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Paranoid Companies Miss the Best New Opportunities

Startup Professionals Musings

Your goal is “ coopetition ” - to find a way to partner with your competitor in such a way that both parties can substantially benefit from the other's resources - without stealing customers or damaging anyone's credibility. In the following quarter, we jointly signed up two new customers who loved our “end to end” integrated solution.

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Your Toughest Competitor May be Your Best Partner

Startup Professionals Musings

Your goal is “ coopetition ” - to find a way to partner with your competitor in such a way that both parties can substantially benefit from the other's resources - without stealing customers or damaging anyone's credibility. In the following quarter, we jointly signed up two new customers who loved our “end to end” integrated solution.

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Six Good Reasons to Partner with a Competitor

Startup Professionals Musings

Your goal is to find a way to partner with your "competitor" in such a way that both parties can substantially benefit from the other's resources - but without stealing customers or damaging anyone's credibility. Best of both creates a new market. Up-sell related products after the initial sale. Cross endorsement.

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Measuring Incrementality: Controlled Experiments to the Rescue!

Occam's Razor

How do you figure out if you are spending more money reaching the exact same current or prospective customers multiple times? We have to do Email Marketing. We have to have a robust Affiliate network. Maybe it is Affiliate and Paid Search. Like-type as in customers that share certain common attributes. The people.

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7 Incredible Web Design, Branding, Digital Marketing Experiences

Occam's Razor

AAA Life Insurance : Truly Customer Centric "Convince Me To Buy" Experience. AAA Life Insurance : Truly Customer Centric "Convince Me To Buy" Experience. Why is it that www.orbitz.com uses none of my location signals to customize content on their home page to appeal to me? Sad, right?

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Excellent Analytics Tip #7: The Adorable Site Abandonment Rate Metric

Occam's Razor

It measures the customer interaction in a very small number of web pages, probably one for cart and two to three for checkout. Hence at its highest level the metric helps you understand how much money is left on the table by your customers. You can test these to prove if they move the right levers for your customers.

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Transcript And MP3 Of My $180,000 Website Flipping Presentation

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

I have a few contractors to do the technical side of my work and a customer support person, but that’s it. I didn’t have that contractor doing customer support. The difference here is the entry-level cost to buying web property, not physical property, is much lower than what it is to buy real-world properties.