crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Why some small businesses have pulled back from social media – [link]. Altimeter Report: Social Commerce, How Brands Are Generating Revenue in Social Media - [link].

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ConversionXL

JULY 16, 2021

Gumroad , a software that allows content creators to easily sell digital products, gets straight to the point with their unique selling proposition (USP) : They state exactly who their target audience is: creators. Naturally, somebody will copy Dollar Shave Club in due time. Media consumption Hobbies & interests Goals Pain points.

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A Crowded Space

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

Any time you have Techcrunch publishing articles like, “ Our 9 Favorite Startups From Y Combinator Summer 2015 Demo Day 2” , you’re going to get some hyped companies. Notice the distinct absence of little things like revenue, customers, engagement metrics, or gross margin. Many investors pride themselves on that ability. Why is that?

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 30, 2016

Media companies and publishers are mad. After all, the clever little extensions that give the rest of us a faster, cleaner, less irritating web experience are eating away at ROI for advertisers and revenue for publishers. According to a 2015 study, malware served by advertising networks tripled between June 2015 and February 2015.

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ConversionXL

JULY 3, 2020

Experiments run by Dan Smullen , who manages technical SEO for Independent News & Media , demonstrate that Google isn’t biased against paywalled content: Before launching our paywall in February, we implemented a soft wall—a registration wall. was selected due to its ranking for evergreen queries, such as “things to do in Canada.”

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ConversionXL

MARCH 4, 2016

We often talk about online conversion optimization without mentioning that many businesses, especially B2B, rely on offline sales to produce revenue. The biggest new trends, according to a 2015 Gartner study , are cloud, mobility and the use of data and AI in decision-making. The two aren’t disconnected, though. Image Source.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

TL;DR Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies. Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies. As a product manager at HomeAway (part of the Expedia, Inc.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Since the term “cloud computing” was coined in 1996—at least as we have come to understand its meaning—the software as a service industry has exploded. In fact, SaaS industry revenue is projected to grow from $49 billion in 2015 to $67 billion in 2018, a compound annual growth rate of approximately eight percent.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

As always, there’s a temptation to translate any marketing effort into immediate revenue. That’s worked for me with the WP Agency Summit and my other events since 2015. Consider setting up a static landing page (requires coding skills to make registrations work). Split-testing. to talk about your event. Image source ).

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Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

We recently had Tim Berry, Palo Alto Software founder and business planning expert, present our Bplans audience with his latest advice on lean business planning. I’m the CEO of Palo Alto Software. A lot of people have asked about the software. Right now Tim just got kicked out here, but hopefully you can hear me.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 30, 2016

In 2015, businesses owned by women brought in more than $1.5 Thanks to Selena Drake, Drake Books & Media. #2 I’ve had to put in many hours to learn my own equipment due to a lack of interest in even training me. But only around 2% will actually achieve revenues over $1 million dollars. trillion in sales.

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Agile VC

JANUARY 13, 2016

Looking back at 2015, the standout theme in the VC/startup ecosystem was unicorn hunting. We started the year enraptured by the “Age of Unicorns” with this cover of Fortune in January 2015 : Illustration: Jeremy Enecio. Was this simply a shift in sentiment among the tech & business media? What happened?

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 14, 2017

For those that do, the benefits are a bigger customer base, higher revenues and higher profitability. There has been a tremendous revolution in software in the last 5+ years that has brought down the cost of setting up a full service, secure e-commerce store to roughly the cost of an bottle of wine (per month). Diversifying.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 28, 2015

According to the study, 3 out of 4 marketers in Asia use mostly inbound strategy, such as SEO, content creation, social media, and lead generation to drive ROI. In order to do this, you need to set your website up like a “hub” for your industry that attracts visitors naturally through search engines , blogging , and social media.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 23, 2019

A fixed pricing structure not only reduces potential revenue—and, therefore, the money available to invest back into the product—but also impacts perception: Increasingly, customers will see your product as the “cheap” option. Over time, the potential gain (or loss) in revenue can have an exponential impact. You need the revenue.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

According to Google, the number of mobile search queries overtook desktop queries in 2015. Let’s say your company is in the B2B Software as a Service (SaaS) space. You can also share your content on social media, thereby attracting a new online audience. The cost per click also tends to be lower due to less competition.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

As of November 2015, there were 4,144 breweries in the U.S.—more Nonetheless, their 10-barrel brewery came online in December 2015, and they began pouring beer locally and in their tasting room in early 2016. “We You’re looking for a number of 70 precent or more within five miles of the zip code you desire,” says Ben. “I

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Here are some practical approaches to identifying shifting priorities: Embedding yourself in social media. For example, if you offer ad services to startups, make time to connect with in-house paid media specialists at larger companies. A dramatic example of this is a software development agency offering UX and UI services.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Chorus.ai (2015) – Chorus uses AI to analyze sales calls by joining the conference calls, transcribing the data and extracting important action items. The company’s chairman was the former General Chief of Staff of the IDF 2011-2015. Media and e-commerce sites are prime customers of this.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Here's a graph that shows how US adults consume media, it shows time in hours. Media-Mix Modeling/Experimentation. If you are starting new, or going to touch the code on your website for any reason, please, in the name of Thor, Superman and Dilbert, use a tag management solution. Still, let me try to surprise you.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 19, 2016

That allowed to launch our product in September 2015. I made it my mission to build modern, easy-to-use free software that could eliminate this paperwork once and for all. Homebase’s free cloud based software helps thousands of small businesses eliminate the paperwork of managing hourly and freelance employees.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

Well, according to the 2015 Affiliate Marketing Benchmark Report … 60.97% of affiliates live in the U.S. Carefully analyze your customer and revenue data. For example, if Jim generates $5,000 in revenue this month, you will offer him a $500 spot bonus. Social Media – 60.16%. Software / Tech. Mobile App.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 1, 2019

All the important SEO tools that you need for pay traffic, social media, PR and of course, SEO. I had Mike Stelzner on recently and he’s a social media examiner. ” What’s your current mic mixer recording editing software setup? For recording and editing software, I’m obsessed with Adobe Audition.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 22, 2013

Perhaps you wake up in the morning and walk into a store and buy new clothes (or expensive software from Oracle). Or perhaps you want to sign up for their blog, or follow them on social media or… any of a bunch of other things. There are some audiences who exhibit that behavior. Are they a lost cause? What about innovation?

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 27, 2017

That was December of 2015, November, December and around March of 2016 we hired a few people to help build out ZipSprout to do more cities so it would available for more clients and it’s just been growth since then. Seeing the emails come in and seeing the coupon codes go out and all of that happen in Chicago has been pretty exciting.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 11, 2016

In 2015, another study found that marketers ranked video as the second most effective type of content. Following the video, there will likely be a call to try the product, social media buzz about the campaign, etc. Revenue: Measure close to the money. If you use HubSpot Salesforce, you can see how much revenue was generated.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 28, 2017

Why the scale at which we can (/have to) solve the problems is already well beyond the grasp of the fundamental strategy most companies follow: We have a bigger revenue opportunity, but we don’t know how to take advantage? Mitch Joel is the Rock Star of Digital Marketing, brilliant on the topic of media, and a very sweet human being.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 21, 2016

Maybe you’re pre-revenue. What if this campaign generated twice the revenue the last one did? Check out Codecademy… “Learn to code interactively, for free.” ” and “SIGN UP AND START CODING IN SECONDS.” Social media. That’s understandable. Hire yourself for $50/hr.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

A photo posted by CEO Blog Nation : I am CEO (@ceoblognation) on Aug 18, 2015 at 2:23pm PDT. #1) After I left academia (too slow moving) and the consultancy company I worked for (lack of vision), four friends and I applied that puzzle-solving passion to creating software for solving supply chain puzzles. Tell us your story below!

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

The number of patents filed in 2021 is more than 30 times higher than in 2015 as companies and countries across the world have realized that AI and Machine Learning will be a major disruptor and potentially change the balance of military power. Until recently, the hype exceeded reality. The sum of these feels like buzzword bingo.

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Start Up Blog

JANUARY 28, 2015

As we are now in 2015, midway through the second decade of the new millennium, I thought I’d reflect on shifts I am seeing in culture, commerce and technology. Cars becoming mobile rolling lounge rooms where screen time becomes a major revenue source for auto makers. The first thought is pretty obvious. Sleeper cars…?

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Start Up Blog

JANUARY 5, 2015

As we are now in 2015, midway through the second decade of the new millennium, I thought I’d reflect on shifts I am seeing in culture, commerce and technology. Cars becoming mobile rolling lounge rooms where screen time becomes a major revenue source for auto makers. The first thought is pretty obvious. Sleeper cars…?

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

I imagined a future Wing media arm with a TV channel, a venture capital fund… …and then it all came crashing down. Despite the media narrative, this isn’t what killed The Wing. Sequoia, the top venture capital firm on the face of the earth, put in a growth round that valued the company at close to half a unicorn. So, what happened?

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Transformify

JUNE 6, 2019

Back in 2015 when Transformify was founded, it was decided that the company would be a 100% remote and would provide equal job opportunities to everyone regardless of gender, location, race or personal situation thus creating jobs for people in need or those living in high unemployment areas. Where to start?

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Austin Startup

MAY 29, 2019

This lesson was first shared at Lucky7 on January 15, 2015. In contrast, our definition of social commerce meant social media, or word of mouth, applied in a commerce environment. It is going to make writing this chapter a little more difficult as I can only unveil so much about data.world at this time, but I’ll do my best!

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Brandanew

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Harvard business review recently published an article talking about (luxury) consumers preferring inconspicuousness of brands. Significant changes in consumer expectations are manifested through social media, consumer generated content and immersive digital marketing experiences. seconds in 2015 compared to 12 seconds in 2000.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Note to NSA reviewer of this blog post: I'm a harmless digital marketer, totally not worth your attention.]. It is 2015. Social media continues to be ROI positive on the long run if you are willing to invest in conversational marketing. For Getty, this should lead to a big review of the current marketing strategy.

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