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Small Business and Startups: Making Customer Service Available (On Your Own Terms)

crowdSPRING Blog

Well it starts with hiring the right people (a discussion we will leave for a different blog post), and continues with strong training regimens (another future post, ok?), Among the analyses, we look closely at: weekday distribution data to determine which day has the heaviest volume (Monday – no surprise there).

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How to Write a Business Plan

Up and Running

Milestones and Metrics. Use this chapter to describe your current team and who you need to hire. Distribution. For product companies, a distribution plan is an important part of the complete business plan. Distribution is how you will get your product into the hands of your customers. Retail Distribution.

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The Very Best Digital Metrics For 15 Different Companies!

Occam's Razor

There is no golden metric for everyone, we are all unique snowflakes! :). and tell you what are the best key performance indicators (metrics) for them. In the past I’ve shared a cluster of metrics that small, medium and large businesses can use as a springboard…. If you want to play along. Don’t read what I’ve chosen.

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Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business)

Startup Lessons Learned

Even the most radical Bell Curve -style thinkers have to concede that even if there are differences between men and women in the distribution of these traits on average, these curve have substantial overlap, and there should still be a lot more of them represented in high-tech startups. So why is demographic diversity important?

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

One is explaining the world as it used to work: the importance of gatekeepers, the scarcity implied by limited distribution, and the resulting quality bar that the industry is so proud of. Mostly it is the time and expense required to create the means of distribution for that industry. It’s just taking some longer than others.

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Search: Not Provided: What Remains, Keyword Data Options, the Future

Occam's Razor

Aggregated search engine level analysis. This is a simple custom report I use to look at the aggregated view: As the report above demonstrates, you can still report on your other metrics, like Unique Visitors, Bounce Rates, Per Visit Value and many others, at an aggregated level. See Page Value there?

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

Lean Case provides standard business models & metrics, so you can apply a standard approach to business planning, modeling, and profitability tracking. The simplest way to track a company’s performance: have them give you access to their internal metrics dashboard. I used Ipreo heavily at one of my prior VC funds. 11) Exit .