Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 29, 2020

The "drip drip drip" of data he was seeing from countries that were hit first told him what was coming, and he made it his mission to start a campaign for masks -- Masks4All. You can listen to our conversation on Apple , Google, or wherever you like to download podcasts. Here's my conversation with Jeremy Howard.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 9, 2013

Unfortunately, many books, articles, blogs and podcasts on social media focus too heavily on the “feel good” factor of success stories. Critical roles include a director, community manager, blog editor, blogger(s), channel specialists, SEO specialists, photographers/videographers, producers, and analytics specialist.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Except the "strategy" is a tirade of drivel I've heard so many times I can lip-sync as the words spew out the founder's mouth: "We're going to A/B-test AdWords campaigns until we discover our hook.". We're going to get reviews on blogs.". We're going to A/B-test our landing pages until the right message appears.".

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Board Effect

APRIL 23, 2020

In this blog post, Mitch shares his insights on several of the questions asked by the audience of over 700 webinar participants. For many the default approach is to simplify virtual meetings and make a one-way flow of information, but your board is your governing partner during this crisis and you need to plan for engagement.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

This continues my series of posts: Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010 Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010 Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March Here they are: How to Minimize Politics in Your Company - Ben's Blog , August 24, 2010 “Who the f@#k you think you f$&kin’ with.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 13, 2012

Finally there were questions we can always count on: setting goals and tracking conversions, justifying analytics and wanting to track the absolutely impossible ( why can't I track people across all devices and all websites? ). Simply because you are going to bump into privacy and government regulations. EU Cookies!)

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 11, 2011

Most online (and many many offline) companies are leveraging paid search and pay many thousands of dollars to experts to manage their campaigns. A company looking to place ads on search networks posts their campaign through Trada and their community of SEO experts contributes keywords and terms to the campaign. Good for them.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 17, 2020

If you’re fortunate enough to land a meeting with a VC firm, you’ll be at an advantage if you can hold your own—or even confidently lead—a conversation that touches on digital marketing tactics. Linking to government and academic websites can be an effective SEO tactic. Which is more useful? We’re here to help.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 17, 2017

Internship Title: Marketing Intern Compensation: Unpaid Description: As the Marketing Intern at Thrillbox, you’ll be helping run all internal marketing campaigns for 30,000 users in 115 countries of their mobile app 360 video player. To Apply: Email jobs@Thrillbox.com and reference the Capital Factory intern program. SkimKing SocialMatters.ai

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ConversionXL

JUNE 26, 2017

Elite Camp is a traffic and (mainly) conversion event held in Estonia every summer. Invite influencers to guest post on your blog. Teach your sales & customer support team to send helpful content from the blog. Bob Ruffalo : How IMPACT Used the ResearchXL Model to 3x Conversions from Content Marketing.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

AUGUST 2, 2011

It may seem unnecessary to post an article about the necessity of having an e-commerce website on a blog devoted to making money online. Furthermore, we developed a very strong email marketing campaign. Within a couple of weeks, he received an inquiry from the government. He now has a lucrative, multi-year government contract.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 6, 2020

It taps into the idea of conversational marketing, which has proven to be high-converting. Speaking of more engagement tactics, let’s jump into personalized landing page campaigns. Run Personalized Landing Page Campaigns. Rather than spinning up generic campaigns, personalized ones convert at higher rates.

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 6, 2010

That's my plan for this blog post. Pageviews gives me a great proxy for knowing how often they might have seen it (not surprisingly more than once for my looooooong blog posts!). And by business I also mean non-profit, university, newspaper, government websites and chicken farmers! Fourth , outcomes baby!

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

But what if you’re an analyst, optimizer, or digital marketer and working on a site without a clear conversion? Government agencies. Government agencies. Of course, some of these can have financial conversions (e.g. It’s a lot foggier than saying you increase your average order value or conversion rate. Nonprofits.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 24, 2018

work (collection, processing, reporting, analysis), processes, org structure, governance models, last-mile gaps , metrics ladders of awesomeness , and… so… much… more. Remember, tools, work, processes, org structure, governance models, last-mile gaps, metrics ladders of awesomeness, and… so… much… more. The Implications of Complexity.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

Even though most of this message was already drafted, we also had a Hail Mary of a final acquisition conversation that closed the following morning. The Whole Enchilada For those of you interested in more than The Skinny, keep reading… Countless conversations have been had with key users, customers, advisors, mentors, family and friends.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Mobile sites get more visitors, but apps fare better for engagement and conversion rates: comScore Mobile Metrix, U.S, PWA enriches user experiences and engagement through features like push notifications, while AMP can be integrated on static pages like the homepage and blog posts. Age 18+, June 2017. This created 3.6 in analytics?

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 6, 2010

One was extolling the wonderfulness of their multi channel campaign tracking. Not your api driven integrated massively multi channel attribution analyzed campaign lifetime databases. Sign up for your websites campaigns using your personal email address. 5 Identify two new micro-conversions and goal values for each.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 21, 2015

Though transparency and authenticity have always been virtues extolled by thought leaders, certain blogs, companies and movements have given greater exposure to transparency in marketing and how it can work as a growth strategy (not just on an ethical level). If you’re bored with a conversation, say it. The Rise of Transparency Blogs.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 19, 2017

I’ve seen conversion teams nestled under marketing that resulted in product teams making their own testing tools, running unscientific tests, and making changes that didn’t align with marketing changes. I’ve seen conversion teams organized by ‘outcome;’ a team optimizing for new customer acquisition, another for new product adoptions, etc.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 13, 2017

You are going to see my deep bias for simplicity for the rest of this post (or in the 745,540 words written on this blog thus far). For example… Let’s say they end up looking at Visitors, Conversion Rates, and Revenue. Why not build in a model where the decision maker can change Conversion Rates, to see the impact on Revenue?

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 4, 2020

Max Henderson founded Covid Act Now to help with that process by making data-driven recommendations for sheltering in place (and later, for reopening) combined with public advocacy guidance to get local government to pay attention to the real facts about spread and safety. Are we really ready to reopen here in the U.S.? I don't think so.

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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. Web access is seen by the government as an ‘economic development investment’, not a political football. The government is using the shift to technology economies as their chance to reinvent.

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Board Effect

APRIL 7, 2020

Underground forms are flooded with the same types of conversations. The conversations of criminals are hidden from the general public. Cybercrime encompasses phishing attacks , stealing credentials, monetary fraud, ransomware campaigns, email spam, malware, and more. Be Aware of State-Sponsored Hacking Campaigns.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 15, 2015

Talia Wolf , Conversioner : “So much of our decision making is governed by how information is presented. How it affects you and how to use it: If your first encounter with A/B testing is a button color change that increased conversions (that’s your anchor), you’ll be less likely to try other A/B tests, especially radical redesigns.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

It could be a button color, a bit of web copy, an image — something extremely finite that may (or may not) have a measurable impact on desired actions, be they conversions or a simple click-through. A Y-Combinator startup itself, Optimizely was used by the groundbreaking online Obama campaign in 2008.

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 25, 2012

Since this is not a blog about legal issues (and I'm not a lawyer!) Cookies contain a small amount of anonymous information that allows a website to know that you have visited in the past, responded to a campaign, or had x items in your cart (which allows the site to retain those items in your cart the next time you come).

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Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2018

This event is in support of the Mayor’s campaign to drive gender equality in London #BehindEveryGreatCity. Room 8ABC Register: SXSW badge required A Conversation with Ernest Cline Ernest Cline is an internationally best-selling novelist, screenwriter, father, and full-time geek. Time: 11am to 12pm Location: Austin Convention Center?—?Room

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Up and Running

JUNE 28, 2012

Are you listening; really listening to the conversations going on about you and your products? As a CEO and an adviser to governments and politicians, I do a lot of listening. I even wrote a blog post about my listening into my industry, Government 2.0. Real keyword and conversation searching brings your audience to you.

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 24, 2018

A fully mobile responsive website can be more beneficial in many cases by ultimately offering a better experience for the end-user, and higher conversion for the business. As social media platforms continue to mature, we will be seeing more examples of viral videos, viral campaigns, viral __. Avoid Trying To Go Viral.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 22, 2011

Here you'll find all my blog posts categorized into a structure that will hopefully make it easy for you to discover new content, find answers to your questions, or simply wallow in some excellent analytics narratives. Blogging Experience Articles. + Mobile Marketing and Analytics: Click-to-Call Mobile Ad Campaigns.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 24, 2010

Note that neither this campaign nor the prior one need be correlated with actual performance. This will a) help ensure good governance and b) make exceptions even more difficult. They outwardly disagree, campaign against the person, and undermine them in their new position. Why is this bad?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 6, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, March 6, 2010 Startup Visa update As I write this, I am traveling at 30,000 feet on Virgin Americas excellent IAD->SFO nonstop, following an intense few days of conversations in Washington, DC about the Startup Visa. Our trip was bipartisan, bicameral, and bi-branches-of-government.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 4, 2018

In addition, she also has her own blog called Giving in Style. Nearly two years ago I foresaw an emerging need for greater corporate governance, accountability and responsibility. Nearly two years ago I foresaw an emerging need for greater corporate governance, accountability and responsibility.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

I have felt more connected and more bonded and increased my respect for those who have taken moral stands or have put in hours of work for the campaign. There are too many to mention but I’ve noticed them all on Twitter, Facebook, blogs and people who have emailed or texted me. I’m grateful they have all spoken up. Obama asked.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 2, 2012

While I'm using the term Store here, it encompasses sales (or leads or catalog requests) driven to a retail store or company call center, people driven to donate blood via online campaigns, or essentially any offline outcome driven by the online channel. " Clarity will help foster a valuable conversation. It's mandatory.

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Board Effect

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Since sharing sensitive data via email or other external channels can expose the entire system, a modern governance solution should eliminate that potential. If it snowballs, and has many people re-tweeting or reacting, though, it’s time to think about a counter campaign. But be prepared that you can’t control all of the conversation.

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