One of the biggest challenges we face as marketers is giving concrete evidence as to why management should invest in a particular initiative. This is because the results of a given campaign are quite often intangible and difficult to quantify, but as anyone would tell you, they’re also completely invaluable. Marketing has the difficult job […]
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Blitzen Does Product Hunt: Redux
It was a morning like any other, when the Blitzen team got up, Then they checked their phones and saw that Product Hunt had struck. Realizing quickly, the storm that was about to come to pass, Everyone jumped out of bed and got to the office in a flash. We had the good fortune of […]
Enhancing Lead Management with FullContact
The Blitzen team is always looking for ways to add value to our customers. This is why we chose to partner with FullContact – an awesome contact management platform. It takes the information you currently have about your contacts such as phone numbers and emails and enhances it with pictures and online profiles from over […]
Blitzen Brings Big Brand Marketing Powers to SMBs
Launching today at the Dublin Web Summit, Blitzen is a new, lightweight yet powerful lead management solution that allows startups and small-to-midsize (SMB) businesses to market like their bigger brand cousins. According to a recent report by marketing automation software research firm Software Advice, a division of Gartner, 98% of SMBs are reportedly shopping for marketing software […]
Using Customer Discovery Surveys to Help Find Product/Market Fit
We started our customer discovery survey adventure knowing that startups and SMB’s are paying a price for relying on a toolbox of specialized SaaS apps. If you’ve been hanging out here for a while, you know that price is a fragmented stack that requires manual data entry and copy/paste to keep your apps in sync […]
Your Fragmented Sales Stack Costs You Money – We’re Going To Fix That
Now is the best time to be in a startup or SMB sales team. Great Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) sales apps are coming to market at a rapid pace and they’re affordable to boot. These focused apps are leveling the playing field between the enterprise sales engines and the little startup that could. And unlike your traditional […]
Startup Copywriting: Avoid These 4+ Mistakes
Startup copywriting is a serious challenge. You’re trying to resonate with your ideal customer without really knowing who they are and what they’re most interested in. I get it. We’ve been there. So, in anticipation of our new splash page going live, I’m stripping version 1.0 of our web copy down to its skivvies and […]
How We Hacked and Upgraded Our Startup Beta Signup Process
We got the most out of our startup beta signup process. We identified motivated customers. We collected customer insights that informed feature prioritization and web copy decisions. We forced ourselves to feel the pain points we were trying to solve for. It even made us evaluate the competition by using the competition’s products. Then, it showed us what our users will feel when […]
The Adobe FormsCentral Alternative is Blitzen
FormsCentral is Shutting Down If you’re here because of the announcement that Adobe FormsCentral is shutting down–we’re sorry to hear it. I’ve read the comments of disgruntled customers who have their online forms and workflows set up for the entire year, only to learn that Adobe will discontinue service half way through 2015. Ouch! The good […]
Transparency-as-a-Service for Startups and SMBs
I read a piece by James Altucher today that completely changed the way I think about writing and those reading what I write. Readers are like onlookers in the Roman Coliseum calling for other people’s blood. Writers are the gladiators responsible for shedding that blood. Writers shed blood by sharing the things you want to know about most–things […]