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Dig Into the Customer Experience Before Launching New Products
I’ll bet that most smaller businesses and nonprofits launch products, services, and programs without ever digging into the expected customer or user experience. They may or may not do the due diligence by researching their market’s reactions to names, descriptions, and visuals.
Create a Value Proposition by Knowing Your Target Audience
The next step in writing a value proposition is to identify your target audience and craft your message to them. Too many companies attempt to define their value proposition only in terms of their product. A product on its own, though, holds no value.
Essential Steps to Launch a Startup, Part 1
Launching a new start-up business is difficult and nerve-wracking even for those who know exactly what they’re getting into. For those who have never gone into business for themselves, the entire start-up process can be overwhelming.
Things to Consider Before Becoming an Absentee Owner
When you hear the term “absentee owner,” a picture of a venture capitalist in a three-piece suit might come to mind, but that isn’t always the case.
How to Use Content Marketing in a Link Economy
The lifeblood of affiliate marketing is increasing streams of high-quality traffic. This increases the chances of both merchants and web publishers to increase their revenues. Still, obtaining these coveted visitors is only part of the equation. Once they arrive to a publisher’s web page, filled with affiliate links, it is imperative that they don’t leave right away.
Buying an Ad vs. PR Efforts to Support Your Franchise
Unless your franchise agreement has a specific clause preventing you from marketing above and beyond your required regulations, you would do well to consider the question of ad purchases versus a public relations effort to boost your bottom line sales.
6 Things I Wish I’d Known Before I Started My Company
My company is approaching its tenth anniversary. This important milestone has prompted me to look back at my decade as an entrepreneur. Founding and running a company has been the ride of my life, but it has had its fair share of ups and downs.
Does Marketing Keep You Up at Night? You’re Not Alone!
It’s official. If you’re worried about marketing your business or nonprofit, you’re among friends. A new Adobe study highlights the anxiety many of us experience when it comes to marketing.
How to Recognize Your Value Proposition
At the heart of every successful business plan is a clear, concise, and concrete value proposition. This single statement sums up the entire foundation of your business, making it clear what you do and why you do it.
Going from Suck to Non-Suck as a Public Speaker
People often ask me for advice about public speaking, since I do a lot of it. Of course, it’s often reported that people are more afraid of public speaking than death (which is not exactly empirically accurate, but it is close). In my experience, becoming a good public speaker is not a natural skill for anyone.
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