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Using Smart Experiments to Succeed

Skip Prichard

Your previous book offers practical advice for entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs are people who invest resources into uncertain endeavors, such as a business that doesn’t have a product yet, doesn’t have a team, or hopes to define a new market segment, as examples. ” -Steven K. and thus easily gravitate toward it.

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What the Best Nonprofits Know About Strategy

Harvard Business Review

While most for-profit companies start with product and then subsequently segment customers based on profit potential (higher lifetime value and lower acquisition costs), the most successful nonprofits commit first to reaching an underserved population, which often includes higher acquisition costs and lower lifetime value.

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When the Help You Get Isn't Helpful

Harvard Business Review

Have you ever received unsolicited, off-target advice? Consider John, an account executive who is contemplating how to expand into a new market segment — one that is wrought with regulatory challenges. She then spends the next ten minutes going over a how-to guide on conducting market research.

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If Your Mobile Strategy Can Win Here, It Can Win Anywhere

Harvard Business Review

As a marketer, I work to engage women online with brands and causes. of emails to my all-female marketing database are opened on iPhones, likely because many on my mailing list are busy moms who often aren''t in front of a computer. And these messages use strong market segmentation. It''s her phone. A stunning 64.7%

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Google, Don't Choose Micromanagement

Harvard Business Review

If your company had just announced a 27% increase in revenues in this market, you'd probably be quite happy. And you'd think the market would be, too. Like many other companies that have a core product line, Google is struggling to find its next market. Giddy even. But, for Google, analysts seem decidedly unhappy. And so on.).

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How a Fast-Growing Startup Built Its Sales Team for Long-Term Success

Harvard Business Review

forecast accuracy, messages to relevant market segments, and other categories. People need reinforcement, periodic upgrading, advice on adapting their skills to new circumstances, and motivational help. Markets are different, strategies vary, and so specific practices will and should vary.

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How a Fast-Growing Startup Built Its Sales Team for Long-Term Success

Harvard Business Review

forecast accuracy, messages to relevant market segments, and other categories. People need reinforcement, periodic upgrading, advice on adapting their skills to new circumstances, and motivational help. Markets are different, strategies vary, and so specific practices will and should vary.