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Why Some Startups Win

Steve Blank

But he was getting uneasy that as his headcount was growing the productivity of his marketing department seemed to be rapidly declining. The other departments gave the same type of logistical answers; the product-marketing department, for example, said their job was to get the product specs from engineering and write data sheets.

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Finding Your Voice And Using It To Make Ridiculously Good Content

Duct Tape Marketing

08:35): Like not just to, you know, fill a pipeline full of, of, of leads to throw over, to, to nurture and eventually end up in sales, but to really tell a story in a way that is going to differentiate us and our products and our services. They want to hear about the features of our product. And so it's like, what do you do with that?

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

Steve Blank

The other departments in marketing gave the same answers; the product-marketing department said their job was to write data sheets. To do that we will create end-user demand and drive it into the sales channel, educate the channel and customers about why our products are superior, and help Engineering understand customer needs and desires.

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Social Selling and Content Marketing: A White-Hot Combination

Duct Tape Marketing

But product pitches often perform far worse than presentations that contribute more value. If you keep posting comments like, “This (product name) is the best thing ever,” you’ll be ignored – or worse. That’s right – mix industry, product, and personal information. Not Your Father’s Sales and Marketing Approach.

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Empathic Design: Mapping Your Brain, Brand, and Data

ConversionXL

According to Wikipedia , empathic design is “a user-centered design approach that pays attention to the user’s feelings toward a product.”. In practice, however, empathic design seeks to identify latent customer needs in order to create products or messaging that customers didn’t even know they wanted. The Seven Limbic® types.

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12 Questions: Meet Constance Semler (Canada)

crowdSPRING Blog

Sometimes I work with my husband on post production of UK and US film and TV productions. There are two kinds I enjoy: one is highly creative, like company or product naming. I like to write white papers, brochures, Web content, tag lines, etc. How did you become interested in writing?

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How “Tag Management” Can Improve Site Performance

ConversionXL

The main caveat to this seemingly miraculous scenario of One Line Of Code To Rule Them All is: certain things, such as eCommerce tracking, require some IT involvement because it involves setting up what’s called a “ data layer ” that contains dynamic content associated with fixed variables, e.g. product name, price, quantity.