Occam's Razor

JUNE 4, 2018

I understand channel conflict, Timbuk2, but this is just plain not being hungry. Increase current conversion rate by 25%, quantify how much increased revenue there will be. Go to the Multi-Channel Funnels folder in Google analytics and look at two other yummy reports: Time Lag and Path Length. Do something simple. You should.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 4, 2015

Yet every business requires revenue and volumes, as certainly as it requires a product to sell. Per-unit cost less cost of goods sold is your gross profit or margin. Project based on your market size how many widgets you will sell in every channel. Doubling revenue each year is a good target.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 23, 2013

In the Udemy course, Alistair and Ben expand these basics into a description of how to create empathy, stickiness, virality, revenue, and scale. LSC: What''s an example of one metric, other than revenue, that you might look at for a non-tech product? In fact, it''s often cheaper than the old cost of a big study or research project.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 11, 2015

I just spent a day working with Bob, the Chief Innovation Officer of a very smart large company I’ll call Acme Widgets. They’ve learned the best distribution channel to get the product from their company to the customer. They’ve figured out the revenue model (subscription, license, direct sale, etc.) That’s now changed.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

No changes were made to the customer journey, and it had nothing to do with revenue lift. You’ll also learn how to apply growth marketing to five key channels and how to plan and execute experimentation. It isn’t about finding quick hacks to boost short-term revenue. For example, say you’re trying to improve top-line revenue.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Below are the mistakes that have cost aspiring entrepreneurs a huge amount of money. I quickly navigated to the official site for buying the product and found that the shipping charge was almost three times the product cost. Make sure not to add any unexpected cost at the last minute. It was, in the literal sense, a steal.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Struggling to manage costs, the start-up closed shop as quickly as it opened. Others, such as Loosecubes, are looking for a more consistent stream of revenue by switching to a subscription-based model. The $40 to $50 she charges for a one-way ride helps shave her costs on gas. Most popular right now: Sponsored Links.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Key Takeaway: Marketing has changed for all types of businesses in the last few years thanks to new platforms, channels, and technology. But for small businesses — the changes have been revolutionary, often leveling the playing field and providing a way to reach their customers and new audiences in a low-cost, targeted, and personalized way.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 21, 2022

Key Takeaway: Marketing has changed for all types of business in the last few years thanks to new platforms, channels, and technology. But for small businesses — the changes have been revolutionary, often leveling the playing field and providing a way to reach their customers and new audiences in a low-cost, targeted, and personalized way.

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K9 Ventures

JULY 21, 2016

Expensive iterations: Depending on the product doing a new rev of the hardware may cost thousands of dollars or more and could also take weeks if not at least several days. Where should those units be stored so they can be shipped expediently and cost effectively? With hardware you have less room for error.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 2, 2015

Things to consider here include targeting customers at a specific point of their life cycle, identifying current content gaps, coming up with an editorial calendar and publishing schedule, and promoting the content on different channels. Revenue goals: speed of sales, referrals, cost per lead etc. white paper? infographics?)

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Cause I'm pretty bad at, uh, monetization and revenue. Like that's what the kinda revenue charges we're targeting. Because the business is oh this is a cost center, this is, you know, talking to my customers, it's expensive. Like had their little floating thing, their floating messenger, messenger widget in the corner.

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Up and Running

JUNE 21, 2017

But keeping track of where a customer came from is very hard, especially when you start diversifying your marketing channels to campaigns that don’t have a direct conversion. Once you have goals defined, you can easily filter your data to know which channels are driving these conversions.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Native applications resolve some of these issues but bring their own baggage—development costs, platform irregularities, download requirements, update needs, and issues with search indexability. Offline mode” is not a fully native offline experience (though it could be made possible—at a great cost to UX). Age 18+, June 2017.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 21, 2014

This equates to a loss of revenue, which requires more and more signups from new customers just to replace what you are organically losing every month. I have seen this happen at a few startups I’ve worked with by expanding revenue from the current product, plus up-sell and cross-sell opportunities , but that will be a future post.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 25, 2020

Over the last several years, I’ve been using Facebook Messenger bots to market my online store over at Bumblebee Linens , and it has significantly outperformed my other channels. higher revenue per subscriber; In this post, I’ll show you how to use Facebook Messenger marketing to increase your ecommerce sales and build customer loyalty.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

And I’m guessing one of them certainly is a lot of, “What’s the revenue? So what’s your top-line revenue? The more revenue you have, the more valuable your company is going to be, generally. The more revenue you have, the more valuable your company is going to be, generally. Here’s why.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 22, 2013

Identify gaps in our content/engagement/channel strategy on the web, 2. They've also built a widget (only for Android for now) where you can see a Value of the Day on your home screen. You might also get asked this question: Wait, don't we have Facebook, Twitter and Google+ channels? Everything you might expect.

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ConversionXL

JULY 28, 2016

This tactic can increase your conversion rate, drop your cost per conversion and prepare your site for future testing all in one fell swoop. Hypothetical Case Study: Acme Widgets, LLC. Let’s say you are marketing widgets for ACME Widgets, an eCommerce company that sells $200 widgets.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

They were providing low-cost healthy meals for schools across the country and, before the crisis, were delivering two million federally reimbursable school and community meals per week nationwide. So it was much less about sort of what's the next cool widget that you can design and more about, where do you see a need in the world around you?

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Content providers and owners facing diminishing revenues from their SD sales, due to increasing demand for HD content, can now restore the full economic value of their vast archives, by transforming them to True HD. Cell Buddy has developed the only seamless, carrier grade solution, for low cost Voice calls, SMS and Internet, while abroad.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

However, they should be mindful as the brand and revenues grow, free optimization tools can have a negative impact on Total Cost of Ownership. But any testing (even free) is good--as playing guess games with your content will cost you business to your competition in the long run. Procter & Gamble Launches Widget to C.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 30, 2012

" The cool bit is that in addition to standard widgets and simple tables, you can also bundle along your smarts into the dashboard and delight your users. One way is to use the awesome built in inline Filters feature when you use the dashboard widgets, to show just the data that is relevant (did I already say less data puking?

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 13, 2015

Live chat is becoming increasingly common as a customer support channel. In fact, Zendesk’s newest report found that “In Q1 2015, live chat led all other channels in customer satisfaction at 92%.”. Still, that says nothing of the effects of live chat on revenue and conversions. Image Source. High traffic, high bounce rate.

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Mucker Lab

MAY 1, 2013

Instead of aiming for hundreds of millions of dollars in software licensing revenue – they want to conquer existing industries and aim for tens of billions of dollars in widget revenues. Not content to simply sell incumbents software, these companies merge domain expertise with software native DNA to attack incumbent head on.

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Brandanew

APRIL 22, 2016

The content is ready and now post-publishing you’re on to emailing your list, reaching out to influencers, and distributing on your social channels. Publishers, or Content Producers, can pay a Cost-per-Click to have their ads appear beside editorial content on Mashable, People, CNN, ESPN, Fortune, Hearst, The Washington Post, Time Inc.,

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

The cost of losing a good employee is absolutely unbelievable. It’s the cost of having to train. It’s the cost of your reputation, whether it be in the community or when you’re trying to recruit other people. Well first, from a financial standpoint you have to have enough revenue. These are my revenues.

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