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27 Entrepreneurs Share Tips on Building an Ecommerce Business

Hearpreneur

As soon as you have 2-3 months' worth of sales data to work with, use a formula to calculate stock reorder levels to ensure you always have stock ready to go, especially if you're promoting your products on platforms known for viral content, like TikTok. Next, technology is your ally. Thanks to Dani Mechlowitz, Delta Fulfilment ! #6-

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10+ Trends: Recap of 2011 and What’s Next…

thebarefootvc

This was the year that the promise of technology to truly change the world and empower individuals (the reason I entered the tech world in 1994) reached global scale. The viral nature of social media no doubt aided this growth, as did improvements in the online shopping experience. The era of the patriarch is nearing an end.

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I’ve Built Multiple Growth Teams. Here’s Why I Won’t Do It Again.

ConversionXL

I use a more restrictive definition: A growth team is a product tech team that’s focused on acquisition instead of core product features. I still review it regularly. Consumer tech companies tend to have enough data since consumer markets (and purchase volume) tend to be large. How I define “growth”. Growth teams are expensive.

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CXL Live 2018 Recap: Top 5 Lessons from Each Speaker

ConversionXL

Virality: # of users that refer your product for you: exponential growth if your K factor is greater than 1. Dropbox: first achieved growth through virality. Hear hear, @matseinarsen explaining at #cxllive that every company has a specific experimentation bandwidth and that you can calculate this! Increased engagement.

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Episode 3: Smart Bear Live!

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Do you feel like the more users you have it helps accelerate, is there some kind of, maybe not necessarily viral, but that people just tell their friends at all. One of the things we find, because we certainly threw out what can we do to make this more viral or to work more in a social way so that we can try to get more people on the system?

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How to Optimize Videos for Conversions

ConversionXL

Big brands are spending tens of thousands on videos that fall flat while a lucky few are going viral. This is especially true for highly technical, complex or new / innovative products. Note that this could very well be due to the fact that video often serves as a summary for those who don’t want to read all the way down a page.

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SEO Advice for Bootstrapped Startups

sharkseo.com

Make sure you don’t overcook this idea though, or you could cause Google to review what you’re doing – make sure you read this post first so you know where the line is. Aaron Wall, SEO Book Add a free feature which is accessible, useful, and spreads virally. Plan a bit of post-launch viral content.