Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

has demonstrated both high user engagement and better than average conversion rates of 1%-3.5% (versus 0.05% for traditional display advertising) for February 2010. Swipely is a social network orientated around users credit card transaction data. Advertising clients include: Sony, Microsoft, NBC, and Clicker.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 8, 2020

Working with this dataset can be valuable in terms of understanding the underlying structure of Google Analytics data and experimenting with a number of advanced statistical and data mining techniques that can’t be applied when the data is in aggregate form (which is the norm with standard Google Analytics.). Kaggle has 3.5 Happy Kaggling.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 17, 2018

But to use hashtags effectively, you must do more than just plug them into your tweets on Twitter or posts on Instagram, Facebook or another social network. When a person adds a hashtag to their post, that hashtag is indexed by social networks and the content becomes more easily searchable and discoverable by others.

Small Business 191

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

There will also be a free networking reception at Campus on Monday, June 25th. Brandsforce is a plug & play social media marketing platform that generates conversations, engagements and measurable actions on social networks. Unlike other companies, we are a true digital record label, not aggregators.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

For the last 10 years China essentially closed its search, media and social network software market to foreign companies with the result that Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Dropbox, and 30,000 other websites were not accessible from China. And they were increasing at an aggregate 33 million IOS and Android activations per month.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

As you mature you start measuring things that really matter, macro and micro conversion rates , economic value , visitor loyalty. A good business analyst will measure how many clicks came through from Facebook, and she/he will also measure the conversion rate, revenue, etc., Having a conversion business impact was not the point.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 25, 2017

This begs the question: how much time do users spend in Snapchat today compared to other social networks, and how will that number change over time? Had Facebook not purchased Instagram, Facebook’s aggregate numbers likely would have dipped as millennials have largely abandoned Facebook for Instagram and Snapchat.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 4, 2011

We all know how important it is for businesses to track social conversations online; recently, we’ve seen a flood of web monitoring tools just for this purpose. View an aggregation of customer reviews and online mentions. Respond, re-tweet, take actions or create a new conversation on major social sites.

Small Business 162

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Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

For the last 10 years China essentially closed its search, media and social network software market to foreign companies with the result that Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Dropbox, and 30,000 other websites were not accessible from China. And they were increasing at an aggregate 33 million IOS and Android activations per month.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

But, most of use raise capital and source deals the same way people looked for dates 20 years ago: by networking at conferences (or bars). . Boardex and Relationship Science make it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. That’s why 40 million Americans use online dating sites.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 17, 2016

This is a strategy that has been successfully used by social networks, ecommerce stores and even enterprise businesses to drive customer engagement and build revenues. This public gratification provides users with sufficient incentive to contribute and thus help TripAdvisor meet its business need of aggregating traveler reviews.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 5, 2010

So with a panel of 5-6 people and 30-45 minutes it’s hard to have a real conversation. Every speaker wants to get their points in so the conversation often lacks rhythm. In aggregate we have a ton of great developers but we need a better feeding system into our startups.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 18, 2011

Measure retention rate over time in aggregate – or for optimal health, segment retention rate – and measure it for the various objectives you have set for your email marketing program. Analysts will almost always measure emails sent, and will often measure some type conversion signal. Did the website deliver the goods?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

I believe that many social networks confused this idea. Our publisher distribution network reaches in the tens of millions of unique users and is comprised of “head end&# stars as well as many “mid tier&# and “long tail&# publishers. The affiliate networking market alone is about a $2 billion industry now.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2018

But using hashtags effectively, especially for business marketing, means doing more than just plugging them into your tweets on Twitter or posts on Instagram, Facebook or another social network. The downside to this is that your conversion rate may be lower than if you had used a more targeted hashtag.

Small Business 80

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

4G/ LTE (Long Term Evolution) -the fourth generation of networks, enabling faster downloading in 4G phones (100 megabit per second compared to today’s 21 megabit/sec in 3G phones). Allot Service Gateway solutions for mobile broadband are compliant with 3G, 4G/LTE and WiMax networks and provide full cell awareness.

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 12, 2010

By now we’ve discussed the fact that you should first plug your funnel , then improve conversion rates , then work on sending as much traffic as possible to your website. But we haven’t talked about how big of a role traffic quality plays in determining your conversion rate. This is because the quality is so much better.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 22, 2010

Footbo - a football-centric social network that enables fans to follow leagues & competitions from around the world while easily connecting with fans from all locations. ForNova provides a B2B turnkey solution to enable building aggregation solutions for classifieds eCommerce, travel and many other specific content verticals.

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Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

We had a conversation. How do you have that conversation? It depends on where you live, but every community has a Chamber of Commerce, and the Chamber of Commerce organizations typically do networking events. Some of them have young professional networking events. Time to purchase, conversion rates, those kinds of things.

Small Business 60

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Like most Internet tools and social networks things change and there are always new and better ways to use them meet your objectives. For me, it’s a tool to amplify my own content, filter and aggregate other people’s content and network for links and conversations. Think value and links will come.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

I recently went to a networking event for one of the seed funds that invested in PandoDaily, and I’ve never seen such worry on the faces of the entrepreneurs. ” In off the record conversations, many angels have expressed the urgency of self-discipline. HealthTab acquires Avvo Health to double its doctor network.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

The co-commerce era is here and defined by the 3 C’s – Collaboration, Conversations and Creativity. We need to have a close look at the worlds two biggest social media networks of Twitter and Facebook – they run open API’s for each other to assist their customers and suppliers switch and share between each other.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Our firm has had the good fortune to invest in many two-sided networks that used information aggregation, supplier aggregation, and user generated content to attract and inform consumers and resultantly disrupt and change different industries. It is a very narrow conversation. It’s a fun interesting conversation.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

The firm used to be called Fotouhi Alonso and were one of LA's top mid-sized agencies for 20 years, working with clients like Honda, Epson, the LA DWP, and the FX Network. Same partner all along: Jorge Alonso, Creative Director. . :) What do you think of the concepts of visible networking and online business networking in Los Angeles ?

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Social networking. Social/Sharing. Create your own social network. free enterprise social network. GetSatisfaction - conversations between companies / customers. cmypitch.com : Network for small business, connecting entrepreneurs with each other, investors and service providers.

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Up and Running

MAY 21, 2014

He is the creator of the Duct Tape Marketing System and Duct Tape Marketing Consulting Network that trains and licenses small business marketing consultants around the world. And some of the things that I think fundamentally have changed is that the listening, collecting information, kind of tapping into networks, now is the new prospecting.

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Brandanew

JANUARY 8, 2016

These are effective tools to use, for example, if you notice that people are liking the post but for some reason not clicking through to the link – then you can determine what you need to do to achieve that conversion! On the social analytics side, I have been using Buffer for more that an year now, and it’s downright fantastic.

Analytics 100

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Twitter’s significance stems from the fact that it is a real time, open, asymmetric, social, viral referral network that is often location aware and provides both explicit and implicit interests and preferences. Social – Asymmetry is one of the big drivers of Twitter. The Importance of Twitter. Not so on Twitter.

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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. If I tell someone I’m the mayor of a spot, I’m in an instant conversation: “What makes you the mayor?” Company : Cryptine Networks.

Software Review 79

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 2, 2013

Visualize industry related data – most popular X on Twitter, aggregate industry related tweets. Message of the day promote across staff social networks. YourBrandSuggests – Monitor Twitter to make industry related recommendations (great example of this in Youtility). Facebook lead capture. Facebook contest by market segment.

Marketing 68

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

4G/LTE and WiMax networks and provide full cell awareness. Spacecom is offering a wide range of Pan African satellite services, including: Cellular backhaul, Rural telephony, Broadband VSAT networks, e-government, e-learning, e- health, Direct To Home (DTH) Multi-channel platforms, DSNG, Video Distribution & Contribution.

Mobile 103

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 14, 2013

Employ a combination of free and paid tools such as Google Alerts, Google Reader, HootSuite and SproutSocial to filter, aggregate, follow and monitor your online presence and establish a routine of processing, acting on and sharing this information on a daily basis. Month 9 – Address Social Integration.

Social Media 78

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betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Before there was Fab there was fabulis, a social network meets places guide targeted to the gay community. If it’s done right, feedback and postmortems are regular activities and reviews are just the official aggregation of such feedback.?. So, we pivoted from fabulis to Fab.?. Once you pivot, focus, and don’t look back.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 3, 2013

As this graph showcases, in the beginning, brands focused on growing their social audience as a means of reaching out to more people with traditional marketing messages on nontraditional platforms. Then, marketers went a step further by using various calls-to-action to encourage brand conversation on the social networks themselves.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 1, 2015

With recruiters and hiring managers in businesses of all sizes turning to the web to gain insight into potential candidates and one in every five employers using social networks to screen job seekers, it is clear why being MIA online is deemed anachronistic, hidebound and even suspect. In Came the Social Media Assistance Tools.

Social Media 28

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

Even if you and I are in the same sector (ecommerce) or the same business (social networking) it is important to know that we will usually drive different objectives, and hence different KPI's. 1: Conversion Rate. After all I am constantly telling people to stop obsessing about conversion rate. : ). Trial signups.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Along with company presentations and ample networking opportunities, Dan Caruso, CEO of Zayo Group, will give this winter’s keynote address. Green Garage aggregates proven, sustainable, energy saving automotive maintenance/repair related products and delivers them through convenient consumer valet and corporate mobile on-site services.

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