Steve Blank

AUGUST 15, 2016

Andela selects and trains world-class tech talent from Africa and matches them with U.S. ” At this time, we hadn’t even built the product yet. If we’d built the product first, however, we would have wasted months and thousands of dollars. Here’s what happened: We got the product out; we got paying customers.

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Cofounder Entrepreneur Africa Sales Cycle 120

ConversionXL

MARCH 6, 2019

On Facebook, an ideal customer may log on to see photos of a new nephew, not to check out a 30-second demo of your SaaS product. This post focuses on deployment rather than production, but here are high-level takeaways from those posts: Quality = attention span. The sales cycle may last for months, or more than a year.

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Video B2B Technical Review Campaign 129

Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

A CTO will guide your product strategy, market validation, architectural decisions, process optimization, recruiting, and hiring. The Face of the Product and Technology A CTO is often the face of the technology and product. If outward facing, they will attend important sales calls and speak to the technology strategy and vision.

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Fractional CTO CTO Hire CTO Technical Review 54

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Don’t hope that a miracle will happen and your products and services will sell themselves. The goal is to deepen the relationship, and discover if their needs match your offer. Learn to sell in a way that matches your personality and your strengths. Listen closely for what they are saying and expressing.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 4, 2020

Any company that sells a product has the difficult task of managing their inventory. Inventory management is the challenge of matching the company’s supply volume appropriately to customer demand. It aims to much more closely match inventory levels to customer demand. Optimization Products.

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Management Stock Demand Sales Cycle 92

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 13, 2017

Don’t hope that a miracle will happen and your products and services will sell themselves. Be passionate about what you are selling, and get the latest tools you need to work more productively and manage your workflow from anywhere. The goal is to deepen the relationship, and discover if their needs match your offer.

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Sales Cycle Social Media Matching Differentiation 120

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Provide testimonials, third party research and product information upfront; the customer may be overwhelmed. At OptifiNow we have created the following tips businesses can use to improve the timing of sales outreach to boost results: 1. Create categories for sales messaging and assign each piece of collateral a category.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 12, 2017

The decision is yours as to how you package up your offering in a way that matches your goals. If you have a sales model that involves relationship selling to high-level decision makers, you can be sure they would prefer a detailed proposal from you with a request to “sign here.”

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Term Sheet Technical Review Due Diligence Merger 48

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2011

Don’t hope that a miracle will happen and your products and services will sell themselves. The goal is to deepen the relationship, and discover if their needs match your offer. Learn to sell in a way that matches your personality and your strengths. Listen closely for what they are saying and expressing.

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Cloud accounting is all about matching revenue and costs to consumption…well, except for professional services! In regards to calculatimg the "Magic Number" - should the amount included as sales and marketing costs match the length of the sales cycle? Support, support, support! Mind the GAAP!

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Software Review Cloud Technical Review Sales Cycle 48

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 4, 2009

Many entrepreneurs who start technology companies are product people, technologists or savvy business people who worked previously for a larger company. Most start-up entrepreneurs have little or no sales experience. But through nearly a decade of startups I learned that sales comes down to three essential elements: 1.

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Sales Sales Cycle Startup Reputation 319

Austin Startup

APRIL 17, 2017

Candidates will learn our culture and how to go through steps of sales cycle with Lead Generation, B2B and B2C sales and account management. It will come with a lot of autonomy and clear expectations for success, but you should know the basics of online marketing and be able to function productively without being micro-managed.

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Semantic Social Media Database Artificial Inteligence 48

Brandanew

DECEMBER 21, 2015

Think about who you can target and with which products. Some products have a strong seasonal surge around the holiday season, and you need to be aware of your sales cycles. You can increase your online sales at Christmas by planning: Offers, promotions & sales. You need plan everything ahead.

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ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2019

Client education is central to marketing messaging, too, especially for sellers with long sales cycles. The real work: Matching learning to tasks, not individuals. Learning styles should try to “match the unit of content to the best way to create meaning for most students,” or, in a marketer’s case, the most prospects.

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Marketing Sales Cycle Retention Differentiation 124

Up and Running

MARCH 8, 2017

If you run a business where you sell your product or service to another business (or you’re planning on starting one), here’s what you need to know about closing the deal. By providing a free or limited version of your product or service, your customer can get a hands-on feel for how and why your offering can improve their business.

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B2B Sales Sales Cycle Social Media 109

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

This may sound crazy, coming as it does from an advocate of c harging customers for your product from day one. Their product definition fluctuates wildly – one month, it’s a dessert topping, the next it’s a floor wax. In fact, this company hasn’t shipped any new products in months. What’s going on?

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K9 Ventures

AUGUST 13, 2010

SneakerLabs’ first product was a Java-based chat server and client. Since I had good connections with the University, we got a lot of feedback on how the product could be improved to meet their needs. We listened to their feedback and started adding features to the product accordingly. The product worked. Not so fast.

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Revenue Developer Java Customer Development 72

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 11, 2022

Shorten the sales cycle A strong referral program can significantly shorten the sales cycle. Increase your premium pricing Referrals also allow you to diversify your pricing portfolio and charge a premium for your product or service. These are offers for premium products at cut-rate prices.

Programming 85

Programming Small Business Advisory Board B2B 85

Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Mistake One: Keywords In Broad Match. AdWords is set by default to have your keywords in broad match, and this causes your keywords to match for a huge variety of searches you never intended. There are four main match types: broad, broad match modifier, phrase, and exact.

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Philadelphia Cost Matching PPC 67

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 5, 2023

If you are highly visual product and a female audience, then Pinterest might be worth a crack. You know, is there a place for what people might refer to as brand advertising or you know, long sale cycle trust building type of advertising as opposed to, you know, how do I get today's dollars? Totally and that's totally different.

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Advertising Analytics San Diego Networking 81

ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

This shift in focus results in more efficient use of your marketing budget, shorter sales cycles, and a better customer experience. This required more product evangelism and customer wins. How complex is your product? who’s adding new products or expanding into new areas). Gates and weights.

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Customer Marketing Channel Acquisition 98

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Sometimes your product or offer is so new that there’s no search demand out there for you to easily harvest. This means you have to generate awareness and demand yourself, before you get that sale. Track Sales Wisely. Political affinity. And that’s just in the demographic realm. Retargeting audiences.

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PPC B2C B2B Sales Cycle 48

ConversionXL

APRIL 7, 2021

Again, the way F500 buy software is very different from the way you & I pay for productivity tools or how small businesses buy software. That’s a high level view, now let’s walk through an example scenario for each: Most B2B sales cycles are account-based and not end-user-based. DemandBase. The different flavors of ABM.

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IP Marketing Technical Review Software Review 98

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

While big ticket products might carry longer and more complex sales cycles, high-end buyers are just as lazy as the rest of us, so they use the same methods: Google, social media, and yes, their inboxes. Reference a recently-launched product. The strategy in a nutshell. NOT “ACME Creative Inc.”, just “ACME”. No worries.

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Curation Lead Generation Technical Review Email 43

Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Obviously you're not marketing a $29 product or even a very expensive course or program. And the length of the sales cycle, especially with the assisted living, has increased their sales cycle by about 36%. Hopefully it's a really emotional purchase, probably one of the more emotional purchases anybody will make.

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Differentiation Sales Cycle Audio Networking 72

ConversionXL

MARCH 20, 2019

It’s not just a giant CRM that matches customers with a subset of relevant accounts. As one user notes : “Matching the content with CRM tools takes time. No miracle – prospection and sales takes time and requires high precision work.”. Terminus pitches the product as an “all-in-one” solution. Image source ).

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Software Review Software Marketing IP 117

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Knapp talks about focusing on only the essential activities for shipping new products and testing new ideas. Using my existing skills and resources (including an old domain name), I tested a productized digital PR offer. For example, a productized service allows you to start quickly. Most B2B buyers know this. Image source ).

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PR B2B Lean Audience 120

ConversionXL

APRIL 10, 2019

More and more companies are using tactics like single-keyword ad groups ( SKAGs ) and single-product ad groups ( SPAGs ). ABM campaigns dedicate resources and time toward only a few prospects, and enterprise-level leads often have long sales cycles. Customer Match In Google Ads. That makes an ABM-only approach risky.

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PPC Campaign Marketing Sales Cycle 131

ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2018

match the brand ethos, congruent with the website. Understand growth accounting – new, resurrected vs churned = net growth (can also look at this at feature level, not only product). Work hard to define meaningful product metrics – enabler of team success. Offline sale – typically. sub-headline with CTA.

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Retention Artificial Inteligence Channel Email 106

ConversionXL

MAY 14, 2019

There are four objectives to choose from: Brand awareness and reach; Product and brand consideration; Website traffic; Leads. Select this option to promote your products or services to ready-to-buy viewers. However, if you don’t have a lot of experience with Google Ads, a guided approach can simplify the process. Ad sequence.

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Campaign Audience Channel Metrics 133

ConversionXL

MAY 19, 2016

Users don’t take linear paths to and through apps or products. They get to your app or product how they want to, when they want to and do whatever they want to do. While McKinsey talks of profound changes … Marketers have long been aware of profound changes in the way consumers research and buy products.

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Analytics Metrics Channel Software Review 78

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 8, 2015

It includes things like multi-step checkout paths, multi-page forms, and product recommendation wizards. In a simple example, if you were to test a checkout path and wanted to test the button color in the car, you would change the buttons on all pages in the checkout to match. As Chris Goward explained in You Should Test That!

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Conversion Analytics Matching Cost 48

ConversionXL

APRIL 10, 2020

But picking the business model and building a product for user-driven growth is very difficult to do intentionally.”. With the coronavirus outbreak,” says Fry, “the match rates for reverse IP lookup are declining. “Great growth teams spend all their time on user-driven growth—invite flows, sharing, etc.,” explains Lofgren.

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Hockey Stick Analytics Channel Sales Cycle 68

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 19, 2012

Sure, you could give free movie tickets for anyone who joins your list, but how many of them will want to buy your product? Offer something that clearly leads to your product. Consider product complexity and price. If the product is a box of matches, it’s very easy to understand and very cheap. Image credit.

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Email Sales Cycle Minnesota Sales 131

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

We got a great reference, so the sales cycle was extremely short, maybe one call and one email. It’s a challenge that’s difficult to anticipate, admits Goward: Chris Goward, WiderFunnel: “In the early days, I knew everyone and had a really solid pulse on the mood, productivity, and challenges. ” 1.

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SEO Hiring PPC Leadership 110

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

We got a great reference, so the sales cycle was extremely short, maybe one call and one email. It’s a challenge that’s difficult to anticipate, admits Goward: Chris Goward, WiderFunnel: “In the early days, I knew everyone and had a really solid pulse on the mood, productivity, and challenges. ” 1.

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SEO Hiring PPC Leadership 49

ConversionXL

APRIL 12, 2017

Typically happens at the end of the product lifecycle. E.g. Message match / headline match from PPC ad to landing page. E.g. Someone is very interested in a particular product. E.g. current traffic, conversion to product pages, % that view images, current conversion rate, current conversion rate for image viewers.

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San Antonio Metrics B2B Analytics 86