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The unimportance of product names

37signals.com

Follow us on Twitter for more information on our products. The unimportance of product names. Don’t waste too much time on picking a perfect name for your product. We usually decide upon a product name by seeing what the product does. Everybody knows what a product name should be.

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Why Some Startups Win

Steve Blank

His company had marched through customer discovery, learning about the customer problem, validated solutions and was now scaling sales and marketing. But he was getting uneasy that as his headcount was growing the productivity of his marketing department seemed to be rapidly declining. Drive that demand into our sales channels.

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Search Intent: How to Analyze and Optimize Your Site

ConversionXL

A page that’s well-matched for user intent can outperform those that optimize primarily for search engines—in search and after the click. It’s an SEO strategy that focuses on making users happy rather than hitting a particular keyword density or winning exact-match anchor text.

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How To Rebrand & Re-Market Your Ecommerce Site For The Summer

YoungUpstarts

Shouldn’t your ecommerce store match the vernal experience? Here’s how to rebrand and re-marketing your ecommerce site for summertime sales. Just make sure the design elements you include matches with your product offerings in some way. Grey skies are turning blue and the whole world feels fresh and new.

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

Steve Blank

Five Easy Pieces – The Marketing Mission After a few months of talking to customers , talking to our channel and working with sales we defined the marketing Mission (our job) was to: Help Sales deliver $25 million in sales with a 45% gross margin. Two paragraphs, Five bullets. It didn’t take more.

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Many Startups Stumble on International Cultures

Startup Professionals Musings

Thus, we did not translate the product and sales remained at an insignificant level. Translation not only increases sales, but in many countries it is required by law. Therefore Brazil made it difficult to import products from abroad. Watch your product naming. Local laws prevail. Proceed with caution.

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The Ultimate Inventor’s Guide to Inventing Things

Up and Running

billion in total industry sales. If you do have competition, pay special attention to your product name, price range, materials used, what the product claims to do, packaging, and who the manufacturer is. Just remember, when you’re pricing your product: Your starting price defines you. Today it is even larger.