Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Many people have speculated a variety of revenue sources such as charging 3rd parties for their data, charging power users for their accounts, charging “verified users&# for their certified accounts, etc. People mistook the fact that these text advertisements worked in Google to say they would work in social networks.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

Agora’s selling points are its ability to reduce users’ IT infrastructure cost and enhance revenue for service providers. JointBuy allows buyers to start a new deal on any available product and share the idea with others through existing social networking sites.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

Powered by cell phones and social networking platforms, we saw revolutions taking place, businesses being transformed and our daily lives made more convenient (if we could tear ourselves away from our Facebook and Twitter updates). eCommerce/Social Commerce: New models continue to evolve as ecommerce rebounded this past year.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

While big ticket products might carry longer and more complex sales cycles, high-end buyers are just as lazy as the rest of us, so they use the same methods: Google, social media, and yes, their inboxes. When it comes to social selling, the trust advantage you enter with will produce results superior to almost any other strategy.

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 4, 2018

Increase current conversion rate by 25%, quantify how much increased revenue there will be. Aim for quintupling revenue, obviously, but calculating just 25% improvement will give you all the budget you need from your management to insert urgency into the shopping process. Significantly higher revenue awaits. Do something simple.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

The site is run by Mercy Corps , which intends to help “small businesses grow faster, generate more revenue, and employ more people.&# Entrepreneur Connect Entrepreneur Media, the parent company of Entrepreneur Magazine , hosts this online network of entrepreneurs. Auto-Tune the News" Curates: Our Fav.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 9, 2016

Curate and customize your shop’s product catalog. Experiment to see what works for you, but remember that Facebook is a social network and not everyone is sold on this social commerce concept, yet. 5% conversion rate resulted in more than $15,000 in revenue. Image Source. Sell directly from your Page.

Social Media 48

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2015

Every new business quickly realizes that revenue coming in every period on a committed basis is the Holy Grail to survival and growth. According to many experts , getting new customers is five to ten times harder than getting additional revenue from existing customers. Surprise box model.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 25, 2018

We’ve curated important statistics and separated them into five categories: General facts and statistics. What are the best locations to start a business? Where does the funding come from? While the failure rates for new startups are high, business failure rates are actually in a pattern of long-term decline.

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Life Beyond Code

APRIL 26, 2015

Key Observations About the Revenue Engine for Google. it is no secret that the revenue engine for google is advertising. The Gorilla of the revenue sources continues to be Ad revenues from Google Websites growing at 20.48% from year 2013. The slowest growth rate (6.51%) is the revenue from Network sites.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

I believe that many social networks confused this idea. Twitter is better than RSS – it’s “curated RSS.&# The stream is limited in length and therefore people share links. Social networks continue to drive conversion of marketers. Not necessarily in the shopping mindset.

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Agile VC

MARCH 18, 2012

Costolo clearly wants to position Twitter as a complementary part of the media ecosystem (which it is by and large) rather than a competitor, and there remains a chance that Twitter will have other forms of revenue besides ads. Here’s why: Virtually all of Twitter’s revenue comes from advertising.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 6, 2013

So, for example, if you’re reading your favorite newspaper and see an interesting article you’d like to share with someone – or across a social network – you just need to scan the paper with the app and it will launch the digital version for sharing. Consider it as a bit like Shazam for print. Tank Top TV.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 25, 2018

We’ve curated important statistics and separated them into five categories: General facts and statistics. What are the best locations to start a business? Where does the funding come from? While the failure rates for new startups are high, business failure rates are actually in a pattern of long-term decline.

Entrepreneur 48

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The Equity Kicker

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

The internet and mobile marginalised Microsoft’s dominance of the desktop and improvements in search took away the need for Yahoo’s portal of curated links. The lesson from those businesses is that developments in technology can quickly undermine a company’s core strength.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 9, 2017

You can also curate content related to your industry, catch influencer attention with #tags and @mentions, and reach a wider audience on social. Reorders from existing clients form an important part of every company’s revenue. GetResponse. You can also contact these prospects via Direct Messages on Twitter.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 3, 2011

Nifty idea, but the business model is predicated upon selling merchandise that is curated from affiliate networks like Commission Junction. Arun Ravi from San Francisco, California, discussed inCircled , a proposed new social network that would be significantly more selective about only involving 'inner circle' friends.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 31, 2011

This trend highlights the marketers need to go beyond SEO and PPC and move even deeper into the worlds of social networks, mobile marketing and app based local marketplaces. Apps inside social networks are providing answers. Apps inside social bookmark sites are providing interesting reading.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 30, 2019

Your brand lives in everyday interactions your company has with its prospects and customers, including the images you share, the messages you post on your website, the content of your marketing materials, your presentations and booths at conferences, and your posts on social networks. This careful handling has paid off.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 2, 2015

Social listening tools like Radian6, Google Alerts, and Trackur may also help you to learn what’s buzzing on social networks. Use social networks to engage with community. Create + Curate Customer-Centric Content. b) Create, Curate and Optimize Content. b) Content Marketing Strategy.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 29, 2010

All of the current sites revolve around a centralized curation and sales function. Chase should be a reseller of Homerun, Foursquare, Square, and all of the different ways that retailers can innovate, save money or grow revenues. Community is one solution I had in mind.

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Rob Go

JANUARY 29, 2012

Network fragmentation. Social networks should be incredibly robust because of network effects. Social curation of products on Pinterest. Facebook’s impressive revenue relies largely on advertising. Photo sharing is done best on instagram. Self expression on platforms like Tumblr.

Advertising 59

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

FitzGerald is the co-founder and CEO of Submittable , a cloud-based submission platform used by thousands of publishers for accepting and curating digital content. I was looking for technical feedback on what we'd done so far which was written a social network based around writers and publishers. in revenue.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 24, 2018

We’ve collected some of the essential marketing tools and services that can help you improve your marketing and grow your company’s revenues, even if you know little about marketing. Social marketing. Facebook still stands tall as the most extensive social network in the world, averaging 2.2 Search marketing.

Social Media 51

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 17, 2019

Your brand lives in everyday interactions your company has with its prospects and customers, including the images you share, the messages you post on your website, the content of your marketing materials, your presentations and booths at conferences, and your posts on social networks. This careful handling has paid off.

Social Media 80

Social Media Curation eCommerce Channel 80

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 24, 2018

We’ve collected some of the essential marketing tools and services that can help you improve your marketing and grow your company’s revenues, even if you know little about marketing. Social marketing. Facebook still stands tall as the most extensive social network in the world, averaging 2.2 Search marketing.

Social Media 48

Social Media Marketing Analytics Audience 48

Venture Chronicles

JANUARY 25, 2011

More recently Q&A sites have morphed into a variant of social network where users build profiles and interact with other members and topics by following them and cross posting to Facebook and Twitter. I am most interested in the generalized Q&A communities, not the expert networks. Market Opportunity.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 5, 2022

As it is, we know that curated social networks like Instagram can have negative affects on self image. YouTube was built on the back of illegally uploaded media—and today it’s one of the biggest marketing and revenue generators for these same media companies that sued the site for billions in the early days.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 22, 2021

Growing revenue. Social selling. Those are marketing objectives that actually can be accomplished quite nicely through the right use of social media today. As one of the most important B2B social media platforms, LinkedIn is a channel that can help you attract more eyes on your business. Driving traffic.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 13, 2017

Your brand lives in everyday interactions your company has with its prospects and customers, including the images you share, the messages you post on your website, the content of your marketing materials, your presentations and booths at conferences, and your posts on social networks. Plan For The Future While Focusing On Today.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 8, 2013

Notice that this is more central to their business than simply measuring revenue: Airbnb does well if its homeowners do well, and for it to succeed, it needs listed properties to be rented often so the homeowners will stick around. To run this experiment, Airbnb created what Lean Startup calls a curated minimum viable product.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 8, 2015

Some images will draw in viewers more than others and as it turns out the headlines & images that convert at different in each social network or distribution partner. It’s one of those things that even smart, socially-liberal people fall prey to. They have a curator. And he has curated many stories.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 6, 2018

Sales, lead generation, and customer support are not far behind because those are the things that we want to do the most, but I think you have to realize that there’s a place for social media today and you just have to understand where that is. Growing revenue. Social selling. Driving traffic. Generating leads.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

I would focus on one product and set a goal to generate $1M in yearly revenue from it. Outsourcing is something a big company, with a known customer / problem (that has revenue & traction) does to save cost. Create a strong brand, solid social community, sell advertising. Once you’ve done that – then. do something else.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Sales, lead generation, and customer support are not far behind because those are the things that we want to do the most, but I think you have to realize that there’s a place for social media today and you just have to understand where that is. Growing revenue. Social selling. Driving traffic. Generating leads.

Social Media 68

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

and more," which the long-time readers already know I think is dumb , and their " About Us " copy is similarly useless: "We’ve embarked on an exciting quest to let even more people realize the tremendous potential of social networks as a real-time information platforms.". Their slogan is "World's Best Tweeters. Oh happy day!

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Totally automate all that so it doesn’t bring me down all the time and instead I can sign all the revenue, because that’s fun. Like the ability to spend X dollars on advertising and gain Y dollars in revenue or something like that. Patrick: How close did he get? Ryan: 50%, sort of. Patrick: All right.

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