ConversionXL

APRIL 24, 2019

The concept of “economic moats” came from a 1999 Fortune article by Warren Buffett: The key to investing is [.] Sales reps are also likely to be familiar with Salesforce because it’s the most widely used CRM, reducing onboarding costs for companies that use it. Social networks have their own switching costs.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 27, 2019

Cotter bucks the flavor-of-the-day entrepreneurial stereotype: the college dropout popularized by both our own Michael Dell and recently Mark Zuckerberg and the great movie The Social Network. voice of their customers and talk them off the ledge that negative reviews wouldn’t tank their overall sales. and negative?—?voice

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

AUGUST 27, 2011

During lunch at school, he would have sales calls with customers and say that he had a hard stop at 1pm. Unfortunately his customers didn’t know that his hard stop was really his social studies class. A notable site is FaceSmash which sold for $30k the week the movie Social Network came out.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

I show charts on housing, structural unemployment, home equity re-financings that we spent meaning less spending power post crash, new housing sales, debt-to-income ratios, public-sector job problems that will cause crises in cities and states across the US. Don’t spend like it’s 1999. And Social. Summary version?

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

Powered by cell phones and social networking platforms, we saw revolutions taking place, businesses being transformed and our daily lives made more convenient (if we could tear ourselves away from our Facebook and Twitter updates). Universities are also creating more interdisciplinary programs in order to encourage this collaboration.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2016

For example, Amber Alert GPS will make sure your kids don’t wander outside of safe zones, Site24x7 will let you know if your web site is down, and Radian6 monitors social networks so you know what people are saying about your brand. Do your homework before jumping in with both feet.

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Mucker Lab

MAY 20, 2013

1999 – “The search engine game is over”. 2002 – “the social network fad is over”. 2005 – “Sales cycle is too long for software companies selling to government and educational sector”. 2011 – “There is no network effect in the enterprise software business; it’s not a category we invest in anymore”.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2011

In 1999, there were 486 IPOs nationwide; just 10 years later, in 2009, there were only 63. Rightly or wrongly, public ownership often lends prestige and credibility to the company in its sales efforts, general public relations, and the execution of its future strategies. The market is moving back up, but slowly. Do you have the horses?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2015

For example, Amber Alert GPS will make sure your kids don’t wander outside of safe zones, Site24x7 will let you know if your web site is down, and Radian6 monitors social networks so you know what people are saying about your brand. Do your homework before jumping in with both feet.

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Mucker Lab

MAY 21, 2013

1999 – “The search engine game is over”. 2002 – “the social network fad is over”. 2005 – “Sales cycle is too long for software companies selling to government and educational sector”. 2011 – “There is no network effect in the enterprise software business; it’s not a category we invest in anymore”. Everything).

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ConversionXL

MAY 31, 2017

True, some companies experimented with social media as a sales channel as well. But for the most part, if you wanted to talk to a sales rep, you were filling out a form and then waiting for a phone call or an email. Messenger (1998), and MSN/Windows Live Messenger (1999). billion MAUs for the top four social networks.

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

That was in 1999 – we were in fact one of the first food companies to offer e-commerce to consumers. The sandwich shop and e-commerce are a very small part of our business now however – most of our sales come of grocery stores, supermarkets, and specialty and natural food stores.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 18, 2013

Customers not only talk about their delight on social networks, but also love the experience so much that when they next purchase shoes, they will again buy from Zappos. in terms of increased sales, increased profit margin through customer retention, and reduced advertising costs) of such a strategy.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 18, 2016

For example, it’s entirely possible that a huge amount of your effort is spent on daily activities that aren’t contributing to building your brand, your sales/profits or accomplishing the other meaningful goals you’ve set for your business. If your website looks like it was designed in 1999, consider a redesign.

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

I believe that it was erroneous not to answer the two questions above, it was erroneous to be tempted by the Big Numbers and not understand how Social Media channels actually worked (streams, home pages, personalization, rankings and more). if your business should be on that network and 2. So, let's fix that error. They should.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 11, 2013

We connect them to hundreds of thousands of potential new customers using email marketing, social networks, and display ad campaigns. They expressed desire to establish a way to increase brand exposure and gain the ability to directly communicate with end users to help increase the probability of a dealer/installer sale.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Then from a bottoms-up standpoint what you said is exactly right, I think, which is that the new generation of employees grew up on smartphones and tablets and touch and everything, social networking and Twitter and everything else. And they don’t buy sales-force automation software, they rent on Salesforce.com.

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