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Email Copywriting 101: Five Steps to Better Converting Emails

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If you’re starting a new campaign or selling a new product, you can create a baseline based on your current metrics. To get an idea of where you are starting out, note metrics like: Open rates Click rates Unsubscribe rates Conversion rates Spam rate. Social media also offers a cache of market research data. Emotion sells.

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Netflix Redux: Is It Ever OK to Fire Your Customers?

Both Sides of the Table

But creating better visibility for investors of the profitability of each unit and accountability for bosses of each to perform well according to differnet metrics is a good & important idea. The moment you see lower-end customer segments wearing your products it loses cache for the upper end segments. No, probably not.

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Case Study: 40% of Sales from SEO

Duct Tape Marketing

However, rankings can be a bit of a vanity metric by themselves, so we also collect data every month on the number of sign-ups to our free trial from SEO (by setting goals in Google Analytics ). Edge cache any asset files (Javascript, CSS, images) so the page loads as fast as possible. How you can sell subscriptions/memberships.

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Two Overlooked Aspects Of Your Site Design That May Be Hurting Conversions

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They also say in the report that Page Speed “affects every conceivable business metric” and can influence everything from customer satisfaction to customer retention. Take Advantage Of Browser Caching. Leveraging browser caching. seconds, 10% longer than when the same study was conducted 9 months earlier.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

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The VAST majority of what you’re dealing with (HTTP, MIME, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, relational databases, page template, authentication, session management, caching, etc.) But if I want to hire people that know about byte alignment and cache thrashing I look in the one place where.Net does not feature. Like what?! Bill Beebe.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Varnish Cache (reverse proxy). Startup Metrics for Pirates â?? SaaS Metrics Tutorial â?? customer retention, churn reduction, lifetime value. JS/CSS Compression Using YUI Compressor. mod_perlite (Perl). PHP-FPM (a patch for php4/5 to greatly improve FastCGI SAPI usage). YSlow (performance checklist). YUICompressor.

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Digital Elite Camp 2019 Recap: Takeaways from Every Speaker

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Set targets: metrics to tackle the overarching goal for your product lifecycle. We need a metric or KPI that shows how good we are at increasing the likelihood that someone will convert in the future. Add events, scripts with custom triggers, dimensions, metrics, details on page views, hits. Shapes the curve of your business.

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