crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 13, 2014

Guerilla tips for raising venture capital | VentureBeat – crowdspring.co/P6hM3O. The Essential Email Marketing Metrics You Should Be Tracking | Hubspot blog – crowdspring.co/1gY786G. It takes 3 years [before you know if your startup can be a real business] – crowdspring.co/1kK2ZJ8. ReadWrite – crowdspring.co/1ekm5xR.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

JULY 26, 2012

Guerilla Innovation Chapter Six. I’ll touch on them later in Guerilla Innovation (this online book) but, this book is primarily about innovation — that component of a business where value is created. It’s called by many names: brainstorming, idea generation, ideation, and New Product Development (NPD) to name a few.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 13, 2013

Great products sell. 20 Innovative examples of guerilla advertising | Desizn World – [link]. 3D Printing Helps Ford Cut Production Time on Some Parts by 25% – [link]. Google Takes Home Half of Worldwide Mobile Internet Ad Revenues | eMarketer – [link]. When Will Desktop Ad Spending Peak? ” – [link].

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 8, 2014

I have to remind myself that interactions with others are not guerilla warfare; nor are they tools to help me confirm what I already believe. And in the meantime, we fail to use the present moment productively. My mind always wants to formulate a response or counterattack instead of really listening to what the other person is saying.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 28, 2022

I want to listen to them deeply about our products. I've been working in this industry for a few years now, and there are two kinds of businesses: those that focus on their products and services, and those that focus on their customers. #3- Increase engagement with customers. Photo Credit: Bozlur Rehman. Photo Credit: Ryan Inman.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 4, 2020

Record what happens next, too—the communications you receive after purchasing through to the delivery, packaging, and product itself. If, for example, the retail team tells you customers are frustrated about the availability of specific products in certain stores, find out when this started. Product team. Customer-facing teams.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 20, 2020

Initially, all companies sell to customers who are the easiest to reach and most excited about the new product. Scrappy guerilla marketing based on personal contacts and word-of-mouth campaigns gives way to more expensive customer acquisition using advertising, trade shows, and a marketing agency.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2022

Initially, all companies sell to customers who are the easiest to reach and most excited about the new product. Scrappy guerilla marketing based on personal contacts and word-of-mouth campaigns gives way to more expensive customer acquisition using advertising, trade shows, and a marketing agency.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

Initially, all companies sell to customers who are the easiest to reach and most excited about the new product. Scrappy guerilla marketing based on personal contacts and word-of-mouth campaigns gives way to more expensive customer acquisition using advertising, trade shows, and a marketing agency.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Invest in Financial Products Investing in financial products such as stocks, cryptocurrencies , bonds, commodities, and mutual funds can provide a steady stream of income while also offering the potential for significant returns. Be sure to conduct extensive research before committing to any financial product.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

I’ve talked with a number of software development shops who are eager to get into the business of cofounding companies, i.e., getting product revenue and equity instead of just consulting revenue. If we believe in founders enough, we should believe in their potential more than what they could be paying us to build the product.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2011

They finance companies that invest in new technologies, new ideas and new products. I hypothesize that unlike bubbles in other sectors – tulips, Florida land prices, housing, financial – tech bubbles create lasting value.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

New approaches to manufacturing and production technologies can shore up the biggest American short coming; translating new technology to manufactured products. New skills and diversity of knowledge could reinvigorate the related industries.

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Up and Running

JULY 10, 2013

We started selling our product online this January, and in the first week, we were just trying to get the word out with social media and guerrilla marketing. However, in week two, a local TV reporter needed a story to do and caught wind of our product. Greg at Berry Sleepy : . “We It was a humbling start.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2024

That’s where guerilla marketing comes in. Outsourcing Where You Can Just because you’re small doesn’t mean you have to do everything yourself or that one person has to be the all-seeing, all-dancing generator of productivity. But be mindful of how you do it.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 6, 2020

Do you have a product or service that you’ve given your heart and soul for? Have you fought tooth and nail for your product and service? Essentially, you want to get your product directly in front of your ideal customer without spending a whole lot of cash. Actually bled and lost sleepover?

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Tennessee Ernie Ford, sang about the lack of money in his hit “Sixteen Tons” Guerilla Innovation- Chapter 12. Before I get into ways in which entrepreneurs (aka ‘guerilla innovators’) can get funds, a blurb on the whole money mindset is in order. Compensation for your work or product is fair.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Guerilla Innovation. In the previous post/chapter of Guerilla Innovation we talked about “amping ideas.” An entrepreneur see’s all feedback as an opportunity to improve his or her idea for a business, a product, or a service. Chapter 10. ” I reviewed two tools for doing so. They’re good tools.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

OCTOBER 12, 2012

Guerilla Innovation – Chapter 11. Until now the focus of this online-blogged-book on small business innovation has been a guerilla innovation mindset. Or, better yet, get an order or your new product or service, one that can fund the business. Hollywood Innovator, Lucille Ball. Birthing the Baby.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 3, 2018

Initially, all companies sell to customers who are the easiest to reach and most excited about the new product. Scrappy guerilla marketing based on personal contacts and word-of-mouth campaigns gives way to more expensive customer acquisition using advertising, trade shows, and a marketing agency.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Using such marketing is always very important and should be a big part of the way in which products and services are promoted. Guerilla Marketing. Everyone talks about how important word of mouth marketing is for modern businesses. It does not matter how big the company is. Source: Pexels.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

Initially, all companies sell to customers who are the easiest to reach and most excited about the new product. Scrappy guerilla marketing based on personal contacts and word-of-mouth campaigns gives way to more expensive customer acquisition using advertising, trade shows, and a marketing agency.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

Maybe you want new business ideas, sales ideas, product improvement ideas, process enhancement ideas — tell them what you want — and start tracking what comes back. If you can be specific with your question to the group, great, even better, but it starts with just opening the door. Let your people know that you want ideas.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

JULY 24, 2012

Guerilla Innovation Chapter Five. It’s not just ideas, it’s also questions, facts, observations — products of your curiosity. Notebooking is Innovation Viagra. What do Leonardo DaVinci, Thomas Edison, Jack Kerouac, Beatrix Potter, Madame Curie, and Twyla Tharp all have in common? They all do Idea Notebooks.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 13, 2016

Donate products/services to local charities. Guerilla marketing. Just pick your times wisely; 8pm on a weeknight will guarantee someone will be home but they won’t be impressed by a late visitor. This doesn’t sound as extreme as the name implies, it simply means being a bit sneaky when distributing your message.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 17, 2020

Street marketing is a type of guerilla marketing that’s highly experimental and can gain plenty of attention if executed correctly. Street marketing focuses on unconventional ways of promoting products and services in public places. And lastly, pop-up shops can be great tools for product demonstrations. Street Marketing.

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Growthink Blog

JUNE 2, 2011

There's a product in the form of Justin Bieber. And the product has a large and growing fan base -- all the people watching it on YouTube. We call that guerilla marketing. Since we know we have a good product. This would get his product to a big listener base. Bootstrap, do guerilla marketing and get PR.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

You can have the excellent people, the right resources, an amazing product or service idea, and a rigorous innovation process — and still fail (see Blackberry, Kodak, etc.) I refer here to Mel Rhodes 4 P’s model of organizational creativity, Product, People, Process, and “Press” Press is environment.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

MARCH 4, 2014

If the product or service is of genuine value, you can build good vibes up from there. This is really a holistic measure that includes all the above, but also something more. Good vibes happen when there is good value for everyone involved in an enterprise. Good bagels right? Get the culture right and you’ve got a chance.

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Performance-based deals can effectively mitigate your monetary risk of entering into a non-productive consulting relationship. Such positions include: PR, Sales, Product Development, Lead Generation, Strategic Planning, Fund Raising, etc. Their story, market positioning, products, etc. Time Is Not Money, Time Is Everything.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

If the speaker bio has inventions, patents, companies started-up, products introduced, brands created, processes improved, then you have a real world innovator. Here’s how I match the Four Criteria: I’ve created companies and new products for myself and for others. Innovation happens in the marketplace.

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K9 Ventures

APRIL 14, 2020

Because, to rent a U-haul, put a banner on it and park yourself in South Park is about as good as it gets for Guerilla Marketing. By this point almost everyone (with a couple of holdouts) on the HiHello team was already on Pragli and I had used it enough to know that I really liked the product.

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BeyondVC

JUNE 2, 2004

I met with Dave Panos and Andrew Busey of Pluck yesterday to learn more about their product and their company. In today’s world, you can pull an off-the-shelf component from an ISV or from the open source community, Jabber for example, and have chat instantly integrated in your product.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

If you dream of having a company that offers 10 products, you don’t have to wait for all 10 of those products to be manufactured before launching. Instead, you can start with 1 or 2 products, and then bring on the others as your company starts to grow. In fact, you don’t even have to spend a lot of money.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 5, 2014

I love writing, I enjoy making jewelry and I love the challenge involved in marketing products. Sell, import, invent or craft a product or accessory for enthusiasts in your hobby. Make those tweaks before fully entering the market – and understand that, for most entrepreneurs, this is a process, not a single final product.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

JULY 23, 2012

Guerilla Innovation Chapter Four. Imagine if you will someone who is trying to invent a new cleaning product for the home. Innovate on COQ. Doing “COQ ” (rhymes with Poke) will get you somewhere. If you want to be an innovator you have to create something new — and how do you do that? Wait, what did that guy do?

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BeyondVC

JUNE 2, 2004

I met with Dave Panos and Andrew Busey of Pluck yesterday to learn more about their product and their company. In today’s world, you can pull an off-the-shelf component from an ISV or from the open source community, Jabber for example, and have chat instantly integrated in your product.

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