ConversionXL

AUGUST 24, 2015

But how can we use it to retain more customers? Why Gamify Customer Retention? We borrow the mechanics of traditional games and apply them to uncommon concepts, like customer retention. Acquiring new customers is expensive. So, reducing customer churn can greatly impact your company’s financial health.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 23, 2012

And the same thing happened after we sold IT WatchDogs in 2005. But all that investment in growth and sales force didn’t have a long-term payback, and the actual value of the product to small businesses wasn’t as high as claimed, even though the simplest of customer development reveals this fact (ask any restauranteur).

IPO 240

IPO Flash Bootstrapping Private Equity 240

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

No matter who occupies the White House, entrepreneurial small business owners will have to rely on who we’ve always relied on to be successful: ourselves, our employees, and our customers. We started the Barefoot Wine brand in our laundry room in 1986, made it a nationwide bestseller, and successfully sold the brand to E&J Gallo in 2005.

Small Business 210

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 15, 2022

And I think as we talk just a little bit, as we got started, you started in 2005. You need to connect with customers on a human level, make boatloads of sales and grow with Gusto. Matter of fact, my sponsor GoDaddy, which I've had since 2005, it's remarkable. So Todd, welcome to the show. So you're right there with me.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 5, 2015

The four that are most relevant in my mind are product, technology, customers, and people. The earliest use of the phrase I could find was in 2005 in Rex Hammond’s post Google acquires(?) But it’s clearly an acquisition of the people, not of the product, technology, and customers of the company being acquired.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 19, 2011

His latest book, “ Flip the Funnel: How to use existing customers to gain new ones ,” presents a powerful hypothesis that retention can become the new acquisition through the strategic incorporation and elevation of customer service, customer experience and customer initiated word-of-mouth, content creation and incentive-based referrals.

Small Business 53

Small Business Marketing Social Media Cofounder 53

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

We learned early on that our growth and success depended on our employees: how hard they worked, the ideas they had, how committed they were when times got tough, the types of relationships they formed with customers, and so much more. And production is what you really want, because that’s where profits come from.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 19, 2011

His latest book, “ Flip the Funnel: How to use existing customers to gain new ones ,” presents a powerful hypothesis that retention can become the new acquisition through the strategic incorporation and elevation of customer service, customer experience and customer initiated word-of-mouth, content creation and incentive-based referrals.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 30, 2018

But it’s also essential— 89 percent of customers stop doing business with a company after a bad experience. The key is to connect user research to an improved user experience and, in turn, an increase in customer retention, leads, or any other metric for which C-suite members are accountable. You’ll need to do something custom.

Design 111

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Up and Running

JUNE 3, 2014

Keith’s former employer had gotten big enough that they had started losing touch with their customers. The salesperson who built the relationship with you in the beginning would make the sale, and then pass you off to a retention manager, and it was easy to slip through the cracks or simply become a monthly paycheck.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

He listed all of the product releases that were up coming, the customers that were in the pipeline and where he saw his competition moving. When you account for competition for talent, the difficulty of retention, the cost of living and the difficulty of rising above the noise – there are many advantages of staying put.

Seattle 317

Seattle Silicon Valley Technical Review Los Angeles 317

BeyondVC

APRIL 12, 2006

The acquisition price of $350mm is pretty sweet validation for the open source model considering that the multiples are about 20x trailing revenue ($20mm estimated revenue in 2005) and 6-7x forward ($50-60mm estimate for 2006). And on top of that the company only raised $10mm which means it was incredibly capital efficient.

Open Source 60

Open Source Architecture Retention Revenue 60

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

You (think) you have product-market fit with real customers and real revenue and need money to grow and expand. What was a Series A round in 2005 is now a pre-seed or seed round. Better answer, “Because I’m the customer.”) But great product and eager customers are just part of what makes a great business. Business Model.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 10, 2018

As I started talking to people who were in healthcare organizations, patient care and retention came up over and over. Everyday I am proud of the work our team does and of the success our customers have had making the change. I knew that I could help with those issues with what I knew about marketing. 9- Out of Necessity.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

In the United States alone, the number of remote workers increased 115% in the decade spanning 2005 to 2015, and the trend shows no sign of slowing. Here are just a few reasons why: – It’s great for recruiting and retention. Even before the sudden shifts caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, remote work was increasing in popularity.

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United States India Retention Internet 186

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Since the launch of the original launch of Google Analytics in 2005, Google has rolled out 4 iterations of the most widely used analytics platforms on the web. GA1 : Urchin, 2005. GA4 offers a host of new features for marketers, including many that were previously available only to GA360 customers. GA2 : Classic, 2008.

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Analytics Web Mobile Video 117

YoungUpstarts

MAY 31, 2017

The numbers are also there to support this theory, according to the Pew research center, social media use among Americans have risen from 5% in 2005 to 69% in 2016. Ability to Extensively Customize Individual Profiles. It seems the more ability users have to customize their social media pages the happier they are.

Social Media 162

Social Media Media Mobile SMS 162

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

If you want to serve enterprise customers,NET is one of the best ways to do that and do it well. The tools which you find restrictive I consider a huge timesaver (which paying customers tend to appreciate)… they allow me to rapidly prototype and get solutions to customers. lorf: NET supports JAVA.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

So, we actually took the original live customer application, converting their live video dating application. EB : Honestly, I wasn't even aware of Silicon Valley or this whole concept of startups and tech companies until 2005. My answer's really it isn't, that is, since 2005, a lot has changed. ER : I remember Speed Date.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Hundreds of startups featured since 2005, will yours be next? Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Customer service. Google Custom Search Engine. Customer Relationship Management. great web customer acquisition tutorials. Seed Startups. Updated Business tools for Startups. Codeacademy. Steve Blank.

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