Business

Web3 has a Go To Market problem

Go To Market is a daunting enough task when you’re trying to launch a new CRM or to-do list, more so when it’s for something as complex as Web3. When you best describe your project as “a token that serves three distinct purposes: governance over the network, staking and bonding”, most people won’t even know

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landing page
Branding

Live Video: Design a landing page in 30 minutes

I’ve written a whole lot about how to generate the content for your landing page. At CrowdTamers, we’re obsessed with finding a clear, repeatable ways to create landing pages as quickly as possible because we make several every week. I don’t talk much about the design. That’s not because it’s not important–you can see looking

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Tiktok for business
Branding

TikTok for Business: A step-by-step guide

TikTok is growing rapidly. 8 new users join TikTok every second. Additionally, it hit 1 billion active global users by the end of 2021, cumulating over 2.6 billion downloads since its launch in 2016. This tremendous rise shows us one thing: that the short-form video app is here to stay – as much as boomers and millennials may

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high-conversion landing page
Business

Write a high-conversion landing page in 30 minutes (or less)

Thirty minutes doesn’t seem like enough time to write a landing page, much less a high-conversion landing page. However, with the right tools, a proper outline, and the key selling value of your product, you should have the copy for your landing page ready to go in 20-30 minutes or less. Moroever, it’s essential to

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Product Pricing
Business

Pricing Matters More than You Think

Odds are pretty high that at this moment, right now, your pricing is too low. Let me be more clear: Unless you actively know that your pricing’s not too low, your pricing is probably too low. When you first launch a startup, you don’t really know how much people will value the software you’ve created.

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how to write a landing page
Business

How to write a Landing Page

What makes a good landing page? Anyone can whack a few words together and throw them with some screenshots into a webpage. Does that make a landing page? Not always. Trevor, CrowdTamers’ founder, recently critiqued quite a few landing pages and what he did may have seemed arbitrary, but there are actually a few simple

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6 Vanity metrics to stay away from.
Business

Stay away from these Vanity Metrics

Think 3 Million impressions, 500k views, and 20,000 app installs = Good Growth? The user penetration must be huge. Well, not really. Turns out, all of us are stuck chasing vanity metrics that make us feel good but don’t really help. If a metric does not encourage action, it’s a vanity metric. Any metric that

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Content Marketing

Write 18 high-performance headlines in 10 minutes

Precisely 18? Yes, precisely. Your headline is one of the first elements to catch your reader’s attention. You can’t just wing it; there are certain guides for writing high-performance headlines and I’m about to share it with you. One of our most common methods for writing different headlines at CrowdTamers is to fall back on

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go-to-market strategy
Business

Your Go-to-Market Strategy – Weeks 1 & 2: Finding Your Audience.

To create a successful go-to-market strategy, a business needs 3 things: Most people, when they’re launching a startup or a business, fixate on the first of those 3: the problem. I dare say almost no one launches a business without knowing a problem that they want the business to solve. But once you have your

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Marketing Research
Business

B2B Marketing Research: What it is & what you need to know.

There is a lot of interest today in marketing research, and there is no place where it’s talked about more than in the business-to-business world, where many firms consider it key to their success. In this article we’ll explore this powerful tool piece by piece, breaking down business-to-business marketing research into a series of questions

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Business

Get to know Google Analytics 4

Google has announced that from July next year (2023) it will stop collecting data from the older version of Google Analytics. It is time to migrate to Google Analytics 4! Google Analytics 4 – What’s changed? In short… a lot. GA4 uses a significantly different data structure and data collection logic. Now, everything is built

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Business

Google Analytics 4 vs. Universal Analytics: What’s the difference?

It has been a few months since Google announced the release of Google Analytics 4 (GA4). However, there’s still a lot of confusion around the key differences between GA4 and the older Universal Analytics. In this blog, we will take a deeper look at four of the fundamental differences between the two Google Analytics platforms and

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Facebook ads
Branding

2 ways to target an audience on Facebook ads

Testing a new idea requires a completely different approach to performance marketing than scaling a business. If you have the wrong approach with your Facebook ads, you’re doomed. Building the right audience is the first step to creating a Facebook campaign. Let’s make sure that you’re building an audience that’ll reflect the goal you’re trying

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Business tools 101 - why start with a landing page
Launch Today

Business 101 – Why start with a landing page?

Building products is hard. Launching a new business is hard. Everything about it is confounding: you deliberately create order out of nothing. As the founder, you have to conceive something that doesn’t exist and, through hard work and unwavering belief, bring it into existence. If you’re wrong about your business idea: the timing, the positioning,

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Use AI tools like a pro
Business

Use AI tools like a pro

The Artificial Intelligence boom is happening worldwide, and it’s accelerating quickly. It is set to transform all aspects of our lives – including our workplaces, homes, and vehicles — from cars to robots to medicine. AI tools will have significant repercussions for society, as AI performs many tasks that, until now, have been done by

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go-to-market strategy
Business

Everything you need to know about Go-to-Market strategy

You have finally launched your product for the world to see, but it’s been one day, two days,… 30 days, and nobody has signed up. You start to worry that maybe the product isn’t good enough. Let us tell you one thing — you need a go-to-market strategy for this idea. In this blog, we’ll

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Using Google Search as part of your GTM strategy
Business

Using Google Search in your Go To Market campaign

Google search advertising is a nearly bottomless source of high-intent traffic that is looking to purchase. It’s also expensive click traffic which is one of the easiest ways I know for a founder on the early stages of their go-to-market journey to throw a few thousand dollars down a hole to no effect. There are

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Building an ad campign
Branding

How to build an ad campaign in the Shopify App Store

You have listed your app on the Shopify App Store. Now, what? After listing your new app on Shopify, the next part of the process is all about marketing. Online advertising through Facebook or Google Ads is often the go-to choice for app promotion. However, these platforms can prove costly. So, in this blog, let’s

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Find your key differentiator
Business

Key Differentiator: Set your business apart from competition

You are often told to find your niche in content marketing — to carve a path through unexplored territory with a narrowly defined audience. As generally told, finding your niche is the only way to succeed in marketing. But instead, find your key differentiator to establish your competitive edge. By zeroing in on what you

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Content Marketing Framework
Business

Content Marketing Framework

Marketing has changed a lot in the past few years. So has the way we consume content. It’s become increasingly difficult to differentiate noise from information. With brands producing more content than ever before, and consumers having more devices and channels to view it, we must discriminate between what is relevant and what is not.

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Branding

GTM for technical founders

For most technical founders, when you push that first code commit live on a production server, it feels like you’ve made the leap from “dreamer” to “doer”. Congrats! One problem: 24 hours go by and no one has signed up. Crap. You have to market this new idea. After spending a weekend reading blog posts

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AI content tools
Business

How and why AI content tools can help early-stage startup founders

Artificial intelligence has broken the boundaries of the technology world to become a focus for businesses of every stripe. Articles on the business benefits of AI regularly feature in publications devoted to any and every industry. Small-business owners reading all the ink on AI may think, “That’s great for the big guys, but there’s no

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brand alignment
Branding

Brand alignment: What is it and how do you measure it?

How do people describe your brand and service offerings? Is the majority unanimous in how they perceive your brand? Most importantly, do people see your brand the way YOU want them to see it? If the answers to these questions are no, your business may lack brand alignment. Brand alignment measures how well your firm fulfills

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cold email copywriting
Business

The no B.S. Guide to cold email copywriting

I previously wrote about how I use simple, straightforward subject lines and pretargeting to achieve open rates of ~35%. Those same principles are largely applicable to writing good, customer-centric copy as well. The short version of that article was: 1. Be clear, not salesy.  There’s an art to cold email copywriting. Instead of relying on

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Build In Public

CrowdTamers 2021 Review – Building In Public

In spite of being a startup marketer for 20+ years, I’ve only been running CrowdTamers as an agency for the last 1. Before that, I was short term / fractional CMO, serving 1 – 4 clients at the same time, helping build, grow, and scale the marketing practices in their startup; I’ve used CrowdTamers as

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Testing your ad creatives with Hippoc
Build In Public

Case Study: Pre-test your ad creatives with Hippoc

Since our focus at CrowdTamers is startup go to market, we talk a lot about launching. But there’s something scary about your first launch: you’ve never shown anyone what you’re up to before and maybe you suck at it. Maybe not? How do you know? Most entrepreneurs aren’t master designers. Heck, I used to be

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Landing page mistakes that affect your conversion rates.
Branding

Landing page mistakes that kill your conversion rates

Landing pages are serious business. So, in today’s blog, let’s talk about the mistakes killing your conversion rates and how you can avoid them. Mistake 1 – Not having enough landing pages Studies show that the more landing pages businesses have, the better results. Why? Because these businesses are creating landing pages to highly specific buyer

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CONTENT IS GROWTH

I’m gonna give the key idea to CrowdTamers as a business away here as a thanks for reading this far. You can boil all good marketing down to 2 ideas: content and growth. CrowdTamers specializes in using content to discover how to build a growth engine. Sound interesting? Let’s chat!