The Next Web

DECEMBER 12, 2013

In the era of mobile, social, and the sharing economy, we’re seeing the emergence of next-gen mobile-enabled marketplaces in every ecommerce category, from fashion ( Poshmark ), to health ( Brighter and HealthTap ), lodging ( Airbnb and HotelTonight ), transportation ( Uber and Lyft ), and real estate ( Zillow ).

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Mobile Silicon Valley Viral Technical Review 136

The Startup Magazine

JUNE 6, 2021

Start a video podcast – video podcasts are increasingly popular among modern businesses and can greatly help achieve viral popularity across social media platforms and search engines on the web. Market Research. You have your idea all worked up and your business model all set up. Conclusion.

Social Media 173

Social Media Affiliate Audience Startup 173

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Launch a viral competition. A viral competition is a competition where you enter with an email address, and then get extra entries for every person who signs up from your referral. For this viral competition we generated 2,987 emails for a total cost of $6,661.11 Here are some of the best approaches being used today… 1.

Database 48

Database Email Viral Campaign 48

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Search Engine Marketing (SEM) can be split into two search strategies: Pay-Per-Click (PPC) refers to how your company bids on keywords that represent the intent of what the customer is looking for, leveraging marketing spend to gain visibility by securing placement at the highest ranks within the search engines.

Channel 145

Channel PPC Marketing SEO 145

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

Everyone in the eCommerce industry, including the Shop.org community, was wondering what company I would found next. But I’ll grant that he taught us a lot and had crazy-good engineers. They were also serial entrepreneurs, having founded the eCommerce site Fogdog.com before. At that time, clients loved Coremetrics.

Stealth 48

Stealth Cofounder Los Angeles Technical Review 48

The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

Here are some of the top tools you must definitely use to increase your business presence on social media: Shopify – A complete multi-channel ecommerce solution, Shopify lets you sell your products directly on 20+ social channels. 5- Create Viral Videos on YouTube. YouTube is the second largest search engine of this world.

Social Media 96

Social Media Media Sales Audience 96

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

It’s true that the carrier then gets their huge slice for being the billing and payment engine but the idea is that you as a website more than make up for this in terms of customer conversion. It is a platform to help brands building viral marketing campaigns. Wildfire was one of the darlings of the fbFund incubator program.

Venture Capital 270

Venture Capital Cofounder Spain San Diego 270

ConversionXL

JANUARY 8, 2018

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is one of the biggest levers that a business can use within their acquisition strategy as part of their Growth goals. The best SEO teams are formed by being cross functional (designer, content, SEO, engineer). Growth Hacking, Growth Marketing, Brand, IT, Engineering Acquisition, where do you sit?

SEO 134

SEO Metrics Analytics Search 134

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Despite popular belief, transactional emails are not exclusively relevant to eCommerce companies. In addition, the social sharing buttons at the top create a built-in growth engine / viral loop. That statement should be concerning to everyone , not just eCommerce companies. Reminder / Notification Emails. A lot of it.

Email 48

Email Canada Software Review Technical Review 48

Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 1, 2016

Having an electrical engineering background, I knew there had to be a better way and I could help build it. We built some early ecommerce sites around 1999 and back office order processing systems using visual basic for applications (VBA). I knew this was not an accurate way to track critical vital signs. 8 – Almost By Mistake.

Entrepreneur 48

Entrepreneur Non-Compete LLC Social Media 48

The Next Web

AUGUST 19, 2013

Mikita Mikado is a software engineer and entrepreneur from Belarus, now based in San Francisco. I’m a geek and software engineer from the former ­Soviet state of Belarus. Being an engineer, I built myself a kind of algorithm that helps determine an early-­stage startup’s sales channels, and that’s what I’m sharing with you today.

Belarus 137

Belarus Viral Channel Startup 137

Up and Running

JULY 26, 2016

For ecommerce, this is based on transaction size, commission, and chances of the user returning. There are a number of other variables here like virality (the chances of a user referring another user), but I don’t want to overcomplicate things. In a SaaS business, this is calculated based on churn. Successful and failed experiments.

Revenue 60

Revenue Acquisition Channel Campaign 60

crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

Facebook Login Reduces Ecommerce Sales (Case Study) – crowdspring.co/15aPEmB. Five characteristics of a viral product – crowdspring.co/1aa5ZGk. Facebook Login Reduces Ecommerce Sales (Case Study) – crowdspring.co/15aPEmB. Five characteristics of a viral product – crowdspring.co/1aa5ZGk.

Social Media 96

Social Media Small Business Design Media 96

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Rejoiner , an email platform for ecommerce sites, began as a side project. Running comparative calculations, Arsenault figures that “two senior engineers plus a product manager/marketer for 40 hours per month, times 6 months, would be 720 hours to get to our MVP. The answers ranged from $0 to $1 million. Rejoiner spent $0 on their MVP.

Sweat Equity 78

Sweat Equity Software Review Vesting Cofounder 78

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Rejoiner , an email platform for ecommerce sites, began as a side project. Running comparative calculations, Arsenault figures that “two senior engineers plus a product manager/marketer for 40 hours per month, times 6 months, would be 720 hours to get to our MVP. The answers ranged from $0 to $1 million. Rejoiner spent $0 on their MVP.

Sweat Equity 50

Sweat Equity Software Review Vesting Cofounder 50

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 22, 2011

I Got No Ecommerce. Tip #14: Measuring Value of Ecommerce Sales Tools. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Metrics & Analytics. Viral, Social, Sentiment, Mobile: 4 Delightful Web Analytics Solutions. Rethink Web Analytics: Introducing Web Analytics 2.0. Data Mining And Predictive Analytics On Web Data Works? 1: Visitors.

Analytics 124

Analytics Metrics SEM Web 124

Up and Running

JANUARY 14, 2022

Our answer was simple– SEO (search engine optimization). The higher the score, the more Google and other search engines identify the information you provide as being useful. All things being equal, search engines will present the pages that best satisfy the intent of a searcher. Challenges of launching a new brand.

SEO 104

SEO Software Review Search Acquisition 104

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 4, 2016

Referral Marketing– This includes intentional word of mouth activities, viral tactics as well as intentional referral generation. The Referral Engine – John Jantsch – Yep, I wrote a book on the subject! Further Reading: The Ultimate Guide to eCommerce Email Marketing. How to Optimize your Social Media Posts for Search Engines.

Lead Generation 28

Lead Generation Social Media Public Relations Channel 28

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Engine of growth pivot. There are three main strategies used today which are viral (word of mouth), sticky (they keep coming back) and paid growth models. Jon Leighton is Director of digital agency iResources with over 10 years of experience in web and ecommerce. This is how you grow your startup.

Technical Review 138

Technical Review Architecture Revenue Channel 138

Austin Startup

APRIL 26, 2020

what was going to really make social work in an eCommerce environment. Apple has been a huge catalyst for digital music downloads due to the viral success of the iPod. a recommendation engine). But I digress. The point is that we were initially searching for the answers at Bazaarvoice?—?what

Technical Review 62

Technical Review Campaign Video Naming 62

ConversionXL

MAY 19, 2016

Both Harvard Business Review and Practical Ecommerce have reported the death of the linear funnel. One of my favorite examples of this is the design of viral loops. Andrew Chen has said that some of the best growth people don’t think in terms of funnels, they think in terms of viral loops. via Quora).

Analytics 78

Analytics Metrics Channel Software Review 78

ConversionXL

APRIL 11, 2016

Big brands are spending tens of thousands on videos that fall flat while a lucky few are going viral. MarketingLand found that 62% of Google searches include video, which might explain why Brightcove found that video drives a 157% increase in organic traffic from search engines. Optimize Videos for Search Engines. Product Pages.

Video 48

Video Conversion Mobile Search 48

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 21, 2009

Show your investors and potential advertisers that your property is driving the kind of "sticky" / "engaging" / "viral" / "insert buzzword here" actual visitor behavior. They will love you more.

Analytics 75

Analytics Conversion Campaign Metrics 75

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Christina Stembel , founder of Farmgirl Flowers, an ecommerce floral delivery company. Then she went to work on the technology: I hired some contract engineers who used to work on the Life Alert product to build us a really dinky prototype that you could plug into the wall. Christina Stembel. And download any of the past shows here.).

Entrepreneur 260

Entrepreneur Cofounder San Francisco Campaign 260

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc. billion in annual subscription revenues not including advertising or eCommerce).

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Internet Technical Review 318

Altgate

JUNE 1, 2009

Joel Spolsky , Founder / CEO at Fog Creek Software (64,598) Seth Godin , Founder of Yoyodyne; creator of "permission marketing" (41,957) Jason Fried , 37signals co-founder Jason Fried (and other 37signals employees) (31,595) Tim O'Reilly , Founder / CEO of O'Reilly Media (10,269) Jason Calacanis , CEO of Mahalo (10,000) [ note: this (..)

Cofounder 59

Cofounder Entrepreneur Technical Review Venture Capital 59

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Christina Stembel , founder of Farmgirl Flowers, an ecommerce floral delivery company. Then she went to work on the technology: I hired some contract engineers who used to work on the Life Alert product to build us a really dinky prototype that you could plug into the wall. Christina Stembel. And download any of the past shows here.).

Entrepreneur 120

Entrepreneur Cofounder San Francisco Campaign 120

Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Konstantinos says, “Since our market is online retailers, we approached our local eCommerce association and started interacting with the community. Producthunt.com is a great resource for viral marketing for the product launch as well as community feedback.”. So, your first task it to get your name out there.”.

Software Review 74

Software Review Software Delaware Forecast 74

Occam's Razor

MARCH 25, 2014

It could also include your blog, your recommendation engines, your customer forums, and all kinds of other digital existences that you own outright. Visitor Loyalty empowers a focus on one person and the quest to impress them so much that they want to come to your site (content or ecommerce) again and again and again.

Metrics 155

Metrics Marketing Analytics Channel 155

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

ScheduleOnce – Scheduling engine to get everyone who needs to meet together at one time. Shoutlet – Distribute and track viral marketing campaigns across social media outlets. Shiftboard – Online scheduling for businesses to coordinate worker schedules. Robyn – Easy online scheduling for service providers.

Software Review 78

Software Review Social Media Social Network Software 78

Occam's Razor

JUNE 15, 2010

I choose the metric I like as an outcome on my blog (remember a non-ecommerce website!): Far too often we are obsessed with conversion rates in an eCommerce context. I would like to know when parts of that strategy are causing buzz and word of mouth and viral and … pick your fav phrase. :). Per Visit Goal Value.

Analytics 105

Analytics Customer Framework Web 105

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Why should we spend our marketing budget on the "99 guaranteed ways to make your video go viral" to deliver a great brand ad? Why should we wait for the Bing/Google/Yandex auction to work in our favor to ensure our ad shows up in front of the right people? Why not rethink acquisition? Closing Thoughts.

Acquisition 144

Acquisition Mobile Customer Marketing 144

mashable.com

MAY 24, 2011

Mobile commerce revenues may still pale in comparison to their ecommerce brothers, but we’re already seeing signs of mobile commerce’s potential. For merchants, it’s no longer enough to have an ecommerce strategy — businesses need to embrace a mobile commerce strategy as well. ); // Welcome to Mashable!

Mobile 90

Mobile Web Social Media Software Review 90

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

Can enterprise SaaS products be viral? How Color Affects Search Engine Optimization (SEO) | Search Engine Land – [link]. 47% of National Brands to Invest More in Local in 2013 [Study] | Search Engine Watch – [link]. 35 Creative And Inspirational Fashion eCommerce Websites – [link]. – [link].

Social Media 102

Social Media Small Business Design Media 102

Occam's Razor

APRIL 29, 2013

When I search for "avinash" on Google I might rank #1 in the search results because I'm logged into my Google account, the engine has my search history, my computer IP address, it also has searches by others in my vicinity, local stories right now, and so many other signals. So check your keyword ranking if it pleases you.

Metrics 166

Metrics Marketing Search SEO 166