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Twitter Link Roundup #117 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

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Online Ad Spending to Surpass Print for First Time in 2012 - [link]. Mobile-Ad Spending Projected to Reach $2.61B in 2012 - [link]. Why Startups Shouldn’t Hire PR Firms – [link]. Why You Ought to Throw Away Your Vanity Metrics for These 5 Customer Metrics – [link]. Lost Out on iPhone Work - [link].

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Twitter Link Roundup #162 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

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The 6 Marketing Metrics Your CEO Actually Cares About [Cheat Sheet] | Hubspot Blog - [link]. The 6 Marketing Metrics Your CEO Actually Cares About [Cheat Sheet] | Hubspot Blog - [link]. Top 50 Photoshop Tutorials from 2012 | Speckyboy – [link]. The Absolute Best Fonts of 2012 | Creative Beacon – [link].

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Cracking The Code: SaaS business metrics: why are they different?

Cracking the Code

SaaS business metrics: why are they different? Different models require different performance metrics. developed a white paper on performance metrics for Technology service Vendors (TSV) and this post present the key elements of his reflexion adapted for SaaS companies. The MRR is a great metrics, but it can be perfected.

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How to Use Social Media To Drive Sales

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On average, during Black Friday 2012, social traffic converted 77% higher than normal. A new Forrester report titled “The Purchase Path of Online Buyers In 2012? Wrong metric. The problem is with the metrics used – direct sales are a very bad metric to use for social. Real money behind numbers.

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Cracking The Code: BlablaCar - Travel Revolution

Cracking the Code

Monday, January 16, 2012. ▼ 2012. (1). Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing pr. SaaS business metrics: why are they different? Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. BlablaCar - Travel Revolution. software.

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Common Growth Hacking Myths (and How Growth Actually Works)

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” April, 2012 – Andrew Chen writes Growth Hacker is the new VP Marketing , which goes viral (2.4K September 2012 – Aaron Ginn, who currently does growth at Everlane , writes Defining A Growth Hacker: Three Common Characteristics to help define the term. PR and publicity drive attention…to drive sales.

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Twitter Link Roundup #27 – Design, Writing, Marketing, Small Business, Social Media And More

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EURO 2012 soccer logo: A wonderful exercise in graphic design excess - [link]. Entrepreneurs: Beware of Vanity Metrics - [link]. Trust in Friends Declines, Trust in Experts Rises – Social Media and PR Still Win - [link]. CSS Rounded Corners In All Browsers (Without Images) – [link].