www.kalzumeus.com

AUGUST 13, 2012

You Should Probably Send More Email Than You Do. One medium I’ve never made much use of personally is email. This is objectively suboptimal, because email is the best broadcast channel ever invented for business purposes. Give me your email address and I’ll send you things that you’ll enjoy. by Patrick.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2023

Duct Tape Transcript Email Download New Tab John Janstch (00:00): This episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is brought to you by Nudge, hosted by Phil Agnew, and it's brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network, the audio destination for business professionals. Like this show? Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please!

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Another great use of content advertising can be found in email marketing. Take Really Good Emails , which often link to content created by others: Image source. Because subscribers trust content recommended by Really Good Emails, they’re more likely to click on a link, giving brands the chance to access new markets.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 20, 2022

TikTok is very much vertical, short form, you know, 50 to 15 to kind of 62nd videos. And for most brands from most businesses, most conversions come from stories. So we tend to get better conversions, more direct message responses, more engagement in a personalized way. (07:53): Follow Jenn on Instagram. Like this show?

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ConversionXL

JULY 8, 2020

Conversions. Pick this option if you want to track the actions people take on your website, such as purchasing a product or signing up for your email list. This is a subheading for your ad, separated from the first title by a vertical bar. Price extensions help can increase the relevance and improve conversions of your ads.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 3, 2009

Simulation to Reduce Invention Risk If you’re in a vertical where “invention risk” is dominant, then you want to do everything you can to manage and reduce those risks. When I wrote the Four Steps to the Epiphany , the Customer Development text, I hadn’t yet thought about what vertical markets it might be appropriate for.)

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Depending on the nature of your business, it could be the number of clicks, time on the website, pages viewed, downloads, email/blog subscription, or trial signup. Cost per conversion or acquisition: represents the total cost paid for an advertisement in relation to its effectiveness in generating a conversion. . Sales KPIs.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 21, 2013

Managing shopper experience for medium-sized eCommerce businesses presents a lot of opportunities for conversion testing, and the ability to see real and immediate revenue results when tests are successful. This one small change led to an additional 110 orders, bringing in an additional $43,230 in revenue in a 2 week period.

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Up and Running

JULY 26, 2016

Selling a product is a tough process, full of “no’s,” whether they come on the phone with a prospect or as a low conversion rate on your landing page. Most campaigns can be optimized to increase conversion rates and lower costs. If there’s something that we’re really proud of in Slidebean, it’s our onboarding emails.

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

Bootstrapped startup Omnisend carved out a $19 million niche in an already saturated vertical. Without a focused, integrated demand generation strategy, lead generation delivers disinterested leads that frustrate sales reps and result in low conversion rates. Demand generation paves the way for surgical lead generation.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 4, 2019

My goals for the new year are to release my blog, connect with a range of clients, build my email list and to never stop learning. In 2019, I want to take that to another level by setting specific goals to develop the expertise of our staff members and to further cement our authority as the digital marketing experts in our verticals.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 25, 2023

Duct Tape Transcript Email Download New Tab John Jantsch (00:00): This episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is brought to you by Nudge, hosted by Phil Agnew, and it's brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network, the audio destination for business professionals. Drag and drop your way to attention grabbing emails and landing pages.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 27, 2011

However, the mistake Said has made is to go "spray and pray" and build numerous different verticals without really fleshing out the business strategy for any of them. If you have additional questions, please email me, and I would be very happy to respond. PTA Portals. Key question: Is a private LinkedIn group enough? Why or why not?

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Distraction-heavy social media darlings come and go, but the email inbox is going strong after more than two decades. Twitter and Facebook can generate traffic, but when it comes to getting an immediate action, like a sales conversation, I’d rather hang out where business is being done, not where news articles and cat videos are consumed.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 7, 2022

That changed last week with the launch of ChatGPT , a new generative AI tool released by Open AI , enabling users to ‘converse’ with AI using natural language. Users can write a text prompt or a question and receive email drafts, college level essays and long form blog posts.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 9, 2016

Typically, when people think of false bottoms, they think of vertical scrolling. They’re likely to immediately click “Pricing” or “Demo” or “Products” or enter their email without scrolling. Research is an important part of any conversion. This has been an issue for well over a decade.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 1, 2023

If the answers are no, have an honest conversation with your VCs today. Ten back and forth emails can often be resolved in a 30-second phone conversation. During his six years at AxleHire, Sokolovsky worked to push AxleHire into new verticals and sustainability partnerships.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

This is a conversion-focused benchmark analysis of four competing beauty and cosmetics websites : Clinique. This post details our process, the results, and the takeaways for businesses in this and similar verticals. Which popular beauty and cosmetics website has the best user experience? Competitive UX benchmarking process.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 19, 2016

To find what barriers your mobile website may face , let’s look at the limitations of mobile, how to compensate for them, and what improvements you can implement to ensure the best user experience, increase conversions, better retarget potential customers, and more. But conversion rate alone is not a success metric. Image Source.

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ConversionXL

JULY 3, 2020

Metering does allow sites to segment users who hit your paywall—a key audience for conversion optimization. For sites that rely on a lead-in, it’s a different conversation. News is an especially challenging vertical since no site owns a newsworthy event. It always boils down to the same conversation,” said Adams.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 18, 2023

Her new book Talking on Eggshells: Soft Skills for Hard Conversations , shows you how to speak up instead of shut down, face challenges head-on instead of running the other way, and keep your cool even when others don’t. Get your copy of Talking on Eggshells: Soft Skills for Hard Conversations Sam’s website. Like this show?

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 8, 2019

For example, develop a very detailed branding plan for social media that covers every vertical and value proposition your startup has. Then tailor your social posts to the audience that the vertical and value prop applies to.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 13, 2009

However, as hard as I emphasize this point to aspiring entrepreneurs every year I usually get a call or email from a past student asking me to introduce them to my favorite VC’s. I have an idea for how to connect user social web conversations to 2-way search and contextual advertising. Here’s my first time entrepreneur dilemma.

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SVPG

APRIL 28, 2012

Market and customer research (what matters in and beyond our category, what’s the engagement model of the people influencing product conversion or the perception of our product? Marketing communications and campaigns – advertising, email, interactive, search-engine, events etc. Vertical/affiliate/evangelist programs.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 14, 2012

Investigate social settings in your CRM and add Rapportive to your email. Once someone decides they want to click over and read your blog post, you want to capture some information in an effort to build an email list for more education and eventual promotion. Consider using goals in Analytics to track conversion funnels and paths.

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Software Review Social Network Social Media Analytics 73

Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2020

If I can help make a mutually beneficial introduction I’d like to… please think about why THEY would want to meet YOU and send me a forwardable email at josh@quityourjob.com. You can find a great example email in my post about How to Make Effective Email Introductions. The Connectors Alex “STOIKY” Goldberg ( Lt.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

The same article notes 30% more time spent analyzing marketing performance data yields 3x higher open rates and 2x click through rates for email. Analyzing clicks/open rates in the email onboarding series that convert first time buyers to second time buyers & eventually into loyal customers. image source.

Retention 115

Retention Customer Developer Programming 115

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

The VP of Sales comes to a board meeting, still optimistic, and provides a set of reasonable explanations – “our pipeline looks great, but orders will close next quarter” or “we’ve got lots of traffic to our site, we just need to work on conversion.” Just had a conversation today with a student taking Steve’s class. Now In Print!

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

5 Ways To Make An Email Newsletter Your Best Sales Tool This content from: Duct Tape Marketing. No matter how enamored you may be with social media, email still outpunches just about every tool out there when it comes to cost effective lead conversion. Grab Attention. Serve Snacks. Be Sharable.

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Software By Rob

JULY 1, 2010

For a startup, this means avoiding “me too&# products, staying away from horizontal niches, solving a pain-point, and targeting a vertical niche. The lesson: stick to vertical niches. Luckily several thousand people have decided to stick around and join the conversation. Occupations and hobbies are best. at 12:52 pm [.]

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Software Review RSS Startup Vertical 54

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Any big changes in your marketing/customer acquisition strategy over the last time period (more money doing Search, less money in Email, elimination Facebook as it does not work, etc., Outcomes of the conversations with your Finance team and Sr. Even if they give you conversion rate benchmarks. Don't do it.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 19, 2019

Or maybe you surveyed your brand as a whole (your website, your Instagram page, your email footer, your direct mailers…), and you have a sinking sense that your current visual branding isn’t putting your company’s best foot forward. Is that nagging feeling that your branding is “just okay” a strong enough reason to undergo a full rebrand?

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Design Campaign Vertical 48

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

For example, Google Analytics has metrics for the number of visits, pages per visit, and conversion rate, while Facebook Ads measures page Likes, post engagement, and cost per click. Time, such as days of the week, is displayed on the horizontal axis, while the measurement, for example, the number of site visitors, is on the vertical axis.

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Sales Metrics Customer Analytics 137

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 13, 2015

Often your best estimate of any metric or market behavior or business model component is at best accurate within a power of ten, for example “expected conversion rate between 0.5% You’re not going to get a 10% conversion rate from Adwords, for example. Early in a company’s life, you don’t know anything.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Prospect trial to conversion rates fell with the longer trials. For example, a growth marketer at Grammarly might begin with the hypothesis that a promotional email campaign targeted at millennials will result in a 10% increase in new subscriptions. What type of messaging works best for these emails? The results?

Framework 102

Framework Marketing Acquisition Retention 102

Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

The Customer is a Genius Then instead of talking about our products he segued the conversation into their products. And soon the conversation were about architectural tradeoffs and then how customers didn’t appreciate the elegant designs and how the world was going to hell in a handbasket because of these commodity microprocessors.

Technology 142

Technology Silicon Valley Fractional VPE Part-Time VPE 142

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

As the conversation began to get down to how much stock and salary we could offer van Dam, we left the barber to finish his work and went to a payphone to call our CEO to confirm the deal. We were painting a picture of hypertext on every desktop computer. The response from across the country? To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print!

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