View from Seed

MARCH 3, 2015

Initially, we promoted it to a list that we’d already developed through Website Grader, the free app our CTO Dharmesh Shah had built before we even had a product. So we had those two assets: Website Grader and the resulting email list. Some have short, more transactional cycles. How did you address that?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

In an over-funding environment companies are encouraged to eschew revenues in a land grab to acquire eyeballs, clicks, page views or whatever other vanity metrics give VCs the false comfort that they’re sitting on a gold mine. The opportunity to transact at the point of purchase increases the sheer number of revenue opportunities.

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infochachkie.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Lousy Products Might Break Your Bones – But A Name Will Seldom Hurt You John Greathouse – Posted in: Entrepreneur , Strategic Planning. When selecting your company and product names, consider the following: Uniquely Familiar. Correspondingly, your products’ names contribute to, but do not dictate, their success.

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ConversionXL

JULY 21, 2022

They even employ a dedicated “System Implementation Manager” whose sole responsibility is to drive adoption and get 70% of customers using the product daily. Your NSM must be indicative of the value customers receive from your product. If it improves, your customers get more value from your product. Defaulting to revenue.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Like SaaS products themselves, we now intend for these laws to be periodically refined through major releases to reflect the changing landscape of the SaaS world. Save Asia for post-IPO Single instance, multi-tenant, single datacenter - Have only one version of the code in production. Michael Kassing. Let me just say "Thanks".

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

In this post I hope to help show how to figure out which metrics matter the most, and how to design them in such a way as to drive behavior that will lead to the results that you want. This post is applicable to any kind of business. Good metrics should also be actionable, and drive successful behavior.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 21, 2015

Optimize your top traffic pages for email opt-ins. Email-gating your home page works wonders. Use personalized data in creating emails to get better results with that group. Oli Gardner ( Unbounce ): Your 12-step Landing Page Rehab Program. You have to have clarity in your page headlines. Example: “P.S.

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Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Whether you’re pivoting in the early days because you haven’t yet found product-market fit, or you’re pivoting by reinventing yourself later on, all companies – if they’re going to become and stay successful – are going to have to pivot. Needless to say, this isn’t a business model that works in the pandemic world.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 13, 2017

Marketing traditionally is very acquisition focused but growth hacking takes that and takes really all steps of the customer journey – increasing engagement, even revenue experiments but really running experiments across the customer journey to grow customers and ultimately revenue. Sean Ellis: I think we probably are. Sean Ellis: Absolutely.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

And better yet, the company has a product that will turn the stream into a lake. DataSift has a product that builds a permanent database for you of just the information you want to capture. One story is, “Hey, maybe there’s something to this Google+ product?”. It is a must have if you’re building a technology product these days.

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