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Why Twitter is A Media Company ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

March 18, 2012. There are lots of celebrities leveraging Twitter to sell their own products or establish e-commerce curation businesses. Compared on typical media metrics of reach and engagement, Facebook stands apart which is why it’s both much larger as a business (30-40X bigger in revenue) and a far more valuable company.

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Doubling SaaS Revenue By Changing The Pricing Model

www.kalzumeus.com

Posted on August 13, 2012. Unless you own a hosting company, “number of servers owned” is not a metric your CEO cares about. I keep a list of my best work curated. August 13, 2012 at 9:32 am. #. August 13, 2012 at 9:50 am. #. August 13, 2012 at 9:57 am. #. August 13, 2012 at 10:18 am. #.

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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

maplebutter.com

Written By Dan Martell on February 2nd, 2012 | Category: Hiring LeanStartup Marketing Metrics Startup Life | 6 Comments. Building Metrics / Usage Reports / KPI 3. Product/Metrics (70%/30% time) * Get your product activation (sign-up + meaningful action) to 60% * then, Get your product retention to 20% weekly. 10) Metrics.

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Does “Going Viral” Actually Result in More Conversions?

ConversionXL

In 2012, Upworthy revealed that only 5 of their posts had broken the 1M views mark. What are the metrics you will use to measure viral reach / success? In 2012, it was one of the most popular pieces of content Upworthy had ever curated. In 2012, it was one of the most popular pieces of content Upworthy had ever curated.

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What Businesses Can Learn From Donald Trump’s Email Marketing Failures

crowdSPRING Blog

By 2012, the numbers were astounding. As MarketingLand reports : One statistic that still jumps out: Obama’s 2012 campaign cost $690 million, a staggering kitty. Toby Fallsgraff, who directed the 2012 email program, told MarketingSherpa, “You can do the math and figure out a lot of people gave more than once.”. Approximately 4.5

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Battle Royale: Evaluating the Marketing and Branding Efforts of Clinton and Trump

crowdSPRING Blog

It also seemed exceedingly basic following the somewhat revolutionary logo designs featured by the Obama campaign in 2008 and 2012. It has been argued that social media is what handed President Obama the White House in both 2008 and 2012. That’s pretty consistent with her carefully curated image, as well.