Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The first ones address trends that I see in the market today, while the rest are meant to force you to be proactive in managing your own team and organization to anticipate the level of change I’m sure you will face ahead. Potential customers these days rely more and more on name recognition for credibility and new brand adoption.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 9, 2019

As we explained previously , A brand is much more than the name and logo of a business. In today’s crowded market, it can be hard to find a strong business name that isn’t already taken. And, when your name doesn’t immediately communicate anything relevant about your business you have two options: change your business name.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

John (00:49): I have a brother that spells his name that way, but it's Stephan, so forgive me if I say it wrong. These sorts of things are still applicable, but now with the advent of ai, we need to find ways to differentiate your website to make it seem like it's handcrafted, it's fact checked, it is authoritative and trustworthy.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 17, 2024

So as time went on, I realized that what differentiated ourselves was the customer experience. I mean, I know that in some cases I'm paying more, but I'm like, I don't care because the cost of the hassle or the cost of not having them know my name when I come into the store to me is high and I'm not alone. They were also no worse.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

How do you compete with one of the biggest names in your industry—and with a brand new product? Differentiating our product. We also found out why people switched from Slack, which became the first of two ways we sought to differentiate our product. So how could we get the rest to upgrade? This was nothing new.

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Brandanew

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

So if you’re an early stage thinking about how to name your Startups and small biz brands, read on… About the Startup. The first time I read the name, it puzzled me. My first question to Dave was also around the name… How did you come up with a brand name like that? It reminded me of Netherlands.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 6, 2020

To succeed with eBooks, you don’t have to offer something completely revolutionary, try to create content that sets you apart from the rest. Having this content on your landing pages and social media accounts will help you differentiate your ideas and solutions to those of other brands. Email address. Phone number.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 16, 2022

His first book, How to Get a Meeting with Anyone, introduced the concept of Contact Marketing and was named one of the top 64 sales books of all time. He is a twice-nominated hall of fame marketer, Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center author-in-residence, and was named the “Father of Contact Marketing” by the American Marketing Association.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 5, 2016

Yes, please, we order and take our seat back with the rest of the diners. She is the owner, her name is Kathy and she has been doing this for thirty years. Here we are, in a restaurant that has differentiated itself with good food, friendly and responsive customer service and an owner that cares and is involved.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Branding is a process designed to develop, among other things, a unique business name and custom logo design for a company, product, or service. But branding isn’t solely about tangible concepts like a company’s name and logo. What is branding? We cover this in detail in Chapter 3 (Brand Identity Research). The basics.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Many inexperienced small business owners may believe that a brand is as simple as a unique company name and logo. The logo and company name are only the very beginnings of building a coherent brand that will set your company apart from the masses. You should also look into the company’s reviews and social media mentions.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Memberstack reinforces credibility with a second use of the YCombinator logo, as well as a call-out to Product Hunt, another household name for the brand’s core audience. It also uses an effective design cue that contrasts the rest of the page in style and color (designed to stop scrollers). Image source.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 17, 2013

You want the starting market you have chosen to be narrow enough to allow your product/service to be easily differentiated, but not so narrow that there isn’t enough market for the business to be viable. Can a competitor’s product name be easily substituted for my company’s brand? Build a business model that scales.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

2:48] Has design been a key differentiator for Typeform? [3:23] 8:26] What do you feel is your core differentiator? [10:50] John Jantsch (02:48): And we can get into the specifics, but I mean, that design aspect has really been a key differentiator for Typeform, hasn't. What's your name? Karrie Sanderson (02:55): It?

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ConversionXL

APRIL 10, 2019

Forms are full of it: names, addresses, emails, credit card numbers, etc. Is a country name missing from a drop down? As Ahava continues in the same post, you can create an Event tag to differentiate between users who interacted with the form and those who didn’t. For custom setups, be cautious of collecting PII.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

His first book, How to Get a Meeting with Anyone, introduced the concept of Contact Marketing and was named one of the top 64 sales books of all time. He is a twice-nominated hall of fame marketer, Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center author-in-residence, and was named the “Father of Contact Marketing” by the American Marketing Association.

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ConversionXL

MAY 29, 2019

Naming a channel. For most businesses, the name of the channel will be the business name (since YouTube is supporting an existing brand rather than starting a new one). Even if you haven’t started publishing on YouTube, you may want to claim your channel name now. As with domains, more and more get claimed every day.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 9, 2018

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. 1- Unique name addressing what we’re doing. Lately other data storage startups were choosing names ending in.io

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Copy testing, in other words, won’t help you differentiate —it will help you know if you’re conveying that differentiation effectively, in a brand spot or on a long-form sales page. The whole ‘badass’ phrasing is so dodgy it doesn’t feel like the big names that train with the company can be legitimate.”.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

How do you compete with one of the biggest names in your industry—and with a brand new product? Differentiating our product. We also found out why people switched from Slack, which became the first of two ways we sought to differentiate our product. So how could we get the rest to upgrade? This was nothing new.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 3, 2011

As we know, this space is a very competitive one; Fetch Plus differentiates itself from the rest by targeting companies with holdings, focusing on developing tools necessary for these companies’ holdings to efficiently and effectively build and scale their social media footprint through different networks for engaging fans.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 4, 2019

Once they receive the package, with the box probably having your brand’s name on it or anything that relates to your business and beliefs, the chances are that they will not forget you. The custom printings would be your company’s name, the name of the product and the expiry date. Great for product differentiation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

The rest fail quickly, or struggle for years to get real traction. It’s amazing how many proposals I see that are “me too” with only slight or abstract differentiation from other social media sites, ride sharing, or collaboration tools. Yet only a few of these get funded, and even fewer become dominant players in their chosen space.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

It’s about positioning the product and differentiating it from the competitor’s product. The story we will create, will revolve around your brand’s image rather than just its name.”. How Will You Differentiate Our Brand From the Competitors? It all comes down to what makes the agency worth hiring?

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Up and Running

AUGUST 7, 2019

They’re not even seeing seven full pages, as the last one cuts off roughly 30 items earlier than the rest. If you search “red baseball cap” Amazon tells you that there are “over 100,000 results” but limits you to just seven pages of results. So, you can browse 306 different options, or 0.3

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 11, 2011

go on, listen to it as you read the rest of this post]. I played Rage Against the Maching “ Killing in the Name Of.” I talked to one company who had build really differentiated IP and had great customer traction. I played “ Are You Gonna Go My Way ” – an absolute KILLER of a song. [go Eff you guys!

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 17, 2013

We’ll differentiate with a funny safety video and by not being a**holes. Github – software engineers will pay monthly fees for the rest of their lives in order to create free software out of other free software! They’ll do it for the convenience, even though they have to wait a week for the book. How hard could it be?

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 5, 2023

That is, you need something that will solve a problem for a specific group of people, and it has to be a differentiated idea that is an idea that hasn't been heard before. What are the, without naming names, what, what do they get wrong typically? So for the rest of us, the success does not come from book sales.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

It’s a strong marketing team that’ll carry you the rest of the way. Your ultimate goal is to transform your startup into a company so widely recognized that its name directly alludes to supreme quality and standards. It Differentiates Your Company From Competitors. It Actualizes Your Ideas.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 26, 2020

The name of the last part? First, just to provide a foundation here, Bazaarvoice was named after Chapter 4 of “The Cluetrain Manifesto” (available for free online), “ Markets Are Conversations ”. And the Blockbuster name became synonymous with late fees. I look forward to seeing how the rest of this movie plays out.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 21, 2019

Build anticipation for the rest of the sequence. Market8 does this well in their confirmation email: Emails for the rest of the sequence. Watch a relevant, recorded webinar 18 What’s next for <first name>? But adding the option to share your content is unlikely to hurt you. Join our Slack community 14 Diversity ?

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ConversionXL

APRIL 27, 2019

If you use cheesy stock photography —like customer service people with headsets or suits shaking hands—the rest of your site probably sucks, too. No names, photos, phone numbers, or physical address is visible. Hi Deniss, My name is […], Senior Director of Feedback Management at [.]. Get a new one. Anonymous site.

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Up and Running

MAY 14, 2020

It can help give you a starting point when developing your own plan as you go through the rest of this article. A retail boutique is going to compete with other boutiques as well as various types of clothing retailers, such as chain stores, department stores, and outlet stores, to name a few. Product Line.

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David Teten

AUGUST 6, 2015

6) Title your file in a format like [Company Name] [Forecast] [yyyymmdd], e.g., “[Company Name] Forecast 20150524″. This allows readers to differentiate your file from all of the other files they receive, and also easily track the evolution of your document as it changes. HOW TO MAKE THE ENTIRE DOCUMENT READABLE.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 14, 2019

How do I name my real estate business? How do your natural strengths differentiate you from the other real estate businesses in the area? How do they currently meet your target market’s needs, and how will you differentiate your product or services? What makes them stand out from the rest of the competition?

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

Lloyed explores the intricate art of harnessing the community’s strength as your ultimate acquisition channe l, brand differentiator, feedback source, retention lever, and catalyst for transformative change. They're hard to forget your last name. And I said, if he ever became an entrepreneur, he would want to trademark his name.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

And the rest is history: Google Maps was a huge success. This success was aided by the fact that it did just one thing extremely well – its lack of extra features emphasized its differentiation. The second misunderstanding is a concern for what will happen if things turn out exactly as we originally predicted (namely, badly).

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