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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

Although the company created an incentive plan to boost sales, its sales growth fell from 19% before the recession to 8% after—five percentage points below Staples’ postrecession sales growth rate. A 2 minute iPhone video from your CEO would have such a bigger impact than a highly manicured campaign or corporate sounding email.

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10 Product Recommendation Techniques to Improve UX and Conversions

ConversionXL

It is important to note, that alongside the actual recommender performance, lots of external factors play into these metrics as well, such as widget location, general page layout, seasonal/campaign-related factors, etc. The Difference Between Recommendations and Personalization. I believe, their results speak for themselves.

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The unimportance of product names

37signals.com

Established 1999 in Chicago. They could be more descriptive (Highrise in particular is hard to match to its functionality), but they’re just fine as they are. Doesn’t seem to have hurt sales though! Salon has an article about naming companies, from 1999: The name game. Jobs: See more on our Job Board.

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How to Develop Your Fund Raising Strategy

Both Sides of the Table

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. Fund raising (as is much of life) is a sale – pure and simple. The sooner you understand that the sooner you can plan your campaign. Three rules in sales: Why buy anything? ” (Zig Ziglar). Why buy me?

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Smells Like Money: The Business of Waste Management

Up and Running

The salesperson who built the relationship with you in the beginning would make the sale, and then pass you off to a retention manager, and it was easy to slip through the cracks or simply become a monthly paycheck. In 1999, he and a business partner launched Sunshine Recycling Inc. ,

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Transcript And MP3 Of My $180,000 Website Flipping Presentation

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

In fact, my first website I can’t show you, because I don’t think we have internet access, but I had a Geocities website in 1999 for a card game I used to play called Magic the Gathering. Open, and that match there is Roger Federer and he won that tournament that year. The biggest deal I’ve ever done was a sale of a $100,000 website.

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On Going Public: SPACs, Direct Listings, Public Offerings, and Access to Private Markets

Ben's Blog

The auction process continues until a sufficient number of orders are “matched” – buyers and sellers are willing to transact at an agreed-upon price and volume to open the stock. Second, by better matching supply and demand, direct listings have generally mitigated the magnitude of IPO Pops, thus engendering better overall price discovery.

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