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How to Find Hundreds of Business Ideas

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These don’t have to be big solutions like Google search or Amazon, they could be much smaller. When you play unicycle hockey, you typically use a unicycle, an ice-hockey stick and a tennis ball. To cater to a unicycle hockey player’s needs, Unicycle.com, headquartered in the UK, has decided to stock ice-hockey sticks.

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CXL Live 2019 Recap: Takeaways from Every Speaker

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Conversion teams: 6–8 week experiment cycles; Marketing teams: Prepare, campaign, prepare, campaign; Product teams: 2-week sprints. The reality is that it’s hockey stick growth—you have to spend tons of money before you see any results (and then the results are exponential).

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Is Your Startup Tracking the Right Metrics?

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If you have pay-per-click campaigns, you need to understand how they’re doing, how much money you’re spending on them, which of your keywords if you’re using a pay-per-click campaign are working, which ones are not. I mean think about your own search habits. You need to also understand calls-to-actions.

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

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From big brands creating campaigns on Facebook to group buying sites like Groupon to subscription services such as Birchbox and Shoedazzle to highly curated specialty sites such as Fab.com , 2011 saw large increases in consumers buying online. eCommerce/Social Commerce: New models continue to evolve as ecommerce rebounded this past year.

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Webinar Recap: 14 Tips on How to Pitch and Get Funded

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If you’re online, it’s a little bit easier to track that through pay per click campaigns and things like that, because there’s a lot of analytics behind that so that you can track what that costs. Where do you search for a co-founder who might help you with this pitch and planning process? Are you doing advertising?