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10 Reasons Your Business Website Is Struggling To Convert Sales

YoungUpstarts

Another issue that will anger users is when they see 404 error messages due tot site downtime. . Support this with verified customer reviews, and users will have no reason to doubt your value. . The website should be the key feature within your digital marketing strategy. Poor Target Marketing. Experts at hosting.co.uk

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Paywalls, SEO, and the Need for a Damn Good Brand

ConversionXL

Search engines are vital for discoverability. Google’s Public Search Liaison Danny Sullivan has openly pushed back against those who want subscription-only content flagged in search results: Our automated systems try to present the best information in relation to a search topic, as people expect us to do as a search engine.

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Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple

Steve Blank

Microsoft entered the 21st century as the dominant software provider for anyone who interacted with a computing device. 16 years later it’s just another software company. These misses weren’t in some tangential markets – missing search, mobile and the cloud were directly where Microsoft users were heading. Here’s why.

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Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple

Steve Blank

Microsoft entered the 21st century as the dominant software provider for anyone who interacted with a computing device. 16 years later it’s just another software company. These misses weren’t in some tangential markets – missing search, mobile and the cloud were directly where Microsoft users were heading. Here’s why.

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From Loyalty Programs To Fan Clubs, A Paradigm Shift

YoungUpstarts

CRM became more sophisticated, resulting in detailed monthly statements and targeted direct marketing. Engineers initially failed to understand the new possibilities of the new paradigm. I used to think that the success of my last startup was due to our software quality, thought leadership, patents, etc.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #14: Selling to the “Cool Kids”

Austin Startup

This is a huge recruiting year for data.world as we’ve found our product-market fit in the enterprise. data.world and our modern catalog for data and analysis is a new category of software, much like Bazaarvoice and Coremetrics created new categories before, and the brilliant book Play Bigger helped us find it. in honor of my mother.

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Introduction to Growth Hacking for Startups

VC Cafe

The term “Growth Hacking”, invented by Sean Ellis , and made popular by Andrew Chen , a Silicon valley marketer and entrepreneur, is a combination of two disciplines – marketing and coding: Growth hackers are a hybrid of marketer and coder, one who looks at the traditional question of “How do I get customers for my product?”

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