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The Disconnect Between Sales and Marketing

Wednesday, 24 July 2019 by Paul O'Brien

This is a topic that really intrigues. In part, simply because it’s a VERY frequently discussed topic and considered issue. Check it out, from a simple Google Search: Why Marketing and Sales Don’t Get Along – From Grow and Convert Why Sales and Marketing Don’t Get Along – Via Harvard Business Review 3 Reasons B2B

Published in Advertising, Insights / Research, Search, Startups

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Creating Content that Impacts

Thursday, 11 July 2019 by Paul O'Brien

There are a few technical skills involved in publishing an article online and then driving engagement and enthusiasm with it. Far too often, I hear from business owners, artists, or entrepreneurs, who “tried blogging” or did “some” podcasting and all but gave up because they didn’t get the results they expected. Come on folks,

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Published in Search, Social Media

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Startups: Marketing Yourself or Hiring a Professional

Monday, 10 June 2019 by Paul O'Brien

Marketing is the first, foremost, and most important thing a business does. No market for your idea… nothing for you to do, no? You are doing that, yes? There is no customer, no investor, no partner, no desire, no demand, no co-founder, no support for what you want to do. You keep going? No, if

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Published in Insights / Research, Startups

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How do you compete with a startup doing the same thing as you?

Tuesday, 19 March 2019 by Paul O'Brien

Also known as Cheaper / Better / Faster, you get to pick two. How do you compete with a startup doing the same thing as you? You study them. It’s called Marketing. That’s what Marketing actually is, too many think it means promotion or advertising. see: Is Advertising Marketing? The Best Marketing Advice to Give a Startup

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Published in Advertising, Featured, PR, Search, Startups

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Why Businesses Neglect Advertising (and why you shouldn’t)

Monday, 07 January 2019 by Paul O'Brien

Why do people think they don’t need to spend money on advertisements? It’s a great question and as one first posed to me in the new year; it felt like a calling to answer it. Why don’t businesses readily advertise?? Strap it, I’m going to criticize us all. Two reasons The internet has led a

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Published in Advertising

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How Top Startup CEOs and VCs Find Time to Tweet so Much

Wednesday, 17 October 2018 by Paul O'Brien

I was peppered with this question six ways to Sunday recently and honestly, I couldn’t help but wonder if the public attention on Trump and Elon Musk’s tweets, haven’t had something to do with everyone asking how (or really why) these people in presumably busy and important roles, manage the time to bother tweeting. In

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Published in Social Media, Startups

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Might it be Said that the Purpose of an Entrepreneur is to Create Problems?

Tuesday, 18 September 2018 by Paul O'Brien

The Problem Solution Statement; a core tenet of Lean Startup and Customer Development. A phrase that conveys to founders and investors alike that the purpose of a startup is to solve a problem; an idea that leads many to believe that a pitch should lay out how the problem is being solved. With most new

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Published in Startups

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