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New things are easier to sell when they seem familiar

Marc Fulgar Imagine you are selling a new drink (perhaps in a new category) and you’re competing against Coca-cola. You’ve invented a nootropic brain drink that helps you stay calm and alert while coding, and it has a pleasant natural…

  • Customer, Marketing Strategy, Product Strategy

Should you invest in Product, Sales, or Marketing?

Imagine the sales call… When someone calls you to discuss a product you just signed up for, how do you feel? Depending upon where you are in your buyer’s journey, you might welcome the call, feel ambivalent, or be annoyed…

  • Customer Development, Customer Strategy, Customer Success, Lean, Product Strategy, Product Thoughts, Startup

What makes freemium pricing work?

Free

photo by   Should you give away your product for free? The concept of “freemium” — or providing a product offering that doesn’t cost the customer anything, and allows for the prospect of future upsell — has great success…

  • Agile Marketing, beta program, Customer Development, Product Thoughts, Startup

Running a “Friends of the Company” Usability Session

One of the best ways to learn how real people view your product is to ask them to complete a set of tasks that you think all customers “should” be able to do. Think of this as a directional usability…

  • Agile, Agile Marketing, Marketing Strategy

What is Agile Marketing and Why Should You Use It?

If you’re like many people, when you hear the term “Agile Marketing” you might wonder if the person is talking about some new dance form or other form of stretching rather than an exciting way to improve the way that…

  • Agile Marketing, beta program, Customer Service, Innovation, Marketing Strategy, Product Thoughts, Startup

What’s the point of trying a beta product?

Beta Customers are the Best Test Customers You Have In Steve Blank’s excellent blog post on Startup First Principles, he describes a startup as “an organization built to search for a repeatable and scalable business model.” A key driver in…

  • Customer Development, Customer Service, Customer Strategy, Innovation

People Engage with Applications, Not Users

Seth Godin asks a wonderful question: “Do you have a people strategy?” It’s a quick read dedicated to reminding us that people, not users, engage with applications and services to make their lives better. If you can make people’s lives better with…

  • Agile, Marketing Strategy, Productivity

Get it right 98% of the time, and double-check the important stuff – Agile Marketing #8

This is the 8th in a series of posts on Agile Marketing – the working definition of which is to “Create, communicate and deliver unique value to an always-changing consumer (or business) in an always-changing market with an always-changing product.”…

  • Agile, Customer Development, Customer Service, Customer Strategy, Marketing Strategy

Your business people and developers need to talk – Agile Marketing Principle #6

This is the 6th in a series of posts on Agile Marketing – the working definition of which is to “Create, communicate and deliver unique value to an always-changing consumer (or business) in an always-changing market with an always-changing product.” (here’s…

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