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Paranoid Companies Miss the Best New Opportunities

Startup Professionals Musings

Yet a creative collaboration with your biggest competitor may be the best opportunity for revenue and survival. We finally decided set up a strategic partnership with a joint product to capture this elusive segment of the market. Up-sell related products after the initial sale. Cross endorsement.

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Your Toughest Competitor May be Your Best Partner

Startup Professionals Musings

Yet a creative collaboration with your biggest competitor may be the best opportunity for revenue and survival. We finally decided set up a strategic partnership with a joint product to capture this elusive segment of the market. Up-sell related products after the initial sale. Cross endorsement.

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Transcript And MP3 Of My $180,000 Website Flipping Presentation

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

The biggest deal I’ve ever done was a sale of a $100,000 website. Adding Ad Revenue. I was still nervous because I hadn’t really invested that kind of money and negotiated a sale before, so I went to bed that night after I made the offer, wondering whether I was going to follow through with it. I had someone running the forum.

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Six Good Reasons to Partner with a Competitor

Startup Professionals Musings

Yet a creative collaboration with your biggest competitor in the same industry may be the best opportunity for revenue and survival. Best of both creates a new market. Your competitor has strengths (maybe sales), and you have a different strength (maybe technology), appealing to overlapping segments. Cross endorsement.

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7 Incredible Web Design, Branding, Digital Marketing Experiences

Occam's Razor

"Let's just get people on the phone and our sales reps will convert!" I scroll down the page and see the package, offer for free consultation and the happy family: But there is no direct indication of what the monthly price will be. " I realize that ADT has always done phone sales and is comfortable with that.

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Excellent Analytics Tip#5: Conversion Rate Basics & Best Practices

Occam's Razor

There is no other metric that will tell you less about your website than overall conversion rate (assuming you have more than $ 25,000 in sales on your website) but overall conversion rate is easy to measure so you should do it, I recommend using the definition above, and get it out of your system. # Then promptly forget about it.)

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Digital Marketing & Analytics: Five Deadly Myths De-mythified!

Occam's Razor

Our advertising will rain down massive revenues! !" Like you, when I went to MBA school I was told my marketing class that the ultimate nirvana state for a Marketer was to be able to deliver the right message (RM) to the right person (RP) at the right time (RT). These are non-trivial questions to answer.