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27 Entrepreneurs Share Tips on Building an Ecommerce Business

Hearpreneur

While platforms like Instagram offer a great starting point, the key to differentiation lies in the age-old strategy of Search Engine Optimization (SEO). And that can make or break your customer retention, especially in the early stages. Thanks to Dani Mechlowitz, Delta Fulfilment ! #6- Thanks to Ben Pu, Ship Sage ! #18-

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Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

is an elegant way to model any service-oriented business: Acquisition Activation Retention Referral Revenue We used a very similar scheme at IMVU, although we werent lucky enough to have started with this framework, and so had to derive a lot of it ourselves via trial and error. But its not really viral growth, even when its exponential.

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How to Choose Digital Marketing Channels for Long Term Growth

ConversionXL

This is generally split into two areas, though they’re often used together to some varying proportion: Search Engine Marketing. Search engine marketing is intent-based keyword bidding on search networks such as Google Adwords and Microsoft Bing. Virality and Referral. If you sell shoes, would virality work for you?

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

This is an incredible skill, one that most engineers overlook. Products can find sources of validation with impressive stats along a number of dimensions, such as high engagement, viral coefficient, or long-term retention. Go on an agile diet quickly. Labels: agile , customer development 15comments: Scott Shapiro said.

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CXL Live 2018 Recap: Top 5 Lessons from Each Speaker

ConversionXL

Corporate Agility. Transparency correlates to agility (Does your CEO know how many tests you ran last month?). Ed Fry – Customer Data Operations: Unleashing your hidden growth engine. Tara Robertson – How to 10x Growth by Optimizing Customer Marketing & Retention. Start with retention.

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Lessons Learned: The App Store after the gold rush

Startup Lessons Learned

I think its helpful to think about two kinds of competition for distribution: acquisition competition and retention competition. On the web, we have many of these channels: SEM, SEO, world of mouth, PR and viral. Retention competition is how you get people to come back to your app. Its like knowing the future. Expo SF (May.

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Business ecology and the four customer currencies

Startup Lessons Learned

In a previous post , I covered the three main drivers of growth: Paid, Sticky, and Viral. Let’s look at a viral growth company, like Facebook. If you are building a large, viral, ad-support consumer internet property, you just want to go big! They’re off to cross the chasm. As soon as possible!&#

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