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Can you create a great customer case study?

Berkonomics

Studies have shown that attention spans for engaging a reader or listener have fallen from eleven seconds to eight seconds on average. Growing weary of paid advertisements. We have grown more than a bit weary of most advertising, no matter in what form. The case study: the best way to reach your target.

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A good case study is worth many paid ads.

Berkonomics

We have grown more than a bit weary of most advertising, no matter in what form. How do you reach an audience that pays less attention to advertising then at any time in the past one hundred years? But it must be told about and by the customer, with your product as the tool of solution, not the focus of the story.

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8 Priorities When Offering A New Product Or Service

Startup Professionals Musings

Often, despite your passion and expectation, customers don’t immediately see the value and need that you see, and you have no idea why the initiative is stuck , and what could be the real customer issue or fix. Customers won’t buy what they can’t find or don’t understand. Customers need supporting approvals to fully benefit.

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6 Ways To Make Your Solution Stand Out Above The Rest

Startup Professionals Musings

I’m often surprised when you as an aspiring entrepreneur, looking for investors, tell me your solution is so innovative that you don’t have to worry about differentiating it from competitors, and customers will flock to it without a real marketing campaign. Focus your marketing on real customer value. Perception is better than reality.

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Pour And Stir II – Managing Your Cost Per Customer

InfoChachkie

“I know half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, but I can never find out which half.” In the “good old days”, pre- 1999, advertising dollars were largely gambled away. Decreasing Your Customer Acquisition Costs. This is equivalent to being handed a free customer for every ten customers you acquire.

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7 Keys To Making Many Millions In A Business You Love

Startup Professionals Musings

Provide website forums to help customers solve their own problems. Use free e-commerce software and services like PayPal before building an expensive customized solution. Even more valuable are success case studies and testimonials. Generate revenue around the clock. Use the Internet to outsource staff.

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Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Startup Marketing Ideas - Eric David Greenspan

SoCal CTO

A day might include a discussion with a finance partner, an investor, a customer or a fusion partner. Some days I respond to questions asked by folks like yourself, the press, or an entity doing a case study, i.e. Citrix, RIM, USC. Our new customer acquisition has grown and our costs have plummeted. Love the minis!