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7 Key Factors Obscure Your Customer Acquisition Costs

Startup Professionals Musings

As I recently watched an episode of “ Shark Tank ,” I realized that the shark investors focus on your responses to these questions is also a credibility test on your business savvy, as it leads to other relevant questions on margins, channels, and your understanding of key customer forces. Outside partners and channel impacts are complex.

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Why Some Startups Win

Steve Blank

To do that we will create end-user demand and drive it into the sales channel, educate the channel and customers about why our products are superior, and help Engineering understand customer needs and desires. Drive that demand into our sales channels. Educate our sales channel(s). That was it. It didn’t take more.

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YouTube Strategy Lessons from a Channel with 1.6 Million Subscribers

ConversionXL

In this article, I’ll show you how to turn YouTube into a core part of your marketing efforts. Beardbrand currently has two different YouTube channels, one with 1.6 We launched the larger channel back in 2012 and the smaller channel in 2019. Giant channel examples are Smarter EveryDay , Mark Rober , and MKBHD.

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Measuring Market Penetration with Brand Tracking (+ Metrics & Examples)

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In this article, we’ll share key brand tracking metrics and methods for how to measure and optimize your success. Key brand tracking metrics. Supplement brand loyalty metrics with qualitative measures such as brand associations and perceived quality, as these can give you insight into why customers intend to repurchase.

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13 Essential Digital Marketing Metrics & KPIs to Measure Performance

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Marketing metrics are a competitive advantage. You have to track metrics you can act on. In this article, you’ll learn which metrics to measure to understand and improve marketing performance. Table of contents What are digital marketing metrics? KPIs vs. digital marketing metrics 1. – Seth Godin. .

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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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How to Create a Marketing Playbook for Consistent Campaigns

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A marketing playbook helps you achieve brand consistency across channels and campaigns. In this article, we’ll explain how to create a marketing playbook to align your teams and boost your sales opportunities. What’s inside will differ depending on the channel or marketing campaign. Content channels. Promotion channels.

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