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You Shouldn’t Have to Pay to Talk To Your Own Customers

Austin Startup

At a micro level, the customer is always right, and winning passionate users is most often a matter of enabling authentic conversations and giving people at those endpoints enough power to make a difference. Forest for the Trees. Get smart about how your data is used, and demand fair means by which to contribute.

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CXL Live 2017 Recap: Optimization & Growth Insights from 20+ Experts

ConversionXL

Conversion rate is a ratio and ratios are a huge problem. We don’t know how the systems we use calculate conversion rate. E.g. current traffic, conversion to product pages, % that view images, current conversion rate, current conversion rate for image viewers. Changing the conversation. 10K / 1M = 1%.

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B2B Websites: 10 Best Practices for UX and Design

ConversionXL

This post applies Jakob Nielson’s 10 Usability Heuristics to B2B websites that focus on lead generation (as well as “high consideration” B2C sites that lack any transactional functionality). Massey Ferguson’s website, a leader in tractors and global harvesting, exemplifies consistency. Websites are not puzzles.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

I’ve also experimented with using services which are marketplaces between LPs and GPs: CEPRES , DiligenceVault , FundVeil , Harvest Exchange , and Palico. The majority of funds are using the popular B2C websites and services for basic due diligence, e.g., Linkedin, Twitter, HackerNews. Deer Isle Group has built the D.I.G.

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How to Master PPC Targeting and Choose the Right Ad Platform

ConversionXL

Sometimes your product or offer is so new that there’s no search demand out there for you to easily harvest. Companies like Essio Shower or TYME both sell products that people don’t know are available, so a great deal of education around their product needs to happen before a conversion can be expected. LinkedIn (not great for B2C).

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10 Best Practices for Better B2B Website Experience

ConversionXL

Here are some ideas about of how you can apply 10 Jakob Nielsen Usability Heuristics to lead generation websites in the B2B or high consideration B2C realm, where there isn’t necessarily any transactional functionality, e.g. e-commerce, user registrations, etc. That’s an important distinction. Image Credit.

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