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Why Some Startups Win

Steve Blank

His company had marched through customer discovery, learning about the customer problem, validated solutions and was now scaling sales and marketing. But he was getting uneasy that as his headcount was growing the productivity of his marketing department seemed to be rapidly declining. Help Engineering understand customer needs.

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SuperMac War Story 6: Building The Killer Team – Mission, Intent.

Steve Blank

Five Easy Pieces – The Marketing Mission After a few months of talking to customers , talking to our channel and working with sales we defined the marketing Mission (our job) was to: Help Sales deliver $25 million in sales with a 45% gross margin. Two paragraphs, Five bullets. It didn’t take more. I couldn’t care less about those.

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Top 7 Mistakes That Kill Your Ads Conversion in 2017

Duct Tape Marketing

Business spends huge money on sending their message to customers, but the results leave much to be desired: For every $92 spent acquiring customers, only $1 is spent converting them; besides, only 8% of users pay attention to marketing ads and click on them. Link product to a high-involvement issue. You focus on a product.

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See-Think-Do: A Content, Marketing, Measurement Business Framework

Occam's Razor

For example, they don't account for a smart company's ability to form relationships at scale via mobile, social platforms with past, current, and, most importantly, future customers. If we are in customer service, all we care about is trying to answer the phones quickly. Don't jump. All fair and good.

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Empathic Design: Mapping Your Brain, Brand, and Data

ConversionXL

In practice, however, empathic design seeks to identify latent customer needs in order to create products or messaging that customers didn’t even know they wanted. Mainly, you’re going to want to a gather a decent sample of people who have bought from you before (generally, we like repeat customers).

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LinkedIn's Series B Pitch to Greylock: Pitch Advice for Entrepreneurs

reidhoffman.org

But with so many investors still licking their wounds from the dot-com bust, many focused on proven business models, such as advertising or e-commerce. This is mostly a mistake slide because customer slides are more appropriate for enterprise pitches. Great customers are predictive of future customers for enterprise businesses.

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How to Increase PPC CTR with These Quick Tips

Duct Tape Marketing

Click Through Rate often abbreviated as CTR is a metric that measures the number of clicks received on your ads per number of impressions. The trademarks or registered symbols give customers a confidence to click on the ad to look for more details of the product. Total Clicks on Ad/ Total Impressions) X 100= Click Through Rate.

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