Up and Running

JULY 2, 2018

Entrepreneurs are actually proven to be happier and healthier than employees who work for someone else. As a business owner, it’s important to monitor the health of your growing company to spot warning signs—a fractured team, negative customer reviews, poor customer retention, and a lack of creative innovation. A fractured team.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 25, 2020

This is the prime question that goes through most online retailers, entrepreneurs today. It’s as crucial to know standard practices that entrepreneurs sometimes tend to overlook. This is where customer retention comes into play. The use of an email marketing strategy is a popular choice when it comes to higher conversion rates.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2014

In his maiden post on the topic he wrote, “After product-market fit and an efficient conversion process, the next critical step is finding scalable, repeatable and sustainable ways to grow the business. And if there is a term for that which helps entrepreneurs stay focused on these good and true objectives then I’m all for it.

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Up and Running

JUNE 4, 2014

First, this is a conversation that should be done over the phone. As we talk, I write out an email with specific action steps and, most importantly, due dates. Make the subject of your email or the first line of your phone call: “We screwed up.” Young Entrepreneur Council' Create a Written Response Plan.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 27, 2012

These days every new entrepreneur understands that an innovative product or service is necessary, but not sufficient, to start a business. But most entrepreneurs don’t know where to start. Join the conversation with Community Forums. The registration process to join can give you a very targeted email list.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 5, 2013

Email Design Best Practices For Small Businesses and Startups – [link]. Small Business Marketing Tip: Send Email Campaigns At Night To Increase Revenue | crowdSPRING Blog – [link]. 4 Reasons People Subscribe to — and Open — Email – [link]. The Skills Most Entrepreneurs Lack | Bill J.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 3, 2021

Conversely, investing too heavily in the long term will make it harder to generate initial momentum. Email Marketing. Email marketing is possibly the least expensive and most accessible marketing strategy around. Because it’s free to send emails, and you can write an effective email in just a few minutes.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Say you have 1000 customers and $1000 to spend on customer retention and loyalty. And most of us love “triggered emails” because these represent a core part of marketing automation: automation triggered when our visitors or customers do something like abandon a cart. And you can automate these triggers with your CRM or email software.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 23, 2015

That’s where qualitative conversion research comes into play. Despite optimizing your lead gen form, which you suspect is the problem, you’re not seeing a major increase in conversions. Conversion research, qualitative or quantitative, is vital. As a marketer or entrepreneur, you have the curse of knowledge. What gives?

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

For example, in the marketing department, the content and email teams may be siloed. Or, if the content team is producing awesome content but not distributing it across email and social channels, you’re once again missing an opportunity to maximize the ROI. Retention of agency services for manual work that could be automated.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 13, 2018

As a VC and former entrepreneur let me offer you some advice. Remember that the goal of an email to a VC or an introduction from a trusted mutual connection is simply to get you the meeting. This is part of a series on how to improve your fund raising game. The first post & the full outline if you click the link.) Poppycock.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2013

These days every new entrepreneur understands that an innovative product or service is necessary, but not sufficient, to start a business. But most entrepreneurs don’t know where to start. Join the conversation with Community Forums. The registration process to join can give you a very targeted email list. Marty Zwilling.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

We asked some entrepreneurs and business owners, why they started their businesses: #1 – I Have a Dream. The conversations usually go down the same path, ending with a you’re how old? I was the first social entrepreneur in the coffee world. Each story is different though the reasons may be the same.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 13, 2018

JD Weinstein , head of Oracle Global Startup Ecosystem in Austin; Karen Kilroy, entrepreneur and CEO of Kilroy Blockchain; Sabrina Wojtewicz, co-founder of Bunker Labs; and Sara Chapman, Director of Entrepreneurship Strategy & Partnerships at Dell will discuss how both startups and corporations can work together and find the right fit.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

How should you become the best marketer you can be, even if you are a first-time entrepreneur or a seasoned CEO? Email readers, continue here…] Measure the results of your changed program in as many ways as possible. Focus upon you as marketing genius. Let’s focus not upon the process of marketing and positioning, but on you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 15, 2011

These days every new entrepreneur understands that an innovative product or service is necessary, but not sufficient, to start a business. But most entrepreneurs don’t know where to start. Join the conversation with Community Forums. The registration process to join can give you a very targeted email list.

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David Cohen

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

That’s the polite way of rewording a question Keith Coleman, Founder of Fraudmarc (Techstars Atlanta 2017), posed to Brad Feld and me in an email a little while back. It made for a great conversation and I invite you to listen to the full episode. The conversation around Give First is always ongoing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2015

Image via Flickr by SideWages.com These days every new entrepreneur understands that an innovative product or service is necessary, but not sufficient, to start a business. But most entrepreneurs don’t know where to start. Join the conversation with Community Forums. Search engines and people love blogs these days.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 11, 2013

Don’t force customers to go offline to your customer support phone or email for resolution. Increase customer loyalty and therefore customer retention. The conversations that once took place only between people in private settings now occur more and more in public online environments, across a world geography.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2011

There are numerous methods to use for your employee review and each has it’s advantages, but on a practical level, most small companies approach this process as a simple conversation. I had a great conversation about this recently with the president of a bank here in Chicago, and he shared an insight that resonated.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 6, 2018

Perhaps your site’s ecommerce performance isn’t up to expectations, or you’re not getting as many conversions you’d like. You use A/B testing to determine if a change or addition will improve conversions. A redesign or revamp might be the thing you need to fix these issues. This isn’t the case, however.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 1, 2019

A successful entrepreneur, John is the founder of three businesses: The DiJulius Group, an international consulting firm, John Robert’s Spa, a chain of upscale salons in Northeast Ohio, and Believe in Dreams, a nonprofit that helps make dreams come true for deserving children. No one is born with a rapport-building gene.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

For most ecommerce entrepreneurs, building a business is all about optimizing the website, fine-tuning PPC advertising, and relentlessly perfecting email strategy. These are cornerstone tactics when growing an ecommerce business , and countless entrepreneurs have built thriving, profitable businesses using these tools alone.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Don’t force customers to go offline to your customer support phone or email for resolution. Increase customer loyalty and therefore customer retention. The conversations that once took place only between people in private settings now occur more and more in public online environments, across a world geography.

Social Media 228

Social Media Media Customer Viral 228

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

We’ll have a fun conversation over the next 40-45 minutes. But stuff like retention is super important. So how sticky are your customers, and can you break that down to customer retention? People send me these long emails about what they want to see in the product. . I enjoyed this conversation. .

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 1, 2015

That means it has a major impact on conversions as well. Takeaway: Simplicity really is the key to conversion. You know you shouldn’t check your email first thing in the morning because it’s bad for productivity, but you do anyway. I began to like Slack because it became more familiar to me than HipChat. Prototypicality.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

Compensation decisions obviously affect hiring and retention. Keep a close eye on your competitors but also on your peer entrepreneurs in your town; they provide the context relevant to you. I’ve been guilty of the SNIT method of selling — Sell Now Invent Tomorrow — as have most entrepreneurs in tech businesses.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 3, 2018

Often entrepreneurs and business owners create their New Year’s Resolutions around their business. We asked 19 entrepreneurs to share their business goals and what they were looking forward to in 2018. #1- We’ve found that when we do this, the sales come naturally and client retention is higher. Photo Credit: Kirby Ingles.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

OCTOBER 14, 2010

That’s powerful for retention. And of course, if you haven’t done so already, please join my email newsletter on this page (enter your name and email at that link to join). I love how it shows what content is coming up and how many days they have to wait before they can access it.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 21, 2013

The Lean Startup Conference was founded four years ago to bring together real entrepreneurs who have applied Lean Startup techniques and have useful advice to share with each other. Metrics play a big role in any conversation around implementation. Retention (do they return?), Activation (do they have a great first experience?),

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The Next Web

AUGUST 17, 2013

I asked a panel of 13 successful entrepreneurs to share their favorite best practices, especially for newer startups that may be tempted to focus on flash over experience: What’s one UX design best practice you think new startups should NOT overlook? Doreen Bloch , Poshly Inc. . Image credit: Thinkstock.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 15, 2020

If you’re Expedia or Booking, regardless of whether or not people are looking at flights, my guess is the percentage of people who look up a flight versus actually book the flight, that conversion rate is probably down. So you put them through a conversion funnel, let’s say, like a signup, and then they get into another lake.

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Mucker Lab

APRIL 6, 2023

Hila Qu joined Mucker’s Tony Yang for an Ask-Me-Anything (AMA) conversation about Product-Led Growth (PLG) for Startups to kickoff the 2023 Mucker Growth Series. The success of the foundation is can you get to the first PLG conversion and actually have a user or prospective customer without talking to sales? That’s the success.

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Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

Unit economics are something I’ve found most entrepreneurs (and investors!) Although you can make more money by running per-click or per-action ads on a per conversion basis, it’s also a lot harder to bring about these actions. You will use your fridge for a decade or more so the retention here is high. or lack of).

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Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

Unit economics are something I’ve found most entrepreneurs (and investors!) Although you can make more money by running per-click or per-action ads on a per conversion basis, it’s also a lot harder to bring about these actions. You will use your fridge for a decade or more so the retention here is high. or lack of).

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

Adding live chat functionality to your website allows customers to chat with a business in real-time to ask questions, get advice and build confidence during their shopping experience, while improving conversion rates for your business. Customer retention is critical to the long-term growth of your business.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 3, 2009

They often get blurred by entrepreneurs! Split-testing is great for linear optimization; making our landing pages, conversion rates, and retention metrics incrementally better day-in day-out. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Its so important, and also so dangerous.

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