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The Customer Development Manifesto: The Startup Death Spiral (part.

Steve Blank

The rest of the organization (product development, marketing, support) has been burning cash, all according to plan, expecting Sales to make its numbers. Isso sem mencionar que, dependendo do problema, em alguns casos fica bastante difícil “voltar atrás&#. Why is it only alarming now? Blog at WordPress.com.

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Small Business Marketing: Web Design Best Practices and Tips

crowdSPRING Blog

Most small businesses can benefit from professional photographs (or videos) of their business. Alternatively, as you see in the 37signals example, you can create a longer page and showcase more content – and photos/videos on that page. Don’t forget search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine marketing (SEM).

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Small Business Marketing: Web Design Best Practices and Tips

crowdSPRING Blog

Most small businesses can benefit from professional photographs (or videos) of their business. Alternatively, as you see in the 37signals example, you can create a longer page and showcase more content – and photos/videos on that page. Don’t forget search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine marketing (SEM).

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Lessons Learned: Using AdWords to assess demand for your new.

Startup Lessons Learned

Dont worry about selecting particularly good keywords, if youre new to SEM. SEM only gets at one segment of users, and for a brand new product, you presumably need some skill at marketing in general and adsense in particular to get any useful info. Just put in your credit card. Just load them all in and choose a low cost-per-click.

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

Steve Blank

Hopefully you and your co-founders are experts in one or two parts (agile development, SEO/SEM, etc.) But the rest; sales, marketing, bus dev is actually customer development that the founder needs to understand. Or by a VP of Marketing who talks “branding&# , SEO/SEM, PR agency, etc. Blog at WordPress.com.

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Seth Godin: How often should you publish?

Startup Lessons Learned

Heres my favorite part: If youve got a team, part of the team should obsess about the backlist, honing it, editing it and promoting it, while the rest work to generate (as opposed to promote) the frontlist. His post is ostensibly about how often to release new work (whether youre a blog writer, movie star, software team.) Expo SF (May.

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Landing Pages That Convert

www.chancebarnett.com

Not too long ago, I came across an interesting model for increasing conversion through landing pages: C = 4M + 3V – 2(F-I) – 2A CONVERSION requires: MOTIVATED visitors to your site (or page) – qualified via keyword query and your SEM ad copy. It’s a video classified ads website which is free to users.

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