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100 T-Shirts: A Different Way to Validate Your Business Idea
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One of the most common ways to validate a product idea is to try selling it online, through Kickstarter or a coming soon page, even without a finished product. Instead of starting online, what if you ordered a small batch of products and just took to the streets? That's what today's episode of Shopify Masters is about.More
Topics: validate, really, business, thats, different, actually, instagram, kind, idea, right, way, lot, yeah, think, going, tshirts. -
12 Brainstorming Techniques for Unearthing Better Ideas From Your Team
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If you want to hold brainstorms that unearth better, more creative ideas, it all starts with the people in the room. Like, the actual number of people in the room.
That's my first tip for you: Follow the "pizza rule" for brainstorming. If you're unfamiliar with the "pizza rule," it's the idea that if you have more people in a room than you could feed with a pizza, there are too many people in that room to hold a productive meeting.
Topics: unearthing, ideas, techniques, brainstorming, good, brainstorms, group, youre, brainstorm, better, meeting, come, team, idea. -
15 Ways to Come Up With an Idea for Your Online Store
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The hardest part of starting an online business? Coming up with a great idea! Here are 15 ways you can discover great online business ideas.
Topics: come, ideas, store, idea, online, business, start, ways, strategy, ideatostore, products, product. -
30+ Small Business Ideas That’ll Make You Money in 2020
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With so many business ideas in 2020, it can be hard to figure out which are worth pursuing. You’ll want to create a business that’s not only profitable today, but also great for the long-term. You may notice that a lot of the ideas on this list have been growing […]
Topics: sell, create, ideas, small, thatll, help, facebook, business, money, products, idea, store, niche. -
41 Facebook Post Ideas for Businesses
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Facebook is the most popular social network in the world. Its users are on the platform to connect with friends, watch videos, and share snippets of their own lives.
Topics: types, sourcewhy, idea, brand, post, audience, best, works, businesses, business, facebook, ideas. -
6 Reasons You Really Need to Write A Business Plan
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Starting a business can be a daunting task, especially if you’re starting from square one.
Topics: youll, idea, plan, reasons, business, easier, youve, write, understand, market, need, really, needs. -
7 Creative Content Ideas You'll Want to Steal for Your Ecommerce Website
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Big brands realize they need so much more than a picture and description to sell products. They're all about selling a lifestyle, and that means bigger, better content is needed to engage shoppers.
Topics: website, idea, instagram, video, youll, target, ideas, buy, product, ecommerce, company, content, steal, usermade, creative. -
86 Rejections But Jay-Z Ain't 1: From Idea to Multi-million Dollar Investment
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In this episode of Shopify Masters, Denise Woodard shares her business journey of building a consumer packaged foods company from scratch and how she worked through many seemingly impossible hurdles. From finding an allergen-free facility to facing over 80 rejections from investors, we dig into the realities of challenging industry norms.
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Topics: aint, food, partake, dollar, company, products, product, lot, jayz, investment, idea, multimillion, business, started, im, rejections, think. -
A Creator’s Toolbox: 6 Ways to Find Your Next Big Idea
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Creator Chris Hau shares his favorite pieces of advice for entrepreneurs and other creators looking for their next great idea.More
Topics: toolbox, ideas, creative, instead, creators, idea, big, really, ways, best, chris, say, means, good. -
A Guide to the Trait Theory of Leadership
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Ask "What makes a great leader?" and you’ll get a different answer every time.
Topics: leadership, trait, theory, traits, concept, leaders, idea, theories, leader, guide, person. -
Book Excerpt: ‘Entrepreneurialism Is a Noble Art’
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Rick Wilson is the longtime CEO of Miva, the pioneering ecommerce platform. His new book, "Dragonproof Principles: Principled Leadership For The Modern Entrepreneur," is now available. What follows is "Principle Two: Entrepreneurialism Is a Noble Art," an excerpt.
Topics: idea, excerpt, person, thing, theyre, book, entrepreneur, great, art, thats, noble, entrepreneurialism, tell, business, dont. -
Building an Ecommerce Business, Part 10: Apparel Sales, Manufacturing
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Selling apparel online is notoriously competitive. The margins are thin, typically. With hundreds of SKUs for size and color and styles, inventory management can be complicated — especially when the ...
Topics: inventory, sales, manufacturing, business, systems, apparel, undershirts, ecommerce, idea, starts, production, theres, building, yes. -
DTC Seller of Apple Watch Bands Soars from College Project
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Braxton Manley was a sophomore at Texas Tech University in 2017 when he attended a workshop on entrepreneurship. The purpose was to conceive a product based on market research. "My idea was cool Apple Watch bands," Manely told me. Fast forward to 2021 and his company, Braxley Bands, is a direct-to-consumer seller of elastic, colorful bands.
Topics: band, project, college, idea, seller, good, soars, bands, apple, market, watch, snapchat, grant, im, dtc. -
Five Lessons I Learned About Scaling a Business With Reid Hoffman
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How great would it be if you had a panel of successful entrepreneurs and business leaders you could turn to whenever you needed help getting unstuck, or needed a daily dose of inspiration?
Topics: scale, airlines, business, learned, idea, reid, virgin, blakely, lessons, right, scaling, ideas, hoffman, questions, wasnt. -
From Getting Kicked Out of Staples to Being Acquired By BIC
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Joe Lamey and Jake Epstein are the founders behind Rocketbook. The creators behind everlasting notebooks and digital tools to ensure users can have one single notebook for all of their needs. In this episode of Shopify Masters, Joe shares their crowdfunding journey, how they overcame manufacturing challenges, and how the team collected over 3 million email addresses by building their app.More
Topics: acquired, really, app, staples, notebook, idea, rocketbook, video, product, crowdfunding, little, kicked, getting, bic, microwave. -
From Idea to First Customer: Choosing an Audience
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Starting an online store? Follow our guide to your first customer! Find your perfect audience and set yourself up for long-term success.
Topics: values, needs, customer, business, customers, products, idea, group, important, youre, decisions, choosing, audience. -
From Idea to First Customer: Creating the Product
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Starting an online store? Follow our guide to your first customer! From dropshipping and manufacturing to digital delivery — here's what you need to know.
Topics: way, creating, product, dont, create, customers, require, storage, space, customer, products, idea, work. -
From Idea to First Customer: Finding a Problem to Solve
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Starting an online store? Follow our guide to your first customer! Here’s how to make your business irresistible by solving a problem for your audience.
Topics: customer, audience, theyre, business, needs, problem, idea, youre, unable, person, solve, problems, step. -
From Idea to First Customer: Selling It Before You Make It
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Starting an online store? Follow our guide to your first customer! Learn to confirm demand for your product by selling it before it's made.
Topics: willing, youre, preorders, presell, customer, idea, product, money, page, offer, selling, audience. -
From Viral Idea to Product in 60 Days
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In 2017 Justin Clark and his friends decided to make rompers for the male audience and launched the company Romperjack. In this episode of Shopify Masters, you'll hear from Justin Clark of Romperjack on how he validate product-market fit, work with manufacturers, and move from a viral brand to an everyday brand. More
Topics: youre, idea, lot, really, actually, think, viral, thats, going, kind, days, yeah, product. -
From pickup basketball to market domination: My wild ride with Coupang
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Coupang early investor Ben Sun shares an inside look into the growth of the Korean e-commerce giant and explains how founder Bom Kim led a pivot when the company was already an established business.
Topics: basketball, market, domination, wild, wedding, techcrunch, ipo, investor, business, founders, idea, groupon, told, pickup, coupang, bom, ride, school. -
HDS, from the Borders and Webvan founder, raises $3M as it gears up to launch its robot-run grocery and general merchandise play
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The online grocery market is poised to get a little more crowded in the next several months, with the launch of a startup led by a veteran founder who has taken big hits from Amazon in the past, but now hopes to come back swinging with the help of an army of robots. Home Delivery […]
Topics: techcrunch, borders, grocery, system, million, robotrun, hds, online, technology, idea, raises, amazon, build, launch, general, webvan, merchandise, play. -
His First Business Idea Failed. His Second Let Him Quit His Day Job.
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Just over a year ago, if you’d have told Jeffrey Ho that he was going to be the owner of a women’s fashion business, he wouldn’t have believed you. Back then the idea hadn’t even crossed his mind. After all, what unraveled in the next months took him down a […]
Topics: job, idea, store, youre, work, jeffrey, second, thats, day, products, quit, let, business, failed, hed, sunglasses. -
How to A/B Test Your Pricing (And Why It Might Be a Bad Idea)
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A/B testing the pricing for your product is a little bit like Goldilocks.
Topics: ab, bad, product, testing, test, customers, idea, pricing, revenue, price, prices, different. -
How to Buy Instagram Likes (And Why It's a Bad Idea)
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Instagram’s new algorithm uses engagement as the most important metric to determine a post’s popularity. Essentially, the more likes and comments your posts get, the more your posts will be seen by a larger audience.
Topics: buy, bot, fake, follow, idea, likes, accounts, service, engagement, posts, bad, real, instagram. -
How to Create and Sell Digital Products: A Roadmap With 6 Ideas to Get You Started
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Digital products can be created and sold repeatedly to different customers without having to replenish your inventory, making them ideal for creatives, artists, educators, and freelancers looking for new income streams that require less effort to maintain. Here’s how you can start selling your own digital products, along with some ideas for businesses you can build around these intangible goods.More
Topics: started, youre, sell, customers, product, idea, free, digital, content, create, products, ideas, roadmap. -
How to Find a Manufacturer or Supplier for Your Product Idea
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Excited about your new product idea but don’t know how to make it a reality? This guide to finding a manufacturer will help you bring it to life.More
Topics: manufacturers, idea, ask, suppliers, business, manufacturer, product, order, supplier, overseas, products. -
How to Get Promoted This Month: Impress Your Boss by Doing These 7 Things
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I once made a really big hiring mistake.
After a series of promising interviews, I took on an intern whose level of professionalism, performance, and overall demeanor quickly took a turn for the worse. I discussed it with my supervisor, we agreed that it was in everyone's best interests not to move forward with the internship.
Topics: promoted, way, work, boss, youre, doing, dont, idea, things, say, successful, working, feedback, impress, month. -
How to Make a Product & New Brand: Blueprints for Success
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In this guide, you'll learn how to make a product & create a brand strategy that will elevate your ecommerce business from the crowd.
Topics: brand, branding, product, business, idea, products, blueprints, logo, ideal, design, success, youre. -
How to Sell Online: Online Selling Ideas for 2020
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Learn how to sell online and grow your business way beyond the borders of your city or your country without ever leaving your work desk!
Topics: sell, products, ecommerce, way, store, idea, ideas, blog, online, oberlo, selling, business, world. -
How to Start a Business Under 18 in 2023 (Guide for Kids and Parents)
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Hear from several former kid entrepreneurs as they share their advice for how to start a business before you turn 18—and why pursuing your big idea now is worth it.More
Topics: guide, youre, business, kids, start, parents, school, need, ideas, idea, help, parent. -
How to Start a Business: A Guide to Starting a Business
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Entrepreneurship is an idea that appeals to many, but figuring out how to start a business can sometimes be so overwhelming it scares people away. It’s time to stop telling people that you’re going to start a business and actually put in the work to make it happen. In this […]
Topics: starting, business, youre, need, guide, create, youll, going, idea, right, start. -
How to Use Ideation Sessions to Develop Your Best Ideas Yet
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Albert Einstein, a master at great ideas, once said, "If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it."
Topics: ideation, sessions, idea, participant, problem, develop, stands, session, participants, members, team, ideas, best. -
Instagram's New TV Feature: A Good Idea for Brands?
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Instagram is taking on media giant YouTube with the latest addition to their social media platform: IGTV. The Facebook-owned company is looking for a way to expand its offerings, reach new customers, and increase usage on their app -- even if it means borrowing from another platform’s users.
Topics: video, users, platform, brands, brand, instagrams, tv, instagram, app, igtv, idea, good, feature, vertical. -
Interior Define and Monica + Andy collaborate to make children’s furniture
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It isn’t super common to find two entrepreneurs in one marriage, especially two entrepreneurs that want to work together. But married couple Rob and Monica Royer are making it happen with a new collaboration between Interior Define and Monica + Andy. Interior Define, founded by Rob Royer, looks to offer super customizable, high-quality furniture at […]
Topics: teams, andy, idea, interior, childrens, furniture, rob, collaborate, define, royer, monica. -
Mette Lykke on food waste and building a big startup on a big idea
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Food has been an ever-present touchpoint in the world of startups, and I don’t mean the free catered lunches, or expansive canteens that you get in bigger places, to keep startup workers sustained but also focused on building, without leaving the building. There are hundreds, maybe even thousands, of enterprises spun out of the idea […]
Topics: restaurants, idea, lykke, startup, food, lot, techcrunch, business, customers, mette, better, good, things, building, waste, staying, big, ways. -
More Than a Pet Project: The Story Of Dogs Meow Subscriptions
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What happens when the brick and mortar shop you were banking on becomes obsolete? Reinvent yourself with a new eCommerce venture, of course! For Chris Hugo, founder of Dogs Meow, launching a pet food subscription business was his way of adapting to a changing market. “I spent my life running the family business of DVD […]
Topics: online, shop, chris, subscription, project, idea, business, dogs, food, pet, subscriptions, meow. -
New Product Development Process: Everything You Need to Know
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Bringing a new product to life can be challenging. You know that you have an idea that can bring value to a target market, but you aren’t exactly sure how to bring your product to that market.
Topics: need, stage, idea, research, market, help, product, youll, development, know, process, final. -
Opportunity Knocks: 9 Niche Market Examples With Untapped Business Potential
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Identifying a niche market can be one of the most effective ways to start a business off on the right foot or save an existing store that’s struggling to make sales. Here’s how to find a niche market, along with nine examples of niche markets and products you can sell to them.More
Topics: google, business, inspire, product, products, examples, market, idea, finding, audience, specific, niche, ideas. -
Pinterest addresses the TikTok threat in its first quarter earnings
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Pinterest may have beat on revenue and earnings in the first quarter, but the company is not out of the woods yet when it comes to carving out a place for its service in today’s competitive landscape. In particular, Pinterest is up against a credible threat with the rise of TikTok when it comes to […]
Topics: techcrunch, content, threat, company, quarter, idea, earnings, tiktok, video, users, pins, creators, pinterest, addresses. -
Pinterest rolls out new features that let creators make money from pins
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Creators will be able to tag products in their Idea Pins -- a video-first feature the company first launched this spring -- to make their content 'shoppable.'
Topics: creators, pinterest, rolls, pins, let, pinterests, able, features, tag, techcrunch, shopping, product, idea, content, money. -
Podcasting in 2022: What You Need + 9 Steps To Get Started
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I first discovered podcasts a few years ago when I was commuting for work two to three hours a day, every day.
Topics: steps, episode, podcasts, podcast, start, listeners, idea, podcasting, set, thats, need, audio, started. -
Product Design & Development: How to Make Physical Products
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Overwhelmed by the product development process? If you have a product design you want manufactured, this guide walks you through the entire process.
Topics: youre, manufacturers, manufacturer, idea, design, products, prototype, development, process, product, start, manufacture, physical. -
She Built a Toy Brand to Fill a Market Gap—and Teach a Generation to Love Their Hair
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When a seven-year-old Yelitsa Jean-Charles opened her present—a Black Barbie doll—on Christmas morning in 2001, she burst into tears. Little did she know this experience would be the catalyst for an idea that would fill a gap in the toy market and forever change the trajectory of her life. More
Topics: healthy, idea, roots, toy, generation, gapand, gap, love, built, dolls, product, research, brand, hair, problem, market, teach, yelitsa. -
Shopify's President Breaks Down the Best Ways to Grow Your Ecommerce Business
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Entrepreneur magazine Editor in Chief Jason Feifer and Shopify President Harley Finkelstein discuss the best strategies to grow an ecommerce business.
Topics: best, business, idea, sales, think, shopify, ecommerce, small, youre, shares, finkelstein, community, entrepreneur, starting, need, president, practices. -
Teespring’s comeback story
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Startup stories are often too reductive — an entrepreneur dreams up an idea, snags some co-founders, raises a bit of money and presto: success and riches. It’s nearly never true. Even breakout successes like Slack that may feel straightforward have complicated stories. Amongst the most valuable startups there are hidden crises and disappointing quarters. Some […]
Topics: slack, teespring, comeback, company, startups, techcrunch, startup, idea, wanted, success, teesprings, reporting. -
The Ballsy Idea Behind Building a 10,000 Subscriber Base
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In this episode of Shopify Masters, Adam Hendle of Ballsy shares with us the process of formulating personal care products, learnings from logistical mishaps, and their ideal tech stack.More
Topics: idea, base, really, subscriber, product, building, products, lot, different, thats, customers, ballsy, going, brand, weve. -
The Ultimate List of The Most Popular Online Business Ideas
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Struggling to find that one right business idea? This ultimate list of the most popular online business ideas covers everything you need to get started.
Topics: innovative, start, help, social, website, great, online, ideas, idea, business, media, today. -
Using Your Customer Base to Crowdfund, Rebrand, and More
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Bird & Blend Tea Co. founder Krisi Smith wanted to bring fun tea blends to the UK., and gathered quite a following in the process. In this episode of Shopify Masters, Krisi shares how she built her customer base around students and tourists, getting their support to help fund retail expansion and rebrand the company.More
Topics: try, customer, using, started, private, list, know, group, base, business, idea, rebrand, crowdfund, tea, tell. -
Walmart acquiring Shopify is no longer a laughable idea
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As competition between Walmart and Amazon intensifies, the acquisition of Shopify's merchant marketplace may be the boost that the Walton family's juggernaut needs to move ahead.
Topics: platform, walmart, merchants, business, acquiring, shopify, laughable, sellers, idea, ecommerce, longer, amazons, amazon, marketplace. -
What Is Product Development? Learn The 7-Step Framework Helping Businesses Get to Market Faster
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Interested in making your own product to sell from scratch? Use this product development process framework to bring your next product to market, quickly and easily.More
Topics: design, materials, learn, process, sell, idea, usually, helping, create, faster, product, development, businesses, need, 7step, market, framework. -
What Makes a Great Business Idea?
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You probably have a business idea or three rattling around in the back of your mind. Whether it’s monetizing a jewelry-making hobby or selling to a growing niche market, you’ve probably flirted with the idea of starting your own full-time business or side hustle. All you lacked was the confidence that you were going in the right direction. Here are some questions to ask to help you develop a good business idea into a great one.More
Topics: marketing, makes, idea, using, customer, email, sell, customers, youre, products, business, great. -
What to Blog About: 101 Irresistible Blog Ideas
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What to blog about? The blank white screen and blinking cursor feel like doom. You start thinking about everything and nothing at the same time. What should you write? Where should you start? What would people be interested in? This is not a fun place to be. Especially when you […]
Topics: topic, list, niche, blog, audience, engage, irresistible, ideas, write, posts, post, create, share, idea. -
Why A Digital PR Specialist Should Always Be Involved in Content Creation
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If you've been on the creative side of content marketing, you know not every idea is a winner. Sometimes projects gather a few links and then vanish under a pile of other content.
Topics: idea, work, specialists, digital, content, data, information, team, creation, pr, outreach, specialist, involved. -
Why Buying Email Lists Is Always a Bad Idea (And How to Build Yours for Free)
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You need people who you can email, and you need them quickly. Oh, and if you could get them pretty cheap, that'd be great, too.
Topics: content, idea, list, optin, free, addresses, address, dont, lists, build, email, marketing, emails, buying, bad. -
Why Outsourcing Your Lead Generation Strategy Might Be a Good Idea
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Lead generation is an undoubtedly critical component to any marketing strategy -- in fact, 85% of B2B marketers say lead generation is their most important content marketing goal.
Topics: good, strategy, know, outsourcing, inhouse, idea, marketing, team, lead, leads, business, generation, consider. -
Why a startup with $10M in annual revenue took 18 months to get VC funding
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Back in 2006, Joseph Heller went to China where he spent the next decade learning about the manufacturing business. Based on that experience he eventually built a startup called The Studio. The idea was to help connect people with a small business idea to manufacturers in China in a fully digital way. By 2016 he […]
Topics: idea, china, heller, small, company, took, built, months, manufacturing, annual, million, vc, funding, business, 10m, startup, techcrunch, revenue. -
‘Amazon accepts Bitcoin by the end of 2021’
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Amazon is said to accept Bitcoin payments by the end of the year. Ethereum, Cardano and Bitcoin Cash will be next in line. And then Amazon will release its own native token, an insider says. Amazon is “definitely” lining up Bitcoin payments and its own token, an insider told City… Continue reading
Topics: idea, end, payment, insider, payments, token, online, accepts, amazon, solutions, whitepaper, bitcoin.