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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

At the same time, the company contained its operating costs and came out of the recession stronger, bigger, and more profitable than it had been in 1999. Even less does it mean high transaction volume or revenue. Decentralization, Sadun argues, is key: “What decentralization does is match decisions with expertise.” are moot.”.

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10 Product Recommendation Techniques to Improve UX and Conversions

ConversionXL

Nowadays nearly every online shop utilizes some sort of product recommendation engine, which is no wonder, as these systems, if set up and configured properly can significantly boost revenues, CTRs, conversions, and other important metrics. This simply means revenues through recommendations / total revenues.

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Public Service Announcement For Entrepreneurs: Ignore the Dow

Feld Thoughts

In 1999, 2000, and 2001 I had a my.yahoo.com page up with a bunch of stocks, including a number of companies I was an investor in, as my home page. I’d hit refresh 5,321 times a day, generating plenty of CPM-based revenue for Yahoo. Tom Evslin had a post up this morning titled Don’t Watch The Dow! It’s just sport.

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Is it Time for You to Earn or to Learn?

Both Sides of the Table

So when the Stanford MBA, the ex senior technology developer or the former Chief Revenue Officer of a company is calling me and asking my advice on their next gig you can see why I start with “are you ready to earn or to learn?&#. It was 1999. Ventro was trading at $8 billion on sub $2 million of revenue.

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Why Content Personalization Is Not Web Personalization (and What to Do About It)

ConversionXL

In 1999, David Weinberger, a technologist and co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto , wrote, “Personalization: the automatic tailoring of sites and messages to the individuals viewing them so that we can feel that somewhere there’s a piece of software that loves us for who we are.” 3% increase in average visit duration.

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The unimportance of product names

37signals.com

Established 1999 in Chicago. I agree – this reminds me of a friend who was involved in three different IT start-ups, none of which ever turned a dime of revenue. They could be more descriptive (Highrise in particular is hard to match to its functionality), but they’re just fine as they are. Apr 27 2010. 27 Apr 10.

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The end or the beginning? Thoughts on the current startup environment

This is going to be BIG.

The difference between many of these companies and what we saw back in 1999 is that there are real revenues and revenue growth at many of these companies--and their costs are largely in people, which can always be trimmed down. Facebook is doing billions in revenues. LinkedIn has great revenue growth. stock market."