Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Understand the basic tools – the social media trinity. Blogging (Wordpress), micro-blogging (Twitter), and social networks are the trinity. Key social networks are Facebook (500 million consumers) and LinkedIn (60 million professionals). Put your social network links on your stationery, business cards, and email.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Increase customer leads and conversion. population now using social media, at least 30% look at profiles on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn before buying any product or service. Courting them with ongoing updates and special offers through their social networks is a natural way to keep their loyalty.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2024

Boost this move by emphasizing urgency through marketing channels and prominently displaying countdown timers on your website. The key is to understand the unique interests and preferences of each segment, ensuring that the limited-time offer resonates and encourages conversion.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 13, 2013

Rather, the challenge is this – how can we transform fans and followers on social networks into actual money paying customers? While Facebook, Twitter and YouTube have found ways to monetise their platforms, many are still figuring out ways to connect the social web with the corporate wallet.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Freemium to paid conversion rates for SaaS businesses hover around the 2% mark on a good day. Now, there are many methods you can use to try and increase your conversion rate. Great user onboarding is imperative for steering your users in the direction of conversion, and it all starts with activation. for freemium users.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 30, 2021

SimilarWeb can give some basics on traffic to a site including the breakdown of traffic channels and similar websites. The extension works in the background to look for conversion or Facebook pixels and provide real-time feedback on the implementation. Similar web. Quick SEO checks backlinks and few other handy things. Email Hunter.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 22, 2018

Conversely, those same candidates are 3.5 Whether this is via a messaging platform, such as Skype, or a social network like Facebook, chatbots that are omnichannel will create the best opportunities for seamless communication. Challenge #1: Managing a large number of applications.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2018

The standalone apps support using multiple accounts, conversations with optional end-to-end encryption , and playing games. A chatbot (or bot) is a piece of automated software that engages in a conversation with people. Marketers want to reach more prospects, generate more leads, and improve conversions.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

First, I encourage business owners to create resources on your website or social network feeds for clients to better understand the products that are provided. There are quite a few up and coming YouTube channels dedicated to safaris where people can go on a virtual safari as well. Thanks to Avinash Chandra, BrandLoom ! #6-

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Brandanew

AUGUST 22, 2016

Show Guest : Meera Sapra is a senior manager at Zoho and is a part of the team that is building out the Zoho Social product and their current CRM integration. Meera love comics, travel, art, food, books, conversations and the internet. FULL TRANSCRIPT OF THE BRANDANEW SOCIAL TRENDS SHOW, Episode 3, Season 1 .

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 2, 2009

I think we all know by now that a conversation is happening on Twitter and that this extends to talking about brands. Twitter is the new CRM (customer relationship management) channel. It’s almost like they’ve been given the right to wiretap our conversations and know what we’re telling our friens about them.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

If you can break this down by channel that you’ve acquired them from this is obviously better. The next step after measuring the customers you’re adding is to add the “cost to acquire” by channel. per click on an SEM basis this is NOT your cost to acquire a customer – you need to add conversion rate. How many through SEM?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Turns out everybody likes to produce content and take part in the “conversation.&# Massive uptake of user-generated content including blogs (e.g. Turns out this conversation is pretty important and what many people want to do. So PPC (pay-per-click) advertising on social networks has performed poorly to date.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 9, 2018

How to Use LinkedIn to Generate Sales Conversations written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Combined with the text below you should have a pretty good feel for how to use LinkedIn to generate sales conversations. LinkedIn is the oldest social network. Does your profile create conversation?

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

In my daily work with ecommerce brands, I see two types of companies: The first type focuses on acquisition and conversion. Companies with a high LTV have a strong brand image , earn word-of-mouth and organic referrals, and enjoy “search monopolies”—conversions by brand name search. had a problem: tons of traffic but no conversions.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

With a social media content strategy rooted in relationships and communication. Each profile should also be consistent with the social network. For example, Mailchimp’s avatars are the same across its social accounts. Do certain types of posts generate more likes, comments, shares, leads, and conversions than others?

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Choosing the Right Marketing Channels for Your Business written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. As of October 2017, there are roughly sixteen marketing channels available to us. Businesses need to get very, very good at getting clients in just a few of these channels. Why do I recommend that you do this?

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 9, 2014

It’s just that content marketing and social network participation are (collectively) more important. By focusing on quality content and by creating your own content distribution channel, you can start naturally attracting quality links instead of artificially creating risky links. Social Networking.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 30, 2013

According to a report by Nielsen on social media Americans spend three times more time on social media than reading their e-mail. of online time is spent reading e-mail and 23% on social. The juicy bit of the study is that more than 70% of social networks users shop online. You can’t sell with social.

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David Teten

AUGUST 29, 2012

Pricing Engine works with Google, Microsoft and other channels to provide a create once, deploy everywhere platform. Currently, there is no means for a person with hearing loss to have a private phone conversation. Customers include small advertisers as well as large enterprises, like newspapers, etc., that serve SMBs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2019

Increase customer leads and conversion. population now using social media, at least 30% look at profiles on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn before buying any product or service. Of those, approximate 70% said they wouldn’t deal with a new company if it didn’t have a social media presence. With over 77% of the U.S.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 13, 2015

Does this mean that you should avoid online marketing and social media channels? In fact, entire businesses are marketed solely using using social channels, and a huge industry of consultants and agencies specializing in these tactics has developed over the last five years. Absolutely not!

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 17, 2014

Takeaway : Video content is also easy to share via social networks, and software developers have prioritized video integration in site creation. Takeaway : The Q&A approach will put your testimonial subject at ease, and will allow you to direct the conversation toward those key messages you identified. Go forth and conquer.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 18, 2016

.* Everyone mistakenly thinks of Twitter as a distribution channel for witty snark and links to off-site content. For me, Twitter is still the #1 social network because it is (or can be) *truly social*. For me, Twitter is still the #1 social network because it is (or can be) *truly social*.

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Up and Running

JULY 26, 2016

Selling a product is a tough process, full of “no’s,” whether they come on the phone with a prospect or as a low conversion rate on your landing page. Cost of Acquisition (CAC): The total cost of acquiring a user through a given channel. If the CAC is above the LTV, but not too much—there’s some potential in this channel.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 31, 2014

billion users, spending 700 billion minutes on the network every month. In the United States, 58% of the population use at least one social network, and that number leaps to 98% for those aged 18 to 24 years old. And yet, I still have organizations or consultants tell me, “my customers aren’t really on social media.”.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 8, 2012

When it comes to social media, most experts agree that one of the worst things that small- and medium-sized businesses can do is to jump onto the social media bandwagon without a proper game plan. The best way to do so is to monitor the online conversations about your brand. Ask yourself.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 9, 2017

5 Marketing Automation Tools to Increase Lead Conversions written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Lead conversion is a daunting task and metric for marketers. Conversion requires optimized web pages and content, and constant engagement of website visitors/consumers so they aren’t interrupted by a competing business.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 9, 2016

Be personal — Ditch the formalities; your social audience wants to know they’re communicating with a person rather than an entity. Remember that social media is a free form conversation, leave room for spontaneity. RELATED : High-value social media content. Fine-Tuning Your Social Engagement: Channel by Channel.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

I’ve also presented at a range of industry conferences on how institutional investors can use professional networks for research , origination , market research , and value creation. Here the rigor in qualifying the GLG Share members helps, because we want the conversation to be valuable on both sides. Previously posted at Forbes.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 27, 2011

The 1M/1M Channel on Stanzr. The first of these discussions was about a new social media marketing platform called Stanzr, from San Francisco-based Voluble, that we are using at 1M/1M. Nirupama is looking to find a niche where she can penetrate the niche social network platform market. Why or why not?

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Increased investment in Facebook as an engagement/acquisition channel has translated into requests from CEOs, CMOs and other CxOs about the return on that investment. As Facebook is a very young channel, it is not surprising that everyone's struggling with the answer. Lesson 1: Correlations don't imply causality.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 9, 2018

They’re owned by someone else, and if that social network ever fell apart, your business would too—at least if it was relying on that one website (or app) for leads. When I talked about social media being “rented space” I meant everything I said. The point of social media is to join in on the conversation.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

Startups, are not about executing a plan where the product, customers, channel are known. JointBuy allows buyers to start a new deal on any available product and share the idea with others through existing social networking sites. We were positing that 20 years of teaching “how to write a business plan” might be obsolete.

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Sandi MacPherson, Founder of Quibb, a private community of tech tastemakers sharing professional content and discussions, tells the story of creating an application-only social network. How an application-only model for a social network affects your model and early traction (and why it’s CRUCIAL that Quibb use this model).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 11, 2013

Before social networking, an unhappy customer might tell three people. Guide customers to the right social media channel. As a startup, you can’t be everywhere all of the time, so it helps to tell people through traditional channels, in a positive way, the best ways to find you.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

Social selling tools lets you sell your products and services over your desired social media channels. This makes your task of selling easier on social media. Not just social, you have the power to sell natively on messaging apps and online communities. Choose your social network depending on your buyer persona.

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