crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 4, 2016

After all, your customers ultimately will want to learn more about your company’s products and services, and a dedicated website will help them do so. For even more about 2016 design trends, I recommend you read Top web design trends for 2016. Here’s a free tool you can use: whichloadsfaster.com.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 14, 2022

In this episode, I talk with Melissa about her entrepreneurial journey and the problems that eWebinar set out to solve. 16:42] Are you an engineer or programmer yourself? [17:06] 22:06] Where can more people learn about eWebinar and connect with you? More About Melissa Kwan: Connect with Melissa on LinkedIn. eWebinar.com.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 26, 2013

In conversations about freelancing and online marketplaces for remote contract workers of the tech industry, the name of oDesk floats up pretty often. In our customer service team we have a hundred freelancers, in our trust and safety team we have another hundred, in our engineering team we have close to 150. million jobs.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

It’s always fun chatting with Jason because he’s knowledgeable about the market, quick on topics and pushes me to talk more about VC / entrepreneur issues. We’re staring to get the hang of how to divide the show up into talking about deals but also talking about issues for entrepreneurs during funding.

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searchengineland.com

MAY 30, 2012

Enterprise SEM. Overview: What Is SEM? SEM Columns. Our SEM Events. How To: SEM / Paid Search. More Search Engines. This sets an immediate precedent that the job is highly analytical and weeds out the marketers who would rather talk about what kind of tree their brand would be if it were a tree.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

But before you leap into the digital marketing fray, it’s critical to understand your enterprise’s goals and objectives: Are you seeking to simply educate the public about an innovative offer (market education)? Are you using the right search terms to garner attention organically? Current Customers.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2011

The following are some lessons I learned about early-stage startup marketing. Because market is such a broad topic, I’m restricting these lessons to PR marketing (as opposed SEO, SEM, product marketing, etc.). It means avoiding drinking too much at cocktail parties with other tech people and bragging about your plans.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 31, 2011

I was totally product focused for the last year and now it’s live, so I need to start thinking about finding some customers. Here’s the most common one which I got just this week: I’ve read somewhere in your blog about how you had a very large organisation as the first customer for your software. Any advice will help.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 12, 2007

Getting the most of your online marketing: the In & Out of SEM/SEO. It would be nice if You wanna give us some advises on the recruiting process in Venture Capital Industry. on a scale of 1-4). on a scale of 1-4). The videos can be watched at Bessemer Online Marketing Portal (the other materials are not public). Anonymous said.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

So when our company recently decided that we were ready to initiate VC talks, ready to get some funding to take us to the next level, I was surprised by some of the reactions we were receiving. While some VCs that I met seemed to be rightfully bullish about everything that had to do with eCommerce, some seemed to be missing the point.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

I am convinced one of Joel Spolskys lasting contributions to the field of managing software teams will turn out to be the Joel Test , a checklist of 12 essential practices that you could use to rate the effectiveness of a software product development team. Imagine a world where your QA team never, ever worries about bug regressions.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 4, 2017

That sounds like an obvious statement, but not a lot of people think about it critically. It doesn’t help that there’s a new blog post out every day about how you’re missing out on [X] and this company is killing it by doing [Y]. This is, of course, an effective channel for us (or we wouldn’t do it). Image Source.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

We wanted an agile approach that would allow us to build our software architecture as we needed it, without downtime, but also without large amounts of up-front cost. After all, the worst kind of waste in software development is code to support a use case that never materializes. Want to learn more about me? Expo SF (May.

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Up and Running

JULY 26, 2016

If you’re building a startup, you’re likely to be in one of these two situations: Launching and selling a new product that nobody’s ever heard about, and probably don’t even know they need, or… Improving an existing product or service, which means that you’re going head on against someone with more traction, people, and money than you.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Email us or call +44 (0) 844 3579899 home about services blog labs Chief Technology Officer job description (for web, start-up or corporate) « Upgraded your iPhone to OS 3 but files are missing? Apache with Django and mod_wsgi » Posted by Aidan, 6 th July 2009. Firstly, theres no one-size-fits-all description.

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mashable.com

MAY 28, 2010

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! She has written about culture for Momentum Magazine, business for Resource World Magazine, and a mess of assorted topics for The Huffington Post. Is It Sticky?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

In the very early days, the trick is to find anyone at all who can understand you when you are talking about your product. It required hearing customers say it over and over again for us to take a serious look, and eventually to realize that social networking was core to our business. Want to learn more about me? Expo SF (May.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 1, 2013

In many cases, the goal of online marketing (especially for small businesses), is to directly increase sales by targeting potential customers using different online channels. Search Engine Marketing. Search engine marketing focuses on promotion through search engines (Google, Bing). Display Ads. Social Media Marketing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Worse, if you are not geared up to make the best use of those customers when the launch sends them your way, its a pretty big waste. And, as well talk about in a moment, you dont get a second chance. Because this reason is so often used as an excuse, I recommend giving it extra scrutiny. At the time, we thought that was great.

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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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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 28, 2009

Ive told the story of how this desperation turned us on to Google AdWords in SEM on five dollars a day. We used those five dollars to buy 100 clicks, every single day, in the hopes that some of those people would become paying customers. Pretty soon we ran out of friends. Well, lack of usage, really. Thanks for sharing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

In this post I hope to talk about how to do it well, in terms appropriate for both audiences. Who among us really wants to find out that our hard work is for nothing? For each cohort, we can learn what percentage of them did each action we care about. This report is set up to tell you about new customers specifically.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Its enourmously helpful when you need to generate new ideas about what to do, or when you face a product problem you dont know how to solve. For example, we used to be baffled at IMVU by the significant minority of people who would download the software but never chat with anyone. How did you hear about it? More of the same.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Is it too self-referential to post a blog entry about someone elses blog entry about how often to write a blog entry ? His post is ostensibly about how often to release new work (whether youre a blog writer, movie star, software team.) But Seth Godin is a great writer, so I dont see why I cant crib from him whenever.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

Our paltry funding didnt allow us to buy expensive Sun or SGI boxes, but we had a pretty beefy intel-based box from Dell. We had just heard about Oracles support for Linux, so we installed Red Hat and tried to install Oracle. Want to learn more about me? Try About the author. Trying to learn more about lean startups?

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 2, 2015

A/B testing – for all the content out there about testing, huge amounts of people still mess it up. What You Need to Know About A/B Testing Statistics. A/B tests, while most popular to talk about, are just one type of online experiment – you can also run Multivariate and Bandit tests. How Long to A/B Test?

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Eric Friedman

NOVEMBER 10, 2008

I recently interviewed Motoko Hunt of AJPR for Search Engine Strategies Chicago where she will be speaking in the Search Around the World: Europe, Asia/Pacific & Latin America panel. I learned great deal about how the business works locally and Internationally. Motoko Hunt. to create effective campaigns.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

The goal of iterative development is to give us guard rails so we dont veer off to either extreme. The smaller the unit of a release is, the more you can learn about it, because the number of variables that have changed is so few. Lots of engineers are busy checking in and deploying their work. Expo SF (May.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2007

For some reason there is so much on this blog about the “business side” of things but not much technical stuff. So to make up for that this post covers some of the “technical” best practices around tracking with your web analytics tools, especially if you are using JavaScript tags. 3: Tags should be inline.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

We talk a good game about technology adoption curves and crossing the chasm, but most of us dont seem to recognize when its happening. we dont talk enough about how it feels. My two cents: talk about this beforehand. Its going to be hard to talk about in the midst of the malaise. Want to learn more about me?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

When I started investing the US advertising market was $300 billion with only 10% of it ($30 billion) of it being online and measurable. One recession later and the US advertising market is about $245 billion – but still only 10-12% is online and measurable. This form of advertising is know at CPA (cost per action).

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Yet for all the content out there about it, people still test the wrong things and run A/B tests incorrectly. As Peep once said, “Most top agencies that I’ve talked to about this run ~10 A/B tests for every 1 MVT.”. Before you think about optimization and testing, however, solidify your high-level strategy and move down from there.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 29, 2008 Q&A with an actual reader One of my favorite things about having a blog is the feedback I get in comments and by email. Question 1: When youre adding features to a product used by an existing user base, do you still do split testing to determine usage patterns? Absolutely, yes.

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 4, 2012

My emphasis was on getting Analysts to move outside the paid search silo, look more broadly at search engine marketing, and to not stop at keywords but rather dive into astonishingly important data elements like Ad Groups, Matched Query Types and more. Criminal behavior. You decide what the keyword is. You decide the landing page experience.

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Eric Friedman

JULY 28, 2008

I had the chance to interview Randy Peterson of P&G for his upcoming participation in Search Engine Strategies 2008: San Jose where he will be speaking on the Keynote Roundtable: “Why Does Search Get the Credit for Everything?” And searchers are really telling us what their needs are. ” panel.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2013

Some of them have legs and will be with us for a long time, others are like vapor – these may be in vogue at this moment in time, but a trend today is a mere memory to business owners a year from now. It’s about time! Well as cool as it was, Kozmo was about 15 years ahead of it’s time and was doomed to be a very well-funded failure.

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Not only will I tell you about them, I'll give you downloadable links so you can get going right away! I must forewarn you that my hidden agenda is also to expose to you metrics you might not be using, views of data that you might be ignoring, best practices that are of value and teach you how to fish. I love custom reports.

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