crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 29, 2013

Rebuilding Startup Culture for Enterprise Sales — [link]. Facebook’s share of digital advertising growing fast, thanks to mobile | GigaOM – [link]. Everyone is talking about mobile ad revenue, but few are talking about efficacy – [link]. The Web Developer’s SEO Cheat Sheet 2.0 | Moz – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 22, 2013

How Do You Turn a $10,000 Investment Into $20 Million in Sales? Social Networks by Revenue and Employees, Facebook Stands Above All | Web Strategy – [link]. Creative Examples of Bus Stop Advertisement Ideas | GraphicMania – [link]. 30 Crazy Billboard Advertisement Ideas and Designs – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Real-Time Marketing is Upon Us–Here’s How Advertising Needs To Adapt | Co.Create – [link]. What a pile of crap … Facebook Reveals How Samsung Turned A $10 Million Ad Buy To $129 In Sales | Business Insider – [link]. Red All Over: Newspaper Revenues Fall In Q3 – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

These days, investors want to hear about the revenue you’re generating, not the traffic.” - [link]. Can’t Get You Out of My Head-The history of advertising jingles, a truly American art form - [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link].

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

07:05] There are some people suggesting that advertising and some of the traditional marketing ways have become less effective, that they even do not work at all, and that community is in the last frontier. I asked their chief revenue officer, how do you do attribution on this community? They said sales and marketing.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2013

A Startup’s Minimum Revenue Per Employee - crowdspring.co/GNlKua. Sales Efficiency Benchmarks for SaaS Startups – crowdspring.co/1admuzC. Sales Efficiency Benchmarks for SaaS Startups – crowdspring.co/1admuzC. The Future of Business Models Will Be Centered on Crowds - crowdspring.co/16aTTiD. ” - crowdspring.co/16aZ5Ts.

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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. a year in revenue. 5 Startup Marketing: The Nine Levels of Traffic Quality | Software by Rob on 02.05.10 That’s not a market, that’s a drive by. The reason? They are not your market.

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Software By Rob

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

Web App Business Models: User Needs and What People Pay For – “If you’re planning a web application that can’t build a business model around one or more of these needs, you may face difficulties generating sustainable revenue.&# Smart People Should Do Stupid Stuff – It’s usually the simple ideas that work.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

It’s a dating website that is free for users and makes money from advertising. But did you know that founder Markus Frind has just 3 employees for his $10MM+ revenue business? The servers are in the cloud, his advertising sales is with Google, etc. Advertising. He basically outsources everything.

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 12, 2010

But the number of conversions stayed about the same as it had been the week before, meaning the conversion rate (the number of sales per visitor) plummeted. Is it so low because it’s advertising? Targeted advertising, but advertising nonetheless I suppose. #6 Is it so low because it’s advertising?

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Software By Rob

MARCH 25, 2010

But providing a one-time service and asking for a donation tends to result in “cup of coffee&# money rather than real revenue. #7 . #5 Jon on 03.27.10 at 12:09 pm Some good insights into design #6 Rob on 03.28.10 7 Stephan Wehner on 03.28.10

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 25, 2010

Companies like Zynga, Groupon, Gilt Groupe, etc etc, some of the most prominent software companies of our time were/are maniacal about cash management and revenue growth, and always have been since day one. . #3 Brad on 10.11.10 You’re building a company, at the end of the day. #4 4 Jodo Kast on 10.11.10 Do it for your survival.

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Software By Rob

APRIL 14, 2010

Typically sticking with the paycheck until you have quite a bit of revenue coming in is a good thing (“how much&# depends on your personality). #2 Jeff on 04.17.10 at 12:23 pm For me the biggest terror is the terror of leaving a steady paycheck. #3 3 Rob on 04.17.10 Most terror serves a useful purpose. 4 John Gallagher on 04.20.10

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Adding features without making the product too complex creates real value for your customers and produces revenue for your company. Simplicity is mostly a way to avoid looking like you’re releasing a product that lacks features. photos by [link] November 16th, 2009 | Cool News, Links & Reviews Building your startup?

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Software By Rob

JULY 17, 2009

The costs are low and local ads seems like a viable revenue model because you’ve got a focused audience. For more on my story and the purpose of all this, visit the about page. 2 comments ↓ #1 Chris Sain on 07.17.09 at 10:51 am The future of the web is small – great article about micropreneurship.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 6, 2010

The paperback version is also available from both startup book and Amazon , but buy it from startup book (you can pay through Amazon or PayPal) since Amazon takes more than half the revenue off the top. Have you considered the difference in your profit would likely be made up in sales if the book were priced at $9.99 instead of $24.95?

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 21, 2008

We help you team with others, track revenue and share it openly and fairly. One Laptop Per Child Give One Get One 2008 – For $399 you get one XO laptop for yourself, and one is sent to a child in a developing nation. A good weekly listen. Hire people in return for a share of your income stream instead of upfront cash.

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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. As a developer you have the ability to build/hire out/buy applications and websites, where the margin is huge and you have something unique. From a blockbuster month of sales I made just over 10% net profit.

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Software By Rob

APRIL 7, 2009

People can go to the app store, download it for free, and we’ll pay them a cut of the revenues. Cell phone providers billing schemes really annoy me. We have a chance for revenge! I say we start an iPhone based CDN! Perfect business model! Revenge on evil telcos and consumers earning cash for doing nothing! at 4:07 pm [.]

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www.kalzumeus.com

AUGUST 13, 2012

Kalzumeus Software. Patrick McKenzie (patio11) blogs on software development, marketing, and general business topics. The Thirty Second Sales Pitch. A few percent survive all those hurdles and result in thousands of dollars of sales at the margin. Greatest Hits. Standing Invitation. Start Here If You’re New.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 29, 2012

2) Long Term Scalability – See #4 below – Over time, s a comapny tries to get into a rhythm of continuous growth, they need to develop a reliable growth model. To do this you need human resources beyond techo-nerds – sales, marketing, strategy, bus dev. They’re expensive , but a very large and strong group. (2)

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www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

If the idea was reliant on ad revenue for profit, it quickly becomes apparent that there will be no incoming money at all. Research the cost of advertising your product. Do an initial financial projection based on competitors’ prices, your development costs, and the advertising costs to see if your product is financially viable.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

The key contributors to an out-of-control burn rate is 1) hiring a sales force too early, 2) turning on the demand creation activities too early, 3) developing something other than the minimum feature set for first customer ship. The Customer Development process (and the Lean Startup) is one way to do that. Lets see why.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 17, 2024

The Zero Dollar Consultancy written by Tosin Jerugba read more at Duct Tape Marketing  The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I interviewed Phil Gerbyshak, a small business expert, author, and keynote speaker with over two decades of experience in sales and marketing.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 19, 2010

P.S. For more, here are detailed examples of how this mindset also sets up your sales pitch. I'm a great example of someone who wasn't an authority on anything , but built that authority over time to the point where now my company (Smart Bear) is untouchable as the leader in both revenue and ideas in the area of peer code review.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 1, 2010

What would a sales call look like, starting with your 30-second pitch, then dealing with skeptical questions, trying to earn this potential customer's interest, respect, and eventually money, all with only one advantage? You should go through this exercise because this skill is valuable in every sales call. Doesn't that sound nice?

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 18, 2019

If an app or tool is “free,” it’s likely collecting revenue from advertising rather than sales, which means that your data — everything from number of logins to location to the number of times you visit the app in a day — is potentially being shared with third-party sites, either in a direct or de-identified form.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 25, 2016

Here are just a few promotion and measurement tools… AdWords : Advertise your app on Google search page results and on the Google Display Network (GDN). AdMob : Advertise your app in other apps. You can also allow ads in your app to generate additional revenue. Choosing a Revenue Model & Strategy. App Revenue.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Neal Sales-Griffin ( @ nealsales ): Solving problems, making things and having fun – [link]. “Advertising is like a s**t and sugar pie.” Advertising Becomes Amazon’s Newest Low-Price Weapon | Advertising Age – [link]. Why We’ll Never Stop Talking About Steve Jobs – [link].

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

I, I literally just wanted a pizza and I was a software developer and so I wrote a version, one of, of a neighborhood delivery guide showed me all the restaurants delivered to me. But that's just part of the rejection of doing sales. But the restaurants liked it at first cause it tracked how effective their advertising was.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

Last week, I wrote about Akamai , a company with strong network effects that successfully transitioned from a single product to build a platform that garners over a billion dollars in revenue and is now a core part of the Internet’s fabric. Expedia grew to account for roughly one third of the company’s revenues. Think about that.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 11, 2010

In the last interview Peldi Guilizzoni (Balsamiq Studios) gave detailed advice about how he earned almost a million dollars in revenue in his first year of operation. Is traditional marketing and advertising completely dead, or is there still room for it in a startup? They're rarely actionable or insightful. Podcast: Startup Success.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Startup Sales – Why Hiring Seasoned Sales Reps May Not Work – [link]. 40 Creative Advertisement for Inspiration – [link]. Internet Advertising Hits New Revenue Record – [link]. Crowdsourcing Effective Advertising – [link]. 40 Creative Advertisement for Inspiration – [link].

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Up and Running

JANUARY 11, 2017

It is a sophisticated, technology-driven marketing tactic that fully takes advantage of the increasing mobile trends by designing, targeting, and advertising to the millions of individuals who use their smartphone every single day of their lives. Make sales and promotions important. Why do you need a mobile marketing strategy?

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 14, 2017

I grew up working in flea markets, and my family was entrepreneurial, not in the tech side of things or anything, but in different ways, and was always working side projects and jobs for people as a developer. Software developers don’t have telephones. I was that hired gun in some senses. Matt Watson: Yeah.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 25, 2012

Wondering how your competitors are using Pinterest to increase their revenues? Wondering how your competitors are using Pinterest to increase their revenues? GM Bows Out of Super Bowl Advertising – [link]. Why I Lost My Faith In Facebook Advertising – [link]. Here’s a good guide – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 20, 2011

TV advertising is back, says @edwardboches – [link]. US newspaper revenues faced a 30% decline 2007-09. 95 photoshopped Funny, Creative and Advertising Design – [link]. 95 photoshopped Funny, Creative and Advertising Design – [link]. E-book sales triple in February to surpass paper – [link].

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