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You Need to Win the Battle for Share of Mind

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Will that be enough or will high churn rates creep in, new toys be introduced into the market, new time sucks pulling user attention away? So resume + directionally-correct social graph = goldmine for recruiting, networking and marketing. This year’s Tamagotchi?

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The Lean Analytics Cycle: Metrics > Hypothesis > Experiment > Act

Occam's Razor

Perhaps it's an increase in your conversion rate; Or a higher number of visitors who sign up; Or a greater number of people who share content with one another; Or a lower monthly churn rate for users of your application; Maybe it's even something as simple as getting more people into your restaurant.

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I did over $12,000 USD in sales in the Q1 of 2011, i’m being outweighed by the demand, i feel the time has come for me to get few investors onboard. If you’re getting 2% upgrade to paid, but 15% monthly churn, then you need to spend more time on the Pro features to insure the cost benefit is there. Please, where do i start?