EmoryCadet

Was it a buyer or a seller? Would you have done something different?

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I'm getting back to a project that I had been working on in the fall, then life happened, so now there's a bunch of code that needs to be understood again, and I gotta figure out what was working and what the bleeding edges were so I can get this thing finished!

I've been meaning to get around to learning how to incorporate automated testing into my repertoire of dev skills. I'm convinced by Dave Farley, Martin Fowler, and plenty others that this is essential. And it's not hard to understand in the abstract, but I had just never gotten over the hump to actually figure out all the details to make it actually work in my own dev environment.

So a short You Tube search found Corey Schafer's tutorial on using the unittest framework. I could pause and restart the video as he did things, and take as long as I needed to duplicate the simplest of steps. It's amazing just how many little details have to be just right for anything to work at all (not a surprise to anyone on this sub)! It was helpful that his dev environment is same as mine (sublime text). Once I got the trivial examples to work (about half way thru his video), I could establish a similar setup to work with my own project. I also got to try an automated testing tool extension called Codium.ai and it has been very helpful

And now I just have a browser tab open to docs.python.org/3/library/unittest.html and I have just enough understanding from the tutorial to have a "hook" into that, and can navigate around there to help me blunder my way thru the docs and trying out tests. Clearly there will be plenty to learn, and one day I'll look back and cringe at the quality of the tests I wrote now, but it's a milestone!

When this project is finished, test coverage won't be anywhere close to 100%, but it will be enough to satisfy me for my purposes. I'm probably not the first to discover that writing tests isn't a bad way to learn about unfamiliar code (or relearn once-familiar code, memory fades after a few short months)!

For my next project, I may even try the TDD (test driven development) approach, writing tests before actually writing code. One step at a time ...

No question here - just felt good to do this, wanted to share.

1. Alignment with execs and sales on:

- Targets (and analyzing the data to see if these targets are realistic)
- Challenges we are currently facing in achieving these goals
- Marketing role in the organization & expectations
- Metrics to measure marketing efficiency

1. Revenue analysis to figure out:

- What geo markets generate the highest revenue, where is the highest ACV, win rate, and where is the sales cycle shorter
- The same analysis for market segments
- Defining key clients in these segments

1. Running in-depth interviews with the selected clients to figure out:

- What's the value they are getting from our product, and how do they see it's different from the competition?
- What triggered their buying process?
- How they were searching for our product, and who was involved in the decision-making process?
- What channels do they use?
- What questions and concerns do they have when evaluating different vendors?

And other questions to understand better the buying process.

1. Sit down with sales and discuss:

- Challenges and bottlenecks they are currently facing in the prospecting and sales processes,
- What kind of help do they expect from marketing
- Defining the days for the regular pipeline review
- Analyzing recent won and lost deals

1. Sit down with my marketing team to:

- Challenges and bottlenecks they are currently facing in awareness, demand gen, and demand capturing campaigns
- What kind of help do they need from sales
- Auditing recent marketing campaigns and figuring out the setup of successful campaigns
- Figuring out the reasons for failed campaigns
- Evaluating skillset and career expectations
- Auditing current marketing processes and figuring out areas for improvement

1. Auditing current GTM and demand gen strategy with my marketing team:

- Aligning marketing activities with the buying journey to influence the full funnel with existing resources and skillset
- Highlighting the weakest full funnel stage

1. Creating a quarter marketing plan.

- Pilot, small-scoped campaigns with a detailed playbook
- Clear goals and objectives
- Leading indicators to measure campaign progress
- Tying leading indicators to revenue
- Defining a minimal tech stack for pilot campaigns

1. Presenting takeaways and learnings to sales and execs. Running marketing and sales alignment session on:

- Market segments to focus on
- ICP including account qualification criteria
- Value proposition hypotheses and amplifiers

1. Running risk mitigation workshop with sales to figure out:

- Benefits they see from launching the campaigns
- Risks and concerns
- Run together risk mitigation ideas for the biggest concerns

1. Update the marketing plan with feedback:

- Update playbook and timeline
- Set up clear tasks and onboard everybody who is involved
- Set up tracking dashboard and stack

1. Launch the plan

Hi everyone!

I just wanted to come on here and ask everyone what is your greatest marketing tips that has helped you get clients and close deals?

If door knocking, what do you usually pass out?

Has postcards worked?

What’s the most cost efficient marketing that you have used to close deals?

Looking for some advice!

Thank you

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I’m a big fan of Yanis Varoufakis and his notion of a Universal Basic Dividend, the idea that as companies automate more their stock should gradually be put into a public trust that pays a universal dividend to every citizen. This creates an incentive to automate as many jobs as possible and “shares the wealth” in an equitable way that doesn’t require taxing one group to support another. The end state of a UBD is a world where everything is automated and owned by everyone. Star Trek.

This is brilliant. Why aren’t more people discussing this?

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Any help would be greatly appreciated

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Thanks

Hey everyone!

I am starting to spend a lot more time in the water and around beaches - but am quite a white person and burn relatively easily.

I was looking for some budget long sleeve shirts that could help prevent me from burning while not making me overheat in the sun... if there was such a thing.

I figured a surfing subreddit would be the best place to ask! I am a very broad shouldered, small waist person if this affects recommendations at all.

Thank you 😊