37signals.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Follow us on Twitter for more information on our products. The unimportance of product names. Don’t waste too much time on picking a perfect name for your product. We usually decide upon a product name by seeing what the product does. Everybody knows what a product name should be. Apr 27 2010.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

The New York Times, January 2001. Finally, in December 2001, came the big reveal: Ginger was the Segway. . Complex products and decisions—rife in the B2B world—encourage us to default to our heuristic judgment. Secrecy can manufacture scarcity: timed or limited releases for physical products, exclusivity for services.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

She found her audience and her business model and focused on scaling her concept and she made it work. In 2001, I entered the publishing industry, figuring I could use the general services turnaround skills I had developed after B school in an industry in turmoil as a result of the internet and the changes.

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Brandanew

JULY 15, 2015

While the brand/ products had found organic mentions all over the Internet and who’s who media of their particular industry, the brand itself had little presence on social media or Google. Digital natives was coined as a term in 2001 by Marc Prensky. Marketing leader Michael Hyatt posted a very critical post last year- here.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I asked what the audience most needed to hear. This was an audience of mostly first-time entrepreneurs. But this mania to not miss out on the next big thing is driving some investors to pay growth-equity prices for traditional market risk (as in, they’re paying up before it is clear there is product / market fit).

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Growthink Blog

JANUARY 19, 2014

That changed in 2001, however, and GoDaddy.com quickly grew. This allows the company to offer upsells and products with recurring payment options that are relevant to what customers have already purchased. GoDaddy was created in 1997 as Jomax Technologies by Bob Parsons who had recently sold his other company, Parsons Technology Inc.,

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 7, 2023

Tiffani Bova (02:17): Well, let me answer that with a little bit of history because I think especially with an audience that our marketers right, have been doing this for a long time. You know, they don't know which products to upsell and cross-sell or what's the best for customer. Is the product and service good?

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 24, 2018

Your audience is now hooked and asking, “Why and how did they get banned?”. When Steve Jobs introduced the iPod in 2001, his hook was: “What if you could put a thousand songs in your pocket?” Steve shared something unusual and unexpected in eight seconds that grabbed his audience’s attention. This was unheard of.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 26, 2018

I dropped out of college in 2001, so this would be 17 years in. No, I think I’m still very innovation-driven when it comes to product market. Why is this thing that you’re doing more uniquely valuable to the audience? I don’t get it. 17, 18 years at Moz? Rand Fishkin: Yeah. Where do I start?”

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

They obsess over things like: Will my audience like my material? Every once in while a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything.”. Well… today we are introducing three revolutionary products of this class. All three of these ‘revolutionary’ products would be part of one device. Comedians have a tough job.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The data says otherwise) it was indicated that, according to global investment firm Cambridge Associates, the failure rate for startups has not exceeded 60 % since 2001, based on the monitoring of venture capital investments of 27,259 startups between 1990 and 2010. The product/service did not satisfy any need in the market.

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ConversionXL

MAY 8, 2017

Most product descriptions are awful. Product copy and product descriptions seems like such minor parts of a website in the grand scheme of conversion optimization , so many brands brush it off. In fact, some companies do product copy so well that it’s almost a feature of the product itself. Or worse, non-existent.

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ConversionXL

JULY 8, 2014

Back in 2001, Consumer Reports put out a study that revealed the average American was consciously exposed to roughly 247 marketing messages daily, yet only really noticed around half of them. Different techniques work better for different audiences. You know your audience best. Characteristic 5: They Have Numbers. Conclusion.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

And making sales early on when a product is not nearly what it will be one day is especially hard. My team and I have created Happster, the first product created to take employee happiness to new heights through positive psychology. After retiring in 2001, I also joined a ladies networking group, On Purpose Networking for Women (OPN).

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Hearpreneur

JULY 5, 2019

First, it had to evoke the product use case in some way. While the service launched primarily directed at the wedding industry other print products are in soon coming online. It’s the single most important takeaway from their business, and the one thing their audience will remember and cherish about them. The year was 2001.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Most product copy is awful. Product copy seems like such a minor thing in the grand scheme of conversion optimization, so many brands brush it off. But for companies doing it right, excellent product copy is a great way to sprinkle brand personality in a place that most people don’t expect it. Or worse, non-existent.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 19, 2019

words that reflected our product) and a row of ’secondary’ words that worked well as base words like stack, base, box. I came up with my business name, Kate’s Theatrics at about 9pm April 14, 2001. As a marketer who strongly believes that everything starts with the audience, I couldn’t make a name 100% about me.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Be it a pitch to investors, a company presentation, or an advertisement, if you can’t catch the attention of your audience within eight seconds, you’ve already lost. Your audience is now hooked and asking, “Why and how did they get banned?”. The goal might be to defeat a dragon, reach new customers, or build a better product.

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Was being “on-stage” an easy transition for you – are there photos of young Julia starring in her high school production of Cats? Fortune and CNN had a partnership; I first appeared to talk about an article I’d written in 2001 about the bubble bursting. How have these products become part of your toolbox?

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Up and Running

JULY 7, 2014

Starting a business isn’t just about picking an audience and targeting their desires, fears and weaknesses. Even when the weather is miserable and you have no audience. Oliver Emberton is the founder of Silktide, a successful British software company founded in 2001. Today, Dyson has a net worth of over £3 billion.

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Mike Michalowicz

OCTOBER 19, 2015

which provides consulting and training services in Accounting and productivity based software. and now schoolofbookkeeping.com is one of the leaders in the small business accounting world in online training resources offering courses on a wide range of software products. Nerd Enterprises, Inc. Nerd Enterprises, Inc.

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om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

I had been writing GigaOM (the blog) since December 2001, but in 2003, I started working on a piece for Business 2.0 In the early days, my belief was that blogs (or as I called them micro-pubs back in 2002) would grow really fast and it would allow me to aggregate large subsets of audiences around specific niches. STARTING IT UP.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

When you can proudly use your product or service and find the value in it on a daily basis, you know you’re on to something. With the recent wave of on-demand offerings from taxi cabs to mobile dry cleaning, consumers have started to rethink the way they book and buy products and services. Thanks to David Wachs, Handwrytten ! #5)

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 14, 2015

You’ve probably heard of the famous BMW campaign from 2001. For one, your target audience is different than mine. Here’s how the Huffington Post phrased it : “The skittish Scottish spinster went on to raised eyebrows and laughs, before she surprised everyone in the live audience, and at home, with her rendition of I Dreamed A Dream.”.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

For example, many e-commerce sites use automatic image sliders to display products, but study after study shows that automatic sliders tank conversions. Images feature a single product with high-resolution pictures & contrasting colors. Research your audience and the sites they visit the most. – A Case Study.

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alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

2001 ; Tullis et al., 2000-2001 , Tullis et al., Although studies of screen reading show no difference between reading from screen and from paper ( Dillon, 1992 ; Bernard, 2001 ), there could be some validity to this argument. However, this has not been borne out by recent evidence ( Bernard, 2001 , Boyarski et al.,

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 5, 2014

Fadell brings everyone together — from user-experience people to management people to algorithms people — so that there are people there who can speak to every aspect of their product from design to marketing to user experience. He has been a regular panelist on television’s Forbes on FOX since the show’s inception in 2001.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 18, 2016

Read this anecdote from UX pro Jennifer Aldrich : Jennifer Aldrich: “One day I had two users sitting right next to one another in a lab, one of them working in a 3rd party program and another working in our product. The 3rd party product displayed a giant red X, with the word ERROR in all caps and a pile of crazy script beneath it.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 9, 2013

But it also means that you need to thoroughly understand your audience and their “emotional baseline” in order to develop a strategy that hits all the right emotional notes before reaching the final call to action. Scientific proof on that in a bit). For example, let’s say you run a Tax-Relief service.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

No venue wants to be told that their product is worthless, and no customer wants to go see a show that’s unsellable,” said Robert Graff. In October of 2001, Webster, McCarthy, and Graff decided to do just that and GoldStar was born. A positive by-product of growing their business organically is founder happiness.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

The concept of scent really began in 2001 , when a Xerox Palo Alto Researcher, Dr. Ed Chi, reported that the way humans track information is not unlike the way that animals track food. Well, you have to get to know your target audience. What Is “Scent” Anyway? That is, they follow a scent. How did they arrive?

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 2, 2012

The image to the left shows the Lord Howe stick insect, Dryocecelus australis , which was presumed extinct by 1960 but found again in 2001 on Ball’s Pyramid, the remains of an old volcano that emerged from the sea 7 million years ago. Give Them What They Want: Targeting Your Audience with Blog Design – [link].

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

In fact, the open source community can learn a lot from Microsoft in terms of backward compatibility and tools for productivity. These development platforms have contributed significantly to the popularity of the products from Apple and Microsoft. Eclipse has been emulating Visual Studio for years now. March 26, 2011 at 3:52 am.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

While customers will be willing to try your product, they think two steps ahead. The role of Product Managers at Technology Companies. Do you see product managers as a hindrance to software development? Microsoft and Apple have a role of product manager as different from a program manager. 15 minutes.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 11, 2018

It’s difficult to break through the noise, especially when you’re promoting a new company or new products or services. So what can you do if you’re launching a new company or a new product or service line? Does the typical consumer want to spend time reading product labels? How can you break through the noise?

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The Startup Toolkit

JANUARY 11, 2017

The finance version of this is chasing 10% returns each year only to have something unexpected (2001, 2008, etc) happen and wipe out a life’s savings. The career version is to have a “safe” job that pays a steady salary but might suddenly disappear if something unexpected (2001, 2008, etc) happens.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Since that task can be learning about your product, figuring out if your service is right for them – it’s *kind of* important. You can use it to get people to pay attention to your product by demonstrating its benefits in a before-and-after format: You’ve seen this before. Patricia Wolfe, Brain Matters (2001).

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