This GEM System’s Five Steps
Altura Ventures has developed a proven system that helps startups and existing businesses succeed with their Growth, Engagement, and Monetization (GEM).
step 1
Analyze Your Product Vision
- Evaluate your product positioning based on The 22 immutable Laws of Marketing.
- Complete an Elevator Pitch template for your business/product/service.
- Provide a Persuasion-based price list that can be used to shorten sales cycles and increase revenue.
- Evaluate your product positioning based on The 22 immutable Laws of Marketing.
step 2
Coach You on the Principles of Influence
- send you the Tracing Success Patterns: A Master Class in Persuasion materials.
- Complete an Elevator Pitch template for your business/product/service.
- share the 8 Essentials of a Successful Alliance and the Spectrum of Business Partnerships.
- optimize the persuasive power of your Company's pitch deck slides.
step 3
Craft a Story Where Your Customer is the Hero
- apply the StoryBrand Approach to your pitch deck, web site, and brand voice.
- position your customer as a hero with a problem (i.e., external, internal, philosophical).
- introduce your Company as the guide who understands their fear(s) and gives them a plan.
- push adoption of the plan with a call to action that offers success if it is heeded and failure if not.
step 4
Persuade Investors to Fund Your Company
- give you the "How to Demo" tips and Explain Why Your demo Needs to be a "WOW" Moment.
- provide a phased fundraising chart and the instructions for how to use it.
- Help you Identify Strategic Partners and Folks in your Circle of Trust Who will Want to Fund You
- Teach you How To manage investor presentations using Techniques designed to get to Yes.
step 5
Grow, Engage, and Monetize Your Customer Base
- share the Wally Video to show the importance of working "on not in" your business.
- design ways to use persuasion techniques to acquire, retain, and engage customers.
- develop a marketing strategy and advertising approach that fits your budget.
- create a data analytics model to measure and help optimize your customer acquisition cost.