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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. The case study: the best way to reach your target. A good case study quickly lays out the pain, the players, the search, the solution, and the pain-reliving effect after implementing the solution.

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A good case study is worth many paid ads.

Berkonomics

And the best way to do this is with the placement of a case study, a story told about and by a satisfied customer with something to say about how your product solved their problem or pain. A good case study quickly lays out the pain, the players, the search, the solution, and the pain-reliving effect after implementing the solution.

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Shaking the MoneyTree 2009 Q4 Review

SoCal Tech Calendar

Tuesday, March 9, 2010 -- Shaking the MoneyTree 2009 Q4 Review. The MoneyTree Report is a quarterly study of venture capital investment activity in the United States. The study is a staple of the financial community, entrepreneurs, government policymakers and the business press worldwide. See [link] (more).

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How to Shorten Your Sales Cycle and Avoid Wasting Time

Both Sides of the Table

We will have to build (or buy) technology in this area.” The thing is … what I see many sales execs do is burn up countless hours on mid-level campaigns that get torpedoed when the go up the organization due to lack of budget, a desire to own that core IP or other more pressing organization priorities.

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Baby Boomers May Be Your Biggest Startup Competitors

Startup Professionals Musings

In fact, according to the latest Index of Startup Activity by the Kauffman Foundation and recent press reports , these Baby Boomers are actually driving a new entrepreneurship boom. Here are some indicative entrepreneurial facts from recent Kauffman studies and others. percent to 24.3 percent last year.

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How to Acquire Customers by Marketing “Heroes”

Both Sides of the Table

It influenced a generation of tech marketers. The book popularized the technology adoption lifecycle curve that originally came out of Iowa State University shown below. So the early part of a technology company is about finding your hard core group of early adopters and making them passionate about your products.

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Bio Roundup: Theranos Cuts, Alnylam Stops, Nobel Eats Its Own & More

Xconomy

coast bearing the brunt of Hurricane Matthew, we send our thoughts and more to those who have more pressing matters to worry about this week. military’s high-tech think tank DARPA described Safe Genes, a new program to fund safety measures that can be built into genome editing technology or counter its potential wayward effects. .