Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2019

Image via Pixabay After a frustrating meeting with a small business client recently who didn’t “have time” for social media, I was surprised to find evidence on the Internet that up to one quarter of small business owners are still hesitant to invest time, money, and effort into a social media strategy.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 21, 2012

Many of the factors are not obvious and include building mystery to drive margin, why boring B2B companies often win but are challenging in other ways, how bootstrapping wins, integrating metrics from the start and many other similar lessons. What is our viral spread coefficient? What does it cost to acquire a new customer?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 9, 2017

If you are an entrepreneur today, and not using social media to promote your business, you are missing out on a huge opportunity. Most social media outlets don’t require a subscription charge, but they certainly always require an investment, sometimes large, in people, in technology, your reputation, and your time.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 8, 2017

If you are an entrepreneur today, and not using social media to promote your business, you are missing out on a huge opportunity. Most social media outlets don’t require a subscription charge, but they certainly require an investment to be hard hitting – in people, in technology, your reputation, and your time.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2013

If you are an entrepreneur today, and not using social media to promote your business, you are missing out on a huge opportunity. Most social media outlets don’t require a subscription charge, but they certainly require an investment – in people, in technology, your reputation, and your time. Pick the right platform for your business.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

Then, you would ensure the obsession your analytics strategy adopts this month/quarter/year for Assisted Conversion is to segment them for SDC to validate the impact of those high priority campaigns. B2B / Enterprise Sales: Salesforce. I absolutely hate how not data driven most B2B selling is. And, we can do so much for them!

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Overall acquisition costs for both B2C and B2B have gone up by 50% in the past five years. In Google Analytics, the Cohort Analysis Report is time-based, though you can apply a segment to a cohort. Segments include any “ subset of your Analytics data ” (e.g. The second relies on retention. The second type is winning.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2012

If you are an entrepreneur today, and not using social media to promote your business, you are missing out on a huge opportunity. Most social media outlets don’t require a subscription charge, but they certainly require an investment – in people, in technology, your reputation, and your time. Pick the right platform for your business.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 18, 2013

Social media presents a range of possibilities for growth for small businesses — for some, it’s a necessity. A recent study found that small businesses benefit the most from social media marketing, in that 72 percent of small business that implemented social media strategies found a boost in website traffic. Bonus site!

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Mailchimp, a B2B email marketing platform, recorded a 66% drop in failed logins after introducing social login. It seems that B2C companies might benefit far more from social login than B2B, but even that seems to depend on a company’s expectations. Impressive, but since only 3.4% This post contains video, click to play].

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2011

If you are an entrepreneur today, and not using social media to promote your business, you are missing out on a huge opportunity. Most social media outlets don’t require a subscription charge, but they certainly require an investment – in people, in technology, your reputation, and your time. Pick the right platform for your business.

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Brandanew

JANUARY 8, 2016

Social analytics and video marketing are likely to be the key marketing trends for 2016. We talked to global social media experts and influencers to share with us their top social analytics tools for the coming year. 16 Top Social Analytics Tools For 2016. Tools 1 to 3: Native Analytics at Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 24, 2014

MailChimp, the B2B subscriber email management service, recorded a 66% drop in failed logins after introducing social login. For more social media marketing don’ts, check out Mashable’s 11 Biggest Social Media Disasters of 2012. Dr Eric Siegel, author of Predictive Analytics: The Power to Predict Who Will Click, Buy, Lie or Die.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Everything they do is scrutinized by its potential impact on scalable growth… An effective growth hacker also needs to be disciplined to follow a growth hacking process of prioritizing ideas (their own and others in the company), testing the ideas, and being analytical enough to know which tested growth drivers to keep and which ones to cut.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 17, 2014

The result: Plenty of organic, viral interaction about the videos that boosted traffic for these YouTube users’ Let’s Play video as well as sales for Galactic Café. A recent B2B Benchmark Survey revealed more than 90% of marketing respondents used video on a site, second only to the learn more/contact us option (nearly 100%).

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 22, 2021

How to Use Social Media Strategically in 2021 written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. With half of the world’s population now on social media, it’s rare you’ll find a brand or business not using it to grow an audience, generate leads, and increase sales online. . Why businesses use social media today.

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ConversionXL

MAY 19, 2016

She might turn to social media, look at more car insurance providers, go into the office, read online reviews, sign up for a newsletter first, etc. Gone are the days of simple funnels and so there are many external factors that influence a purchase decision, such as content marketing or social media.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Nichole Elizabeth DeMeré , a B2B SaaS consultant, lamented that. Andrew Macarthy wrote about social media use during the Mahabis launch. The SaaS test balloons helped gauge the potential traction on social media and other channels. We thought we could gather more emails or get more leads for cheap on social media,” Kim told me.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 31, 2014

These questions help you uncover trends within your market and tell you things analytics alone can not. Step 1 – Set Up Actionable Analytics. Do This: Set up your conversion goals in Google Analytics. Ask Peep about analytics, and he’ll tell you, “Metrics are there to provide actionable insight. Take the time.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 10, 2011

I am going to define a way for you to think about measuring social media, and you can't actually easily measure what I am going to recommend. Social media is evolving at an incredible pace. So what actually matters in Social Media? I am going to break the second part of the rule. So why break the rule? Conversation Rate.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Top Topics Twitter YouTube Facebook iPhone Google Video Google Buzz Social media Mobile 2.0 Top Topics Twitter YouTube Facebook iPhone Google Video Google Buzz Social media Mobile 2.0 Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Dev & Design Mashable on Facebook Join Us!

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conversionxl.com

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

These questions help you uncover trends within your market and tell you things analytics alone can not. Step 1 – Set Up Actionable Analytics. Do This: Set up your conversion goals in Google Analytics. Ask Peep about analytics, and he’ll tell you, “Metrics are there to provide actionable insight. Take the time.

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www.foliomag.com

JULY 31, 2012

); E-Mail Alert Sign-Up. --> Subscribe Now. --> Media Kit. --> About FOLIO. B2B: Business Media. Consumer Media. E-Media Summit -->. Top Social Media Measurement and Tracking Tools. Erin Hoskins, Senior Marketing Director, New Media, Meredit h. RSS Feeds. --> --> Bookmark FOLIOMag.com. Careers Home.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 10, 2021

One B2B brand that does this well is social media scheduling platform Later. In this meme, they share educational content that helps social media managers do their job better: It’s relatable, prescriptive, and not overly salesy. Use your customer journey map to inform your strategy.

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Rob Go

JULY 11, 2013

As a vertical community, the business of GrabCAD was never going to look like that of a social network or social media company. Some products have what look like great viral loops, but aren’t very successful. Legacy Distribution Power : Quite a few successful companies got a nice head start because of legacy traffic. Also hit-or miss.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Top Topics Twitter YouTube Facebook iPhone Google Video Social media Mobile 2.0 Top Topics Twitter YouTube Facebook iPhone Google Video Social media Mobile 2.0 b2b CRM – A Web-based CRM that manages contacts, activities, and your sales pipeline, and integrates with Outlook and Word.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 18, 2016

If you’re a B2B company or you lack a visually appealing product, that doesn’t mean you should avoid creating great visuals. See Also: 3 Strategies to Inspire Your Social Media Marketing. The last thing you want is one of your pins going viral without users knowing that it came from your business! Size your images correctly.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 6, 2014

I’m writing blog posts almost on a daily basis, but I am getting zero traction from social media and my conversions are terrible,” said Adrian, the director of a large software company in Australia. Looking at Google Analytics, it seems like people just get the information and go. photo credit: Craig Garner. What makes them tick?

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

In my case (LucidEra -- a SaaS analytics provider focusing on sales, marketing, and financial analytics), weve found that success requires not only building some best practices for analytics into our solution, but also coming up with a repeatable and scalable way to show the customer how to use the analytics and how to interpret the results.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 4, 2016

Teach referrals to your customers and offer to teach referral generation to their customers in B2B settings. Referral Marketing– This includes intentional word of mouth activities, viral tactics as well as intentional referral generation. Tools: Moz – Inbound marketing and marketing analytics software subscriptions.

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marketingland.com

JULY 11, 2012

Social Media |. Analytics |. Flexible images (and media). Media queries. Media queries, however, work quite well and provide a safe fallback. A desire for consistent function and rendering across those spectra means responsive email will likely focus on either a fluid layout or a media query. Wheres Sphinn?

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