Start Up Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

The biggest tech trend in 2020 won’t be a new widget or shiny piece of glass. Our ability to write and document knowledge is what puts us on top of the food chain. And part of the documentation process, are the rules, regulations and boundaries we use to Govern the market place.

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Growthink Blog

MARCH 13, 2012

KPIs allow us to better manage our businesses. Since they allow us to clearly see what figures correlate with success, and allow us to focus on improving them month after month. Profit Per Impression (PPI) is the amount of profit you generate from everyone who hears about your company. Let me explain.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2022

First of all, the glory days of “dot.coms” are gone, when investors “didn’t care” about profitability, and all the big money was focused on user count growth. 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. So let’s take a look.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 28, 2019

Product Hunt, if used properly, can be an effective way to launch a new product in a crowded market. If you’ve chosen—or are thinking about choosing—Product Hunt as your platform, here are the steps to improve your chances of success. What is Product Hunt and who should use it? Learn everything you can about the ecosystem.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 8, 2009

Now there are some firms that have strict rules about not funding pre-revenue companies – that’s different. Traction really is about building a relationship with a VC over time and showing them that you can move the ball forward. Funding is about developing a relationship over time. They hire key staff.

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Eric Friedman

JUNE 2, 2008

In my recent article about being bullish on widgets I was asked a lot about supporting data. Read Write Web has a great article about watching widget stats for US politics. The article was primarily my own thoughts, but nonetheless people always want more stats.

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Brandanew

APRIL 22, 2016

While we’ve often talked about organic Content Marketing, today we have guest blogger and entrepreneur, Garett Gan sharing his views on Content Marketing with paid advertising. Garett will take a deep dive into the platforms you can use to propel your content efforts through smart investments.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 17, 2020

We use a suite of tools to help us manage the many facets of SEO. These three are the ones we use every single day to stay on top of SEO for our clients and ourselves! Lead Generation Tool: SEMrush’s site audit widget allows you to add their code to your website. Best Overall SEO Tool: SEMrush.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 25, 2017

Seth Godin , in his book “ Tribes “, explains the difference: Management is about manipulating resources to get a known job done … Managers manage a process they’ve seen before, and they react to the outside world, striving to make that process as fast and as cheap as possible. Maybe that word used to fit, but no longer.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 30, 2022

In this episode, I talk with the VP of Marketing at Signpost, Laura Nelson, about the latest trends in local marketing and what strategies to focus on. More About Laura Nelson: Signpost.com. More About The Certification Intensive Training: Learn more about the Certification Intensive Training here. Like this show?

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 7, 2016

To get an idea about the business value of recommender systems: A few months ago, Netflix estimated, that its recommendation engine is worth a yearly $1billion for the company. If we can do that, then the customers are going to feel a deep loyalty to us, because we know them so well. Main Page Recommendations. Popular Products.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 21, 2017

What are people saying about your brand? I am not speaking about those paid advertisements or reviews on popular blogs that you have been orchestrating. It isn’t enough that people are talking about your brand, they have to be saying good things. I mean real, organic brand mentions from your user base.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

If you have feedback and advice for the companies on the call, or feedback for me about the show itself, please leave a note in the comments ! So I guess I want to know is, why are you not using one of the other things and what’s insufficient about them because, it just seemed like the sort of typical thing that CRMs do.

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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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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

Think about the hardest part of the business you want to build. Let your customers interact with you through sophisticated online forms you can publish (and brand) using drag-and-drop editors. Use copy-paste widgets from around the web like contact forms, Skype buttons, live chat, etc. What about scaling?

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 2, 2015

These buyer personas can be fleshed out via a 6-step process: Identify key customer attributes: What should they care about, and what motivates them? Strategies to build links include using social sharing widgets on your blog posts, offering to provide guest posts to reputable websites, or submitting one’s website to relevant directories.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

The process starts before your product exists, which brings us to the first of five unexpected lessons from real-world product launches. The goal here is to tell stories of how a customer is solving their problems using the product. Andrew Macarthy wrote about social media use during the Mahabis launch.

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Up and Running

MAY 14, 2018

SaaS startups are often hesitant about charging customers. To identify your target market: Ask yourself questions about your typical user’s gender, age, geographic location, business nature, pain points, interests, budget, and so on. If you use a live chat , set up an automated proactive message offering help.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2013

by an expert and friend in this space, Arnie Kuenn , which offers guidance and examples on new and modern approaches for the rest of us: Build a blog. Widgets and badges. A widget is a mini-app that displays or updates data either locally or on the web – to share something of value and interest. All highlight you.

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Start Up Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

I’ve been thinking alot lately about the concept of luxury. Premium food & widgets: Imported artisinal gelato and $100 electric toothbrushes. Information: Anyone with access to the web today has more information on hand than the US President just 10 years ago. They evolve.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 26, 2022

In this episode, CEO and co-founder of Olark, Ben Congleton, talks about the building of Olark and how they’ve differentiated themself in such a competitive industry. More About Ben Congleton: Olark. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! 04:42): That's what I'm excited about. Real-time communication.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Modern marketing has given us lots of new yardsticks, both for measuring results and for comparing. We admire, envy, and sometimes brag about big numbers. Whenever they’re deliberately mentioned to make the speaker feel good about themselves or when they’re not relevant to the context, it’s the ego talking. Sometimes, yes.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 21, 2022

In this episode, I talk with the VP of Marketing at Signpost, Laura Nelson, about the latest trends in local marketing and what strategies to focus on. More About Laura Nelson: Signpost.com. More About Duct Tape Marketing Consultant Network: Learn more here. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please!

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 10, 2023

David Newman joins me to talk about the frameworks needed to generate more effective selling. More About David Newman: [link] Pre-order: Do It! Selling More About The Agency Certification Intensive Training: Learn more about the Agency Certification Intensive Training here Take The Marketing Assessment: Marketingassessment.co

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blog.teamtreehouse.com

DECEMBER 5, 2012

That’s about it. Responsive Grid System by Graham Miller was the second of two named “Responsive Grid System” Where most frameworks used either base-12 or -16 column grids, this framework included a range of columns per row from one through 12. He blogs about his lessons learned in web design at benthinkin.net.

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 25, 2020

Look at your calendar, because how you spend your time is the truest representation of what you care about. Other times it’s the unkind practices of their employers, in particular the trend towards “flexible shifts,” where large retailers and hospitality companies treat their workers as widgets. How about you? And it’s so true.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2019

First of all, the glory days of “dot.coms” are gone, when investors “didn’t care” about profitability, and all the big money was focused on user count growth. 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. So let’s take a look.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 27, 2012

by an expert and friend in this space, Arnie Kuenn , which offers guidance and examples on new and modern approaches for the rest of us: Build a blog. Widgets and badges. A widget is a mini-app that displays or updates data either locally or on the web – to share something of value and interest. All highlight you.

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blog.adaptiveblue.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The most important thing about the hosting company is the responsiveness of their support team. Think about this. For example, a popular photo sharing service, SmugMug, uses S3 to store the user’s photos. To learn more about S3, please read this post on my tech blog. Not only it is simple, it is also fast.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 14, 2014

#StopTheSlowLane is an initiative to raise awareness about this issue. At its core is a simple JavaScript widget, an animated GIF like the one below, or a WordPress Plugin for your website or blog that will inform your visitors about what’s going on and empower them to easily contact Congress and the FCC about the issue.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 18, 2010

Avoid personal pronouns like, “my, our, we, and us,” in general. You can read more about that here.) According to XYZ Research, 30,000 people expressed a desire for Widget. However, there are no Widgets available. Your investor will realize you care about attention to detail. (“Hi, I’m writing this plan because.”

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Up and Running

JUNE 21, 2017

If there is one thing that has allowed us at Slidebean to grow fast and efficiently, is our obsessive tracking of marketing budget returns. Back in 2015 when we only had about $2,000-$3,000 worth of marketing budget to spend each month, getting the most out of our buck was fundamental—not only for growth, but for survival.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 23, 2013

LSC: Tell us about the customer development you did for your book: Alistair: We''ve been thrilled at how Lean Analytics seemed to resonate with founders. The Net Promoter Score is an obvious one for an established product—how likely are you to tell someone else about the product or service. Alistair: There are plenty.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 15, 2011

by an expert and friend in this space, Arnie Kuenn , which offers guidance and examples on new and modern approaches for the rest of us: Build a blog. Widgets and badges. A widget is a mini-app that displays or updates data either locally or on the web – to share something of value and interest. All highlight you.

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www.igda.org

JULY 24, 2012

A worker who is creating 10 widgets/hour at the beginning of a shift may be producing only 6/hour at the end of the shift, having peaked at 12/hour a couple of hours in. What makes us think that our industry is somehow exempt from this rule? What About Short-Term Output?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2015

by an expert and friend in this space, Arnie Kuenn, who offers guidance and examples on new and modern approaches for the rest of us: Build a blog. Widgets and badges. A widget is a mini-app that displays or updates data either locally or on the web – to share something of value and interest. All highlight you.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 9, 2019

Generative research helps you understand your user’s world, learn more about their challenges, and generate ideas for your new website design. Whether it’s convincing your CEO they don’t know everything about their users or just securing enough budget for research, these conversations can be difficult. Step 1: Stakeholder interviews.

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