Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Over the years, despite massive losses, Netflix was able to bounce back and improve its revenue by 47%. Eventually, Reddit became wildly popular and was bought by Condé Nast, the owner of 20 other brands and media like Vanity Fair, Vogue, and The New Yorker. WhatsApp became one of the most popular apps for social media by 2014.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 4, 2022

And that was, you know, 2004, 2005 was, I was realizing that it was no longer about working harder. I mean, you've got people, chiefs, happiness, chiefs, revenue chiefs, you know, I mean, so where, you know, how does the COO or second in command orient themselves then in, in that world? So now it's the chief revenue officer, right.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 11, 2017

When I first started my web design agency in 2004, I was living on the water on Treasure Island, a beach community in Florida. As a Virtual Assistant (VA) my mission is to help my clients tackle their admin office “paper tigers” so they can focus on the fun and revenue-generating parts of their business! Photo Credit: Andi Graham.

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Mike Michalowicz

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Buzz, as most call him, has simplified digital marketing success with The Rule of 26 and is on a mission to double the website revenue of service-centric businesses across America. My wife Mirta, a professional chef from Paraguay, and I started the business in 2004. Contact him at buzz@bbsalaska.com or 423-377-0723. 20+ books sold.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

If you don’t know Montgomery & Co it is one of the premier technology & media focused investment banks in the country (and as Michael corrected me they also have a strong Healthcare / Med tech practice). Company generates revenue via premium accounts, targeted ads and transaction commission. Revenue of ~$160mm in 2008.

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BeyondVC

AUGUST 27, 2007

Congratulations to Fotolog for their pending sale to French company Hi-Media for $90mm. It was John who also first introduced me to the company in July of 2004 when I decided to participate in their angel round. The post Congrats to Fotolog on $90mm sale to Hi-Media appeared first on BeyondVC.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Never missing an opportunity for a good war story, I’d like to revisit one high-profile transaction, the $650 million acquisition of MySpace by Fox Interactive Media in 2005, on which I spent many sleepless nights along with the rest of the deal team. Redpoint, led by Geoff Yang , invested $11.5

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Founded : Spring 2004, incorporated July 2004. How They Make Money : Facebook’s primary revenue stream is of course selling advertising on Facebook.com, which in total accounts for 85% of revenue. Financial Snapshot : 2011 Revenue: $3.71 2011 YoY Revenue Growth: 88%. 2011 YoY Revenue Growth: 88%.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 7, 2020

The first shows were created in late 2003, and the term itself was coined in 2004 by combining “iPod” with “broadcasting.”. I’m a strong believer in not jumping into a technology, channel, or media format just because everyone else is doing it. Advertising and sponsorship revenue can cover costs, if not create a livable wage.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 28, 2011

Convergent streams The most effective marketing strategy not only focuses on a core market and differentiators, it also finds ways to build multiple streams of recurring revenue.

Marketing 65

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2011

Jason Falls Jason Falls is a social media strategist, thinker, speaker and educator. Social Media Explorer is also the name of Falls’s consulting company which focuses on strategic counsel for medium and large companies in the realm of social media marketing, digital marketing, online communications and public relations.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 13, 2011

Blocked revenue One of the best ways to build a business that has marketable value is to develop multiple streams of residual income that a potential business buyer can view as a valuable asset. Of course, the flip side is true as well–audiences have become pleasantly surprised when they actually get value from time spent reading or viewing.

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Agile VC

MARCH 8, 2012

The secondary wave of VC-backed IPOs has also come to fruition… both consumer facing (Yelp, Demand Media, Pandora, Carbonite, HomeAway, Angie’s List, et al) and B2B (Jive Software, Brightcove, Imperva, Responsys, etc). As of this week, here’s a sample of multiples: LinkedIn – 16x+ trailing revenue.

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

Sprout Social research shows that when a CEO has an active presence on social media, 70% of consumers feel more connected to that brand. Since co-founding Moz in 2004, Rand has continually put himself out there as a public face. Of those, 72% say they directly impact pipeline and revenue. Take SparkToro founder Rand Fishkin.

Demand 115

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 7, 2011

It is created because we see a gap in the market or an opportunity for potential revenue creation. Facebook was born in 2004 alongside perhaps the big surge in Online Marketing. When I first started doing a little Social Media Marketing I had no idea what the client would really expect. It’s a natural process, or ‘life cycle’.

Internet 77

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 19, 2011

What would happen if you focused on the 20% of your customers responsible for 80% of your revenue? were the buzzwords of the original digital and more recent social media waves, then advocacy is going to be the next wave that crests and breaks on the shores of marketing engagement and innovation. Would they pay it forward in return?

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 9, 2018

The PCI DSS has existed since 2004 and is designed to secure debit and credit transactions against the threat of cyber-fraud and data breaches, employing a range of measures to do so. There is no better way to drive additional revenue from an e-commerce website than impulse buys. User-generated content. Related items functionality.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 13, 2020

Our business is based on content marketing and digital media, which has allowed for our success to flourish. A few months later, I went on a five-day social media detox, which I had (ironically) discovered online. In 2004 I was a part-time flight attendant with a 10-year-old son living in Los Angeles. That’s right.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 30, 2015

After taking another year to build a second email marketing startup (with Anvil running in the background), I finally decided it was time for me to commit to building my own team and Anvil grew in earnest in 2004. Thanks to Kent Lewis, Anvil Media. #4 This was, instead, monthly recurring revenue and a real product.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 7, 2022

So a lot of agencies track revenue, some actually even track profit, but you, if we're gonna optimize, um, profitability, what, what should we be measuring? This is what companies like media monks for example are doing. John Jantsch (22:27): The, my longest running client, uh, has been a client since 2004.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

Silicon Valley and the media industry that surrounds it values youth. It has historically been the case that VCs would rather fund the promise of 100x in a company with almost no revenue than the reality of a company growing at 50% but doing $20+ million in sales. This “overnight success” was first financed in 2004.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2017

Once I knew I definitely wanted to start a fashion boutique, I started talking about it to people and on social media platforms like Facebook, so people could hold me accountable. I then branched into social media, blogging, and media relations. I started my business back in 2004 when I wanted to escape the corporate rat race.

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BeyondVC

JULY 5, 2004

For those of you that don’t know, Jamdat is a provider of global wireless entertainment applications and enabling technologies that support multiple wireless platforms to wireless carriers, handset manufacturers, media companies, and independent content developers.

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IPO Mobile Distribution Revenue 60

Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

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. Expedia grew to account for roughly one third of the company’s revenues. Think about that.

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Gust

MAY 24, 2012

This is nothing new; long favored by family-controlled media empires such as Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation , among Internet firms alone, Google took a dual-class approach when going public in 2004.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Around 2003, Quigo was doing tens of millions of dollars in revenue with two main products: a ready-to-use, search engine marketing solution for advertisers called FeedPoint and a contextual advertising platform for publishers called AdSonar. Mike passed up an offer from Ross Levinsohn of Fox Interactive Media ( around $175 Million ).

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

They’ve worked with a few small companies like Zynga, Playdom, GroupOn and TopSpin Media. What is the mix of revenue between ads, subscriptions, digital downloads & ecommerce. My favorite quote of the show, “Gregg, what’s the mix of revenue types?&# JibJab doesn’t do ad revenue at all.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

billion in annual subscription revenues not including advertising or eCommerce). It had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users, which actually was slightly smaller in December 2007 then MySpace was. AOL is in the process of rebuilding itself and emulating a little-known LA-based startup called Demand Media.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

World Featured in US & World Featured: Facebook iPhone 4S Media Summit. He founded SKYLIST in 1996 from his college dorm room at Carnegie Mellon, and created UnsubCentral in 2004. Include screenshots of your product , a video walk-through and one or two charts that display traction or revenue. Latest Social Media News.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

And you know what – this was mostly in 2012 (+ Moneyball came out in 2004). So yes – companies spend ALL that money to get traffic to their site via SEO, PPC, social media and what not. Higher revenue / conversions are more important than boss’s wife liking the sliders. So this is the past.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

In 2004 I began blogging. Adding Ad Revenue. I hired those writers, the traffic increased, I started getting more revenue from advertising, and the income increased to about $1,500 per month as a result of that. We increased the revenue. I’ll talk about that later, because it has to do with one of the website deals I did.

Technical Review 76

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 18, 2010

The only thing that seemed to be consistent about my growth was that my revenue was relatively flat while my user base kept growing. This turned out to be a good move since it doubled their revenue that month. He has a great stats page that shows everything from monthly revenue to the breakdown of users by plan type.

Software Review 78

Software Review Software Revenue Cofounder 78

ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Founded in 2015, revenue intelligence startup Gong is now valued at $7.25 They’ve grown to attract big-name clients like LinkedIn, PayPal, and Shopify, mostly through social media channels rather than organic search. Why social media is one of the best approaches to building your brand.

Social Media 145

Social Media Audience Media Marketing 145

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

spent $20 million to get back to the same revenue that I had when I was CEO. created a vastly higher cost structure; I had 80 people mostly on base salaries under $100,000 and was bringing in revenue at the rate of $20 million annually. .”). Company: Wolff New Media. During this year they. Bottom line – We are data guys.

Software Review 79

Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2011

Shama is a bestselling author with her book - The Zen of Social Media Marketing: An Easier Way to Build Credibility, Generate Buzz, and Increase Revenue. 3) Leverage people as the media. Also known as social media. Award winning CEO of The Marketing Zen Group – a global digital marketing firm.

Web 31

Web Social Media Small Business Matching 31

online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Media & Marketing. Media Agencies. His findings are based on data from more than 2,000 companies that received venture funding, generally at least $1 million, from 2004 through 2010. Mr. Dreymann moved his family from Israel in 2004 after co-founding Goodmail in Mountain View, Calif., Management. Small Business.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

Despite the ongoing recession, I took to my kitchen table in 2013 to launch Digital Air Strike — an award-winning automotive social media and digital engagement company. Many online jewellery stores are bricks-and-mortar stores supplementing revenues that don’t aligning to the tech-savvy consumer who want responsive technologies.

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