interview: Rand Fishkin CEO of Moz on Lean Marketing – [link]. PR Nudges Its Way to the Content Table | by Josh Sternberg – [link]. . “A solid business model and a great story will at best have 10% chance of succeeding” – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 18, 2013

Empower Your Small Business: trust & loyalty, marketing insight, lean business – [link]. Through the Looking Glass: Hiring Sales People – [link]. Lean UX: Getting Out Of The Deliverables Business | Smashing UX Design – [link]. Small Business and Startups: Cultivate Trust and Nurture Loyalty – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 91

Up and Running

OCTOBER 7, 2014

DIY Marketing and PR. Learn everything you can about marketing and public relations for your industry, and make sure you’re putting your best foot forward when you promote and talk about your business. Hiring a PR firm can be very costly, and if you’re passionate and knowledgable, you could be your own spokesperson.

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South Africa Software Review Green Technical Review 157

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 26, 2013

Empower Your Small Business: trust & loyalty, marketing insight, lean business – [link]. Don’t Use Social to Generate Sales; Make Selling Social | Advertising Age – [link]. Don’t Use Social to Generate Sales; Make Selling Social | Advertising Age – [link]. ” – [link]. .

Social Media 90

Social Media Small Business Design Media 90

Steve Blank

JUNE 3, 2013

Roominate , one of my favorite Lean LaunchPad teams came out to the ranch last week for a strategy session. But we were meeting to talk about sales and marketing. They outlined their retail channel and PR strategy and told me about the type of consultants they wanted to hire. Hiring Channel Sales. “So Hiring PR Agencies.

PR 211

PR China Lean Channel 211

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

PR is mostly ineffective when companies step on social media landmines – [link]. Zynga Leans On Some Workers to Surrender Pre-IPO Shares – [link]. PR is mostly ineffective when companies step on social media landmines – [link]. Buy it now, for real: eBay to refer sales to nearby stores – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 22, 2013

Lean Business: Office Space – A Meditation – [link]. How Do You Turn a $10,000 Investment Into $20 Million in Sales? Lean Business: Office Space – A Meditation – [link]. How to Modernize a Public Relations Strategy That’s Stuck in the Dark Ages | Hubspot Blog – [link]. Kin – [link].

Social Media 105

Social Media Small Business Design Media 105

crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

Lean vs. Mean – Small Business and Responsibility | crowdSPRING Blog – [link]. Is crowdsourcing a threat or opportunity for PR agencies? Apple accounts for 20% of all 2012 US consumer technology sales revenue – [link]. Money on the Mind: Small Biz Financial Stories of the Week – [link]. Can Money Buy Happiness?

Social Media 105

Social Media Small Business CTO Hire Design 105

Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2009

The only difference between us and the Internet bubble that would follow was that we did branding on the cheap by creating our image with public relations, whilethe dot-bomb era was to do it by spending enormous sums on advertising (those large venture rounds had to get spent somewhere.) Hindsight is wonderful. Order Here.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 30, 2020

Avoid exploiting the crisis to push sales or promotions and instead use the slowdown to gain a better understanding of your customers and investors needs and wants. It might seem like an obvious communication tip, but talk to them. Let go of the 9 to 5 mentality.

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Leadership Public Relations Community Employee 223

Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

Since this was the marketing department, I was going to be planning to spend some advertising and public relations dollars. I knew we were selling through a multi-level indirect sales channel. That’s a mouthful to say that our sales people didn’t sell our products directly to a customer. What magazines did they read?

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Silicon Valley RSS Software Review Technical Review 210

crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 8, 2013

7 Usability Mistakes That Will Kill Your Online Sales | KISSmetrics Blog – [link]. Publicity Stunts: When Good Ideas Go Bad | crowdSPRING Blog – [link]. 10 Things Sheryl Sandberg Gets Exactly Right In ‘Lean In’ | Forbes – [link]. 14 Revealing Interview Questions | Inc – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 105

crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Small Business and Startups: The True “Lean” Movement – [link]. Small Business and Startups: The True “Lean” Movement – [link]. How to Steal Killer Sales Copy Straight from Your Prospects’ Mouths – [link]. Good reminder on why it’s important to never breach your customers’ trust - [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

This post describes how the traditional product development model distorts startup sales, marketing and business development. In the next few posts that follow, I’ll describe how thinking of a solution to this model’s failures led to the Customer Development Model – that offers a new way to approach startup sales and marketing activities.

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Customer Development Developer Silicon Valley Customer 228

crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Parades are held, speeches are given, and workers across the country take an extra day’s rest from their labors to picnic, play with their kids, and (often) shop the sales that businesses love to offer on the last official day of summer. Related posts: Lean Marketing tips: business card as selling tool. Thanks, Dylan!

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Bosnia Software Engineering Cambodia San Francisco 67

crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 8, 2011

It’s not easy being lean – [link]. Amazon May Soon Need to Collect Sales Tax – [link]. .&# -Jeff Bezos [link]. 6 great athlete-entrepreneurs and what they accomplished – [link]. The Harder I Work, The Luckier I Get – [link]. The Billion-Dollar Startup Club: Then and Now – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 96

Hearpreneur

JUNE 26, 2016

Members from the strategy team might have some insights that can help the Public Relations Team, while the PR Team might have share ideas to pitch to Creative. Our lean, limited asset business provides us the opportunity to focus our efforts on sales, marketing and most importantly our customers.

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Entrepreneur Technical Review Harvest Portfolio 92

crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Hiring for Lean Startups: The First Few Hires – [link]. Amazon Misses; Q4 Sales Up 35% To $17.4B; Net Income Down 58% To $177M – [link]. Here’s Why I Think You’re Fine – [link]. crowdSPRING’s Small Business Spotlight of the Week: Geben Communication - [link]. Fail Your Way to Success – [link]. Warner Bros.

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

The problem with a Lean Startup: the Minimum Viable Product | Paul Kortman – [link]. What a pile of crap … Facebook Reveals How Samsung Turned A $10 Million Ad Buy To $129 In Sales | Business Insider – [link]. Ad Nauseum Leadership: Use Repetition to Reiterate What’s Important – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 1, 2016

But experienced business owners and marketing/PR experts all agree that such doubts and fears are irrational. After all, a conversation should not be a sales pitch. Related posts: 5 great viral marketing campaigns (and what small businesses can learn from them!). Lean Marketing tips: business card as selling tool.

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Networking Lean Public Relations Small Business 48

crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 30, 2015

Reasons I Love Sales, and Why You Just Might, Too crowdspring.co/1CoYmta. Lean Business: Unleashing the (task) Force | crowdSPRING Blog – crowdspring.co/1tdsoAs. Secret Rules for Powerful Sales Emails crowdspring.co/1KU0peQ. Add More Personality to Your PR & Social Media crowdspring.co/1ydtRa6.

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Small Business Design Social Media PR 48

Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

This series of posts is a brief explanation of how we’ve evolved from Product Development to Customer Development to the Lean Startup. Yet we used the product development model not only to manage product development, but as a road map for finding customers and to time our marketing launch and sales revenue plan.

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Silicon Valley Product Startup Product Development 269

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Just as.NET is both a lock-in and very restricting, and Java violates both “lean cuisine class hierarchy” and “objects if necessary, but not necessarily objects”, the “we’ll just use XML” mantra deserves to die. You use marketing and sales language, when attempting to make technical points.

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