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TheLuxeNomad.com Pivots Business Model, Moves Away From Flash Sales

YoungUpstarts

If there’s a sure sign that shows how interest in online flash sales have waned, it’s how many daily deal sites have either deadpooled or pivoted away from that particular business model. “Initially, our main focus was on flash sales which worked well as a USP because these were deals you could not find elsewhere.

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The Difference Between Apple & Facebook ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

June 5, 2012. Facebook’s direct platform revenue accounted for about 15% of the company’s overall sales whereas Apple’s was less than 1%. Adobe has done it with Flash and PDF. Notes: This is just the estimated revenue from iPhone / iPad App Store which Apple reports lumped in with iTunes music sales.

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25 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

When we created Yeeply in 2012 we were sure IT hiring was going to be all about freelancing platforms and remote work. Phlash, the spelling, is also a unique way to spell Flash. More annoyingly, the URL’s were often owned but unused and for sale only for an egregiously high price. get the project done in a Phlash.

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Running a Successful Ecommerce Flash Sale

The Startup Magazine

In 2012, retailer J.C. Penney switched from coupon-based promotions and sales to “everyday low prices”. The decision-makers expected sales to rise, thinking customers would seek out those consistently low prices. Sales dropped 25 percent that year. Ecommerce Flash Sales: The Basics. Source: Pixabay.

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How Creating a Sense of Urgency Helped Me Increase Sales By 332%

ConversionXL

In 2012, I launched a kind of ‘Groupon deal for musicians’, where I gave away $1,250 worth of products, including recording time, iTunes distribution, and a guitar string endorsement deal for just $69 for 100 hours only. How I Increased Sales By 332% Using Scarcity & Urgency. There were only 5,000 packages available. image source.

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8 Ways to Help Your Tweets Go Viral

Up and Running

Everyone wants to have that retweetable quality that spreads across the Internet in a flash. The 30 minute Kony 2012 video has been viewed over 100 million times in 200-plus countries, garnering 3.5 Part of what made Kony 2012 so successful is that the content of the video was high-quality.

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Why Marketing Is Your Most Important System

Duct Tape Marketing

Small businesses don’t need a flash-in-the-pan big-budget marketing campaign with short term results. They need an ongoing and steady stream of incoming leads to fill the sales funnel and create predictable revenue over the long term. 3. More qualified leads that take less sales time to convert. If You Liked This Post. :