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Pricing determines your business

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

It’s often said that you shouldn’t talk about price during customer development interviews. Consider the consequences of these monthly pricing possibilities: $0/mo means your goal is to maximize growth (trust and usage) instead of revenue. simple enough to be self-service). Again, like shared hosting companies.)

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How to Radically Stand Out with Brand Marketing

ConversionXL

Jeff Bezos’s private space technology company Blue Origin was founded back in 2000. In this article, you’ll understand how to build a memorable brand that your customers want to buy from. And yet, revenue went up by 45% YoY. Why should customers choose to do business with you? Understanding what your customers crave.

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Beyond Lead Gen: How To Optimize B2B Sales Enablement

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We often talk about online conversion optimization without mentioning that many businesses, especially B2B, rely on offline sales to produce revenue. Sales enablement is the act of enabling salespeople to help them close more deals/bring in more revenue/hit their quota. Lead conversion to customers. Image Source.

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Scaling Sales: From Craft to Machine

Seeing Both Sides

Before this occurs, the sales process is a craft or an art - custom-made by the founder or evangelist sales VP. You dive deep into a customer development process, working closely with a few customers who feed you requirements and are willing to trial an imperfect product that is evolving quickly. I''ll discuss each one below.

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: TripAdvisor

Seeing Both Sides

Last week, I wrote about Akamai , a company with strong network effects that successfully transitioned from a single product to build a platform that garners over a billion dollars in revenue and is now a core part of the Internet’s fabric. Big Data meets travel…in 2000. Going B2C was daunting and not in our core DNA,” Kaufer remarked.

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8 strategic hacks for building marketplace liquidity

The Next Web

By the end, 99 percent of the B2B marketplaces had cratered and only B2C eBay was left standing and thriving. it’s really a software business, not liquidity driven) and that B2C marketplaces could not be built under the giant momentum of eBay’s “ network effect. Investment stopped, and entrepreneurs focused on other categories.

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How to Come Up with More Winning Tests Using Data

ConversionXL

Even if we sell the same products to the same demographic, many things can be different – traffic sources, relationship with the audience, customer support etc. B2B and B2C. Customize it and improve however you see fit. A rough ballpark would be 2000-3000 pageviews per design screen. Customer surveys.