Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Podcasts are and will continue to be an amazing marketing tool that gives you a way to build a community and gives you a platform to advertise your products and services. 07:05): And then that's way more, you know, way more profitable for you if that's your goal than just trying to, you know, fight for advertisers.

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Software By Rob

MARCH 26, 2015

I started embracing it as a framework on my podcast around 2010, and in 2013 I gave it a name. Recurring revenue is the holy grail for bootstrappers, as we’ll discuss later in this post, but it can also be a major obstacle to making a sale. He quit his job last month by stacking their combined revenue into a full-time income.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Shamir Optical reported revenues of $142 million in 2009, generated mainly in Europe and the United States, and has about 1,400 employees. In 2008, the company, which employs about 30,000 worldwide, reported revenues of $28.8 STANLEY FISCHER NAMED WORLD’S TOP BANK GOVERNOR FOR 2010. In 2009 it boasted revenue of $4.49

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

If you can name drop big customers, do that too — you want your profile to look impressive. Include screenshots of your product , a video walk-through and one or two charts that display traction or revenue. Advertising. Founded in 2005, Mashable is headquartered in New York City with an office in San Francisco.

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mashable.com

MAY 24, 2011

Mobile commerce revenues may still pale in comparison to their ecommerce brothers, but we’re already seeing signs of mobile commerce’s potential. While commercial software houses have the luxury of targeting a specific platform for a revenue-generating commercial app, business developers have to satisfy business requirements.

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Software By Rob

MARCH 26, 2015

I started embracing it as a framework on my podcast around 2010, and in 2013 I gave it a name. Recurring revenue is the holy grail for bootstrappers, as we’ll discuss later in this essay, but it also makes your business more complex if you try to launch a stand-alone product that you have to not only build, but market on your own.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 24, 2022

Facebook’s name change to Meta in October 2021was a strong statement: Facebook will become a fully focused on the metaverse within 5 years. I invite you to read my previous posts: “ Investing in the pillars of the Metaverse ” and “ The top 10 companies investing billions in the Metaverse “ Great expectations.

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Software By Rob

MARCH 26, 2015

I started embracing it as a framework on my podcast around 2010, and in 2013 I gave it a name. Recurring revenue is the holy grail for bootstrappers, as we’ll discuss later in this post, but it can also be a major obstacle to making a sale. He quit his job last month by stacking their combined revenue into a full-time income.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Direct Revenue, meaning no three-way business models and no advertising, media, or content. That company merged with another company in Boston and grew to about 80 people and was acquired in 2005. MK : I chose the name K9 for two reasons. New Technology or New Market, meaning no “me too” ideas.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

It’s a dating website that is free for users and makes money from advertising. But did you know that founder Markus Frind has just 3 employees for his $10MM+ revenue business? The servers are in the cloud, his advertising sales is with Google, etc. Advertising. He basically outsources everything. PR/Marketing.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

All of you people who haven’t seen my blog, please remember my name or that website address. I changed the name, by the way, to MTGParadise.com. Adding Ad Revenue. I began placing advertisements on the website. Would you be interested in advertising on my website?” and I got a handful of advertisers who said yes.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

In an over-funding environment companies are encouraged to eschew revenues in a land grab to acquire eyeballs, clicks, page views or whatever other vanity metrics give VCs the false comfort that they’re sitting on a gold mine. LP contributions to VC firms shrunk from 2000 and by 2005-2008 had stabilized to around $30 billion per year.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

This has lead to priceless insight and complementary revenue sources within our target markets. Is all of your revenue coming from a single source? Revenue from these income streams starts from intro offers of $35 and can go up to $15,000. Some examples include Kajabi (that is what we use), Teachable, and Udemy, to name a few!

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om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

By 2005, it became clear that more people were reading GigaOm than they were reading my then employer, Business 2.0. The niche audiences were slower to develop, and advertising support never really showed up. I found it hard to deal with advertising related stuff. Name (required). It caused unwanted anxiety all around.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Something that really helps with that is when you take the extra steps to brand your videos with polished and professional elements, such as a logo intro, some snazzy titles, your name and company information in the bottom portion of your video, and a closing segment with information on how to contact you.

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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. The deal ends this Saturday April 30. Note: There have been some updates since I published th. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. : 5 Steps to Successful Fac.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

March 2005 (This essay is derived from a talk at the Harvard ComputerSociety.) If you work your way down the Forbes 400 making an x next to the name of each person with an MBA, youll learn something importantabout business school. As if to emphasize the point, Google never did any advertising. Want to start a startup?

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2011

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. SocialMediaExplorer.com is owned, co-authored and edited by Jason. All rights reserved.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

At crowdSPRING we talk a great deal about how we can leverage our limited marketing resources to drive traffic and revenues and build strong community. In 2005 the band released their 2nd album of songs, “ Oh No ,&# which included the single “ Here It Goes Again.&#

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Designmantic Blog

MARCH 6, 2018

It is apparent that the United States has the highest performing entrepreneurship, but what is truly amazing is how women contribute the biggest growth in revenue, employment and financial efficiency. Tamara’s name is synonymous with technology and marketing. Background Image: Unsplash/Rawpixel. Quite the interesting feat ladies!

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thenextweb.com

AUGUST 6, 2012

Seven long years ago, in 2005, Paul Graham had dinner with a bunch of college kids. While not every startup born in that experiment back in 2005 is still going today, their founders have arguably all found success. The Next Web. TNW Conference. Were hiring. Part of The Next Web family. Twitter Now Available In Basque, Czech and Greek.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

By generating a steady revenue from consulting projects and sales, the founders were able to spend time growing their business slowly. Instead of spending tons on advertising, the site got noticed when bloggers started sharing the site with their communities. How’d they do it? Startup #5: FastSpring. How’d they do it? How’d they do it?

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Update: Part 2: Finding Your Co-Founders CrunchBase Information Seth Sternberg meebo Information provided by CrunchBase Tweet Next Post Previous Post Advertisement Now Commented Facebook Goodbye, MacBook Pro. WOW, I hate the name. Alternatively, follow me on Twitter ( @sethjs ) where I’ll mention when I put up a new post.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 24, 2015

In addition, there was a 29% increase in revenue per trial, meaning that shoppers were purchasing more expensive products or several software licenses. Before 2005, Subway gave customers a free meal after they would collect stamps on a paper-made card. If not, you may risk losing revenue over lackluster customer retention practices.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

Companies with less than $2 million in revenue were asking for $50-60 million valuations and getting them. US TV advertising is $60 billion in its own right. Companies raised too much money in 2005-08 and had high burn rates. I can’t say his name yet because he hasn’t announced funding. tl;dr summary.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 19, 2010

First presented at an eMetrics summit in 2005 the 10/90 rule was borne out of my observations of why most companies fail miserably at web analytics. Only a plea to obsessively obsess about measuring outcomes and compute economic value, not just revenue. And it does not matter if they use a large brand name Agency.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

billion and revenues likely exceeding $250 million (Wikipedia lists 2015 revenue at $167 million). I began asking around who the smartest people in the online media industry were and two names came up again and again — Jonah Peretti (social & viral content) and Ze Frank (social video). Back then there were “email forwards.”

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