ConversionXL

JUNE 24, 2014

There is much more to say about registration processes than I have space for in this article, but you can read more here: Why user registration sucks and how it hurts your business. The number of visitors directly correlates to revenue – whatever business you are in. Knowing who your users are means knowing what they do and don’t want.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Of course, I’m a total social login fan, but at least offering your users a choice between filling out a registration form and signing up using their social account IDs seems like straightforward business sense. The number of visitors directly correlates to revenue—whatever business you are in. This post contains video, click to play].

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The Next Web

AUGUST 26, 2012

The metrics that matter the most are returning customers (user retention), turnover per customer and viral growth (k-factor). Remember that raising money in itself is not the purpose; it’s about creating an organization that can fully focus on finding retention and a working business model that can later on scale.

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leananalyticsbook.com

AUGUST 19, 2012

Lean Analytics Book. There are three criteria you can use to help choose your OMTM: the business you’re in; the stage of your startup’s growth; and your audience. First: what business are you in? For online businesses, most of them are transactional, collaborative, SaaS-based, media, game, or app-centric.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

APRIL 9, 2013

Guest post by Ben Yoskovitz, the co-author of Lean Analytics , a new book on how to use analytics successfully in your business. You use analytics to measure the results of your experiments. Most consumer apps get around the high acquisition costs with some sort of virality, but backup isn’t viral.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Business schools teach aspiring executives a variety of courses around the execution of known business models, (accounting, organizational behavior, managerial skills, marketing, operations, etc.). In contrast, startups search for a business model. (Or to optimize this search. to optimize this search.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Viral Content Bee , my own platform, allows users to upload (non-promotional) URLs for others to share on a variety of social media platforms, including Twitter. Viral Content Bee (VCB) users are encouraged to interact with VCB-generated shares as well as follow their promoters, so using the platform will also build some engaged following.

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abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Awareness of the service was clearly spreading virally through word of mouth. A new pricing or packaging model does not by itself represent a meaningful core differentiation, and the rising abundance of “subscription” or “flash sales” companies heightened our concern with regard to barriers to entry.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

I joined as employee 14 and spent a few years at this analytics startup, which was founded by Hiten Shah and Neil Patel. Design, Product, Marketing, and Sales get pissed that you’re not in sync. Their growth came from users, and they had true virality. With funnels like this, a growth team can drive core business growth.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

The one-page pitch format is also more suitable for SaaS businesses that are constantly testing new ideas. Your pitch is going to cover your strategy (what you’re going to do), your tactics (how you’re going to do it), your business model (how you will make money), and your schedule (who is doing what and when).

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Only after reaching $1M in CMRR should you consider hiring European sales and services execs behind customer demand. Be prepared to cross the desert - SaaS requires R&D and sales expense up front for a multi-year stream of revenue, so it demands enough investment capital to fund 4+ years of runway. Posted by Philippe Botteri.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

Whether data come from our own analytics or an external source, we are can implement changes to the way we operate in a matter of hours. A few things I love about being an entrepreneur is that I get to determine what my company’s business model and processes look like, creating a job that is meaningful to me.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 6, 2016

After all, customers create revenue, and revenue, if the business model is smart, often leads to profits. The problem is that most startups don’t have the budget to spend on fancy (or sometimes even simple) SEO tools or consultants to pay for deep analytics or content strategies. Lean Business: Do Unto Others*.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Let’s say your business captures 2% of all the small businesses as free accounts, and 3% of those convert to paying customers. Based on your business model is that enough to sustain and grow a profitable business? Does your product help grow your customer’s business? That’s almost 17,000 paying customers.

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Rob Go

JULY 11, 2013

Sometimes, this comes from a prior business with an existing user-base or customer list (eg: Fab). Sometimes, a business doesn’t necessarily have an inherent advantage in distribution apart from the strategy of the team and design of the product. Some products have what look like great viral loops, but aren’t very successful.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

Because I have no employees, there’s a profit margin of about 70%, so it’s a really fantastic business model and gives me the freedom to travel and come back from my travel with more money than I left with. The biggest deal I’ve ever done was a sale of a $100,000 website. I own my own house.

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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. Please be creative and don’t take no for an answer when it comes to the value of analytics.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 5, 2010

The knowledge that you need 10,000 hours to master a subject, that certain trends become viral after the 412th person adopts it, or that you should make your product remarkable, is not going to help you launch. 29 Business Model Generation - Romain David on 09.21.10 Or Proctor and Gamble. Or Panasonic. It is really a TV for me.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 2, 2015

” Peter : Let’s talk about the word viral because that’s a great one. I think the word viral lost its meaning and lost its way long ago. Jonathan : Yeah, and just the idea of making something go viral, you can’t really follow a formula and make something go viral anymore. Do I sell umbrellas?

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