Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

Every time I challenge a business plan with little or no budget for marketing, I get the answer that they will be using “viral” marketing, which costs nothing. First of all, Seth Godin pointed out a long time ago that viral marketing does not equal word-of-mouth. Develop viral content.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

These days, building a new business is all about visibility and marketing, no matter how great or innovative a solution you bring to the table. In fact, having one marketing guru on the team alone won’t get you very far. Mobilize the total power of your team to not only build the product, but also build the market.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Have you ever thought about working for a digital marketing firm ? Maybe you’re just getting started with your career, or perhaps you want to switch roles and delve into the world of marketing. What is Digital Marketing? Digital marketing uses technologies to promote brands’ products and services.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Have the knowledge you need and don’t be fooled by these common marketing automation myths. Marketing automation is a valuable tool for companies of all sizes and across all industries. By making the decision to invest in a marketing automation platform, here are just a few of the benefits you can expect to see: . RD Station.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

He illustrated his talk with regulatory horror stories in the telecom market , electronic health records , and Covid antigen tests. Unfortunately, for startups entering a regulated market following this advice this might not be the optimum path. But regulated markets are different. Regulation What’s regulatory capture?

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 10, 2020

Businesses must respond to what the market demands. It’s possible to get started with a low marketing budget for this purpose. Top Reasons To Focus On Video Marketing. Make sure you integrate video production into your company’s marketing plan. Amplifies Your Conversion Rate. Helps In Building Trust.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2018

New technology markets and paradigm shifts have traditionally been bad bets when seeking investors, since these were known to take decades to develop, and cost lots of money. For example, consider how many years it took for the market to move from radio to television, or fully accept personal computers on every desktop.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 18, 2020

Why is visual marketing important as a part of your overall small business marketing strategy? The answer is simple: images and videos are proven to be more appealing and engaging than any other marketing material. . That is why 80% of marketers have already incorporated visual assets in social media marketing campaigns.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 21, 2020

The ringless voicemail technology is so beneficial to marketers, companies, and businesses that you need to pick the best provider if you decide to use it. The ringless voicemail service must be non-intrusive so that it can be a good option for advertising your products and services to your target audience.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 7, 2022

Whether you’re managing a digital business or a brick-and-mortar storefront, marketing is a practical necessity. Marketing is the way to raise visibility and awareness of your brand, and the only reliable path toward multiplying your audience overall. Marketing Difficulty Is Growing. What makes marketing difficult or easy?

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

If you’re new to marketing and amid a startup, all of it can seem overwhelming. A lot of work goes into starting a business, developing and launching products, and running the day-to-day operations, so marketing often gets put on the back burner. Choose your Market Audience.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2019

In the interests of helping you work smarter and last longer, I would like to offer my top ten list of key resource drains to avoid in early businesses and startups, based on my years of advising entrepreneurs and my own business experience: Expanding your product line too quickly for scaling. Ineffective and expensive marketing campaigns.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 12, 2020

While your branding, marketing campaigns, and product quality will be at the forefront of your mind, you must not overlook the importance of network and data security. A cyberattack could cause unforeseen hardware and software breakdowns or network disruptions which could grind your business to a halt or slow down productivity.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

An alternate outcome that I also unfortunately observe in some cases are companies who had extreme early success with an initial product adoption but failed in key areas that limited the growth and therefore the ultimate financial outcomes. How profitable is my product or service? As an early-stage VC I love this phase.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 14, 2021

You work tirelessly to understand your customer, market, and competition so you can differentiate. Voice-of-customer (VoC) research, user research, competitor research, and insights on jobs-to-be-done (JTBD) can inform your marketing strategy. . Are your campaigns driving conversions? Market share. Image source.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 21, 2021

You also need to invest in restaurant marketing of your business to ensure you keep diners coming in. Keeping an eye on the marketing trends having an impact will help you find new ideas to test and measure in your hospitality venture. Mobile Marketing. In turn, your restaurant marketing gets better results.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 28, 2020

One of the most effective ways to gain traction for your venture is eCommerce marketing. There are several funnels in any marketing strategy to explore, and it makes it one of the best ways to experiment with what works and what doesn’t for your budget. The basics of eCommerce marketing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2022

It started with an email survey on your last stay at their hotel, but now includes requests for online product reviews, to social media input on the design of future products. Welcome to the “Participation Age” of marketing. Nurturing marketers reserve a minimum of 10 percent of their marketing budgets for testing and learning.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Success often hinges on careful strategic planning and adapting to market shifts. Entrepreneurs need to define their market niche and craft effective competitive strategies to counteract competitive pressures. This strategy not only cuts costs but also helps in planning for the future, keeping your startup ahead in competitive markets.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 23, 2024

Promotional products have long served as a tangible and influential link between businesses and their targeted audience. An effectively managed promotional campaign can significantly boost your brand, foster relationships, and encourage brand loyalty. Your brand’s credibility is directly linked to the quality of these products.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 15, 2023

In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, small businesses face the ongoing challenge of streamlining operations, maximizing productivity, and staying competitive. Content Localization: For businesses operating in multiple markets, content publishing software offers features for localization and translation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Most technical entrepreneurs focus hard on building an innovative product, but forget that an elegant solution doesn’t automatically translate into a successful business. Defining the right business model requires the same diligence as designing the right product, but the approach and skills required are different.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Here are ten examples to get your creative juices flowing: Targeted direct marketing. Without predictive targeting, a retention campaign may cost more than it gains. On the movie production side, it’s time to start doing analyses on movie scripts, based on reaction to similar movies, to predict box office revenue and cities to hit.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 22, 2019

It started with an email survey on your last stay at their hotel, but now includes requests for online product reviews, to social media input on the design of future products. Welcome to the “Participation Age” of marketing. Nurturing marketers reserve a minimum of 10 percent of their marketing budgets for testing and learning.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2018

If you don’t know, Ring offers home security products that started with a video doorbell, then video floodlights, outdoor stickup cams and now in-home security features that innovate in-home security alongside outside protection. But why did Ring succeed when the entire market kept saying that Nest was going to be the winner?

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Not for lack of competition, but as the result of a carefully designed ecommerce marketing strategy. This is what drives growth for online stores like ASOS, despite existing in a saturated market. Table of contents What exactly is an ecommerce marketing strategy? Leverage FOMO in social media marketing 3.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 18, 2020

No matter how good the quality of your product is, it will be in vain if you offer poor customer experience. By offering great customer experience, you can demand a higher price for your products, which is what startups need to take their business to the next level. Make Use Of CRM And Other Tools. Forget Business Hours.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

You need to have a technical genius on the team to get your startup product off the ground. The combination of technical insight, founder authority, and sales experience is a hard-to-beat advantage in a competitive market. Outsourcing your core competency does not work. These people also have the credibility to attract investors.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Small business owners are adopting trending techniques to avoid wasting their time on marketing schemes with no guarantees. If a company has to invest in targeted advertising and marketing on Instagram , then TikTok promotes a business for free. Sales and Social Media. Social networks are a real breakthrough of the 21st century.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

You need to have a technical genius on the team to get your startup product off the ground. The combination of technical insight, founder authority, and sales experience is a hard-to-beat advantage in a competitive market. Outsourcing your core competency does not work. These people also have the credibility to attract investors.

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Rembrandt Communications

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

After all, the way you communicate establishes how members of your target market decide whether or not they want to do business with you. If you haven’t reviewed your sales processes, marketing campaigns, public relations’ strategies, and all of the other ways you communicate with your audiences recently, take a detailed look at the results.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The second is a preference for product over strategy. Pretotyping is about what to do before the minimum viable product. Doing it well bakes into the system a preference for hypotheses rather than opinions; fast experiments rather than big plans; and testing ideas and strategies, not just products and technologies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 4, 2023

These days, building a new business is all about visibility and marketing, no matter how great or innovative a solution you bring to the table. In fact, having one marketing guru on the team alone won’t get you very far. Mobilize the total power of your team to not only build the product, but also build the market.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 30, 2020

In approaching the COVID-19 crisis from the marketer’s perspective, the question is how, not if, the world will change when the restrictions are lifted. My intuition relies on what marketers believe and researchers have proven – the repeated behavior learned during this several month crisis will form new consumer habits.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 5, 2020

In fact, the last few weeks have been particularly devastating for the market. Plus, according to the Harvard Business Review, working from home increases productivity by at least 4.4% This is also the perfect opportunity to add value to your products and services. You can even tap into the growing ecommerce market.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2024

One way for you to work around this would be for you to make sure that you prioritize using the same colors and the same fonts across your site and your printed products. This will, in turn, provide opportunities for market expansion. Additionally, launching a brand with a consistent sense of familiarity.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 19, 2020

A CRM that includes machine learning adds the ability to access predictive analytics, automate email marketing campaigns and drive customer transactions. According to Gartner, the fastest growing sub segment for CRMs is marketing automation, which increased by 18.8 The time and money saved is significant!

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