Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 8, 2009

Your friends and advisers tell you that this means you need revenue because in this economy VC’s will only fund businesses with revenue. So if it’s not necessarily revenue that’s preventing an investment, then WTF is traction? They get their widgets embedded or their products piloted. They make progress.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Ask your sales team: How do different product categories do throughout the year? We see our Red Widgets Ad Group in the Products Campaign has the lower CTR of the two, and is less than half the CTR of the day before. Dig into the keywords in the Red Widget Group to find out which ones are generating impressions without clicks.

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Growthink Blog

MARCH 13, 2012

Your competitor was selling a $500 widget, and the average purchaser bought 1.5 Your competitor's profit margin on each widget is 30%. Here's a summary of your competitors KPIs: 1% Response Rate 35% Conversion Rate $500 price per widget 1.5 Except, let's assume that you still charged the same $500 per widget.

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Up and Running

MAY 14, 2018

They think that their product is not yet ready, that it’s necessary to get traction and focus on expanding their customer base rather than on growing revenue. Building a product should imply increasing revenue. You can stay in touch with your customers through a good live chat widget , like HelpCrunch.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Nowadays nearly every online shop utilizes some sort of product recommendation engine, which is no wonder, as these systems, if set up and configured properly can significantly boost revenues, CTRs, conversions, and other important metrics. This simply means revenues through recommendations / total revenues.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 12, 2019

Goodbread, CFP®, CEPA®, CVGA®, owner of FinanciallySimple.com , and author of “ The Ultimate Sale: A Financially Simple Guide to Selling a Business for Maximum Profit “ So you’re at the beginning of your new business? Remember, profit is not the same thing as revenue, nor does high revenue equal profitability.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2019

You might sell one of two of your widgets for $1 million each, entering profitability immediately, but then die because you can’t grow sales at that price. MySpace, for example, launched in 2003 and boomed for five years without a revenue model. Even Snapchat is now trying hard to generate revenue. So let’s take a look.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2018

If you want to supercharge your marketing and accelerate growth and revenue, you’ll love this guide. 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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 23, 2013

If you sell widgets, and a user is searching for widgets, your ad will appear on the first page of search results for widgets. With PPC, 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). Marty Zwilling.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In consumer packaged goods, the benchmark for a “highly successful” product launch is no easy feat: $50 million in first-year sales. Successful demand generation campaigns break down silos between marketing and sales. Seed your launch campaign with advance sales. Definitions of failure also vary.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 30, 2018

For example, I watched as a client, working out of their basement, began earning $1MM in revenue and moved to a corporate office and warehouse within a few months of their first big media hit. Drive sales. The more people see you, the more opportunity you have to generate sales. Builds automatic positive perception. Amplify it!

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 4, 2018

Increase current conversion rate by 25%, quantify how much increased revenue there will be. Aim for quintupling revenue, obviously, but calculating just 25% improvement will give you all the budget you need from your management to insert urgency into the shopping process. Significantly higher revenue awaits. Do something simple.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2013

You might sell one of two of your widgets for $1 million each, entering profitability immediately, but then die because you can’t grow sales at that price. Myspace, for example, launched in 2003 and boomed for five years without a revenue model. Even Twitter is now trying hard to generate revenue. So let’s take a look.

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Widget Angel Investor Revenue Early Stage 242

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2017

You might sell one of two of your widgets for $1 million each, entering profitability immediately, but then die because you can’t grow sales at that price. MySpace, for example, launched in 2003 and boomed for five years without a revenue model. Even Snapchat is now trying hard to generate revenue. So let’s take a look.

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Widget Angel Investor Revenue Early Stage 137

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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YoungUpstarts

JULY 22, 2011

You’ll find content categorized into different topics such as Marketing , Sales , Design , Revenue , Hiring , Social Media , Business Models , Metrics , PR , Venture Capital , Angel Investors , Bootstrapping , Incubators , Agile and many others.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 4, 2015

Yet every business requires revenue and volumes, as certainly as it requires a product to sell. There is no black magic involved in predicting the future, if you use these four simple steps, with my basic rules of thumb to keep you on the right track: Determine your margin on sales. Forecast sales-volume expectations.

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Small Business Force

JUNE 18, 2017

Because you were successful in getting to a particular level of revenue or profit for one year doesn’t mean that beating it (or even meeting it) the following year is a given. sales, marketing, etc.). While all entrepreneurs want to grow their business, growth is not inevitable. And just as often, elusive. That delta is change.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2011

You might sell one of two of your widgets for $1M each, entering profitability immediately, but then die because you can’t grow sales at that price. Twitter, for example, doesn’t have a real revenue model today, and they are growing, but I’m not sure who can ever sell 140 character tweets. So let’s take a look.

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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. They’ve figured out the revenue model (subscription, license, direct sale, etc.) Therefore, in a large company, failure to meet a goal – revenue, product delivery, service, etc.–

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Think back to a sales situation with a friend of a friend, one where you started with a huge trust advantage: how much smoother and faster was the process? In which verticals do you experience smooth, seamless sales processes, instead of arduous uphill battles? Step 2: Determine your targets’ revenue floor and ceiling.

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ConversionXL

JULY 5, 2013

Let’s say you’ve created a high-ranking landing page that sells widgets. You also know the majority visitors won’t convert to a sale on the first visit, so your primary call to action is for visitors to exchange email for an autoresponder series that explains the different aspects of widgets.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 21, 2010

You might sell one of two of your widgets for $1M each, entering profitability immediately, but then die because you can’t grow sales at that price. Twitter, for example, has no revenue model today, and they are growing, but I’m not sure who can ever sell 140 character tweets. It’s hard to find investors for that model today.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 30, 2014

How to Use Cialdini’s Principles and A/B Testing to Increase Sales and Conversions written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. What they did was adding a customer testimonial widget to their product pages. increase in sales. Related posts: Can LinkedIn increase your sales?

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

A next generation biotech business would get priced at a higher valuation than yet another family diner or widget manufacturer. Juniors have achieved a full proof of concept around their business, with rapid user or revenue growth, approaching up to $1MM in revenues (Series A venture capital—raise $1MM to $5MM).

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 27, 2013

In business the verb usually refers to tools that are created to make projections of sales or profits, but can also be used to predict anything from website traffic to manpower requirements to employee health care costs. Project your sales. Manufacturers use sales projections for inventory and supply-chain management.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 8, 2012

For example, if you’re at the beginning of a simple campaign and you’re just trying to get a general idea of whether that campaign is working or not, and that’s all you’re concerned about, there’s no need to overload yourself with a dashboard full of widgets telling you all sorts of extraneous information.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 14, 2013

If more time and greater revenue is not reason enough to have solid systems in place, let''s consider these other factors that influence why you can''t live, or die, without a business system. What do you think is most likely? That they will hand you a check or that they will laugh you out of the building? If so, think about your exit plan.

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Mucker Lab

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Moreover, consumers could buy the iPod online or through the tactically designed Apple Store, which today has higher sales per square foot than any other U.S. Like the SaaS companies that would arrive years later, Apple also created a recurring revenue model through iTunes (although they had to compete against pirated music sites).

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

.” If the company adopted this model, not only would they have more revenue ($24K/year vs. $20K one-time) from the sale of the robot, but they would end up with a recurring revenue model, which would make for a much better business model for the company rather than selling complex widgets.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 8, 2021

In most cases, it includes: Salaries of sales and marketing teams Advertising spend on acquiring new customers (Search/Display Ads, Social Ads, Sponsorship, etc.) Cost of software/hardware used in sales and marketing Agency, PR, or any third-party costs involved in sales and marketing. LTV explains how much a customer is worth.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Others, such as Loosecubes, are looking for a more consistent stream of revenue by switching to a subscription-based model. Entrepreneurs have also tapped sharing platforms to directly market their goods and services, somewhat blurring the line between unadulterated peer-to-peer co-ops and direct sales channels. E-Newsletters.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

You can add a shipping calculator widget to your store to ensure transparency for buyers. Our mission statement included our goal of improving revenue, reducing marketing cost, getting more traffic, making more sales, increasing social media engagement and SEO success. Make sure not to add any unexpected cost at the last minute.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 18, 2016

It’s not necessarily a case of whether Twitter is dying – I personally believe it will have a ongoing shelf-life as a social networking tool – but if brands aren’t receiving the kind of engagement they need from the platform, Twitter is going to lose their revenue stream.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Topics are divided into IT, marketing, sales, finance, customer service, operations and human resources sections, which makes it easy to search for the latest discussions on your interest area. The site is run by Mercy Corps , which intends to help “small businesses grow faster, generate more revenue, and employ more people.&#

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www.kalzumeus.com

AUGUST 13, 2012

Doubling SaaS Revenue By Changing The Pricing Model. Well, on the surface it appears to align price with customer success (bigger customers pay more money), it gives you the excuse to have really fun widgets on your pricing page, and it seems to offer low-cost entry options which then scale to the moon. Greatest Hits. by Patrick.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 9, 2014

Once just a sparse, utilitarian messaging that conveyed the bare bones details of a business transaction, transactional emails are now multi-purpose missiles that impact a company’s reputation, revenue, research and audience retention. Exaggerations about products, services or price cuts in order to gain a sale or prospect.

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