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Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth

Gabriel Weinberg and Justin Mares

Business & Strategy
Publish date
2014
Publisher
S-curves Publishing
Description
Traction provides a structured framework designed to help early-stage companies acquire customers and scale their businesses. Authors Gabriel Weinberg and Justin Mares categorize nineteen potential marketing channels and introduce the Bullseye method to systematically test and identify the most effective options. A central premise is that businesses should divide their resources equally between product development and traction efforts rather than treating marketing as an afterthought. This book is aimed at entrepreneurs, startup founders, and marketers seeking an objective, empirical process for customer acquisition.
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  3. Crossing the Chasm

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    Informs the book's sections on leveraging search, content, and social media to attract inbound leads.

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