ConversionXL

MARCH 31, 2020

Rising customer acquisition costs—especially on ad platforms—have also put weaker brands with lower conversion rates out of business. Since it is literally my job to understand the ecommerce tech landscape, I want to show you some lesser known or new—but still quite valuable—apps. questions to customer service reps.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MAY 31, 2010

We scoff at their inability to innovate and for prioritizing shareholders over customers, but still we quiver in fear. What if a huge company with a hundred software developers and a million dollars in marketing budget decides to copy my idea? Every founder frets about competition from a big company, me included.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2020

Last year, I gave a presentation on how we generated 40% year-over-year organic revenue growth by focusing on out executing the competition, not outsmarting them. The choices for how to spend your time or dollars fall into two buckets: Site improvements, such as new content, on-page optimizations, and fixing technical SEO errors.

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ConversionXL

MAY 3, 2020

After all, if you don’t conduct proper quality assurance, you might declare a vastly better treatment a loser due to a technical problem. Anna Schmunk of Dave Ramsey suggests that they should be “BFFs”: QA and UX have a direct impact on what our customers experience, from flow to function.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 5, 2016

before visitors have time to suffer through friction and other “conversion killers” When conducting quality assurance, frequently referred to as QA, you’ll work closely with the development team to ensure everything looks and works correctly on all relevant devices and on all relevant browsers.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. But I loved reading them and so did my team. While customers will be willing to try your product, they think two steps ahead.

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View from Seed

MARCH 19, 2015

If you’re in the tech startup industry today, you get the sense that every one of your peers wants to take on the entire world. Some three decades ago, IBM was years away from being able to prototype speech-to-text technology because the hardware available those days was significantly underpowered for the task. Another success.

Product 120

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

That is when no customers wanted to work with Internet startups because we as an industry had burned so many customers. I learned how to integrate customers into our product development process. and we ultimately sold when we hit $14 million and had more than $30 million in backlog revenue.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Blog About Log in Register Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition In the many thousands of articles advising entrepreneurs on what they have to focus on to build successful startups, much has been written about three key factors: team, product and market, with particular focus on the importance of product/market fit.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Company UX leaders are happy to stink less by taking the sub-optimal path of responsive design, rather than create a mobile-unique experience (your customers tend to do different things on your desktop site than your mobile site!). They use different technologies of course, and different distribution mechanisms.

Analytics 141

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

We have been using LinkedIn for both sourcing recruits and reviewing backgrounds for recruits. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound. Its been great to zero in on very specific skillsets.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Take the example of a design team prepping mock-ups for their development team. Give the dev team your very first sketches and let them get started. And over time, the development team may be able to start anticipating your needs. That frees up even more development resources, and so on.

San Francisco 161

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 7, 2022

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! So a lot of agencies track revenue, some actually even track profit, but you, if we're gonna optimize, um, profitability, what, what should we be measuring? More About Marcel Petitpas: His business — Parakeeto. His podcast — The Agency Profit Podcast. Like this show?

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OnlyOnce

MARCH 14, 2011

I share the column with my colleagues Jack Sinclair and George Bilbrey and we cover how to approach the business of email marketing, thoughts on the future of email and other digital technologies, and more general articles on company-building in the online industry – all from the perspective of an entrepreneur.

Software Review 67

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, November 17, 2008 The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: part one Ive written before about some of the advantages startups have when they are very small, like the benefits of having a pathetically small number of customers. Playing with new technologies. Seeing whats possible.

San Francisco 88

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

This post was co-authored with Omri Stern and originally appeared in Harvard Business Review. As a result, tech-sector employment has declined as a percent of the workforce, from 11% in 2006–2008 to 9% in 2013. In the old model of Israeli startups, many Israeli executive teams would hire a vice president of sales in the U.S.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

They log in to translate the documents, one at a time, marking each finished when done, which sends the file back to the company for review.” Also important: Only go for providers who have great reviews from many past customers. Decline bids from providers without many great reviews. The translator rejects or approves.

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