Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 7, 2011

The epic story Hire for fit Staff as customer Value creation Fail in favor Results review Touch point maps Cross function Marketing classroom Strategy scorecard Related Posts: Are You Committed Enough Would You Like to Know How To Teach Your Business to Market Itself?

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 24, 2011

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JUNE 16, 2011

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JUNE 21, 2011

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MAY 10, 2011

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JUNE 9, 2011

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www.ericsink.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

2004-07-08 15:59:32 Hazards of Hiring. Summary : Eric offers guidelines for handling tough hiring decisions in a small ISV. In the many e-mails I received about that column, one of the most common questions was why didnt I list any hiring mistakes. Hire After the Need, Not Before. About Eric. twitter.com/eric_sink.

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MAY 4, 2011

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MAY 18, 2011

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 13, 2020

In 2004 I was a part-time flight attendant with a 10-year-old son living in Los Angeles. in December of 2004 with just our one little product, and by the end of 2005 we had sold 1 million Finders Key Purse(r). After that experience, we decided to take a leap of faith and hire, train, and grow our own virtual assistant team.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

It was fall 2004, and the presidential election was in full swing. Hopefully that will take some of the sting out of the fact that you had to engage in a little trickery. To motivate you to give this a try, let me tell you a story from the early days of IMVU.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

BillSeitz - yes, but that was already true back in 2004. Have AdWords rates increased too much for most common phrases like this to have the numbers work? May 8, 2009 2:27 PM Eric said. The absolute essential key is to bid only on low-volume low-value keywords.

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Transformify

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Back in 2014, Career Builder has published a research where 81 percent of hiring managers said it was at least “Somewhat Difficult” to fill open roles due to lack of skills, and 61 percent said they had an experience of hiring a person who was not totally qualified for the position. About Genashtim.

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BeyondVC

DECEMBER 22, 2006

As I started thinking about his question, I remember what it was like setting up our office in 1998 and the headaches and cost of buying a Nortel phone system and phones and hiring a Microsoft networking expert to get our office set up for file sharing, back up, and email. What a nightmare!

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BeyondVC

DECEMBER 22, 2006

As I started thinking about his question, I remember what it was like setting up our office in 1998 and the headaches and cost of buying a Nortel phone system and phones and hiring a Microsoft networking expert to get our office set up for file sharing, back up, and email. What a nightmare!

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 14, 2014

The most notorious faux pas was in 2004, when PC competitors Dell & Gateway used photos from the same photo shoot in their “Back to School” promotional material. Related: The Different Kinds Of Stock Photography Licenses. But did it stop there?

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MAY 17, 2011

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2015

The cost of hiring an agency, of course, can easily be out of reach for smaller businesses and newer vendors without thousands of dollars to spend each month to secure their place in the digital world. You have to consider mobile advertising, social media, content marketing, pay-per-click, and let’s not forget organic SEO.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 5, 2023

In your experience, do you often work with companies lacking strategic hires, and do you assist in team building? Hey, John Jantsch (08:06): Have you ever tried to hire freelancers and found that the quality of work was lacking or you got all the outsourcing excuses as to why the work didn't get done on time? Do you see anything?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

This was 2004, and we had never even heard of MySpace, let alone had any understanding of social networking. So the natural comparison, we thought, would be to other 3D avatar based products, like The Sims and World of Warcraft. But the early customers all compared it to MySpace.

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SVPG

AUGUST 21, 2013

Starting around 2004 and 2005 I began seeing an increasing number of teams moving to Agile, and of course the first thing they needed was training and often some coaching. I should have written this article many years ago. Like with most things, it is buyer beware.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2017

I hired another guide to help with the load, and I started charging for tickets to pay the guide. My strength was not in finance, so one of the first things I did was hire someone to handle the books and keep me on a solid financial path, so I could focus on running my business. I hire the best, so we’re all able to have it all.

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A Crowded Space

OCTOBER 3, 2018

I remember when I made that first flight out to San Francisco from Boston to meet the team in 2004, the company was down to its last $20K in the bank. Mistakes of Hiring Like most founding employees, people tend to ask me what lessons I learned throughout my tenure at the company (hence, this post).

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2021

But add another five years, and Google had made it, going public in 2004 with a market capitalization of $23B. You rarely hear about the owners who took out second mortgages to make payroll or to hire a salesperson. You rarely hear about the major catastrophes followed by major miracles that brought the businesses back from the brink.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2013

But add another five years, and Google had made it, going public in 2004 with a market capitalization of $23B. You rarely hear about the owners who took out second mortgages to make payroll or to hire a salesperson. You rarely hear about the major catastrophes followed by major miracles that brought the businesses back from the brink.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2011

But add another five years, and Google had made it, going public in 2004 with a market capitalization of $23B. You rarely hear about the owners who took out second mortgages to make payroll or to hire a salesperson. You rarely hear about the major catastrophes followed by major miracles that brought the businesses back from the brink.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 15, 2022

He is a podcast advertising specialist, and he founded the Tech Podcast Network in 2004. He's a podcast advertising specialist and also founded the tech podcast network way back in the dinosaur days of podcasting 2004. That was the one they started in 2004. So Todd, welcome to the show. So you're right there with me.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2019

But add another five years, and Google had made it, going public in 2004 with a market capitalization of $23B. You rarely hear about the owners who took out second mortgages to make payroll or to hire a salesperson. You rarely hear about the major catastrophes followed by major miracles that brought the businesses back from the brink.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

Kaufer originally hired writers to product professional reviews and allowed user reviews on a whim. The company agreed to be acquired by Expedia/IAC in 2004 for $210 million in cash, a huge win for all, particularly given their amazing capital efficiency: they had only raised $4 million in venture capital.

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techcrunch.com

APRIL 26, 2013

From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. It’s clear that AngelList wants to help bring much of the transactional conversations and introductions that happen at the early stage of hiring and fundraising via word of mouth or in meetings online.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2012

But add another five years, and Google had made it, going public in 2004 with a market capitalization of $23B. You rarely hear about the owners who took out second mortgages to make payroll or to hire a salesperson. You rarely hear about the major catastrophes followed by major miracles that brought the businesses back from the brink.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

We had scrambled to get a product to market, built our first website, rapidly hired a technology team, raised our seed round of capital ($1.5 The phones rang off the hook (we didn’t even think about hiring somebody to answer them). 2001-2004 were very humbling but we built a real company. They always need something new.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Hiring an expert or a coach to walk you through this stage can help you minimize the chances of failure although identifying the problem first can be a great way to create a long-lasting strategy. With a new CEO in 2004, the toy company shifted gears and introduced new lines of some of the most popular LEGO sets in history.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

million in 2004 to $6.5 They hired Chief Outsiders who analyzed the exiting customer data along with all the other customer satisfaction information they could get their hands on and discovered issues stemming from three primary areas: service quality. of their clients (or approximately $60 million dollars annually). communication.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

million in 2004 to $6.5 They hired Chief Outsiders who analyzed the exiting customer data along with all the other customer satisfaction information they could get their hands on and discovered issues stemming from three primary areas: service quality. of their clients (or approximately $60 million dollars annually). communication.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2010

But add another five years, and Google had made it, going public in 2004 with a market capitalization of $23B. You rarely hear about the owners who took out second mortgages to make payroll or to hire a salesperson. You rarely hear about the major catastrophes followed by major miracles that brought the businesses back from the brink.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

The most notorious faux pas was in 2004, when competitors Dell and Gateway used photos from the same photo shoot in their “Back to School” promotional material. Don’t get me wrong—by all means hire a professional photographer if you can. But did it stop there?

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