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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. Drive that demand into our sales channels.

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Crowdsourcing Your Product Name

Software By Rob

Product naming is hard. Too many factors come into play when looking for a name and it’s almost impossible to decide on the right name once you’ve stared at the same list for a week straight. The Approach A while back Patrick contacted a handful of Academy members and asked for opinions on potential product names.

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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. I couldn’t care less about those.

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The unimportance of product names

37signals.com

Follow us on Twitter for more information on our products. The unimportance of product names. Don’t waste too much time on picking a perfect name for your product. We usually decide upon a product name by seeing what the product does. Everybody knows what a product name should be.

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

Occam's Razor

Truly reflect on whether our marketing and advertising initiatives are broad enough and optimized enough for each customer consideration stage, and finally. If we work in sales, all we care about are sales touch points. And that comes before you think about marketing/sales/advertising/billboards/tv.

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7 Must Have Features If You Sell Products Online

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

I didn’t buy from Zappos last year, but I did go a little crazy at Australian stores like TheIconic.com.au , which has been doing an advertising blitz locally in Australia to spread awareness via billboards and bus ads. Back in the day, all you needed to worry about when it came to optimisation for online sales was your website.

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Startup Marketing: The Nine Levels of Traffic Quality

Software By Rob

But the number of conversions stayed about the same as it had been the week before, meaning the conversion rate (the number of sales per visitor) plummeted. Is it so low because it’s advertising? Targeted advertising, but advertising nonetheless I suppose. #6 Is it so low because it’s advertising?