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8 Key Disciplines Are Essential To Scale Any Business

Startup Professionals Musings

With the real data from that surge, you need to take a hard look at business model realities, cost of customer acquisition, inventory costs, and other key metrics. Suddenly you face new overhead, with hiring, office space, benefits, and new advertising campaigns. Document processes and metrics for economies of scale.

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9 Ways to Use Pull Marketing When Push Doesn’t Work

Startup Professionals Musings

More and more customers these days are doing their own marketing research, scanning internet reviews and feedback from friends, rather than trusting messages that you push out through advertising. Implement marketing metrics based on inbound data. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 07/08/2019. The key is consistency.

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Performance marketing agency MuteSix bets on content and data to boost DTC e-commerce

TechCrunch LA

Created in 2014 and acquired by Dentsu in 2019, MuteSix was recommended to TechCrunch by Rhoda Ullmann, VP Consumer at Sense, a Boston-based startup building a home energy monitor. But then Facebook became a more crowded platform, and the same happened with Google: more advertisers, higher CPM and a more competitive environment.

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What Happens When Startups Turn from Their Innovation Stage to Operational Excellence?

Both Sides of the Table

We weren’t in enough cities to do national advertising campaigns yet we weren’t centralized enough to benefit off of our central marketing traction. No prizes for guessing what some of MakeSpace’s innovations will be in 2018 and 2019. Summary Startups are fun and exhilarating and filled with challenging problems to solve.

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