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How to Validate Your Messaging and Positioning to Vet Your Story | What’s Your Edge?

Vision Edge Marketing

A successful story demands more than creative flair—it requires rigorous research , customer-centricity, and validation. Business too can harness the power of validation research, a form of feedback and testing, to ensure key messages resonate with the intended customers and prospects. In this episode of What’s Your Edge?,

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Why startups need more than just press releases

Martech

When discussing public relations with startups, the misconception that PR only involves press releases frequently surfaces. Worse are the startups that believe their brands don’t need PR because they haven’t had any “bad press.” Earned media is about building brand awareness, credibility and market share through third-party validation.

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Market Validation: The One Step You Can’t Afford to Skip

Vision Edge Marketing

To that we say, “Whoa, Nelly, market validation comes first.” Simply defined, market validation helps determine whether the market and/or customer segment you’ve decided to target will be receptive to your solution. Market validation and selling share a common effort: conversations. You decide to leapfrog the validation step.

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Early stage B2B tech startups don’t invest enough in marketing [peer-reviewed study]

Sword and the Script | B2B

Those companies that are in the early stages of a startup building a product stand to gain “the greatest” valuation benefit from marketing About half (45%) of all B2B technology startups make no effort to market their products. More specifically, they did the study twice to ensure its validity. Then they have to play catchup.

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Building Buyer Personas: How to Drive More Leads for Your Startup

Launch Marketing

Buyer personas are a powerful tool that every business owner and marketer, especially those in the dynamic startup realm, should have in their arsenal. In this blog post, we will demystify the concept of buyer personas for startups, shed light on their pivotal role, and equip you with the knowledge and skills to create them effectively.

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Don’t Build It, Yet: How Content Can Validate Your Next Product Idea

Animalz blog

Content-led product is an approach we’ve pioneered at our startup Parabol , in which teams use content to validate new markets and product ideas. Content Is the Leanest Product Without building anything, content-led product helps you validate ideas and organic traffic potential. What Is Content-Led Product?

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Techstars Startup Weekend: A Validating Experience

Blue Flame Thinking

Our own Jason Wagner recently served as a coach and mentor for the Grand Rapids edition of Techstars Startup Weekend , sponsored by Start Garden. Coaching Techstars Startup Weekend. With each interaction, validation of the idea is revisited to keep development on track.