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Paid physical. It’s more expensive to get in front of each person, but you can choose exactly who gets your mail so you only show up in front of people who qualify for and want your product.
Events. For almost any industry, there are events and trade shows where you can find customers.
Content Marketing and SEO. Content marketing means writing articles and creating content to get in front of people searching for information about your product category.
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In this stage, you’ll be doing a lot of manual outreach to get your first paying customers, and improving the product based on feedback. The channels above most often used in this stage are leveraging your network, cold calling, cold email/LinkedIn outreach,...
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Paid digital, paid physical and content/SEO are the three channels that offer the greatest scale for B2B companies. If you build a strong sales team, cold email and cold calling can both scale, but this involves building out a serious sales organization.
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Generally, if you’re targeting companies with 10 or fewer employees, use ad messaging that directly promotes your product.
For any kind of ad you build, use the SUCCESS framework.
If you’re targeting companies with 10-10,000+ employees, use marketing messaging that promotes resources...
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Success is rooted in growing lifetime value through retention and margin, maximizing funnel conversion to efficiently convert leads to customers, and finding repeatable tactics
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Incubation: build your minimum viable product (MVP) in close partnership with potential customers to ensure you are solving a real problem with a credible solution.
Iteration: have customers using your MVP and are rapidly improving the product. Success at this stage is roo...
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Leverage your network. This is particularly valuable for founders who are building a product based on their own past experience.
Cold calling (or showing up in person). Knock on doors, make phone calls. You have to get used to hearing “no”, but you’d be su...
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In this stage, you want to get more strangers outside of your network and social circles to try your product.
This means an expanded focus on cold calling, email, and outreach. It also means you can start paid digital ads on Facebook and Google. This will help you learn more about what mess...
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