ConversionXL

AUGUST 5, 2013

A great example to show what I’m talking about is this – remarketing ad and landing page for Highrise : Image source. I wanted to read about starting a business! The key message in the ad was “Need US Company?” The only hint about the nature of the site is through the logo and the design elements.

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Gust

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Trademarks , which we touched on last week, are brand and product names, graphic logos, slogans, taglines, and other indicators of origin of the goods or services in question. In the Internet era, trademarks and domain names are closely interrelated, and both can be or become extremely valuable.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 21, 2013

Initially, I was a little conflicted about the whole not provided affair. As an analyst, I was upset that this change would hurt my ability to analyze the effectiveness of my beloved search engine optimization (SEO) efforts – which are really all about finding the right users using optimal content strategies.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

It’s not just about the Amazon subscription fees. Learn about the different ways to sell on Amazon and investigate their advantages and disadvantages. The first mistake leads us right onto the second one. Several sellers have tried to include the URL of their product or personal seller’s information (e.g.,

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 10, 2011

By Ernst Gemassme r Most of us have travelled abroad and experienced the challenges and frustrations of getting what we want without being laughed at or insulting our hosts. Even if you think your business is all local, multi-ethnic sensitivities are more relevant than you may think, including the US. Watch your product naming.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

We usually do all of this work behind the scenes and wait until we’re ready to launch to take the wraps off a new product, but this time we thought we’d do it a bit differently and give you a first-hand look into our process. We want to take you on the journey with us. What was the process like for choosing a name? Stay tuned!

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 1, 2018

What images come to your head when you think about summer? Post something about the redesign on your social media accounts and send a newsletter email to your subscribers. This brings us to our next tip, keeping your marketing sunny and fresh. This brings us to our next tip, keeping your marketing sunny and fresh.

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Hot off the press, hear the hosts of the Startup Success Podcast interview Mike Taber and I about the Micropreneur Academy. Follow me Startups for the Rest of Us. For more on my story and the purpose of all this, visit the about page. Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. You can find it here.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2012

And with that same massive leap of creativity Microsoft decided that their logo would have their product name and the letter “E’ with a swoop over it. One of E.piphany’s product innovations was that we used this new fangled invention called the browser and we ran on both Netscape and Microsoft’s.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 3, 2016

The name of our company came from the name of our flagship product. Since we’re a mobile app company we wanted a product name that was short, easily remembered, non-controversial and at least somewhat descriptive of the service. After throwing around some names we rejected we settled on making it an acronym.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

At the same time we were educating the press , we began to educate our own marketing department about what exactly we were supposed to be doing inside the company. What I’m about to describe here is quite different. I couldn’t care less about those. And to this day I can’t remember if we even had a corporate mission statement.)

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

For about two weeks no new posts were showing up in my RSS feed, then last week old posts were marked as new with multiple rows of links added below them. November 2nd, 2009 | About this Blog Building your startup? Follow me Startups for the Rest of Us. For more on my story and the purpose of all this, visit the about page.

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Up and Running

MARCH 1, 2016

Please consult a patent attorney for more information about filing for a patent, and getting your idea to market. . Everything you see around you—every item you own, every book you’ve read, every app you use, every website you browse—was once nothing more than an idea in someone else’s head. We’ll talk more about this in step three.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2010

By Ernst Gemassmer Most of us have travelled abroad and experienced challenges and frustrations of getting what we want without being laughed at or insulting our hosts. A successful sales person wanted to become more familiar with the international market and requested a transfer to the Latin American sales group, based in the US.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 23, 2010

Naming your company can be challenging and time consuming. If you need help or simply don’t have the time (it took us nearly 50 hours to name “crowdSPRING&# ), you can leverage crowdSPRING’s community of more than 64,000 designers and writers to come up with your company name or a product name.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 15, 2014

I’ve written about BuzzSumo in my weekend favs column and in other tool roundups, but recent upgrades to BuzzSumo have me going to it more and more. Full disclosure, I talked about BuzzSumo so much they gave me a pro account.). Alerts have been with us for a while. Influencer mining. The original player was Google Alerts.

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 28, 2013

Every day my Facebook and Twitter feeds are full of discussions about music, fashion, electronics, travel and other highly valuable verticals. Here are some ideas: Aggregating all the similar product names into a “comparison” unit with pricing and availability from top merchants. .” What a crock.

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 12, 2010

But we haven’t talked about how big of a role traffic quality plays in determining your conversion rate. But the number of conversions stayed about the same as it had been the week before, meaning the conversion rate (the number of sales per visitor) plummeted. Follow me Startups for the Rest of Us. Is this bad?

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 12, 2018

. #1-Conveyed an idea based on a product. We came up with our product name before our company name. Our product is Sgt. So when we were thinking of a company name, we wanted to convey the idea of sleep while giving us the flexibility to appeal to both a military and non-military audience.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

New businesses’ product pages need to be descriptive enough in the right way so search engines will find them. SEO does involve knowing a bit about how web pages are formatted. Going into the details in this post would take us away from our purpose. That helps search engines identify the product properly. An SEO caveat.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 30, 2010

A few days ago, Gary Vaynerchuk and I exchanged a few thoughts on Twitter about customer service. Our commitment to customer service has made us the most trusted and largest online marketplace for crowdsourced creative services. Gary wrote the following: There’s much truth to Gary’s statement.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 30, 2010

A few days ago, Gary Vaynerchuk and I exchanged a few thoughts on Twitter about customer service. Our commitment to customer service has made us the most trusted and largest online marketplace for crowdsourced creative services. Gary wrote the following: There’s much truth to Gary’s statement.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

As much as everyone on the team hoped that the right name would just appear to one of us one morning in the shower, it just wasn’t happening. So, we decided to apply some structure to the creative process to see if that would give us a name. Here’s the structure that we used to come up with our new product name.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

These generations dominate product sales today and will continue to wield a great influence well into the future. Millennials’ US spending will represent 30 percent of total retail sales by 2020 and within a few years, is expected to grow to $1.4 This includes your company’s name and logo design. trillion annually.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Q: Give us the elevator pitch for you company? Today, it’s remarkable when a person gets a handwritten note via snail mail. &# That’s what I want my customers to tell their friends about my business! So we started searching for a service to handle this task for us. The goals for our minimum viable product were: 1.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

(For more on naming, read Why and How to Rename Your Business and 10 Tips for Naming Your Startup or Small Business ). We recently spoke with Mike Taylor, (who goes by the username mt1895 on crowdspring ), a competitive professional product and business namer, about his experiences working with crowdspring.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 14, 2021

The best approach is going straight to the source, asking your customers what they want, need, and already love about your products or services. how your product helps solve a problem), but it’s key to go beyond surface insights. Their guard will be up, so be transparent about the purpose of your call.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

A headline can be as obvious as the word “sale” or simply your product name. It is all about context. Be smart about writing your body copy. Think before you write: consider what you have to offer and write down the features—and more importantly, the benefits of your products and services. Like us on Facebook!

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 1, 2022

6:26] What in the 8 years since your first book was released has changed the most about content? [13:33] 13:33] How does somebody find their voice, and how do they use it well? [17:56] More About Ann Handley: AnnHandley.com. More About The Agency Workshop: Apply for the Agency Workshop. 24:38] What would E.B.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

(For more on naming, read Why and How to Rename Your Business and 10 Tips for Naming Your Startup or Small Business ). We recently spoke with Shaunda Lindsay, (who goes by the username shaunda on crowdspring ), a competitive product and business namer, about her experiences working with crowdspring.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 25, 2010

Be professional, treat others with respect, help us build something very special, and we’ll take notice. Please tell us about yourself. Sometimes I work with my husband on post production of UK and US film and TV productions. Please tell us about your favorite projects. I love words.

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ConversionXL

MAY 15, 2018

So why keep talking about it? This is a question that — as customers — we instinctively, unconsciously ask ourselves every single time we think about buying a new product. Unfortunately as soon as we switch from the role of Customer to the role of Marketer, 99% of us develop a striking inability to give a clear, b.s.-free

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ConversionXL

APRIL 23, 2019

Think about it. A framework for thinking about ecommerce checkouts: The Fogg Behavior Model. Here’s the model: Used with permission from Persuasive Tech Lab. People click on the link and get to the product page. What about ability? Remind shoppers about the good stuff: shipping, returns, and security.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

For example, if I were pitching LinkedIn’s Series B today with what I now know about successful pitches, the investment thesis would be: Massively valuable properties will be built off networks. Normally, you’d expect us to explain our product — i.e., what “professional people search 2.0” Reid Hoffman. Show, don’t tell.

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Software By Rob

JULY 15, 2011

It’s a free tool put together by Sean Ellis and Hiten Shah as a way for product owners to easily survey their customers using pre-written questions. Keep in mind these are specific to DotNetInvoice and may or may not apply to your product (I recommend using survey.io to find out for yourself).

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Venture Chronicles

JANUARY 28, 2010

The primary problem is that Apple is competitively targeting everyone with this product despite having glaring deficiencies when pared against specific competitors. Apple is clearly putting the Amazon Kindle in their sights but against the Kindle the iPad comes us short. The iPad is also much bigger and weighing it at about 1.5

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 8, 2017

Being a digital marketer, you keep hearing about CTR and also know that it holds utmost importance in digital marketing especially when it comes to PPC. You have even provided extra information about your business through site links. Some Call-to-Action examples are: Buy Online Now, Sign Up Today, Call Us Today, Learn More.

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