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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

“Value brands can also effectively reach out to pained-but-patient consumers who previously bought higher-end brands, a strategy Wal-Mart aggressively used with its ‘everyday low prices’ policy in the 2001 recession.” The temptation, therefore, is to stop everything, to clear bandwidth for some very real and very pressing crisis management.

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The Other Amazon Deal this week. Drupal founder attracts over $100 Million in 3 months.

Scalable Startup

Drupal was launched in 2001, and Acquia started in 2007. Plus, there are tons of expenses like servers, bandwidth, office space, travel and the time of many professionals. For example, Acquia runs its Drupal infrastructure on more than 8,000 AWS instances and serves more than 27 billion hits a month (or 333TB of bandwidth).

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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.

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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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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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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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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. Because your sales videos are competing for same attention bandwidth as funny baby videos, it’s important you expand your thinking beyond sales video techniques and strive to create something memorable.

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