Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

The VP of Sales comes to a board meeting, still optimistic, and provides a set of reasonable explanations – “our pipeline looks great, but orders will close next quarter” or “we’ve got lots of traffic to our site, we just need to work on conversion.” Just had a conversation today with a student taking Steve’s class. Now In Print!

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Note from the editor: We talk a lot about conversion rate optimization, and how it’s about showing the right people, the right thing, at the right time in order to get more out of your website. We use targeting in a similar way to shape our terms to boost their conversion potential. We should look toward.

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Haystack

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

5/ Underlying RSS Technology Not Optimal For 21st Century Media. I have fielded many startup pitches for podcast-related startups and basically said “no” to each one. Again, I hope to be proven wrong — I could’ve invested in Gimlet and today I wish I had. I’d love to hear more opinions on this.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

MAY 31, 2011

You need to track your conversions (Google AdWords gives you a code to insert in your “visitor is converted” page) to know what you are spending in Google AdWords is less than the amount of business it brings you. With Google AdWords, you will be able to show up on the right hand side of the search results page.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MAY 9, 2011

Twitterers RT and “follow&# and pander to the most minor of celebs (present company again included) in the hopes that someday that lesser deity might deign to RT one of their tweets or accept an email as non-spam because they’ve already “joined the conversation.&#. When do I earn the right to say what I think?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

The Customer is a Genius Then instead of talking about our products he segued the conversation into their products. And soon the conversation were about architectural tradeoffs and then how customers didn’t appreciate the elegant designs and how the world was going to hell in a handbasket because of these commodity microprocessors.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 13, 2009

I have an idea for how to connect user social web conversations to 2-way search and contextual advertising. It took me 8 startups and 21 years to get it right, (and one can argue success was due to the Internet bubble rather then any brilliance.) Here’s my first time entrepreneur dilemma. To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print!

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

As the conversation began to get down to how much stock and salary we could offer van Dam, we left the barber to finish his work and went to a payphone to call our CEO to confirm the deal. We were painting a picture of hypertext on every desktop computer. The response from across the country? To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print!

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Business Model Affects Metrics and Exit Criteria Web-based Business Model Exit Criteria In a web-business model you’re looking for traffic, users, conversion, virality, etc – not revenue. To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print! Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.

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Venture Chronicles

JUNE 8, 2011

Marshall has been an advocate for RSS from the earliest days but he is wrong to pin the blame for consumer RSS’ demise on random factors like flash games on Facebook, the wounds here are self-inflicted for the most part. I wrote about it repeatedly and still believe it to be a major reason behind the demise of RSS.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

If you look at the top 3 online retailers by conversion rate, none of these are award-winning designs : [link] [link] [link] However, they convert ~25% of visitors to customers. As a pay-per-click marketer, now I will look at retail packaging as a source of ideas on landing page design. That’s 10x what many websites convert.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Right now the most important role to hire in Twitter would be a seasoned marketing professional who could proactively change the conversation about Twitter and educate people about its significance as an information sharing tool. Then came RSS ( Really Simple Syndication ) widely credited to Dave Winer for driving the spec & adoption.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 9, 2011

Talking About Rainmaking Conversations This content from: Duct Tape Marketing Marketing podcast with Mike Schultz (Click to play or right click and “Save As&# to download – Subscribe now via iTunes or subscribe via other RSS device (Google Listen) Conversations are a bit part of everything in business these days including selling.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 6, 2018

Perhaps your site’s ecommerce performance isn’t up to expectations, or you’re not getting as many conversions you’d like. You use A/B testing to determine if a change or addition will improve conversions. A redesign or revamp might be the thing you need to fix these issues. This isn’t the case, however.

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 12, 2010

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. By now we’ve discussed the fact that you should first plug your funnel , then improve conversion rates , then work on sending as much traffic as possible to your website. Including them in any kind of conversion rate calculation would be a mistake.

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techland.time.com

JANUARY 16, 2013

In particular, the new design includes these new features: a fresh new home page, a heightened presentation and promotion of TIME’s industry-leading photography, more emphasis on TIME’s voices and personalities, improved search capabilities and a robust new commenting system, LiveFyre, that pulls relevant conversations from Twitter and Facebook.

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Software By Rob

APRIL 13, 2010

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. I think this is something you’ll want to check out… Subscribe Now: iTunes (this link opens iTunes) RSS Email April 13th, 2010 | Micropreneurship , Startups Building your startup? Subscribe via RSS On Twitter? My new podcast launches today.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 18, 2011

You must also think in terms of your content as a tool that moves prospects from awareness to conversion and in this effort there are at least five types of content that you must address. Some might go as far as to suggest content marketing has become the most effective way to build a business.

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. The whirlwind of the conference was such that it took me about 48 hours before I could hold a conversation about anything but starting a software company. Subscribe via RSS On Twitter? The Business of Software 2010 was last week in Boston.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 22, 2010

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Subscribe via RSS On Twitter? Luckily several thousand people have decided to stick around and join the conversation. Check out my book Subscribe via RSS Thousands of entrepreneurs cant be wrong. Check out my book Like this post?

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. That has to win for the worst conversion rate ever. The competition will be less and your conversion rates will be orders of magnitude higher. Subscribe via RSS On Twitter? Check out my book Subscribe via RSS Thousands of entrepreneurs cant be wrong.

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Software By Rob

JULY 22, 2010

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Subscribe via RSS On Twitter? Luckily several thousand people have decided to stick around and join the conversation. Despite low traffic numbers, it’s getting a good conversion rate. Check out my book Like this post? 2 Rob on 10.19.10

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 9, 2009

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Almost no one thinks about improving conversion rates. Popularity Another reason people focus on traffic instead of conversions is because that’s what everyone talks about. Conversion, Not So Much. But conversions suck. Why is this?

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 20, 2012

Marketing podcast with Doc Searls (Click to play or right click and “Save As” to download – Subscribe now via iTunes or subscribe via other RSS device (Google Listen). Click on this search for “ markets are conversations ” and you’ll get an even grimmer sense of this.).

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Up and Running

JANUARY 15, 2018

Choose some of the same places to hang out and try to engage them in conversation. You could start by following blogs which have a high number of comments and regular contributors, as well as signing up to RSS updates on web development boards. Keep your ear to the ground. Master time management.

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Software By Rob

MAY 4, 2010

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Subscribe via: iTunes (opens iTunes) RSS Email May 4th, 2010 | About this Blog , Micropreneurship , Startups Building your startup? Subscribe via RSS On Twitter? Luckily several thousand people have decided to stick around and join the conversation.

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Software By Rob

MAY 12, 2010

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Subscribe via RSS On Twitter? Luckily several thousand people have decided to stick around and join the conversation. Check out my book Subscribe via RSS Thousands of entrepreneurs cant be wrong. Check out my book Like this post?

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Software By Rob

JUNE 23, 2010

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Subscribe via RSS On Twitter? Luckily several thousand people have decided to stick around and join the conversation. Check out my book Subscribe via RSS Thousands of entrepreneurs cant be wrong. Teams had 59 days to create a killer app.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 4, 2010

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RSS 34

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Software By Rob

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Subscribe via RSS On Twitter? Luckily several thousand people have decided to stick around and join the conversation. Check out my book Subscribe via RSS Thousands of entrepreneurs cant be wrong. Share your website and get quick feedback.

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Software By Rob

MAY 24, 2010

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Subscribe via RSS On Twitter? Luckily several thousand people have decided to stick around and join the conversation. Check out my book Subscribe via RSS Thousands of entrepreneurs cant be wrong. Check out my book Like this post? 3 A-ron on 05.24.10

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Software By Rob

MARCH 30, 2010

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Software By Rob

MARCH 23, 2010

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Software By Rob

APRIL 16, 2010

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Software By Rob

APRIL 22, 2010

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Software By Rob

APRIL 8, 2010

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. This is one of the rare times when I’m going to ask for two favors: Head over to StartupLens.com and subscribe to the RSS feed so you can stay up to date with reviews as they are published. Subscribe via RSS On Twitter? Check out my book Like this post?

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 30, 2010

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