Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Navigating the Challenges of Scaling written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I interviewed Jason, the CEO of ActiveCampaign, a leading platform for intelligent marketing automation.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 8, 2024

How to Scale Your Agency with Productized Marketing Services written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing The best thing you can do right now to scale your agency is to productized marketing services. Struggling to scale your strategic marketing agency?

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 9, 2021

Matt Blumberg has a new book out titled Startup CXO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Company’s Critical Functions and Teams. It’s a follow-up to his previous book, Startup CEO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Business. His hard-won lessons from Return Path show up in Startup CEO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Business.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 8, 2024

In this article, we’ll look into the shipping solutions to scale startup business with these foolproof techniques. The post 5 Strategic Shipping Solutions To Scale Your Startup Business Successfully appeared first on Young Upstarts. Being an entrepreneur may seem daunting at first.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Each plateau of scale has required adjustments--changing or dropping an old process that wasn''t working or creating a new process to deal with novel challenges. The important aspect of scaling customer development is to build it into the process and make it so easy to put your idea in front of a customer that everybody does it.

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Agile VC

JANUARY 13, 2016

The answer seems much simpler to me… the VC & startup ecosystem was seduced by growth above all else, but terminal scale still matters. We’ve been in an era in recent years where it is possible for startups to scale far more rapidly than in prior eras. Revenue is revenue, right? and Groupon’s is $1.6B.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 7, 2020

It requires your full commitment and a sincere desire to scale business as you evolve too. Business scaling begins with scaling yourself. The biggest challenge is to define the right moment for taking action leading to efficient business scaling, growth marketing , and creating a successful product. DISSATISFACTION.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Effective Ways To Differentiate And Scale Your Business written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Key Takeaway: A major challenge many businesses face is trying to find ways to differentiate and scale. Debbie Howard (07:32): I think for us is just trying to differentiate and then scale. Okay, great.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 20, 2019

It’s critical for seed-stage companies to be privy to this information, particularly before committing money and manpower to scale. While additional personnel is crucial to scale the product, misaligned hires will increase burn rate without a concurrent jump in productivity and meaningful growth. At Women 2.0

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 27, 2022

It can be difficult to determine when the best time to start scaling is, but there are some signs that tell small business owners when to start thinking about expanding their business. The post How To Scale A Small Business appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2021

Perhaps luckily, they have no idea that scaling the business and maintaining vitality as a mature business is even harder. We can all name companies that started strong, but didn’t scale well, or let complacency drive them off the map. Examples include Webvan, Research in Motion (Blackberry), and Tandy (Radio Shack).

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 17, 2023

How To Scale Your B2B Marketing Strategy written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with Louis Gudema In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Louis Gudema. Louis is a fractional CMO for B2B companies, and mentors startups at MIT. Sound interesting. And here's the best part.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Most entrepreneurs plan to scale their business eventually. If scaling your business is a long-term goal, VoIP technology is non-negotiable. Scaling a business requires flexibility; VoIP provides that flexibility. Flexibility plays a crucial role in scaling your business. VoIP phone technology is inherently flexible.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 10, 2022

How can you effectively scale up your business? The post How To Effectively Scale A Small Business appeared first on Young Upstarts. There are some general steps which follow the model observed in the vast majority of successful startups.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 28, 2014

” The insight is that that scale causes rare events to become regular. Things as rare as, well, you know… Also, it’s not just problems that morph with scale, but your ability to handle problems morphs too. Or, consider the scale-ramifications of on-boarding 1,000 new customers a month.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Maybe it’s time to look harder at the mantra of a new breed of gurus and successful entrepreneurs, including Steve Blank and Eric Ries , called “nail it then scale it” (NISI). Don’t attempt to scale it until you have a proven repeatable business model that predictably generates revenue.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Productizing that and then scaling it out. It doesn't scale for me. So I actually started with the other two, but expanded to this one because I mean, I personally am a much bigger fan of solving a very specific problem for a very specific type of client. I service guy. If I have to do something more than once, then it's a problem.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 16, 2015

There are two common ways to scale a system – horizontally or vertically. Scale Vertically (or “scale up”): Add resources to a single node in a system, typically involving the addition of CPUs or memory to a single computer. You can scale vertically and horizontally at the same time.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 16, 2022

Scaling your business? Tristan Wright highlights five questions a small business owner needs to ask as part of the scaling planning process. The post Five Questions You Need To Ask When Scaling Your Business appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 8, 2017

The struggle small business owners face is real, and focusing on scaling and growth is almost certainly the last thing on anybody’s mind when their business is barely afloat. But, however unattainable scaling your business looks right now – it should be your top priority. Here are 6 simple things you can do to scale your business: 1.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 7, 2018

Regardless of the size of your business, there is a right and wrong time to scale. If the money isn’t there or the workload doesn’t warrant bringing in new employees, you should reconsider scaling. . That way, you can scale seamlessly without worrying you’re doing too much all at once. Employees are constantly swamped.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The scale of solutions needed dwarf anything a single startup would be working on. They called it the “Tsunami Initiative” to emphasize they were fighting the tidal wave of creative destruction engulfing their industry. To succeed they realized this isn’t simply coming up with one new product.

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

To help overcome this scale stagnation, I have three pieces of advice: 1. Prioritizing speed over perfection can be a very powerful way to keep momentum up as you scale, particularly as you add layer upon layer to the organizations and require multiple signatures to get things done. I myself experienced this as COO at AbeBooks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

That’s not all bad in the beginning, but as you scale , every business has to build a team to keep up with the wide range of skills needed , fight new competitors, and respond to changes in the marketplace. Too many business leaders I know retreat farther and farther from the customer as their business scales.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2021

Many entrepreneurs never get past their first-stage focus on their innovative product, to scaling the business globally, organizing a structure to handle thousands of employees, and concentrating their focus “on the business” rather than working “in the business.” In fact, it’s highly unlikely that you as the Founder will survive.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 1, 2021

The post 8 Productivity Tips To Scale Your Startup appeared first on Young Upstarts. As a startup, you need to stay productive to remain successful. Take note of these eight productivity tips that will help you.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 13, 2022

The post Top Telecom Industry Innovations For Scaling Promising Startups appeared first on Young Upstarts. William Dawsey of Chetu looks at the various telecom industry innovations he believes are disrupting the telecommunications sector for the better.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 12, 2024

When you consider the failure rate of startups, which is 90%, it almost makes sense to go all out and scale big, however, scale too aggressively and you’ll likely end up being part of the 90% who fail. So, how should you walk this tightrope of business scaling risks? After all, your team is the engine of your business machine.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 17, 2021

Large-scale businesses need robust, efficient tools to facilitate business operations. The post 10 Essential Tools For Large Scale Businesses appeared first on Young Upstarts. Here are some business tools you'll need.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Solve your problems in a specific manner, and you set yourself up to scale with consistency, effectiveness, and efficiency, shares Jamie Flinchbaugh. The post How (And Why) To Set Yourself Up To Scale appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 16, 2016

By definition, as a company scales rapidly, it adds people quickly. More specifically, it’s specific people on the leadership who don’t have the scale experience their role requires at a particular moment in time. The post A Scaling Magic Trick appeared first on Feld Thoughts. Take a simple example.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 9, 2021

Matt Blumberg has a new book out titled Startup CXO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Company’s Critical Functions and Teams. It’s a follow-up to his previous book, Startup CEO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Business. His hard-won lessons from Return Path show up in Startup CEO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Business.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

Hologram is a leader in enabling large-scale connectivity of internet of things (IoT) devices, across the globe with 400+ wireless carriers, all through a robust but easy-to-use API. Prior to this Series B, the company had already achieved meaningful scale but had raised only $15M in capital to date.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Catherine Mandungu offers a guide to creating a rewarding and comprehensive customer journey that positions your company for growth and scale. The post How To Design The Perfect Customer Journey To Scale Your Online Business appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

Hologram is a leader in enabling large-scale connectivity of internet of things (IoT) devices, across the globe with 400+ wireless carriers, all through a robust but easy-to-use API. Prior to this Series B, the company had already achieved meaningful scale but had raised only $15M in capital to date.

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OnlyOnce

JANUARY 24, 2024

The metrics for understanding whether or not your CBDO is scaling differs from other functions like Sales, People Ops, Customer Service, and Finance because throughout the scaling process the CBDO team is likely to be small. First, a CBDO who isn’t scaling is throwing everything over the wall internally.

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 16, 2023

The post Scale Your Small Business Through Speaking Events and Writing Books appeared first on Mike Michalowicz. I have created courses, workshops and mastermind groups to leverage the knowledge of entrepreneurs and share information to help you make the most impact in your small business. Check them out here.

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