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6 Lessons Most Entrepreneurs Only Learn On The Street

Startup Professionals Musings

You alone will never find enough hours in a day to keep with all the challenges of sales, support, and scaling the business, in addition to developing and delivering your solution. That first burst of customers via word-of-mouth or a viral video won’t sustain your growth. Even the best solutions require marketing to survive.

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How Betancourt Lopez Used Viral, Influencer Marketing to Grow Hawkers Brand

The Startup Magazine

With a viral approach to marketing and customer-friendly pricing, Hawkers today is sold primarily online and in 50 countries. It has annual sales exceeding $100 million and, since it was founded, has some in excess of 4.5 Ninety percent of its business comes from online sales. million sunglasses units.

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How to create a 1M+ views Instagram Reel for your startup

NZ Entrepreneur

Viral short form can help! Viral short form can exponentially increase awareness of your startup brand. You can highlight KLT elements on Reels, but I can’t see that going viral. You’ll get lower quality leads but a lot more of them. So you still get a greater number of good leads.

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7 Ways To Improve Return On Your Marketing Investment

Startup Professionals Musings

Contrary to popular opinion, viral marketing has not eliminated the need for old-fashioned lead generation to bring customers to a startup. Here is my summary of the seven most successful lead-generation vehicles he and I still recommend today, despite the popularity of viral marketing: Search-engine marketing. Marty Zwilling

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How to Attract New Customers and Drive More Sales with TikTok Marketing

ConversionXL

TikTok has evolved from a platform known for viral dance moves to a place of rapid product discovery. The New York Times named this urge to buy something the “TikTok Feta Effect,” after a viral recipe for baked feta pasta resulted in the cheese selling out nationwide in the U.S. It has significantly boosted our sales.

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Selling to the enterprise: “Sell to few” vs. “sell to many”?

Version One Ventures

Sell to few”: Traditional enterprise sales. Selling into this market requires the traditional enterprise sales approach, comprised of a large ‘boots on the ground’ field sales team that works with key decision makers (e.g. These are long sales cycles, often with multiple departments and stakeholders involved.

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6 Reasons Your Business Needs A Web Presence To Start

Startup Professionals Musings

Customers go there to check on the details of your offerings and verify that you are not a scam, investors look there to check out your management and sales approach, and suppliers expect to find contact information. Finalizing the web site validates your product plan and sales strategy. Viral marketing needs a website.

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