Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2010

If you sell widgets, and a user is searching for widgets, your ad will appear on the same page as the search results for widgets. With SEM, the goal is for the search user to not only see your ad, but to click on it to get to your website (click-through), and buy your widget (conversion to sale).

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Up and Running

JUNE 21, 2017

Inside Google’s environment, you can integrate your Google Analytics to Adwords account, and cross-match your goal conversions to your campaigns, ad groups and even specific ads and keywords. The formulas that you’ll end up using the most are INDEX/MATCH, COUNTIFS, and SUMIFS.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2018

So if you’re using our Facebook Messenger website chat widget (see the MobileMonkey website for an example of this) the conversations are instantaneously being routed from your website, to the user, via Facebook Messenger. Combine any widgets you use in your messages with a strong CTA (call-to-action).

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blog.teamtreehouse.com

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Gumby : Like its flexible namesake, the Gumby framework by Digital Surgeons includes user interface widgets such as drop-down navigation and sub-navigation bars, tabs, formatted forms and tables, and various jQuery-based buttons. Skeleton : Of the frameworks with widgets and extras, Skeleton by Dave Gamache has the easiest-to-read CSS.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 30, 2013

1) Social message match. Use testimonials and social media widgets to establish your authority and show your success. Widgets show how many people have liked, shared, tweeted your product/article etc. That way when your leads are finally in the buying phase they already have the answers to their questions that normally come up.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 19, 2016

Marketers are left with analytics that don’t match up with the actual amount of users on their site. First-party URL shortening and widget sharing data. For these IDs to be the most effective, however, they need to collect information from one of two types of matching methods: “deterministic” and “probabilistic.”. Image Source.

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 4, 2018

Where the match is in your favor, why not use that as a nudge? Express did a reverse lookup based on my IP Address, matched that with their stores, then checked their ERP system for inventory and got me the answer. Naked Wines has a lovely widget next to each of their wines that shows the would buy again rate…. Nudge, nudge!

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Steve Blank

MARCH 11, 2015

I just spent a day working with Bob, the Chief Innovation Officer of a very smart large company I’ll call Acme Widgets. Talking to Bob I realized that at Acme Widgets (and in most large companies) the word “failure” was being used to describe two very different events: failure in execution of a known product in known market.

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Up and Running

JULY 3, 2014

It might look like this: “We make the absolute-best purple widgets on the planet.”. “We We will export purple widgets.”. “We We will export purple widgets to France.”. “We We will consider making other type widgets, say in red, if a customer in France is large enough to justify the change.”. Classify your product.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

The displayed vendor profile pages, on the other hand, are quite robust useful information showing social media widgets, descriptions and client reviews. Personal vendor pages have logos, social widgets and product lists thanks to WC Vendors. Especially, when trying to set up a bigger number of item lists.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Q: I would decide what that niche is and that way you can talk to people in that niche and make sure that their world view and viewpoint on this stuff matches yours. So while the abstraction shown is a failed CRM, this could just as easily be applied to a ticketing management widget. We think maybe [inaudible] small differences.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 26, 2011

Entreave has recently secured an undisclosed amount of funding to continue developing its match-making platform and information portal. Entreave is developing a proprietary match-making platform that will enable companies and recruiters to hire the right talent faster and in a cost efficient manner.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 31, 2017

Test set up is easy – the editor is easy to use with a useful preview mode – users with little technical experience can easily modify pages and create new designs or use the unique library of widgets – AB Tasty Engage. Pricing is mid range – not as expensive as other leading competitors in the market.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Message match: Ad to Headline. Then show the widgets when the count is high enough and switch back to a form. To understand the role of a landing page it helps to show visually how they fit into your marketing flow, from the traffic source, through your different test variants, and finally, the confirmation page.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Included are thousands of form templates with preset questions, form themes with preset styles and designs, hundreds of widgets for specialized fields on your form, and over a hundred integrations for processing your responses after they’re submitted. They save users time in having to build their forms from scratch.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Simply fill out a profile about yourself and your goals, and then search the mentor profiles that match your needs. More than 1,000 matches have been made to date. Procter & Gamble Launches Widget to C. Appcelerator and PayPal Team Up for M. Facebook Gets Its First Non-Profit Gi. President Obama Tells Gay Teens "It G.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

To greet renters and hand over the keys, Hertz sometimes hires a stand-in through TaskRabbit, a Web-based company that matches time-deprived people in need of temporary assistants with freelance errand runners who have passed criminal background checks and are looking for extra income. Most popular right now: Sponsored Links. E-Newsletters.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Specifically, an advertiser might be willing to pay $3 to have someone with 10,000 followers tweet about how great their widget is, as in this Ad.ly is still around at least, but wisely pivoted into matching celebrities (like Mandy Moore) with major brands (like NBC). Companies like TweetUp and Ad.ly They "survived.".

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 27, 2013

For instance if your “Widget #1″ had total sales of $10,000 last year and you believe that sales will increase by 5% this year, you can input that assumption, set up a quick multiplication formula and arrive at your projected sales of $10,500!

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 29, 2012

The easiest way to get any site content shared is to install a widget on your site. If your site has a number of different widgets, it might be better to remove one first and replace it with the “Pin It” button so you don’t clog up your site.

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sharkseo.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

A year or so ago, I noticed a marketing campaign by a company that involved offering bloggers a “plant a tree&# widget for their site – if you placed the banner on your site, they’d plant a tree. But again – take that data with a pinch of salt, it’s impossible to say how accurate it is.

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techcocktail.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

“Teams that can learn, adapt and grow together will have much higher likelyhood of success than those who just seem like perfect matches on paper.&# – Matt Jacobson, LaunchBox Digital We hope some of these tips are helpful -and if you have other words of advice from your own experience, please leave them in the comments below.

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sixrevisions.com

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Based on these content attributes, you are able to navigate to items that match your criteria. As someone who’s new to Information Architecture could you apply this same analysis to widgets? Say you’re browsing for a new LCD monitor, the guided navigation options might list things like size, price, brand, and so on.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 16, 2018

When choosing keywords, start off more specific, using longer search strings and exact match, phrase match, and modified broad match keywords, so that you do not bid against more general, and more expensive, keywords. Avoid broad match and 1-word strings. Upload it to Facebook to match for retargeting.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 30, 2012

Matched Query Type, Keyword Position, Day Parts: Sexier PPC Analytics. #7. " The cool bit is that in addition to standard widgets and simple tables, you can also bundle along your smarts into the dashboard and delight your users. Smart widget, smart insights, smart decisions. money our own efforts are generating.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

This is the reason commonly seen “related link” widgets often fail to grab attention: when everyone sees the same suggestions, only a portion of the audience cares. Our Text-To-Video Platform can then match the best visual representation for the text, add voice-over narration and generate an engaging video out of it.

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mobile.smashingmagazine.com

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Rather than build an app entirely with native or HTML5 technology, why not mix and match the technologies? Depending on how you wish to structure the application, native “widgets” may be implemented for each platform (iOS, Android, Windows, etc.) Why Not Mix It Up? and then invoked from the common core HTML5 application.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 22, 2013

They've also built a widget (only for Android for now) where you can see a Value of the Day on your home screen. Because the consideration stage matches your marketing, which in turn matches the metric. So, if you download the mobile app created as a result of these efforts, how big of a problem is it solving for Walmart?

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Identifying and matching themes are key if you’re looking for a way in at Foundry Group. You may also want to consider Crowdfunding at Seedups which is an innovative online matching service that allows entrepreneurs to raise up to £250,000 in seed capital from Business Angels. Procter & Gamble Launches Widget to C.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Sagarmatha - Sagarmatha enables mobile operators to maximize the marketing impact of their service offers by matching them personally to each subscriber, based on customer behavior modeling, prediction &previous purchase information. Traffix systems -Traffix Systems is the Diameter control plane expert.

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Hippoland

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Set up a newsletter signup widget so that people can subscribe to your blog. My friend Walter Chen of iDoneThis recommends mixing and matching content you’ve already written to reduce the time it takes you to write, which I’ve personally found to be a great tip. Optimize it. Set up tweet this links in your posts.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 5, 2013

For example create questions like: “How do you feel about the quality of Product Widget?”. Does it match up with the quality of goods/services you sell? Extremely Satisfactory. Satisfactory. Unsatisfactory. Extremely Unsatisfactory. What Should my Questions Address? Does it need improvement?

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Jeff Hilimire

MAY 28, 2013

You can also help crowd-fund by saying you’ll match your friends up to $7. You don’t see it on my homescreen because I have a widget set up for it on another screen. But it works, I get my PTI and The Herd podcasts there and that’s pretty much all I need. interpolate also shared this one with me.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Your email platform will be pulling fields from your spreadsheet to create a customized, yet automated email template, so the syntax of each field in your spreadsheet should match up with the way you have each logged in your platform (more on platforms later). End: Call to Action (CTA). So what action are you going for?

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Hippoland

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Set up a newsletter signup widget so that people can subscribe to your blog. My friend Walter Chen of iDoneThis recommends mixing and matching content you’ve already written to reduce the time it takes you to write, which I’ve personally found to be a great tip. Optimize it. Set up tweet this links in your posts.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2019

If the page header matches what the user clicked, the buyer will be reassured. If buyers are trying to load a calculator widget or process a request, then a progress bar or notification of some sort let’s them know what’s happening. Match your system to the real world. Page headers. Highlighting selected menu options.

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Jeff Hilimire

JANUARY 11, 2011

We finally have a chance to be relevant to our customers – to help brands be connected to their customers when the customer needs them , not when the brand needs to sell more widgets.

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