Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Things that are key to, for example, building barriers to entry for competitors or barriers to exit for customers, should be done internally…they’re part of your “special sauce.&# Customer Support. However strong the temptation to outsource customer support may be, don’t do it. PR/Marketing.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Blog About Log in Register Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition In the many thousands of articles advising entrepreneurs on what they have to focus on to build successful startups, much has been written about three key factors: team, product and market, with particular focus on the importance of product/market fit.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 9, 2017

I realized I had a passion for cleaning, for making my customers smile and seeing how rewarding it was to help those who needed it. I knew I could streamline my cleaning process where it benefited the customer and my team. I started my business in San Diego in 2007. Thanks to Dana Humphrey, Whitegate PR ! #17

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 25, 2022

Paul is the founder and CEO of Marketing AI Institute, and the founder of PR 20/20, HubSpot’s first partner agency. He's the founder and CEO of marketing AI Institute, founder of PR 2020 HubSpot's first partner, agency HubSpots and sponsor of this show. Marketing Podcast with Paul Roetzer. That's 100% designed for your online business.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

That doesn’t just mean the core stuff that the business does for customers and clients — it also means all of that stuff that needs to get done for the business to reach its customers and do its work in the first place, such as payroll, training, advertising, and digital marketing. You want to be able to reach your customers.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Chris first came aboard as a consultant back when we were building the site in 2007 and became employee #2 in January 2008, 3 months before we launched. Bianca Jayanty is more to us than just a “Customer Service Wonder Gal.” He is friendly, efficient, and always ready to help his team in delivering great customer service.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 10, 2017

Firstly, your existing customers must slowly and seamlessly be transitioned to your new business proposition. Secondly, your target customers must begin to identify you by the new values and positioning of your business. So between 2002 and 2007, Compaq continued to use their logo with little change. The first step was PR.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. Or Salesforce.com who rose to prominence in this same period where they were ramping up PR and shouting from mountain tops when everybody else in the market was mute.

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www.bothsidesofthetable.com

MAY 13, 2012

They care about the quality of what is build more than they care about end customers. As you head into the phase where you’ve had real customers paying real money for a period of time you’ll have a whole new set of issues. new features need to be rolled into PR strategies and competitor analyses. -

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Why Arizona Bay started taking stock from its customers instead of cash. Even with the turmoil in the capital markets in the second half of 2007, it was another record year for merger and acquisition activity. But in 2007, after Jumpstarts success, he decided to get serious. million of consulting work in start-ups in 2007.

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 1, 2009

Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing pr. ► 2007. (10). Best Venture and Technology Podcasts for 2007. The recession created opportunities! New SaaS 13 Index: Welcome to LogMeIn (Nasdaq: LOG. Unveilling of the Bessemer's 10 laws of Cloud Comp. ► 10/04 - 10/11. (2). Laughing Out (c)Loud.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 20, 2015

Social media is the world’s biggest cocktail party and everyone’s there – including your competitors and your potential customers. I first heard the cocktail party analogy from marketing guru David Meerman Scott, who used it in his best-seller, “ The New Rules of Marketing & PR “, published in 2007.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 9, 2009

One way to measure this productivity is to look at the Customer Acqusition Cost ratio that I have defined in a previous post. In other words, how much of the decline in revenue growth is due to signing up fewer customer vs lower revenues from each new customer. Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing pr.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

My guest for this week’s episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is my friend David Meerman Scott, author of the longstanding best seller New Rules of Marketing and PR and the more recent, The New Rules of Sales and Service: How to Use Agile Selling, Real-Time Customer Engagement, Big Data, Content, and Storytelling to Grow Your Business.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 5, 2013

But for every successful PR stunt that is launched by a wide-eyed marketing team, there are dozens of unsuccessful efforts littering the road. Here are 5 legendary examples of PR efforts gone horribly, terrible, awfully wrong. PR Destroyed It. fail has never had better friends than these! We Built This City.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 12, 2010

The SaaS growth recovery does not seem to take a "V" shape 2) Sales productivity is ramping up: bottom was hit in the first half of 2009 However, the sales and productivity of the group, measured by the median "Customer Acquisition Cost ratio" or "CAC ratio", seems to be recovering more steeply. ► 2007. (10). Happy New Year 2008!

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Overwhelming coverage of Apple’s new release has occurred yearly since they announced the first iPhone in 2007, and now some startups are using the inevitable #NewiPhone trending topic as a platform to launch their own media blitzes. Turning Hits into Customers. Apple’s press domination comes as no surprise to anyone.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Overwhelming coverage of Apple’s new release has occurred yearly since they announced the first iPhone in 2007, and now some startups are using the inevitable #NewiPhone trending topic as a platform to launch their own media blitzes. Turning Hits into Customers. Apple’s press domination comes as no surprise to anyone.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Overwhelming coverage of Apple’s new release has occurred yearly since they announced the first iPhone in 2007, and now some startups are using the inevitable #NewiPhone trending topic as a platform to launch their own media blitzes. Turning Hits into Customers. Apple’s press domination comes as no surprise to anyone.

Viral 48

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Employees are now powerful customers, not just their managers! Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing pr. ► 2007. (10). Best Venture and Technology Podcasts for 2007. Build Employee Software. We are witnessing the “Consumerization of Software” so focus on ease of use (more.) Save the planet!

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and in 2009 he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership. November 25, 2009 9:54 AM Danny Wong said.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 16, 2016

It might be the products or the customers they deal with, or it could even be the fact that they are the ones in charge of it all. Small business live and die by great customer service and great marketing. My goal is to add positivity to my customer’s day. Basically, customers want instant gratification with little effort.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 23, 2007

Friday, March 23, 2007. Popular Media is a hosted, web-based technology platform that enables customers to quickly create, optimize, and scale viral marketing programs - and it seems to work pretty well. Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing pr. ▼ 2007. (10). Popular Media: the key to viral marketing.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Posted by: Serkan | September 10, 2007 4:44 AM Thanks Serkan - the next post will be up soon. Posted by: Matt | September 10, 2007 4:46 AM Good read but. Posted by: Darren Stuart | September 10, 2007 4:53 AM What an excellent article! Posted by: Matt | September 10, 2007 6:28 AM Excellent post! Cant wait for more ;).

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 7, 2020

It’s very fulfilling to be able to see these brands grow and be able to employ all sorts of people and see how their products have a positive impact on their customers. Armed with this knowledge, you’re able to operate a customer-centric business that never loses sight of its North Star: fixing customer pain points.

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

was OK a few months ago, the hurdle is now higher and should be close to CAC>1 – Keep only reps making quota and cut marketing activities with lower ROI Customer Lifetime Value (CLTV) >0 – Adjust operations, RD and GA to make your business model profitable 3. Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing pr.

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www.entrepreneur.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Marketing Sales & Marketing Home Marketing Basics Sales Online Marketing Finding Customers Social Media Branding Social Media Does Your Companys Social Personality Need a Makeover? July 31, 2007 |. Financing Some Jobs Act Proposals Make Headway. Branding From Entrepreneur to Icon in Five Steps. What is Sweat Equity Worth?

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 7, 2021

For this reason, it could be a good idea to get a minimum viable product (MVP) as early as possible to show how your product will work to investors and customers. Then we ship it to customers way before it’s ready. To do that, research your target audience and build out customer personas. They also include a countdown clock.

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

For instance, if a consultant proposes to help you with public relations, pay them a commission equivalent to the greater of a flat fee per story placed or a percentage of revenue generated from the PR coverage. Such positions include: PR, Sales, Product Development, Lead Generation, Strategic Planning, Fund Raising, etc. Consultant.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 22, 2009

The company had the chance of selling a very sticky product to large customers paying upfront, so there was no need to improve the sales bonuses based on cash collection and multi-year contracts. Upsells are typically worth more than renewal and less than new customers so we found that 50% of new MRR worked pretty well. ► 2007.

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 2, 2006

and so I think its a very, very big bet“ - Steve Ballmer, CEO, Microsoft Indeed, the opportunity is large: with 11m+ SMBs in the US only spending more than $300B in IT.but so far nobody managed to "crack the code" and current sales model are facing diminishing returns: (1) HT companies have little insights in their SMB customers (e.g.,

Software Review 48

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 19, 2011

His latest book, “ Flip the Funnel: How to use existing customers to gain new ones ,” presents a powerful hypothesis that retention can become the new acquisition through the strategic incorporation and elevation of customer service, customer experience and customer initiated word-of-mouth, content creation and incentive-based referrals.

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 16, 2006

It is true that the SaaS model faces some challenges like service reliability, data privacy, lower level of customization, integration with existing applications, vendor viability concerns. whereas traditional software companies of this size have a growth rate of less than 10% and revenue multiples of 2-2.5x.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 12, 2007

Monday, February 12, 2007. Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing pr. ▼ 2007. (10). Best Venture and Technology Podcasts for 2007. Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. on a scale of 1-4). on a scale of 1-4).

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Up and Running

MARCH 31, 2015

Customers love it when you go green, and using renewable energy is just one way to do it. Several years ago the global PR firm Edelmen published a study which suggested that 73% of consumers would choose to buy from a different brand of equal quality if that brand supported a good cause. Forgetting about your customers’ role.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

I’m also going to walk you through developing your marketing plan because I see too many people, they focus on their logo, they focus on their location, they focus on their invitation to their grand opening event and if their life depended on it could not tell you who their niche target customer is. What do I mean by that?

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The founders eventually created custom cereal boxes to raise funds so they could continue to operate. I have been running a PR Firm, Whitegate PRINC since 2007. . #3- Airbnb. Photo Credit: Donny Gamble. When this platform launched in 2008, they were practically were laughed at and couldn’t find investors.

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