Software By Rob

AUGUST 11, 2009

How to Compete Against Open Source As a commercial software vendor you have to focus on your key advantages over open source software: Save Your Users Time. How to Compete Against Open Source Competition | Software by Rob [.] #2 9 How to Compete Against Open Source Competition | Software by Rob | Information Technology on 08.11.09

Open Source 62

Open Source Software Review Non-Compete Software 62

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

As you can see above you can leverage benchmarking even if you are not an ecommerce website (above data is for non-ecommerce site), or indeed you have any type of business. With that, let's look at the first rich source of benchmarking data in CI tools, the industry and sub-vertical reports. And who does not love Organic?

Analytics 133

Analytics Vertical Metrics Web 133

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 17, 2018

This category also encompasses any irregular non-symbolic shape, even if it’s not inspired by nature. Horizontal vs Vertical vs Diagonal Lines. Unlike vertical or diagonal lines, they look as though gravity has already acted upon them and there is nowhere for them to fall. Vertical lines run perpendicular to the horizon.

Design 85

Design Vertical Software Review Wichita 85

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Different sites have different traffic sources (and the quality of traffic makes all the difference), traffic volumes, different brand perception and different relationship with their audiences. Most eCommerce sites compete with Amazon one way or another. Non-Prime members convert at 13%. Amazon Prime members convert at 74%.

Conversion 48

Conversion eCommerce Database Vertical 48

crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Mexican fast-food giant Chipotle has made serving non-GMO foods a key element of their brand promise. Does your brand resonate with your intended audience? We work with different types of customers, including entrepreneurs, small business owners, big Brands, agencies, non-profits, and even governments.

Marketing 162

Marketing Charlotte Naming Design 162

ConversionXL

JANUARY 5, 2017

Given that fashion-related products was ranked the most popular eCommerce vertical in 2015 , product filtering is clearly an issue eCommerce sites are facing. The “perfect” combination will depend on your vertical, product catalog, visitors and a variety of other factors. Hide Non-Existent Options. Image Source.

eCommerce 108

eCommerce Product SEO Search 108

Austin Startup

OCTOBER 21, 2020

We saw our fair share of no mask wearing, non-socially distant pool parties and suffered our share of dirty looks when we wouldn’t ride in an elevator with someone but overall, people were trying to make the best of it. In particular, these two audiences are dealing with a crisis of understanding?—?— that is, people understanding them.

Startup 87

Startup San Diego Non-Compete Miami 87

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 17, 2018

This category also encompasses any irregular non-symbolic shape, even if it’s not inspired by nature. Horizontal vs Vertical vs Diagonal Lines. Unlike vertical or diagonal lines, they look as though gravity has already acted upon them and there is nowhere for them to fall. Vertical lines run perpendicular to the horizon.

Design 48

Design Vertical Software Review Wichita 48

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 8, 2020

If COVID-19 has forced you to rapidly rethink your business strategy and target audiences, try one of these three activities to generate some fresh ideas from unexpected places. I lead a small marketing agency and have shared examples from our industry, but these exercises can work for any business or vertical.

Non-Compete 241

Non-Compete Vertical Audience Video 241

Reid Hoffman

MARCH 2, 2021

This is a company that when they were founded, it wasn’t just that they were competing against other companies, but they were competing against industries and regulations and governments that wanted to essentially regulate them out of existence. They had to fight for the right to compete. We had to take hardcore action.

Iran 39

Iran Technical Review Non-Compete Lean 39

Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Amanda Brinkman: It’s really hard for these small businesses to compete. And you know, what’s so special about small businesses is that they often say to us, “How do I compete with online pressure? I can’t compete with those online prices or their distribution.” So, you can help us narrow it down.

Small Business 39

Small Business Community Arkansas Non-Compete 39

Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Whether you're sitting on a non-profit board for young entrepreneurs or offering pro-bono services, you have the amazing opportunity to empower others. Having my own business helps me explore business opportunities and compete against other companies to provide the best service or product that allows me to make profits sustainably.

Entrepreneur 71

Entrepreneur Asia LLC Community 71

VC Cafe

APRIL 17, 2020

In this post, I cover the rise of why this is the case, and offer lots of examples of verticals and applications as well as opportunities for startups and streamers. But as A16Z points out in the “ The rise of lifestyle streamers “, a new audience has emerged, hungry for non-gaming content.

Taiwan 148

Taiwan Non-Compete Vietnam Bankruptcy 148

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

One is find yourself an audience and a marketplace and that’s something you can start doing within a week. I feel like the bar has been raised so much in the last five years in the start up community and I’ve been busy working for a distinctly non-start up company. I think you have to do two things.

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Cofounder Technical Review Software Review Differentiation 208

View from Seed

OCTOBER 9, 2019

So, we could segment based on the industry or vertical or the company, right? From a buyer perspective, often things like company size, industry vertical, compliance needs, etc. The people that look a lot like your base core audience but are not as high intent. At Slack we think about customer types differently.

Product 52

Product Vertical Non-Compete Analytics 52

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 3, 2018

They took a host of seemingly fragmented industry changes—customers demanding more from their vendors, customer relationships lasting years instead of days, competing businesses appearing virtually every day—and found the common thread that tied them together: more companies and customers were switching to subscriptions.

B2B 133

B2B Marketing SEO Search 133

alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

Ascenders and are the vertical strokes which rise above the body of a character or x-height. Serifs are used to guide the horizontal “flow” of the eyes; The lack of serifs is said to contribute to a vertical stress in sans serifs, which is supposed to compete with the horizontal flow of reading ( De Lange et al.,

Technical Review 85

Technical Review Software Review Design Web 85

Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

And while we feel a bit uncomfortable, we still engage because the cost of non participation is currently higher than the price of privacy. While non bank business financing is currently miniscule by comparison, the numbers from kickstarter.com tell us something is brewing. Cities are now becoming vertical again.

Uruguay 123

Uruguay Technical Review Vertical Las Vegas 123

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Microsoft started down this path when they were the only game in town, explicitly to maintain their monopoly by making it as hard as possible to either port Windows apps to non-Windows platforms, or to even conceive of how to do it in the first place. Basically, the lesson in this guys argument is entirely non-technical. Get a grip.

Java 107

Java PHP Software Review Coder 107

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2016

Consumers have a limited number of hours in the day so the distributors compete for share of mind and while they can sign up for multiple services there are some natural limitations, which causes a battle for the share of wallet. And the more you succeed the more advertisers in search of endemic audiences want to advertise with you.

Vertical 150

Vertical Video South America Los Angeles 150

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Visitor/Audience Type Profile Analysis. Here is the data for this blog from another tool I really like and use a lot, Compete … It is pretty close to reality, though everything from Dec '13 through mid-year is imprecise. In this post I've used Compete, Hitwise, SimilarWeb for site-centric analysis.

Metrics 60

Metrics Analytics Non-Compete Search 60

Occam's Razor

MARCH 7, 2016

I've also spoken about own vs. rent in context of audiences. You rent audiences on TV, Magazines, Search, Display, etc. You own audiences on your email lists, on forums you host etc. Audiences and platforms, two places to bring our own and rent lens. Before we go on, a quick word on the word own. " #OMG #WTH.

Analytics 60

Analytics Marketing Metrics Audience 60

abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

I think it started with eBay, but then we got into more vertical specific ones, like Zillow, Grubhub, OpenTable and Uber that I’m on the board of. But if you’re out there trying to compete in that market … Back at that time, all the software vendors had tons of content, web pages, YouTube videos, about what?

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Singapore Government Silicon Valley Software Review 43