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SuperMac War Story 9: Sales, Not Awards « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

And the final lesson was that we were keeping score on our packaging with the wrong metrics – it wasn’t about awards, it was about sales in the retail channel. We had been outsourcing an important part of our demand creation strategy – packaging – to an outside agency without having the expertise to judge or manage the results.

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Paywalls, SEO, and the Need for a Damn Good Brand

ConversionXL

News is an especially challenging vertical since no site owns a newsworthy event. They also give publishers direct marketing potential with push notifications and newsletter subscriptions, all while secreting users away in a walled garden. If another website can pick up the slack, that’s going to happen.

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Which Are More Legible: Serif or Sans Serif Typefaces?

alexpoole.info

Ascenders and are the vertical strokes which rise above the body of a character or x-height. Serifs are used to guide the horizontal “flow” of the eyes; The lack of serifs is said to contribute to a vertical stress in sans serifs, which is supposed to compete with the horizontal flow of reading ( De Lange et al.,

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Demand Generation vs. Lead Generation: Integrating To Drive Growth

ConversionXL

Bootstrapped startup Omnisend carved out a $19 million niche in an already saturated vertical. With a tactical understanding of two different marketing strategies: demand generation and lead generation. Organic search is a highly competitive domain for many SaaS verticals (email marketing, for example).

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Digital Marketing & Analytics: Five Deadly Myths De-mythified!

Occam's Razor

I've suffered enough bruises on the front-lines from trying to re-imagine the current and revolutionize the future across multiple industry verticals, countries, opportunity sizes. The best we could think about RM+RP+RT is what Direct Marketers (people who sent you all those letters in postal mail!). < /A > ].