ConversionXL

APRIL 18, 2019

A page that’s well-matched for user intent can outperform those that optimize primarily for search engines—in search and after the click. IP address) can provide clues to search engines, as can search history, time of year, or time of day. Look at the search engine results page (SERP). Geography (i.e. A manual process works.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 28, 2022

My wife and I both worked as mechanical engineers, so we wanted a name that paid tribute to our profession. Momentum is a term that is highly related to engineering, as it relates to motion and dynamics. We thought about what makes our business differentiated and unique from existing companies in the space.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

I think that mindset is useful to remind entrepreneurs that it is a shared journey and capital (whether active or passive) is a part of your success and your ability to access it when you need to and for the amounts you need is a very critical differentiator between successful companies and unsuccessful one.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 23, 2011

He is heading straight into an intensely competitive market without adequate differentiation or competitive positioning. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Anupam has serious segmentation issues. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 30, 2019

To create a value proposition that really differentiates your offer, you have to know how competitors position themselves. Reviewing a competitor’s online presence helps me understand how to differentiate my client. What I’m looking for are common trends within that vertical. What is it on your website? reviews, trust).

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ConversionXL

MAY 11, 2017

To create a value proposition that really differentiates your offer, you have to know how the competitors position themselves. Reviewing a competitor’s online presence helps me understand how to differentiate my client. What I am looking for is common trends within that vertical. What is it on your website?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2009

One of the things he mentioned was that when it came to decision-making he still tended to think and act like an engineer. Since every situation is unique, there is no perfect solution to any engineering, customer or competitor problem, and you shouldn’t agonize over trying to find one. I love the way you differentiate.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 8, 2023

ChatGPT's data is two years old and when actual tech humans can't really differentiate easily between pre-seed and seed, who's a lead and who isn't, and whether or not someone is a real fund or just a broker, I wouldn't expect a bot to. 3) Reverse engineering Crunchbase. and get an autogenerated list. And yes, I tried ChatGPT.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 25, 2017

While not all of our investments will pay off in the long run, we are willing to take these risks in an attempt to create the best and most differentiated products in the market.” The smartphone is for everyone, we don’t have to think the iPhone is about a certain demographic, or country or vertical market: it’s for everyone.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

The strategy of GigaOm and where they differentiate in the market. Real-time search engine. Network of vertical focused sites: BeachMint, BeachMint, WineMint, etc.; first vertical to launch by 2010 Holiday Season. But it’s a real phenomenon. You can listen to Om, Paul & I debate the topic in the video.

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Hippoland

APRIL 3, 2016

2) Your product / business does not sound differentiated enough / the investor doesn’t know anything about the space to discern differentiation. Companies in certain verticals tend to have this problem more. Adtech, security-tech, fashion, etc. In the old days (i.e.

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

Bootstrapped startup Omnisend carved out a $19 million niche in an already saturated vertical. Organic search is a highly competitive domain for many SaaS verticals (email marketing, for example). Differentiate free and gated content. SEO should lead with intent. Remember Omnisend’s podcast?

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

Slopestyle runs are judged on the difficulty of the tricks being executed, the vertical height achieved, and the overall execution of the run. The athletes performing in this event have to differentiate themselves from the competition and this is done by creating original tricks and moves that no one else can imitate or execute as skillfully.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 12, 2011

I suggested LinkedIn, oDesk, and eLance with the caveat that the field is extremely competitive and crowded and differentiation would be tough to achieve. Today, he has over a thousand, and he has chosen to focus on the realtor vertical. She has, thus far, not done any other formal customer acquisition initiative. Happy Grasshopper.

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Austin Startup

JULY 5, 2017

Rather, Tesla will be a full stack, vertically integrated clean energy company. Once you can call a self-driving Uber/Lyft, the cost of transportation will fall ~75% (current driver take-rate), and probably 85–90% in the long run as cars are re-engineered to be designed as taxis first. This is pretty astonishing. Scale, scale, scale.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 20, 2011

and e-commerce businesses, so I would love to work with Kelly to help her figure out the various nuances of building a successful e-commerce business, especially one that differentiates on personalization. However, I'd like to see a more focused, vertical specific go-to-market strategy in Udemy. Photo by Bessarro. Discuss.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Though Dollar Shave Club’s organic strategy appears to be growing their following, there is an opportunity to improve by differentiating content across social channels. Reverse engineer what already works and run experiments over the long-term. Search engine marketing: Driving ROI from searchers. Image source.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 25, 2022

In this episode, we dive into Brent’s framework that can help you attract the right customers, establish your authority, and build a marketing engine that will help you acquire a solid, growing client base. It doesn't have to just be a vertical. 5:31] How do you define scale, and how does it differ from growth?

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Hippoland

JULY 24, 2016

In crowded verticals, a lot of investors will simply sit on the sidelines and avoid making investments, which limits the number of investors who are writing checks in these spaces. It will be REALLY important for you to put a LOT of work into your differentiation story. Some verticals will be difficult to get revenue traction in.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

In this episode, we dive into Brent’s framework that can help you attract the right customers, establish your authority, and build a marketing engine that will help you acquire a solid, growing client base. It doesn't have to just be a vertical. 5:31] How do you define scale, and how does it differ from growth?

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Hippoland

MARCH 19, 2017

One of the biggest components of this is differentiating your product / your company from others. Differentiation is very difficult — there are so many entrepreneurs who are doing something similar to you and also so many alternatives that achieve the same results as your product / solution. They care about that end result.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Content creation, the engine of inbound marketing, creates the draw (i.e. The end goal, as John details in his course , is to reverse engineer accountability so that marketing is responsible not just for a number of leads but an amount of revenue that various lead types are forecasted to generate. Second, “lead” generation.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 21, 2020

What about corporation-wide reporting for different brands, verticals, portals, or even companies within a multinational concern, all of which operate in different countries? For whatever reason, our engineers forgot to implement the tracking on one of the shops, and I forgot to test everything correctly. My conclusions were wrong.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In many cases, a deeper focus on a particular category or vertical allows these marketplaces to distinguish themselves from broader marketplaces like eBay. Often, investors miss out on vertically focused companies like RigUp as they find themselves overly anxious about TAM (total available market). based teachers.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

How to differentiate yourself in a crowded market (and when perhaps you shouldn’t try). Is that true or is there some engine there I’m not familiar with? So if I were you I would say, ‘That is not a viable engine.’ So you’re going to need another engine.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Your brand positioning explains how your company differentiates in the marketplace and how you are different from your competitors. Horizontal vs vertical vs diagonal lines. Unlike vertical or diagonal lines, they look as though gravity has already acted upon them and there is nowhere for them to fall.

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Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

This pivot fundamentally changes your required organizational competencies, from Sales and Marketing to Engineering, Operations, and Support. We had engineering specialists and felt we had this unique technology. If you pursue a new strategy without refactoring your underlying capabilities, you will likely fail.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

If you are genuinely passionate about it, that will shine through and you will immediately be differentiated from the many sales people that attend these events. At Coremetrics, I built more of an engineering-driven culture. The engineer assumes that the product “will sell itself”, and this mindset couldn’t be more wrong.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Some know how they do it, whether you call it your differentiated value proposition or your proprietary process or your USP. We created Lemonade as a purpose-built, technology-first, vertically integrated and legacy-free insurance carrier. Every single person, every single organization on the planet knows what they do, 100 percent.

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www.pakman.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

But if your service attracts particular verticals of content engagement, not all content is created equal, and some is much more valuable than others. However look for Twitter to use Twittercards and link management (affiliate programs, “products in your stream”) to differentiate. Products your friends bought, etc.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 10, 2019

While those tactics may have differentiated your campaigns in the past, they no longer do (or won’t soon). With account-based content , you’re usually cutting out search engines and proactively reaching out to prospects. Or, at the very least, narrowly targeted verticals.). is all personalized for singular brands. (Or,

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ConversionXL

JULY 27, 2015

Accessibility and search engine optimisation (SEO) are closely related. If content is easier to access for screen readers, it is also easier for search engines to read and index. CX Partners agreed that users found it easiest to scan a form with vertical field labels. Users with low vision will struggle to read the label.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 18, 2011

might have been a lot less differentiated. And I’m a big believer in vertical use cases (in additional to more generalized platforms for sharing content). I know we will be retailer friendly rather than becoming the lost-common-denominator comparison shopping engine. companies versus the Web 1.0

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Comparing the list to the top 300 leading SaaS companies in the US, some interesting trends emerge: Europe is showing strength in data/ analytics and security, driven by the booming ecosystem in Israel but is less represented in developer/infrastructure and vertical applications. and Intacct for $0.85B.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

So we opened the goFlow platform from surfing-only to 10 new verticals: Paddle-boarding, Diving, Fishing, Skateboarding, Cycling, Golfing, Snow sports, Boating, Kitesurfing and more to come. And this was at a prestigious engineering school. It’s a problem that all weather driven sports have. You couldn’t read it.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Companies are investing in enterprise software not just as a platform to run their business on, but the engine that moves it forward. Typically, this value falls into one of three categories: Differentiation: The features you’re looking to build or acquire will help you stand out among your competitors.

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Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Let’s explore the status and implications of each vertical. . The end user interfaces and user counts are much earlier here, but I’m seeing more promising projects like Planetary (founded by an early Twitter engineer) emerge. Their biggest differentiators are 1) censorship resistance and 2) (theoretically) lower costs.

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