ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

Although the company created an incentive plan to boost sales, its sales growth fell from 19% before the recession to 8% after—five percentage points below Staples’ postrecession sales growth rate. recession in 2009.”. Bain offers a rubric based on your current market position and financial strength: ( Image source ).

Marketing 121

Marketing Campaign Non-Compete Lean 121

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 21, 2011

There’s also an interesting integration of acquisition TalkBin , a tool that makes it very easy for people send SMS messages to any registered business. The cities chosen for the City Page beta test closely align with the first Google Offers beta tests and can be supported by the local Google sales and support staff.

Small Business 65

Small Business Marketing Software Review Portland 65

Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 15, 2017

The company that employed us began putting profits above people and new sales above client retention. They recognize the average lifespan of a client is 3-6 months, so they implement a strong sales team to consistently search for new clients. My entire staff had been laid off due to an acquisition by an aggressive v.c.

Entrepreneur 115

Entrepreneur Czech Republic Retention B2C 115

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

Private, flash sales site focused on apparel goods (women, men and children). Business model: Premium brands offer select goods (often excess inventory) for sale at 40%-70% discounts; consumers need to be invited by existing member or via application to participate in private sales; HauteLook collects percentage of gross sale.

Venture Capital 217

Venture Capital Los Angeles Oakland Asia 217

ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2017

Reporting in the Harvard Business Review on a major study of growth stalls they conducted, Olson and his colleagues cite the case of the iconic brand Levi Strauss, which hit a historic high mark of sales in 1995, reaching revenue of $7 billion, but then, starting in 1996, saw a decline in sales so precipitous that by 2000, revenue was down to $4.6

Technical Review 127

Technical Review Algorithm Channel Analytics 127

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Reply Crystal Williams , on April 12, 2009 at 10:38 am said: Hi Steve! … Reply Avron Olshewsky , on June 10, 2009 at 11:03 am said: Hi Steve, Read your book “The four steps …&# and have enjoyed it and your blog. It is certaintly a great list to motivate me to get reading again. Keep up the great work! … Thanks!

Software Review 110

Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics 110

Lightspeed Venture Partners

JANUARY 6, 2011

Lisa Marino of RockYou , a leading developer of social games and advertising solutions for social media, is focused on building a great team with more gaming DNA to improve the quality of the games it publishes: Make RockYou the place talent wants to be. Measure of success: sales growth and gross margin return on investment.

Stealth 60

Stealth Startup Lean Cofounder 60

ConversionXL

AUGUST 30, 2019

Here’s how they explained it : Leaving shoppers’ questions unanswered can derail a sale or even worse, make shoppers abandon not just the purchase, but the site as well. In 1982, advertising legend David Ogilvy sent an internal menu to all of his agency employees titled, “How To Write.” Research backs this up.

Product 127

Product Technical Review eCommerce Software Review 127

Software By Rob

DECEMBER 2, 2009

It was the Business of Software 2009 conference that did it. December 3rd, 2009 | About this Blog Building your startup? Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. The phrase “joining the dark side&# perfectly summarizes my feelings about the fact that I joined Twitter a few weeks ago.

Software Review 42

Software Review RSS Software Developers Software Development 42

Software By Rob

OCTOBER 28, 2009

October 28th, 2009 | Cool News, Links & Reviews , Micropreneurship , Startups Building your startup? Hot off the press, hear the hosts of the Startup Success Podcast interview Mike Taber and I about the Micropreneur Academy. You can download the MP3 here. P.S. I did a written interview a few weeks ago for LocationIndependent.com.

Software Review 37

Software Review RSS Startup Software Developers 37

Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

When you receive 50,000 visitors from one of the major media sites you will be lucky to convert five sales. Five measly sales. September 23rd, 2009 | Micropreneurship , Startups Building your startup? When I’ve been on the front page of Digg more than 90% of that traffic has stayed on my site for less than 5 seconds.

Software Review 51

Software Review Software RSS Technical Review 51

Software By Rob

MAY 3, 2010

After last year’s Pecha Kucha at BoS 2009 it took me a few days to recover from the stress. Headliners for the conference include Joel Spolsky, Seth Godin, Eric Sink and Dharmesh Shah. For the full list of speakers, check out the speakers page. With my luck I will speak immediately after Seth Godin.

Boston 34

Boston Software Review Software RSS 34

Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

September 24th, 2009 | Micropreneurship Building your startup? The Micropreneur Academy Product Showcase is a place to showcase these products (currently eight are listed – there are at least that many not yet added). Check out my book Like this post? Subscribe via RSS On Twitter? Follow me Startups for the Rest of Us.

Software Review 34

Software Review Software Product RSS 34

Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

November 2nd, 2009 | About this Blog Building your startup? Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. It’s an interesting twist on the problem of trusting your data to the cloud, and one that has left me spending several hours trying to figure out the problem (a problem that began out of the blue).

RSS 37

RSS Software Review Software Developers Software Development 37

Software By Rob

JULY 31, 2009

July 31st, 2009 | Cool News, Links & Reviews Building your startup? . “The Office&# ERP Parody – An exceptional parody of the British version of The Office. For a while I was trying to figure out if some of the actors were from the original series. Check out my book Like this post? Subscribe via RSS On Twitter?

Software Review 39

Software Review Software Developers Software Development RSS 39

Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

And that's brand development, brand power, customer acquisition, message clarity, market expansion, sales enablement, so marketing and sales working together and product marketing or product innovation. And it was great until 2009 came along. (18:57): And then we benchmark those alternatives using a set of data.

Marketing 75

Marketing Differentiation Sacramento Small Business 75

ConversionXL

MAY 8, 2017

Here’s how they explained it : “Leaving shoppers’ questions unanswered can derail a sale or even worse, make shoppers abandon not just the purchase, but the site as well. In 1982, advertising legend David Ogilvy sent an internal menu to all of his agency employees titled, “How To Write.” Research backs this up.

Product 104

Product Technical Review Trinidad SEO 104

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 9, 2016

This is all the way from Aug 2009: Web Analytics Career Advice: Play In The Real World! We rarely hold people responsible for Traffic Acquisition accountable, we rarely hold people responsible for Site Design and Merchandizing accountable. Question time for your Acquisition, Design and Merchandizing team. A lousy 17%.

Analytics 60

Analytics Metrics eCommerce PPC 60

Software By Rob

JULY 24, 2009

July 24th, 2009 | Micropreneurship , Startups Building your startup? 12 comments ↓ #1 Daily Links for Saturday, July 25th, 2009 on 07.25.09 8 Knowtu » links for 2009-07-28 on 07.28.09 The full article includes 11 realizations and a worksheet. Check out my book Like this post? Subscribe via RSS On Twitter?

Software Review 76

Software Review Software Developer Entrepreneur 76

Software By Rob

DECEMBER 15, 2009

If you’re focusing hard on optimizing your website sales funnel it’s easy to ignore what existing customers are saying. But adding new features is at times more important than focusing on sales. If you can’t get any customers into your funnel you will never make a sale. Don’t waste it. Plug your funnel.

Software Review 55

Software Review Marketing Startup RSS 55

Software By Rob

JULY 16, 2009

July 16th, 2009 | Cool News, Links & Reviews , Micropreneurship Building your startup? Pamela is a long-timer blogger and in this book she continues to do an excellent job of exploring the mental and logistical hurdles one faces as you leave corporate employment for the wide open spaces of entrepreneurship. Subscribe via RSS On Twitter?

Software Review 37

Software Review Software Developers Software Development RSS 37

VC Cafe

MARCH 10, 2010

Morgan, mobile display advertising is expected to grow by 81% from $140 million in 2009 to $253 million in 2010. The proceeds of this round has been earmarked for sales and marketing as well as five new sales offices in New York, Los Angeles, Toronto, London & Bombay. Think iPad, Kindle, hand-held gaming devices, etc.

Los Angeles 76

Los Angeles Exit Strategy Europe Mobile 76

Software By Rob

MARCH 6, 2009

March 6th, 2009 | Micropreneurship Building your startup? I realized I struck a nerve when I began receiving question after question about recent topics: one-person startups, the business of solo software, Micropreneurship, etc… Until this point there have been many more questions than answers. Check out my book Like this post?

Software Review 27

Software Review RSS Software Developers Software Development 27

Software By Rob

MAY 4, 2009

The better route is to find a drop-shipper who will ship directly to your customers once you’ve made the sale. I added a shopping cart and found a beach towel dropshipper (surprisingly hard to find), and sales were around $100-200 per month. Sales shot up starting the next day and that month sales were in the low four-figures.

Product 35

Product Software Review RSS Software 35

Software By Rob

OCTOBER 26, 2009

October 26th, 2009 | Cool News, Links & Reviews Building your startup? Know Thy Audience – And look at creative funding sources. How to Avoid Being Outsourced or Open Sourced – Pointed out to me after my post about competing with open source competition. Check out my book Like this post? Subscribe via RSS On Twitter?

Open Source 37

Open Source Technical Review Software Review EC2 37

Hearpreneur

AUGUST 9, 2019

In 2009, my mother moved into a house across the street so I could help her with her daily needs. My skills and experience in sales of complicated and expensive IT software combined with my love for visual arts. My eBay sales skyrocketed beyond what that local business could supply. Thanks to Holly Rollins, 10xdigital ! #9-

Entrepreneur 117

Entrepreneur LLC San Francisco Mexico 117

Software By Rob

JUNE 10, 2010

During his presentation at the Business of Software conference in 2009, Dharmesh Shah said “For your first startup, maximize your odds of a modest outcome.&# A slightly better chance than buying a lottery ticket. And while it’s true that you might get lucky your first time, “luck&# is not a plan.

Software Review 54

Software Review Startup RSS Software Developers 54

Software By Rob

MARCH 2, 2009

I’ll be talking more about this during the coming week… March 2nd, 2009 | Micropreneurship Building your startup? Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Check out my book Like this post? Subscribe via RSS On Twitter? Follow me Startups for the Rest of Us.

Software Review 27

Software Review RSS Software Developers Software Development 27

VC Cafe

JULY 4, 2011

in 2009 and debt moderated to 76.6% A recent study by Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics showed that Israeli cows produced an average of 10,208 kg (around 10,000 liters) of dairy per cow in 2009, outperforming cows worldwide. Advertising distribution company DG FastChannel Inc. of GDP in 2010 from 5.2% of GDP from 79.3%

Balance Sheet 90

Balance Sheet Acquisition Africa 90

Software By Rob

OCTOBER 6, 2009

I formally launched the product in late July 2009, after running a beta for a few months. The site currently (as of September 2009) has a couple hundred registered accounts, and a handful of paying customers. Thomas: ThoughtMuse is my first product, and I started working on it roughly half a year ago (march 2009).

Software Review 40

Software Review Software RSS Software Developers 40

Software By Rob

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Check out my book Like this post? Subscribe via RSS On Twitter? Follow me Startups for the Rest of Us. If youre trying to grow your startup youve come to the right place.

Software Review 27

Software Review RSS Marketing Software Developers 27

Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Or all of your logo design, application and sales site design, HTML and CSS…and you’ll have several thousand left over for an epic launch party the day you go live. November 16th, 2009 | Micropreneurship , Startups Building your startup? In this scenario, $5k or $10k goes a long way towards bringing a product to fruition.

Equity 42

Equity Software Review RSS Widget 42

Software By Rob

JULY 17, 2009

July 17th, 2009 | Cool News, Links & Reviews Building your startup? We are a company called Connected Ventures, a group of friends who work for: Vimeo, CollegeHumor, Busted Tees, and Defunker.&# The Beatles: Rock Band – 09.09.09. ‘Nuff said. Check out my book Like this post? Subscribe via RSS On Twitter?

Web 27

Web Software Review RSS Software Developers 27

Software By Rob

OCTOBER 22, 2009

October 22nd, 2009 | Cool News, Links & Reviews Building your startup? Joel Spolsky is all he’s advertised to be and getting to see him speak in person was great. 7 Highlights from the 2009 Business of Software Conference | Software by Rob on 11.16.09 Check out my book Like this post? Subscribe via RSS On Twitter?

Software Review 37

Software Review San Francisco Technical Review Fresno 37

Software By Rob

DECEMBER 9, 2009

So you have some traffic and few sales, what do you do next? In un-optimized sales websites I typically see conversions in the 0.1% I’ve been doing this a long time, and I assure you that doubling your conversion rate is far cheaper and will yield many more sales in the long-run than doubling traffic. 2 Rob on 12.09.09

Software Review 52

Software Review Startup Fresno RSS 52

Software By Rob

OCTOBER 8, 2009

October 8th, 2009 | Micropreneurship , Startups Building your startup? Write like you talk, not like how you think people want you to write. It was just a postcard, but now six people have seen it, and I’ll be calling him the next time I need service. Check out my book Like this post? Subscribe via RSS On Twitter?

Software Review 34

Software Review Software Fresno RSS 34

Software By Rob

MARCH 9, 2009

Read on… March 9th, 2009 | Micropreneurship Building your startup? After years of trial and error I’ve found an approach that re-shaped my thinking about our industry, entrepreneurship, and our role as developers. Check out my book Like this post? Subscribe via RSS On Twitter? Follow me Startups for the Rest of Us.

Software Review 27

Software Review RSS Technical Review Software Developers 27