Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

Rates per click are very low, so don’t try to live on ad revenues until visit rates are very high. Wikipedia started this, but it is also used for technical support, software, and product reviews. Crowdsourcing. This is a term indicating the use of “crowd wisdom” to get a task done free by interested people on the Internet.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2010

Rates per click are very low, so don’t try to live on ad revenues until visit rates are very high. Wikipedia started this, but it is also used for technical support, software, and product reviews. Viral marketing. " Examples include give-aways, contests, and celebrity stunts that grab attention. Crowdsourcing.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

You should also be sure to offer customer service and technical support, so customers remain happy and continue using your marketplace. It will take time before you start generating revenue and profits. Social media advertising and traditional marketing are two ways to promote your marketplace. Never rush these things.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 25, 2014

Without a doubt, revenue is essential for a tech company, even more so for small developers. Listen carefully and humbly to your users, using social media channels to provide real-time technical support. Social media is now an indispensable factor. Developers can’t afford to sit back and hope for the best.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 6, 2012

This program offers resources from beginning to end, offering office space, in-house technical support, experienced mentors, and valuable funding resources.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Even if revenue is down and budgets are tight, I predict that small business owners will see the wisdom of creating training and mentoring opportunities to level-up, develop, and, let’s face it, send a clear signal that their people are an important piece of their success. 6) UX and SEO get attached at the hip.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 24, 2011

The convenience of online shoe shopping is a game-changer — to the tune of billions of dollars of revenue — but how could they make up the costs ? After all, quality technical support requires an army of quality technical people, and those don’t come cheap. I hope this is sustainable, but is it?

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

In this article, I share how I’ve executed marketing and technical support for a virtual summit with 3–5k registered attendees. As always, there’s a temptation to translate any marketing effort into immediate revenue. Know why you’re hosting a virtual summit, what you’ll cover, and who it’s for.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Entering our 4th year of business, we doubled our headcount, became a certified B Corporation, and released our revenue model which aligned with our becoming a 1% for the Planet member. Photo Credit: Matt Daigle. There is so much for me to be proud of in 2019! directly impact the environment. I fell into a hysterical panic.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 22, 2020

I mean, even if revenue is down and budgets. So for things like sales and technical support, and I think even as a. So they've, you know, they've. long invested heavily in recruiting and employee branding initiatives, but you know, small. businesses rarely can afford the, you know, the, the perks, to attract talent.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 17, 2020

I mean, even if revenue is down and budgets. So for things like sales and technical support, and I think even as a. So they've, you know, they've. long invested heavily in recruiting and employee branding initiatives, but you know, small. businesses rarely can afford the, you know, the, the perks, to attract talent.

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Occam's Razor

MARCH 26, 2008

Content Consumption: Visits over time to each technical support core area (maybe different products or types of problems etc). Tickets Opened: # of technical supports tickets opened on the website (and over time compared to those opened over the phone).

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 4, 2017

There’s also an armed globally-dispersed Sales and Support teams, so we’re selling to our 70,000 existing customers as well as thousands of new customers per month, which means we’ll end up adding more new revenue in one month than a small company will take in over a whole year. No, it’s a colossal failure.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Small businesses and startups can outsource virtual assistants to help with everything from inbox management and online customer support, to updating social media content, and essentially any task that doesn’t require them to complete on-site. Inefficiencies can often cost businesses between 20-30% of their annual revenue.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 24, 2014

Charging by the month or user lowers the entry cost, provides a predictable revenue stream to startups, and allow updates to be done transparently. These range from extended warranties, to home delivery and setup, to on-site technical support. Everybody wins. Advisory services. Product sharing services.

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

flavor of a question-and-answer, poll-your-friends site with a distant revenue model and no user acquisition strategy. Ran if for two years before we shut it down with almost no revenue achieved. > community for software developers to share revenue is kindof tempting to do, though -- samlittlewood 215 days ago | link.

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www.ericsink.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

But in a small company that is funded by its own revenues, it is almost always a mistake to hire for a position before it is absolutely clear that hiring is the right thing to do. In 1998, SourceGear was looking to hire a full-time person in technical support. This is an easy mistake to make. Version 7.0

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 2, 2015

FAQs, technical support forums, and other platforms assist customers with product issues. Revenue goals: speed of sales, referrals, cost per lead etc. Content marketing helps people to discover your product service online through search or social media. Consideration? Content educates and engages prospects. Loyalty/Advocacy?

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Occam's Razor

JULY 1, 2008

conversion rate (average as reported by shop.org) and you are dutifully reporting our revenue of $1 million as a result. While you might be doing great in terms of direct revenue impact of your website, pause and consider what in God's name is happening to that other 98.3% "unconverted" traffic on your site?

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

However, if the Apple Watch becomes a device eligible for reimbursement , there’s a huge revenue upside for Apple. China is plowing into this with government support, private and public funding, and a China FDA (CFDA) approval process that favors local Chinese solutions. Today consumers pay directly for the Watch. Outside the U.S.,

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infochachkie.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Expertcity was initially named to reflect the company’s “marketplace for services,” which enabled independent, global experts to directly access customers’ computers and fix their technical problems. If we had named the product BuddyHelp, we probably would have generated a comparable amount of revenue.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Low-quality web hosting services, which do not have ample technical support, security, maintenance, and backup facilities, can be an enormous risk for a fledgling business. Loss of revenue. Take, for example, the $11 million in revenue loss that website technical trouble cost Costco on Thanksgiving 2019.

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