Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Research the top digital channels for your business today. There is no one best channel for all businesses. Prioritize the list by customer reach, effort required by you, as well as cost. Resist the urge to try the latest “hot new channel,” just because all your friends are talking about it.

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Mike Michalowicz

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Start focusing on where you can cut costs. Get involved with direct marketing, go into media (news channels, radio shows, etc) to build credibility. Start focusing on where you can cut costs. Get involved with direct marketing, go into media (news channels, radio shows, etc) to build credibility.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 23, 2018

Keep track of all your operational costs. As a new business, everything costs money even if it is seemingly free. Social media profiles are easy and free to establish but will cost you your time and money to promote yourself to the masses. Direct marketing. Establish business credit if you need the funds.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2016

With today’s overload of information from digital as well as conventional sources, even the best new solutions and services won’t get traction without real marketing. Digital marketing is the cost-effective place to start, utilizing the internet, mobile phones, display advertising, and other digital mediums.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 21, 2021

It creates opportunities for direct marketing. This plugin works with many channels. It uses marketing automation to communicate with customers. Omnisend uses channels like emails and SMS in one automaton. Monarch is an expensive plugin that includes beautiful themes that costs $69.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2013

Simply stated, it means that your business has the potential to multiply revenue with minimal incremental cost. Ready to scale is when you have a proven product and a proven business model, about to expand to new geographies and markets. Focus on marketing and indirect channels to get the message out quickly.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

The term “Growth Hacking”, invented by Sean Ellis , and made popular by Andrew Chen , a Silicon valley marketer and entrepreneur, is a combination of two disciplines – marketing and coding: Growth hackers are a hybrid of marketer and coder, one who looks at the traditional question of “How do I get customers for my product?”

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 26, 2017

Broad data about email marketing reinforces the fact that it is an effective and powerful medium for customer engagement. The Direct Marketing Association’s (DMA) 2015 National client email report tells , “Email has an average ROI of $38 for each $1 spent.” Globally, the report estimates returns cost brands $642.6

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Currently, one in every ten online purchases around the world originates from social media channels. The good news is, you can get started for free. ○ Managing several social media channels as a small business owner can seem daunting. And companies using email to nurture leads generate 50% more sales-ready leads at 33% lower cost.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 22, 2018

Direct-mail marketing is usually expensive, but keep in mind that an effective campaign could easily and quickly offset your costs and increase business profits. It is why most companies take full advantage of direct-mail marketing to engage customers. Use a Data-Driven Approach. Use a Quality Printer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 9, 2012

Identify your sustainable competitive advantage, like unique benefits, cost savings, or industry ties. Who is your customer, what is the price, and how much does it cost you to build one? Who is your customer, what is the price, and how much does it cost you to build one? Business model. Executive team.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Simply stated, it means that your business has the potential to multiply revenue with minimal incremental cost. Ready to scale is when you have a proven product and a proven business model, about to expand to new geographies and markets. Focus on marketing and indirect channels to get the message out quickly.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Person to person interaction is a powerful experience where the benefits outweigh the costs. Confidence building in business through authentic direct contact is a major win in the battle of advertising. Direct marketing methods promote quality customer service. Growth is easy once your customer becomes your salesperson.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2015

Simply stated, it means that your business has the potential to multiply revenue with minimal incremental cost. Ready to scale is when you have a proven product and a proven business model, about to expand to new geographies and markets. Focus on marketing and indirect channels to get the message out quickly.

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Hockey Stick Intellectual Property Non-Compete Business Model 120

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Identify your sustainable competitive advantage, like unique benefits, cost savings, or industry ties. Who is your customer, what is the price, and how much does it cost you to build one? Who is your customer, what is the price, and how much does it cost you to build one? Business model. Executive team.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

JANUARY 19, 2021

However, all too often, people think that effective marketing is simply knowing how to advertise. Direct marketing like that is useful, and it is one of the best ways to get a short-term surge of customers when you start a campaign. The post How to Grow a Successful Organic Marketing Strategy appeared first on WECAN.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Struggling to manage costs, the start-up closed shop as quickly as it opened. The $40 to $50 she charges for a one-way ride helps shave her costs on gas. The dot-com boom of early 2000 saw a proliferation of similar anything-at-your-service start-ups. Julianna Iran, a tax consultant from Pasadena, Calif.,

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Up and Running

JUNE 22, 2016

In order for this strategy to work, you need to buy a house below market value and you need to be able to accurately estimate the cost of repairs. A good place to find houses you can flip is on the foreclosure market. They’re the houses that the owners can’t usually sell through traditional channels as they need to move fast.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

With a plethora of digital media channels at our disposal and new ones on the way every day(!), How do you figure out which channels to invest in more and which to kill? Oh, and the killer question… if you invest in multiple channels, how much incrementality does each channel bring to your bottom-line? The people.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Identify your sustainable competitive advantage, like unique benefits, cost savings, or industry ties. Who is your customer, what is the price, and how much does it cost you to build one? Who is your customer, what is the price, and how much does it cost you to build one? Business model. Executive team.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 11, 2013

Repurposing your content allows you to streamline your efforts and make your content work harder for you at no extra cost. Here are a few tips to boost your content marketing: 1. Content marketing may require different tools and a different mindset than direct marketing, but that doesn’t mean the two can’t play together.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Users get credits toward BigQuery; extensive querying of GA data in BigQuery could generate added costs.). A 10% increase in efficiency would nearly cover the cost of GA360. The ability to include display view-throughs in Multi-Channel Funnels strengthens attribution models. increase in efficiency to cover the cost of GA360.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 11, 2019

I think the marketers will abuse any channel that they get their hands on. I would say bad marketers will abuse any kind of that they get their hands on. And it’s more… Marketing is much more about understanding what the customers like. So text marketing. So we started with that.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 9, 2017

This episode of the Duct Tape marketing podcast is brought to you by Active Campaign. This is really my new go-to CRM, ESP, marketing automation, really low cost. But it seems to me like there’s almost a sort of strategic snippet you know, channel that I think we have to be playing today. David: Absolutely.

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ConversionXL

MAY 3, 2017

A customer survey conducted by BigCommerce revealed that 51% of SMBs expect social advertising channels (specifically Facebook Ads) will play a major role in accelerating revenue throughout 2017 and beyond. Facebook ads are based on an ad auction system , so increased competition drives the cost of using the platform up.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 28, 2013

A really nice way to do a multi-channel strategy. Not just the online + offline part (though they all want multi-channel desperately), but the whole cart experience. What is the cost of, and options for, an ADT security system? But there is no indication as to what the monthly cost will be, and there is no online quote option.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Learning to do market research is that step you really can’t skip, because while it certainly helps if you know what you want to grow, you’re still going to need to know who is going to buy your products, where you’re going to sell them, and how you’re going to do this, all while taking competitors into consideration.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 30, 2012

Having grown up in the traditional business intelligence and direct marketing world, I'm also a huge fan of RFM analysis. Yet almost all digital marketing and almost all landing pages are constructed as though this were the case. Nextanalytics costs $199/year and GA Data Grabber costs $299/year.

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mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

Subscribe to the Business channel. This is a emerging industry and GLIIF is poised to capture a large market share in a very short period of time. GLIIF’s initial offering includes a brand-able and blend-able custom encrypted image at a low cost of entry, pre re-direction marketing services and full analytics.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

The difference here is the entry-level cost to buying web property, not physical property, is much lower than what it is to buy real-world properties. To get into the property market you have to get loans of hundreds of thousands of dollars. The cost to run is very important too. I did that with pretty much every website I own.

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ConversionXL

JULY 11, 2016

Use free test software to minimize the cost of A/B testing ( A/B Testing with Google Tag Manager ). Use PPC to promote content cost effectively (choose keywords nobody’s bidding on). Report tangibly and make content marketing comparable to direct marketing channels. Change of statistics. Need Keywords?

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 3, 2010

While perhaps only 10% of online ad revenue is currently flowing through these channels , the trend here is clear. Today, two thirds of online ad spending comes from direct response advertisers, and soon the bulk of these budgets will likely flow through bidded platforms such as these, including Facebook ads.

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