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Netflix Redux: Is It Ever OK to Fire Your Customers?

Both Sides of the Table

But creating better visibility for investors of the profitability of each unit and accountability for bosses of each to perform well according to differnet metrics is a good & important idea. Given how badly the announcement of the splitting went and their inability to control the PR cycle (or their stock price!) No, probably not.

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How My SEO Sucks Helped A Local Law Firm Crush the Competition

The Startup Magazine

All by utilizing common techniques such as a C ontent D elivery N etwork ( CDN ), caching, and swapping to a better web host. . With a comprehensive link building and digital PR strategy , My SEO Sucks performed extensive outreach, sending out thousands of emails to potential collaborators.

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Scaling lessons learned at Dropbox, part 1

eranki.tumblr.com

App-specific metrics. Or if you’re going to cache something out of the database, simulate the effects and tally up the hits so you can justify spending time worrying about the invalidation policy, etc. have serious security problems and seem to be able to weather a small PR storm. Better than switching off features!

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Twitter Link Roundup #206 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

How One SaaS Startup Reduced Churn 71% Using Red Flag Metrics – crowdspring.co/JbgG2P. Gmail blows up e-mail marketing by caching all images on Google servers | Ars Technica – crowdspring.co/1hdkj4D. Good tips for entrepreneurs on firing people who don’t fit – crowdspring.co/1fFt0n7. Managing a Growing Startup?

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Demand Generation: Turning Tactics into Strategy

ConversionXL

Building a cache of user data in a CRM that’s strong enough to inform demand gen campaigns—what content to produce, where to distribute it—can take years, according to Brandt Bogdanovich of MST Solutions. Based on those emotional triggers, create new demand gen campaigns or re-purpose current campaigns to speak to those needs.

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Cracking The Code: iPhone, Apple TV and more from Mac World

Cracking the Code

And it is true that the current version of the iPhone is a fantastic consumer product, but the key business feature (push e-mail and calendar) are not there yet: the iPhone will support yahoo push e-mails, but not Outlook (only cache and carry). Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing pr. ► 10/04 - 10/11. (2).

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EnumSet and EnumMap

TechEmpower

The result is uncloned, cached, and shared by all callers. */. They have a bit of a PR problem. It beats RegularEnumSet in all important metrics: Query speed ( contains(element) , etc.) A flat array of the Map 's values indexed by the ordinals of their keys. EnumSet and EnumMap cheat! They use privileged code like this : /**.

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