ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

The HBR study contrasts Office Depot and Staples during the 2000 recession: Office Depot cut 6% of its workforce, but it couldn’t reduce operating costs significantly. Their recommendations derive from sales and EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization) for the companies in their study: ( Image source ).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2014

IPO market showed more activity than any other first quarter since 2000, with 64 companies raising $10.6 With 103 new filings during the quarter, the rest of 2014 is on track to keep up this record pace. In the first quarter of 2014, the U.S. That is more than double the number of IPOs in the first quarter of 2013.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 27, 2019

What if there were a method—even a process—that you could apply to increase website sales? Take your website, assess it for any item on the list, make improvements, and your online sales will increase. Increasing sales online: the checklist. Wouldn’t that be swell? Well, there is. I’ve turned it into a checklist.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

They need a combination of capital and experience to separate from the rest of the pack – the low cost of starting a business means it is even more vital to become the market leader more quickly. In 1998 there were around 850 VC funds and by 2000 there were 2,300. Bottom of the sales funnel. The Funding Problem.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

Of all your hires, if you have commissioned sales people, those will give you the most problems if they’re not all given an equal chance to make their quotas and achieve their personal earnings goals. Does the rest of your team measure progress the way you are? You’ll just never create the sales momentum you need. Not really.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

We started off with Gangbusters in 2000. ” We’re looking at each other trying to get the next sale. Jack McGuinness: Our sales, our pipeline is much smoother or robust, I guess you would call it. You can never rest, that’s for sure, running a small business. And we don’t really have that anymore.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 3, 2011

Yair Goldfinger’s Dotomi sold to ValueClick for $295 million, of which $162 million are in cash and the rest will be paid in ValueClick equity. Yair Goldfinger, co-founder and CTO of Dotomi and a prominent Israeli angel investor, founded Dotomi back in 2000, following the acquisition of ICQ by AOL.

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Growthink Blog

MARCH 28, 2018

Instead, again displaying that insatiable passion for business,Wayne went on to found and grow a third business - AutoNation , which became the country’s largest auto retailer with more than 360 retail locations, 26,000 employees, and $20 billion+ in annual sales. And to delegate. Deal make always. Empower and believe in your people.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 14, 2012

What if there was a method – a process – that you could apply to (pretty much) any website to increase sales? So the way to use it is you take your website, compare it to any item on the list, make improvements, and your online sales will increase. Increasing sales online: the checklist. Wouldn’t that be swell?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

APRIL 15, 2014

My daily life consists of (a) setting the strategy and rationale of the Engineering & Innovation department, based on a mixture of vision, data, and the needs of the rest of the company, (b) participate in doing the same for the whole company, (c) hire, (d) manage the managers whose teams execute the real work. Some of it is algorithmic.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Key Takeaway: In a recent Texas Tech Survey, out of 2000 consumers, 89% of them claimed they had a business that they loved enough that they would gladly recommend — only 29% of them actually did it. 8:53] Introduce the idea of referrals in the sales process. [9:58] And certainly shortens the sales cycle. You can trust them.

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 15, 2009

The masses have grown weary of the blog “fad” just as they grew weary of the “email” fad in the late 90s, the “internet” fad in 2000, MySpace and Friendster in 2007/2008, and how they’ll grow tired of the Facebook and Twitter fads in 2010 and move on to something else. Follow me Startups for the Rest of Us.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

I rest my case. In 2000 our industry had more than $100 billion in LP money. Nothing was more heart warming than the photo of David Karp hugging Bijan Sabet after the sale to Yahoo! “Hate the industry, Love my local guy.” The industry isn’t dying. It is changing. And reinventing itself. And others will emerge.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Inbound marketing service provider HubSpot recently released its first ever State of Inbound Report for Asia – which surveyed some 400 marketing and sales professionals at virtually all levels and across all industries in Asia to compile some of the most comprehensive analysis on online marketing in this part of the world.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

O’Reilly unwittingly illustrates this point by telling the story of Sunil Paul, a friend and a successful serial entrepreneur who filed a patent on the core elements of GPS-enabled ride-hailing in 2000. Yet despite literally patenting ride-hailing in 2000, his own venture, Sidecar, lost out to the more aggressive scaling of Uber and Lyft.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 30, 2019

John, just a few years ago, my loyalty to Amazon was tested because up to that point, in Texas, they were not charging sales tax. Then they worked a deal with the state where they would be charging sales tax, which meant that all of my Amazon purchases immediately had an 8% price increase. Roger Dooley: Well you and me both.

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 10, 2008

How much would an extra $1000 or $2000 per month help during that time? He did a little of both during the rest of the time to keep himself interested, and maintain his skills in both arenas. Follow me Startups for the Rest of Us. The average U.S. If you have the gift of teaching, now is a great time to pursue it.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

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. As with any sales campaign you need to: Qualify your buyers early so you focus your scarce resources on people likely to buy your product. .

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BeyondVC

JULY 7, 2010

This was the year 2000 and the idea was that Metapa would allow any company to send any media asset over any content delivery network and our service would automatically transform the asset for viewing anywhere. What I saw in Bill and the rest of the team was how to get deals closed and the desire to do what it takes to make things happen.

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BeyondVC

JULY 7, 2010

This was the year 2000 and the idea was that Metapa would allow any company to send any media asset over any content delivery network and our service would automatically transform the asset for viewing anywhere. What I saw in Bill and the rest of the team was how to get deals closed and the desire to do what it takes to make things happen.

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Altgate

JUNE 16, 2011

extensionEngine has been developing mobile applications since the firm was founded in 2000 and in the past year we have seen explosive growth, particularly in iOS and for the iPad (but also to a lesser degree for Android devices and RIM). Read the rest of the post here. And this isn’t just theoretical for us.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Within a year, by late 2000 / early 2001 consulting firms were firing people en masse. During the down market they were able to double down on recruiting, sales, outsourcing, new market entries and marketing (yes, with Tiger ads ). Ameet said, “Don’t worry, we’ll be fine, just wait for the next downturn.&#.

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dashes.com

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

I can explain why, but if you saw what Brad Feld or Alexander Muse or Fred Wilson or Joel Spolsky or (my favorite take) Andrew Warner write about why they dont sign NDA s, you can skip the rest of this post. But moreover, thats just not how things work. Ideas are cheap. Execution is hard. kevinshay. | May 8, 2010 12:06 PM. Jay Smooth.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Later on, we’ll dive into research that shows how this type of imagery can increase your sales. Some of the leading ecommerce retailers of luxury goods such as SSENSE, and Mr Porter only have sales about twice per year. We once had a client that would have sales bi-weekly, and this created a huge issue.

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Up and Running

APRIL 19, 2011

He put the $500 in his pocket and said, “No problem, you can pay the rest in installments.”. He actually got $2000 for something he should have paid someone else to haul away. After another few seconds, it occurred to him that when she held up the two fingers, she had meant two THOUSAND dollars, not two hundred.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

The rest of his model is rather straightforward and typical. According to this NADA report , total dealership sales (including service) is about $730 billion annually. The number he uses for this TAM estimate is $100 billion. For this he settles on 10%. In my view, there is a critical error in both of these two core assumptions.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Marketing isn’t scheduling a launch and recruiting isn’t timing the start-dates of the next 50 hires in customer service and sales. We didn’t line up that press and have those sales materials and ensure code-quality high enough to scale on day one, without predictability. This means you can — and should!

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Ben's Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2010

A Two would get antsy at the thought of all the processes that might be improved, people that might be held accountable to achieving the standard, or sales calls that could be made while he was wasting time just thinking about strategy. Ideally, you’ll promote a One and the rest of the executive team will be glad you did.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Jason Bay is a leading sales expert, and he talks with other leading sales experts to get you the information you need. When, you know the record labels, who is the manufacturer of the music, they actually were putting in millions of dollars and needed that $20 return on investment for each sale. Really, really eye-opening.

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Mike Michalowicz

AUGUST 21, 2014

It means more customers, more sales, and ultimately more money. The rest of the community is watching and wants to see how you handle it. Then Ugg, in the early 2000′s, became a global phenomena… the proverbial overnight success. Every entrepreneur wants to see their business grow. And why wouldn’t you, right?

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 22, 2019

Brian Dean: I would keep those out of the rest of the interview. I mean there’s probably 2000 words on that page, but then links off to in a very logical way. I was like… John Jantsch: Genovia is a fictitious country, surely you know this, in Princess Diaries with Anne Hathaway. Great movie. Brian Dean: And Andre the Giant.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

B2B / Enterprise Sales: Salesforce. Don’t accept the excuse oh but all the sales come via phone or I convert at industry events or our buyers are old school! Charities can only market themselves so much, they have to figure out how to get the rest of us to do it for them. Let your competition be lame and play by 2000 worldviews.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 17, 2022

When, you know, the record labels, who is the manufac of the music, they actually were putting in millions of dollars and needed that $20 return on investment for each sale. We don't just make a product and get, hire a sales team and send them out there to tell the world about it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. John Jantsch (03:20): Right.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Even today, more than 20 years later , many businesses and consumers consider Word and the rest of Office absolutely essential to being able to use their Mac for business and personal use. Even worse, DVD sales were starting to lag, and a Hollywood backlash further muddied the situation.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

He blogs to 10,000 web entrepreneurs at Software by Rob and co-hosts the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us. Product Friday: Monetizing Content is a Product Problem - This is going to be BIG. August 20, 2010 They say people won't pay for content. They say that paywalls are stupid and that its just not monetizable. &#. Dec 26, 2009).

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 11, 2009

Follow me Startups for the Rest of Us. I will use whatever software is best for the job, but your article seems was wrote in 2000. As a microISV with marketing and sales to deal with, it can be discouraging to compete against college students with unlimited time. #41 Check out my book Like this post? 31 Jason Cohen on 08.11.09

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 27, 2022

Look, if you work in sales, wanna learn how to sell, and frankly who doesn't check out the salesman podcast, where host will Barron helps sales professionals learn how to find buyers and win big business ineffective and ethical ways. So about, this was like around 2000 ish, I think, or something like that. There was a, a guide.

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