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Why You Should Think Twice Before You Send That Intro Email

Both Sides of the Table

And in most cases I would heed Fred Wilson’s advice about the “double opt-in” email for intros – where you ask for permission before green-lighting an unsolicited introductions. I’m talking in aggregate. And then there is the email blaster / form letter introducer. I give introductions frequently.

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B2B Marketplaces Revisited

Version One Ventures

As such, successful B2B marketplaces will do the following well: Aggregate suppliers and provide price transparency. A marketplace needs to bring product catalogs from multiple suppliers and aggregate them in one convenient spot for customers. Increase trust and social proof.

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Making the Most of Your Drip Email Campaign: Content, Length & Frequency

ConversionXL

Most people won’t buy anything on the first visit, so you need to capture emails. However, research supports that people read most or half of their emails , respond to passion, hate being pitched, HATE irrelevance, and won’t mind frequent emails as long as that email is relevant, interesting, and specific to their needs.

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How Online Video Companies Can Increase Margin and Build Better Businesses

Both Sides of the Table

You can ask them to come and watch your videos at your owned & operated websites (O&O) where you can make higher margins as well as ask directly for more meaningful customer information such as Facebook connections, Twitter oAuths, email addresses and the like. In the old days this was email addresses.

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FLoC: Google’s Plan to Kill Off Third-Party Cookies

ConversionXL

They aggregate far more of your clicks across the Internet and power the hyper-relevant ads you see (e.g., Many users’ updates are aggregated (B) to form a consensus change (C) to the shared model, after which the procedure is repeated. when people sign in using their email address) could record and reveal their cohort.

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You Should Probably Send More Email Than You Do

www.kalzumeus.com

You Should Probably Send More Email Than You Do. One medium I’ve never made much use of personally is email. This is objectively suboptimal, because email is the best broadcast channel ever invented for business purposes. Give me your email address and I’ll send you things that you’ll enjoy. by Patrick.

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Great web-based news aggregator

BeyondVC

I have a hard enough time keeping up with email, let alone the increasing volume of news and blogs. During the last 6 months, I have been experimenting with a number of RSS readers to aggregate my news. The post Great web-based news aggregator appeared first on BeyondVC. Like many of you, I suffer from information overload.