Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2012

eCommerce model. This is a hybrid of the shopkeeper and eCommerce models, in which a company integrates both offline (bricks) and online (clicks) presences. There are many more, with descriptive names like the auction model, direct sales model, value-added reseller model, multi-level marketing model, and the freemium model.

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Business Model eCommerce Business Plan Revenue 238

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

eCommerce model. This is a hybrid of the shopkeeper and eCommerce models, in which a company integrates both offline (bricks) and online (clicks) presences. There are many more, with descriptive names like the auction model, direct sales model, value-added reseller model, multi-level marketing model, and the freemium model.

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Business Model eCommerce Revenue Stock 231

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 4, 2016

Practice your sales skills early. Popular examples include monthly subscription fees and optional service fees, versus one-time product sales. Another is the use of an ecommerce site, rather than retail, to facilitate product sales seven days a week, around the clock and around the world. It never hurts to ask.

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Bootstrapping Social Media Equity eCommerce 120

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

There's an opportunity for follow-on sales to existing customers. Every business brings a set of existing customers who are great candidates for additional sales from a partner-competitor. A strategic partnership, sharing common gains, should be a growth opportunity by expanding the market for both.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 28, 2015

This can be projected top down from market share assumptions, or bottom up from actual costs and sales results. The most common business models these days include the subscription model, freemium model and ecommerce. Each has a different set of variables for sales, revenue flow, marketing costs and personnel.

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Conversion Ratio Startup Business Model eCommerce 120

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

eCommerce model. This is a hybrid of the shopkeeper and eCommerce models, in which a company integrates both offline (bricks) and online (clicks) presences. There are many more, with descriptive names like the auction model, direct sales model, value-added reseller model, multi-level marketing model, and the freemium model.

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Business Model eCommerce Revenue Stock 120

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2017

Every new business or product owner wants to attract the broadest possible audience, so they are prone to adding more features, multiple sales channels, and appealing to every demographic. With limited resources, you can sell via ecommerce, but it’s much tougher to support retail as well, or hire a direct sales team.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2012

Another common variation worth considering is the move from a one-time product sale to monthly subscription or license fees. Sales channel pivot. Startups with complex new products always seem to start with direct sales, and building their own brand. Another is the famous razor versus blade strategy.

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eCommerce Channel Differentiation Distribution 237

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Another common variation worth considering is the move from a one-time product sale to monthly subscription or license fees. Sales channel pivot. Startups with complex new products always seem to start with direct sales, and building their own brand. Another is the famous razor versus blade strategy.

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Startup eCommerce Channel Differentiation 222