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6 Keys To Sizing Your Market For A New Business Plan

Startup Professionals Musings

Competitor annual reports, white papers, press releases, and presentations are great sources of data and trends that you can use to support your own efforts. Conduct your own customized market research. With social media and the new survey tools, it’s easy and fast to set up and run your own focus group, or opinion survey.

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5 Startup Marketing Actions to Impress Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

Use social media and Search Engine Marketing (SEM) to start. Create meaningful content and engage others online (free downloads, white papers, webinars, regular blogging). Do something unique to get customer attention. Promotions that appeal to the wrong customers won’t help you.

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How To Size Your Marketing Budget For Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

Use social media and Search Engine Marketing (SEM) to start. Create meaningful content and engage others online (free downloads, white papers, webinars, regular blogging). Do something unique to get customer attention. Promotions that appeal to the wrong customers won’t help you.

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Five Elements of a Credible Startup Marketing Plan

Startup Professionals Musings

Use social media and Search Engine Marketing (SEM) to start. Create meaningful content and engage others online (free downloads, white papers, webinars, regular blogging). Do something unique to get customer attention. Promotions that appeal to the wrong customers won’t help you.

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6 Ways To Get Credible Data To Support A New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

Competitor annual reports, white papers, press releases, and presentations are great sources of data and trends that you can use to support your own efforts. Conduct your own customized market research. With social media and the new survey tools, it’s easy and fast to set up and run your own focus group, or opinion survey.

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7 Strategies For Brand Leadership Through Influencers

Startup Professionals Musings

You too can become an influencer through social media, videos and blogs, and people will follow you on what to buy, what causes to support, and who to vote for. I still see too many aspiring business leaders highlighting their technology, product features, and price, more than customer value and usability.

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7 Strategies For Anticipating Future Customer Trends

Startup Professionals Musings

The market is changing so fast these days, and if you are not planning a solution today for tomorrow’s customers, you may be setting yourself up for failure and don’t even realize it. There are many free generalized tools, including Google Trends , which can be used to track customer behavior in looking for things that don’t exist yet.