A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 11, 2010

This is Part 5 of the 5-part series: 5 lessons from 150 startup pitches. Ask a technical founder about his startup, and he'll proudly describe his stunning software — simple, compelling, useful, fun. We're going to use an affiliate program so our customers sell it for us.". We're better than everyone else at SEO.". "A

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

A new flock of startups has launched to support content creators to craft (videos, art, newsletters, music, games, courses, etc), find an audience, generate income (subscriptions, tipping, ecommerce, NFTs, etc) and engage their communities. This is where new startups can help. A look at Creator Economy Startup Landscapes.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Artificial intelligence is here to stay and you need to embrace AI if you want your startup to move forward and be the success you envision it to be. For most owners of startup companies, going through countless of details and formulating strategies to increase brand awareness can be overwhelming. One thing is for sure, however.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 30, 2020

I monetize the site with Google AdSense and with a Grammarly affiliate program. We started our business in 2014, after a successful Kickstarter campaign. As the head of my SEO consulting firm, I help clients grow their revenue and increase their profitability through data-driven decision making and program development.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

This article explains how businesses can resist one of the top startup killers known as high customer acquisition costs (CAC). Finally, we can create ad campaigns that target those trial users who didn’t convert but whose purchase prediction score makes them promising candidates for purchasing the product later on.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 20, 2020

Whether it’s the development process, staffing, or another variable, your can’t-miss startup solution will probably face an obstacle or two on its way to viability. For example, a new ride-sharing company would need approval from local regulated industries or a state revenue office before it could commence operations.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

If you know of senior level business and technical professionals looking for exciting startup opportunities, they can sign up here: [link]. Our revenues have increased every quarter for the past two years. Correction: Last week's CTO position at Modcloth is actually a San Francisco opportunity, not Pittsburgh.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

APRIL 29, 2013

One of the root questions you have at the start, which is supposed to be data-driven (but you don’t have data) is: What’s the maximum I should bid for CPC (cost-per-click) campaigns like Google AdWords? The answer for a funded startup is “Bid as much as possible, to get as many customers — and data!

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

This is part of an ongoing startup advice series where I answer (anonymized!) Burgeoning Startup Founder writes: After a year of work, my startup is now doing about $6,000/mo in revenue and $3,000/mo in profit. .” It has to be on getting more revenue. You should be spending that time on something else.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

In fact, a recent episode, they titled Half Baked Marketing Ideas They Got Down In the Weeds, talked about some outside of the box campaigns with real businesses. I mean, is it a startup or is it somebody trying to scale or is it just everything And. It's a three day accelerator that brings owners through how do you grow revenues.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 24, 2011

. #1: Assign campaign codes & track offsite converting goals (micro-conversions). To answer that question I signed up for an affiliate account with Amazon and added my affiliate id to the outbound link. To answer that question I signed up for an affiliate account with Amazon and added my affiliate id to the outbound link.

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ConversionXL

JULY 16, 2019

You’re a marketer, and you’ve just launched a marketing campaign that you spent weeks or months building. In this post, I’ll walk you through a rigorous project management process to help you optimize your campaign strategy. Vote and decide on your campaign content, channels, and tactics based on ideas pitched in Phase 2.

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Transformify

DECEMBER 22, 2019

I’ve seen lots of startup founders making the same mistake – spending all the funding they have on headcount and expensive and inefficient marketing campaigns. It gets even worse if the first version of their product is not good enough to generate revenues. So, how to make affiliate marketing work for you?

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

Each marketing campaign should have one specific message based on a single idea. Rand regularly shares his knowledge and thoughts on digital marketing, tech, and startups. Inside sales CRM Close.io , for example, grew its company to $6+ million in annual revenue with thought leadership-fueled content marketing. The message.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

They allow you to create and optimize campaigns based on actionable evidence rather than intuition. Digital marketing metrics are values that are used to track and measure campaign performance. With this in mind, let’s look at 13 digital marketing metrics to track for campaign effectiveness. What are digital marketing metrics?

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ConversionXL

JUNE 25, 2021

We’ll also share when to transition to the growth stage in the product lifecycle so you can drive conversions and revenue off your momentum. Your goal here is to sustain revenue and your position in the market. Decline: New user sign-ups and revenue begins to decrease. X demos booked in introduction, X revenue in growth).

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Not revisiting your marketing objectives in the growth phase of your product lifecycle is the death knell of many startups. Continue optimizing your campaign until you’ve achieved the desired results. Revenue grew by 637%. On the back of that tactic, ConvertKit now drives $1 million in Monthly Recurring Revenue (MMR).

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Paul Graham’s Startup Curve – avoid the “through of sorrow”! Growth Hacking comes to solve a very common problem in consumer startups: getting to the first x thousand/million users quickly once the product has launched and the hype has passed. First Steps in Growth Hacking for Startups.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Great content again in September that meets at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. Chris Dixon , September 12, 2010 My most useful career experience was about eight years ago when I was trying to break into the world of VC-backed startups. Why You Should Write. Your service: the game.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

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. At this stage, simply list your primary revenue streams and your key expenses. At this stage, simply list your primary revenue streams and your key expenses.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 12, 2022

In this episode, we talk about how we can leverage personalized data to improve the customer experience and increase revenue for your business. John Jantsch (00:00): This episode of the duct tape marketing podcast is brought to you by the female startup club, hosted by Doone Roison, and brought to you by the HubSpot podcast network.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

See Bessemer Venture Partners’ A comprehensive guide to security for startups. We use Google Analytics, HubSpot, and LinkedIn Campaign Manager for the majority of our analytics. Data companies focused on early-stage startups include Aingel , fundsUP , Preseries , PredictLeads , and Sploda. 2) Market . 3) Raise capital.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 17, 2011

These three factors are, of course, critical to a healthy, growing startup, and yet individually they’re impossible to measure as precisely and easily as cancellation rate. (I’ve “LTV” means “the total revenue you’ll get from a customer over its lifetime.” So total expected revenue is $RN/ p.

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leananalyticsbook.com

AUGUST 19, 2012

There are three criteria you can use to help choose your OMTM: the business you’re in; the stage of your startup’s growth; and your audience. There are good studies that show a strong correlation between site performance and conversion rates, so startups ignore this stuff at their peril. First: what business are you in?

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

136 CMOs were recently asked “What do you see as your biggest opportunity for revenue generation in early 2013?” Obama’s own campaign used Moneyball and Lean Startup strategies to win the ultra high stakes Presidential Election. ” 46% of them said “improving conversions” Excellent.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

If you’re growing a startup or a business, you’re likely thinking about: Elevating your business: Creating new strategies, structures, and systems to free up time through automation, delegation, and integration. This has lead to priceless insight and complementary revenue sources within our target markets. How many do you have?

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 14, 2019

Most real estate agents operate as self-employed business owners affiliated with a licensed real estate brokerage. That means you need to prepare for the ups and downs of inconsistent revenue. Consider using email campaigns featuring enticing perks or freebies for the first number of clients to refer you business.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 26, 2016

Fixing these usability bottlenecks, should, in turn, improving conversions (and revenue in the long run). Use them for testimonials, affiliates, etc. Many startups I work with are doing absolutely nothing. If you can improve the mean rating over time, you can quantify how designs have improve the UX. Test Level Satisfaction.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MAY 14, 2013

Stop me if you’ve heard this one: Your bootstrapped startup is finally off the ground. You’ve heard affiliate programs can work wonders, so you sign up with a cloud affiliate provider and figure you can afford to pay $50 per signup. Or focus on another marketing campaign completely?”

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Software By Rob

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. February 10th, 2009 | Micropreneurship , Startups Building your startup? Follow me Startups for the Rest of Us. If youre trying to grow your startup youve come to the right place. Correction…it was 0%. Check out my book Like this post?

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

It keeps us on task when creating ad campaigns, posting to social media, and promoting programs and services. I believe success comes in the relationships you form while doing the work you love, and revenue will follow as a result. Thanks to Sherry Gavanditti, Menorah Park ! #11 11 – Don’t Quit. “Never give up!

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VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2010

BizMe2 , a new Israeli startup led by serial entrepreneur Yair Margolin, is looking to do to conferences what WordPress did to blogging. VC Cafe: You have a pretty long track record in startups. The market analysis showed that they want to focus in the first year on 400 big conferences that represent most of the revenue.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Founded in 2015, revenue intelligence startup Gong is now valued at $7.25 They know there are affiliate links. When people share your content with like-minded groups on social media, it helps build affiliation and keeps you top-of-mind. They know there’s pay-to-play stuff. Maintain posting cadence.

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Hunter Walker

JULY 14, 2016

My support of Hillary Clinton this election coincides with my distaste for the Trump campaign. Personally, I’m committing time and dollars for the next four months to campaign for Hillary but also speak with and learn more about the local and national economic challenges many communities face. Donald Trump does not. Jackson Sr.,

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Hunter Walker

JULY 14, 2016

My support of Hillary Clinton this election coincides with my distaste for the Trump campaign. Personally, I’m committing time and dollars for the next four months to campaign for Hillary but also speak with and learn more about the local and national economic challenges many communities face. Donald Trump does not. Jackson Sr.,

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Scalable Startup

DECEMBER 31, 2014

I have mixed feelings about this – I respect their right to do this and I’m happy for them to be able to get a piece of the enormous revenue stream that Google and Facebook dominate, but it will also take away the purity of Pinterest and lessen the experience a bit. Real ads in the form of promoted pins. Pinterevist?

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

At crowdSPRING we talk a great deal about how we can leverage our limited marketing resources to drive traffic and revenues and build strong community. Some of the traffic-tactics we use involve good old fashioned payola: paid search, banner ads, affiliate programs, etc. The Obama campaign and viral video. That crazy chicken.

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