YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

My company won the ROI of The Year award from The Banker magazine in 2004, something I was very proud of. Thinking Aloud Aneace Haddad customer relationship management customer retention loyalty program Taggo' Loyalty experts will swear this is not true, and will use complex models to demonstrate ROI of their systems.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 15, 2022

He is a podcast advertising specialist, and he founded the Tech Podcast Network in 2004. He's a podcast advertising specialist and also founded the tech podcast network way back in the dinosaur days of podcasting 2004. That was the one they started in 2004. So Todd, welcome to the show. So you're right there with me.

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Jeff Hilimire

MAY 6, 2014

10 years ago (2004) I was 28 years old and my company, Spunlogic, was just starting to really grow. We had an extremely high retention rate with existing people/divisions within a company. In 2004 we were largely project-based which is typical of smaller digital agencies. 10 things I wish I knew 10 years ago.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

The early history of MySpace is inextricably intertwined with that of Intermix, a small-cap publicly traded Internet company in Los Angeles where I worked as corporate counsel from 2004-06. Intermix was in a turnaround situation when I arrived in mid-2004, having been delisted from Nasdaq and nearly bankrupt. of MySpace, Inc.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 19, 2011

His latest book, “ Flip the Funnel: How to use existing customers to gain new ones ,” presents a powerful hypothesis that retention can become the new acquisition through the strategic incorporation and elevation of customer service, customer experience and customer initiated word-of-mouth, content creation and incentive-based referrals.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 19, 2011

His latest book, “ Flip the Funnel: How to use existing customers to gain new ones ,” presents a powerful hypothesis that retention can become the new acquisition through the strategic incorporation and elevation of customer service, customer experience and customer initiated word-of-mouth, content creation and incentive-based referrals.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Founded : Spring 2004, incorporated July 2004. Yes, that’s 25% of Zynga revenues for 2011 — which, as huge as that sounds, indeed is what I hear through the grapevine Zynga spends on player acquisition/retention. Facebook, Inc. Filing Date : February 1, 2012. Headquarters : Palo Alto, CA. link] leehower.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

A good working equation is: (Average Value of a Sale) X (Number of Repeat Transactions) X (Average Retention Time in Months or Years). The folks over at Kissmetrics were modeling the LTV of the average Starbucks customer, using data from 2004-2012. For those of us who don’t have one in-house, here’s how you would go about it.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 30, 2015

Would you be surprised to know that almost half of the dot com companies founded when the boom started in 1996 were still around in 2004--four years after the peak of the NASDAQ? Retention, referral and growth hacking experts would be in high demand, asked to squeeze blood from a stone in order to grow a userbase without paid acquisition.

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BeyondVC

APRIL 12, 2006

As I mention in an earlier post in 2004 , Red Hat has needed to find more avenues for growth and what better way to do that than moving up the stack from the OS. Secondly, just because Red Hat’s name is on it does not mean that CIOs will immediately change their buying decisions.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 23, 2019

Tullis and Wood (authors of a prominent 2004 study) recommend testing 20–30 users for card sorting. While there’s a strong case against left-vertical menus , two studies (2003 and 2004) claim it’s better. As you design your navigation system, ask yourself, “What do the bulk of the visitors coming to my site want?”

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

Since co-founding Moz in 2004, Rand has continually put himself out there as a public face. Email marketing is 40x more effective at acquiring new customers than Facebook or Twitter, and it’s a key driver of retention for small and medium-sized businesses. Take SparkToro founder Rand Fishkin.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

simply include the feature as a retention mechanism (it’s ok for customers to be willing to pay more than prospects, because that means they’re loving the product, or. Annual plans will also usually better active usage and retention than monthly plans. raise the price, because the feature(s) boost value so much, 2.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

The founder of early internet startup Freeloader (acquired for $38 million in 1996) and anti-spam company Brightmail (acquired for $370 million in 2004), Paul went on to pioneer the ride-hailing space. Yet despite literally patenting ride-hailing in 2000, his own venture, Sidecar, lost out to the more aggressive scaling of Uber and Lyft.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

APRIL 22, 2010

Google apps for domain (15 min) To manage my emails, I have been using Google apps for domain since 2004 and I am very happy with them. It is also a common block of functionality in every application and unfortunately many developers underuse them (or don’t use them at all) or misuse them (emails go to the Spam folder) or abuse them.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

APRIL 22, 2010

Google apps for domain (15 min) To manage my emails, I have been using Google apps for domain since 2004 and I am very happy with them. It is also a common block of functionality in every application and unfortunately many developers underuse them (or don’t use them at all) or misuse them (emails go to the Spam folder) or abuse them.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 7, 2022

And I think if you can do those two things, well, it will, it'll set you apart from every other vendor that they work with in a big way and dramatically improve your retention, which you and I both know, John, it, it has a massive impact on the ed economics of your business. And of course, uh, can't be overstated in terms of its importance.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2013

Tullis and Wood (authors of a prominent study, 2004) recommend testing twenty to thirty users for card sorting. While there’s a strong case against the left vertical menus , two studies (2003 and 2004) actually claim it’s better. How many users to test with? . Should the main menu be horizontal or vertical?

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conversionxl.com

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Well, in eight studies published from 1987 to 2004 charm prices ($49, $79, $1.49 Note: His freemium plan actually converted 12% more, but had the lowest retention. Go to Wal-Mart and you see prices ending with 9 everywhere. Does it really work? Surely all intelligent people understand that $39 and $40 are basically the same.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

It makes you look like a religious zealot and a kind of high self-regarding anal retentive. Take note of what Paul Graham said in 2004: [link] — he is talking along similar lines. Only like minds want to work for someone like that. March 27, 2011 at 2:26 pm. My response: [link]. Bill Beebe. March 27, 2011 at 2:33 pm.

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