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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

Yet in expansionary periods, successful leaders spent significantly less on [selling, general, and administrative costs] than did their former peers. A focus on cost cutting—every decision is viewed through a loss-minimization lens. As the authors found, “Firms that cut costs faster and deeper than rivals don’t necessarily flourish.

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Bubble Trouble? I Don’t Think So

Ben's Blog

To find out whether or not today’s public technology companies have hit bubble valuations, let’s compare some companies that survived the great bubble with their bubble era valuations: The Enterprise Value-to-Revenue multiple (EV/Rev) and Price-to-Earnings multiple (PE) are commonly used metrics to tell the valuation:value story. Much better.

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Choosing The Right Digital Management System: 5 Sneaky Ways Some Providers Hold Your Data Hostage

YoungUpstarts

Knowing how to take ownership of your data is the first step to properly leveraging it to grow revenue and build your brand. Some platforms throttle the amount of bandwidth they’ll allow to customers that may want to leave their service, forcing a slow, painful migration that can run on for weeks or months. Always check the fine print.

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Evolution of a Founder: Lessons I have learned

om.co

I had been writing GigaOM (the blog) since December 2001, but in 2003, I started working on a piece for Business 2.0 called The Rise of a Insta-Company, which theorized that open source, cheap bandwidth and increasingly falling cost of infrastructure would result in companies being built at a dramatically lower cost than ever before.

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Transcript of Spotting Inflection Points in Your Industry

Duct Tape Marketing

That was a huge revenue. We forget, we think this is ancient history, it was 2001, I mean it wasn’t that long ago. Firstly was ensure a more stable revenue stream so that you weren’t depending on people making an discretionary purchase. In fact, we used to run a lot of classified ads for certain things.

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Is Emotion Necessary To Make More Sales?

ConversionXL

See, Mailchimp had already been around since 2001 and it took them from 7 years to reach their first 10,000 customers. This copy is perfect for a buyer that values appearance more than cost or comfort. million customers total) in 2012. Also notice there’s no mention of how comfortable or long lasting the shoes are?

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