Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Here are ten examples to get your creative juices flowing: Targeted direct marketing. 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. Movie recommendations. Education – guided studying for targeted learning.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 12, 2013

Here are ten examples to get your creative juices flowing: Targeted direct marketing. 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. Movie recommendations. Education – guided studying for targeted learning.

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Gust

AUGUST 17, 2014

Unfocused entrepreneurs boast that their new technology will generate multiple disruptive products for consumers as well as enterprises around the world. Simplify product scope. Your product will never have enough features to satisfy everyone, and it will never be perfect. Zappos logo via Flickr by Ben Spark.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Remember the whole controversy over Facebook’s Beacon product where a guy bought an engagement ring for his wife and it was published to a stream and ruined the surprise ? So my gut says this will be a youth-oriented product. The investment will be used for product development initiatives. Enter ShoeDazzle.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 26, 2017

by Pravya Pravin, product marketer at iZooto. In 2017, with 5X times faster growth than traditional software market, SaaS finds itself outrunning traditional software product delivery. The product might not even make sense to a consumer. Hence, it is critical to market it the right way. Product Updates.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Here are ten examples to get your creative juices flowing: Targeted direct marketing. 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. Movie recommendations. Education – guided studying for targeted learning.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Growth Hacking isn’t viral marketing (although viral marketing is part of it). Growth Hacking comes to solve a very common problem in consumer startups: getting to the first x thousand/million users quickly once the product has launched and the hype has passed.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 8, 2014

Meanwhile, innovation takes preexisting products, processes, services, technologies, and ideas and makes them better. Tom Panaggio, author of “ The Risk Advantage: Embracing the Entrepreneur’s Unexpected Edge “, has enjoyed a 30-year entrepreneurial career as cofounder of two successful direct marketing companies.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

They are hard to do in a company that excels at products. Visionary CEOs are product and business model centric and extremely customer focused. The best are agile and know how to pivot – make a substantive change to the business model while or before their market has shifted. What’s Missing?

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

They are hard to do in a company that excels at products. Visionary CEOs are product and business model centric and extremely customer focused. The best are agile and know how to pivot – make a substantive change to the business model while or before their market has shifted. What’s Missing?

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 23, 2014

One of the main reasons why hopeful business owners don’t succeed is not because they don’t have a worthy product or a well-thought-out business plan, but because they’re afraid of rejection. They won’t want to take a chance on a new, untested product like ours.”. The problem is many entrepreneurs aren’t willing to take that risk.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 7, 2010

Many optimizers are in favor of split-testing, too: direct marketers, landing page and SEO experts -- heck even the Google Website Optimizer team. In fact, the curse of product development is that sometimes small things make a huge difference and sometimes huge things make no difference. Let me illustrate.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 28, 2013

They are full of nonsenseware – cross-sells and up-sells, all kinds of seals and logos, irrelevant other products, promotions, mobile app pimping and so much more. The products you are purchasing dominate the page, right under the main site header. Shows me again if the product is in stock. How soothing. :) 3. the reviews.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

CRM became more sophisticated, resulting in detailed monthly statements and targeted direct marketing. Or this: “Apple doesn’t do loyalty because they produce outrageously awesome products.” If you own an Apple product, you know what I’m talking about. If you want loyalty, get a dog.”

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Innovation, an external change, brings a new competitive edge to your business by introducing products or services that increase the value of a customer’s experience with your organization and is announced in the marketplace through branding and marketing. Forget the “If I had…” excuse. Send birthday cards or holiday cards.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Here are ten examples to get your creative juices flowing: Targeted direct marketing. 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. Movie recommendations. Education – guided studying for targeted learning.

Analytics 120

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2012

To succeed, you need a good product AND a sound business model – [link]. People wearing headphones while working tend to be more productive – [link]. Applying Traditional Direct Marketing Principles to the Digital Age – CRM Magazine – [link]. 28 Startup Skills You Can’t Live Without – [link].

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 19, 2020

Ready to scale is when you have a proven product and a proven business model, about to expand to new geographies and markets. A software product is a classic example of a scalable solution, since it costs real money to build the first copy, but unlimited additional copies can be quickly cloned for almost no incremental cost.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

Customers went into the store either looking for the SuperMac product by name (if our demand creation activities had been effective) or went in unsure of which brand of board to buy. And the product that “talked to me&# , the loudest and most seductively, was the one that went home with me.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Besides, you’d never reach an audience of that size through other direct marketing. . Users won’t find yours unless you actively direct them to it. . When content resonates with clients, they become far more likely to buy a product. . And subsequent conversions. . The SEO Features Are Lacking.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 14, 2023

Ready to scale is when you have a proven product and a proven business model, about to expand to new geographies and markets. A software product is a classic example of a scalable solution, since it costs real money to build the first copy, but unlimited additional copies can be quickly cloned for almost no incremental cost.

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Up and Running

APRIL 25, 2013

Using this distribution method can increase productivity and decrease mail handling and paper costs. Let’s look at how a digital mailroom can play a key role in obtaining your company’s marketing goals. Combining Digital and Direct. Successful digitalization in a mailroom codes documents into a larger office process.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 18, 2011

Secondly, developers are more productive. Because Stewart’s programmers are ten times more productive than they were in 2001 due to massive advances in programming language technology. Thirdly, the market is far bigger. In 1998, I was working at Netscape, which owned well over half of the browser market.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 29, 2024

It comes out dependent upon when you're listening to this in mid-October of 2024, October 22nd, to be specific, he is a inducted into the Gorilla Marketing Hall of Fame, direct Marketing Hall of Fame, the Marketing Hall of Fame. He was just stumbling in the dark.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2020

Up-sell related products or cross endorsement. If your customers would benefit by having products from both companies, you might negotiate the opportunity to include the other’s product as an add-on.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

It depends on what action you want people to take, how much your product costs, where the people are coming from and so on. Marketing Experiments recommends you test your value proposition via PPC ads first, and only then test the winning versions on your landing page: Images from Marketing Experiments. It depends. improvement.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 25, 2011

They know this model of YouTube production & distribution better than anybody else that I’ve met in my 5 years in Los Angeles. ” And then you can build email lists and market video content to your fans in the same way Gilt Groupe markets its clothes to its end consumers, making it an insanely scalable business.

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Mike Michalowicz

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Tony shares his success story with Speck products and how his company skyrocketed to profitability. Tony Lillios is a serial entrepreneur and most notably a co-founder of Speck Products, the protective case maker for mobile products, which was acquired by Samsonite in 2014. Our Guests. Scott Spiro . Tony Lillios.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2013

Ready to scale is when you have a proven product and a proven business model, about to expand to new geographies and markets. A software product is a classic example of a scalable solution, since it costs real money to build the first copy, but unlimited additional copies can be quickly cloned for almost no incremental cost.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Products Home. Weve had some awesome people come through," says Kim Gardner, an associate product manager at Flavorpill. Entrepreneurs have also tapped sharing platforms to directly market their goods and services, somewhat blurring the line between unadulterated peer-to-peer co-ops and direct sales channels. Tech: Blogs.

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ConversionXL

JULY 20, 2019

Are you promoting the right products to the right people at the right time? Generating revenue via email marketing requires strategy. It’s not about batching and blasting or promoting as many products as you can cram into one email. Once you perfect your ecommerce email marketing strategy, conversions will soar.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 2, 2009

Capture the data – the currency of online direct marketing prior to Twitter was the email address. If a brand had your email address and permission from you to send occasional messages to you then you could effectively market new products or services. The currency of the real-time web is, for now, your Twitter address.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2023

Up-sell related products or cross endorsement. If your customers would benefit by having products from both companies, you might negotiate the opportunity to include the other’s product as an add-on.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 30, 2015

Are you promoting the right products to the right people at the right time? Generating revenue via email marketing requires strategy. It’s not about batching and blasting or promoting as many products as you can cram into one email. Direct Marketing vs. Transactional: Which Is Best? Not necessarily.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Free FoundersCard membership, 24/7 online support through forums, discounts on products and services, offline events, the assistance of an editorial team to aid in the creation and dissemination of content for the purposes of brand building and media opportunities, and more. #19- Thanks to Ethan Isaacson, LegalEase Citations !

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2014

Up-sell related products or cross endorsement. If your customers would benefit by having products from both companies, you might negotiate the opportunity to include the other’s product as an add-on.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 2, 2013

They don’t know if they should move to social networks for lead generation, branding, customer loyalty, or for direct marketing and e-commerce. I suspect that a good part of the problem is that startup and small business owners still don’t know where or how to start. My advice is to pick one, start slow, and spread out as you learn.

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