ConversionXL

DECEMBER 3, 2018

These obscure B2B niches seem completely resistant to content marketing, but they’re resistant only to one application of content marketing: writing blog posts to target high-volume keywords. Set up in 2003, the website has a strong network-effect moat that makes it harder for other blogs and publications to compete.

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B2B Marketing SEO Search 133

ConversionXL

JUNE 9, 2019

In 2010, Dr. Anne Aula, a Senior User Experience Researcher at Google, presented some disappointing findings about mouse tracking: Only 6% of people showed some vertical correlation between mouse movement and eye tracking. This blog post criticizing heat maps for soccer players’ movements puts it well: “What do heat maps do?

Algorithm 111

Algorithm Analytics Conversion Stock 111

VC Cafe

AUGUST 11, 2014

So he teamed up with a few PhDs and set off to write a book about each major vertical – Healthcare, Technology Media and Telecom, Energy and Industrials, Retail and Consumer Goods, etc. A There’s quite a range of information sources from curated reports to aggregated data. Also recommend checking out the research blog.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 19, 2016

These users may be visiting to check inventory, look at reviews, read blog articles, or even compare pricing. For example, according to Mona Elesseily , “conversions in the health vertical have the best ROI during work hours and into the evening on tablet devices.”. Aggregate Audience Data. This, too, results in skewed data.

Mobile 48

Mobile Technical Review Software Review Metrics 48

www.pakman.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Disruption: David Pakman's Blog. But if your service attracts particular verticals of content engagement, not all content is created equal, and some is much more valuable than others. General news carries the lowest CPCs whereas specific verticals like healthcare and finance command higher CPCs. NYT Lens Blog.

Social Media 47

Social Media Vertical Advertising Distribution 47

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

It’s why I always work hard to find images for my blog posts & why all of my keynote presentations are visual rather than bullet points with words. When I write a blog post I often see the words before I write them. Were they vertically integrated ? I have a process I use for blog posts, too. If so, why?

Technical Review 356

Technical Review Framework Audience Media 356

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 16, 2015

In 2010, Dr Anne Aula, Senior User Experience Researcher at Google, gave a presentation where she presented some disappointing findings about mouse tracking : Only 6% of people showed some vertical correlation between mouse movement and eye tracking. Click maps show you a heatmap comprised of aggregated click data. Click Maps.

Algorithm 48

Algorithm Analytics Aggregator Vertical 48

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

For example, Friendster was famously vertically partitioned at one time in its growth curve. Using memcacheds multiget, which allows the fetching of many keys in parallel, I have written code to aggregate all the shard lookups for a given page and prefetch them, reducing the overhead even further. Key-based partitioning. to store it.

San Francisco 151

San Francisco Architecture Startup Database 151

ConversionXL

JULY 7, 2016

In 2010, Dr Anne Aula, Senior User Experience Researcher at Google, gave a presentation where she presented some disappointing findings about mouse tracking: Only 6% of people showed some vertical correlation between mouse movement and eye tracking. 19% of people showed some horizontal correlation between mouse movement and eye tracking.

Metrics 65

Metrics Analytics Aggregator Algorithm 65

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

I forget that other people actually read this blog. I think that one of the good themes of this blog is that years != “dog years&# in deep industries. To Steve B: thanks for a great blog, and connecting so many outlying or just plain uncorrelated dots. Blog at WordPress.com. Say that gives 15 years in business.

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Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 217

Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

Like most politically important information, consumers will eventually get to be in control of their own aggregated data. A local example was the Greenhouse pop up restaurant in Melbourne by Joost Baker – Which included vertical gardens and large amounts of material re-purposing. Cities are now becoming vertical again.

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Uruguay Technical Review Vertical Las Vegas 123

Austin Startup

APRIL 25, 2017

I won’t dive into cost structure in this blog post, but let’s think through how Snap could grow revenue 20x. Had Facebook not purchased Instagram, Facebook’s aggregate numbers likely would have dipped as millennials have largely abandoned Facebook for Instagram and Snapchat. 2 years ago my grandmother didn’t have Facebook.

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Valuation Technical Review Forecast Social Network 48

Start Up Blog

JANUARY 28, 2015

Expect to see an uprising of startups providing software layers to protect end users and aggregate public data on them so they have awareness of what their digital footprints look like. We are also seeing lots of backwards and forwards vertical integration. In any case, all shareholders care about is the aggregate profit and ROI.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Startup Australia Artificial Inteligence 48

Start Up Blog

JANUARY 5, 2015

Expect to see an uprising of startups providing software layers to protect end users and aggregate public data on them so they have awareness of what their digital footprints look like. We are also seeing lots of backwards and forwards vertical integration. In any case, all shareholders care about is the aggregate profit and ROI.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Startup Australia Artificial Inteligence 48

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

My blog has over 14000 subscribers, for example. And how could they possibly review a blog? It’s time for us to start thinking of every piece of content – books, blogs, albums, TV shows, movies, everything – as a new little startup. Is that a lot? They can’t even consider 99% of published books already.

San Francisco 113

San Francisco Lean Technical Review Distribution 113

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

… You can see the wisdom of not just setting a 20% aggregate conversion rate, based on the above benchmarking data. The above graph shows you the dangers of setting targets on aggregated benchmarking analysis. For this blog, Benchmarking classifies me into Internet & Telecom vertical. or Weightwatchers.co.uk

Analytics 133

Analytics Vertical Metrics Web 133

thebarefootvc

MARCH 5, 2017

While many of these companies I reference were working on horizontal, platform technologies, I recently have seen more investment opportunities in vertical “applied AI” Data experts, combined with domain experts, are forming companies to tackle applications that utilize machine learning as core elements of their product.

Artificial Inteligence 84

Artificial Inteligence Algorithm Valuation Aggregator 84

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

See their blog post on multiples.). Foundry Group is using their portfolio company Monday to aggregate portfolio companies’ job postings on their own jobs page; Point Nine Capital uses Recruitee for the same purpose. the Untouched Vertical. Modano standardizes Excel models to improve comparability and reduce error rates.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

John Jantsch: Well, and let’s not forget to throw in the aggregators that are out there doing the 10 best blah, blah, blah in their city. I mean, they’re essentially national lead aggregators and they’re messing up the local results. In those verticals whereas we’re prevalent, they were always there.

SEO 54

SEO Vertical Non-Compete Search 54

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Between the worse data aggregation method and the much higher amount of work Wesabe made you do, it was far easier to have a good experience on Mint , and that good experience came far more quickly. 25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time | ChubbyBrain Blog | Brian Chaney says: October 4, 2010 at. [.] Investors Companies.

Software Review 79

Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

www.kalzumeus.com

AUGUST 13, 2012

Patrick McKenzie (patio11) blogs on software development, marketing, and general business topics. That’s a specific example, in generalities you’ll get: exclusive looks at software/marketing topics which for whatever reason aren’t right for this blog. Blog posts are very poor at changing actual behavior.

Email 54

Email Software Review Software Campaign 54

VC Cafe

JUNE 22, 2010

ForNova provides a B2B turnkey solution to enable building aggregation solutions for classifieds eCommerce, travel and many other specific content verticals. The platform supports multiple verticals such as real estate, cars, travel, hotels, flights, jobs, events, products, eCommerce and more.

Media 145

Media Social Network Flash 145

ConversionXL

AUGUST 21, 2014

Using an aggregated set of over 15 billion actions analyzed by Mixpanel each month during August, September, and October 2013, they were able to establish new, industry specific benchmarks for retention. When looking closely at the verticals above, they found that two forces were at play—instant gratification and customization.

Retention 106

Retention Churn Rate Metrics Software Review 106

Hearpreneur

AUGUST 2, 2016

Most companies would agree that they would prefer to focus marketing efforts on acquiring investors who have explicitly expressed an interest in being involved in crowdfunding and in specific verticals, both as a user on a platform matching them with opportunities, and directly with issuers. Find the experts and our affiliated partners.

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Accredited Investor Non-Compete Vertical Acquisition 48

thebarefootvc

JULY 5, 2017

While many of these companies I reference were working on horizontal, platform technologies, I recently have seen more investment opportunities in vertical “applied AI” Data experts, combined with domain experts, are forming companies to tackle applications that utilize machine learning as core elements of their product.

Artificial Inteligence 40

Artificial Inteligence Algorithm Valuation Aggregator 40

Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2009

Helena Reply Process for the Enterprise » Blog Archive » Sometimes Leadership Means Executing the Plan , on August 25, 2009 at 6:48 am Said: [.] Reply Ask the Angels » Blog Archive » Friday Random Ramblings…and Some Good Weekend Reading , on October 9, 2009 at 2:42 pm Said: [.]

Silicon Valley 181

Silicon Valley Startup RSS Customer Development 181

ConversionXL

APRIL 22, 2015

Why people think it’s about tactics is obvious: lots of blog posts out there tell you so. Some blog posts even give you complete lists of conversion optimization techniques ( never mind that there is no such thing as a CRO technique ). A click map is a visual representation, aggregated data of where people click.

Analytics 48

Analytics Technical Review Conversion Framework 48

Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2009

Blogged the exact quote when it was published in Feb. If one looks at the total pool of college vs non-college people, and what each group’s career trajectories look like in the aggregate, I think Google’s position is more justifiable. Blog at WordPress.com. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

Silicon Valley 327

Silicon Valley RSS California Customer Development 327

techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

of VCs said they had a decreased appetite for risk and that more than half of those polled expect their firms to do between zero and three deals in the next year and you start to get the feeling things are going to get a lot worse for private companies, in aggregate, before they get better. I read their damn blogs! Anyone to invest ?

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Venture Capital Technical Review Sweat Equity Valuation 62

ConversionXL

JANUARY 14, 2016

Each app in each vertical is a world of its own. Here’s a table from our dashboard that shows which networks did well and which did not when aggregating rich in-app event data of users who booked a family hotel room in Miami during December. Stage 1: Which In-App Events Correlate With Your Goals?

Mobile 48

Mobile Conversion Retention Campaign 48

aweissman.com

JUNE 11, 2007

By guaranteeing that all sites in their network are about a single topic, they can aggregate a critical mass in traffic while still enjoying endemic site RPMs. Its one reason I like the vertical ad business of Adify so much - it attempts to place itself out of the domain specificity business and just provide the relevant platform and tools.

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Networking Vertical Differentiation Channel 20

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Many vendors now aggregate this real customer data and present it in the form of benchmarks that you can use to index your own performance. In all three cases, you can compare your performance to specific vertical markets (for example, retail, apparel, software, and so on), which is much more meaningful. Ok now your turn.

Analytics 123

Analytics Securities and Exchange Commission Search Engineer 123

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Regular readers of the blog know of my deep love for competitive intelligence analysis. My first blog post on the topic of CIA was on 14th Aug 2006! I strongly encourage you to read this blog post: Competitive Intelligence Data Sources & Best Practices. Competitive Intelligence Analysis: Why, What & How to Choose.

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Metrics Analytics Non-Compete Search 60