Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 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. Open rates, click rates, cost per lead if you're buying traffic.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 12, 2013

Here are a few: Register domain name and set up hosting. Viral marketing needs a website. But word-of-mouth and viral marketing doesn’t work without a web site. On the other hand, don’t assume that viral marketing is the only marketing you will need. The website can be a source of revenue.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 11, 2017

Here are a few: Register domain name and set up hosting. Viral marketing needs a website. But word-of-mouth and viral marketing doesn’t work without a web site. On the other hand, don’t assume that viral marketing is the only marketing you will need. The website can be a source of revenue.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Determining which of these methods of staffing software development projects is right for your company can be a challenging endeavor, and three opposing characteristics of business need to be considered: cost, risk and convenience. Below is an overview of what you need to consider and the pros and cons of each option for IT staffing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Validated learning about customers Would you rather have $30,000 or $1 million in revenues for your startup? All things being equal, of course, you’d rather have more revenue rather than less. And yet revenue alone is not a sufficient goal. More on that in a moment.

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ConversionXL

JULY 7, 2020

The added benefit is that Pins are 100x more “viral” than tweets , so you continue to gain traffic months after someone pins your content. . Because they generate most of their revenue from ads with Mediavine , their main objective is article views; Pinterest helps distribute their content. There’s plenty to learn from their success.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Deliverable : Set up teams by Thursday, Jan 6 (a mixer will be hosted on Wednesday to help finalize teams). What are your hypotheses around customer acquisition costs? Actually engage in “search engine marketing” (SEM)spend $20 as a team to test customer acquisition cost. Get real costs from suppliers.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 29, 2020

In other words, it was first seen in an animal like a bat, and it consequently jumped from an animal host to a human host. Once in its human host, COVID-19 mutated so that it could spread via person-to-person transmission. There has never been a viral outbreak of such magnitude before.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

This is native advertising in real life, on a real website, acting as a key player in the race for the strongest, viral, engaging content. The company, known for viral social content, is predicted to bring in $100 million in revenue in 2014 from native advertising on 150 million unique visitors a month, according to a 2013 Forbes article.

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

A few days ago, Bessemer West Coast SaaS Practice - David Cowan , Byron Deeter and myself, hosted a CFO Dinner for our SaaS portfolio at John Bentleys in Redwood City. Would the median EV/2010 multiple of CARR (as a surrogate to forward revenue) be a valid approach? With this decline, the average EV/08 rev. multiple fell down to ~2.2x

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Board Effect

AUGUST 30, 2019

The costs of cyber risks are financially high and carry a range of risks across the operation. A half-baked approach to cybersecurity can generate a host of consequences including lost revenue, legal problems, and reputational risk. Boards are more concerned than ever about the risks associated with technology, and rightly so.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2020

That's why the Corona Initiative is a Public Benefit Corporation--a for-profit company dedicated to the public good that aims to fund its research with its revenues. What's the cost of delay? Robert Rhinehart : The cost of delay is deceptively enormous, especially when it comes to people's health. I never really got it.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Two of the teams focused on the two main sources of revenue, one team on inbound leads, and the last team on site conversion rates. We were optimizing revenue from these campaigns by testing different versions. Suddenly, our revenue from these campaigns dropped by 50%. Growth teams have limited revenue potential.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 5, 2022

Specifically, I plan on putting out one study per quarter that I'll send out to reporters and hopefully get viral coverage on social media. Going green will benefit us greatly in the long run, given its initial high costs. . What I plan to do is host more online events such as giveaway contests. Photo Credit: Scott Winstead.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Growth Hacking isn’t viral marketing (although viral marketing is part of it). and answers with A/B tests, landing pages, viral factor, email deliverability, and Open Graph. If a startup is pre-product/market fit, growth hackers can make sure virality is embedded at the core of a product.

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Small Business Force

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

Regardless of glitzy campaigns, attempts to create videos that can go viral, no matter how many likes you have on Facebook or followers on Twitter, the ultimate purpose and very reason for the very existence of marketing is to generate qualified leads that can be converted into sales. The Entrepreneur's Yoda" knows these things.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

Outcomes: Revenue | Ideas Funded Behavior: Path Length | Cart Abandonment Rate Acquisition: Assisted Conversions | Share of Search. Every ecommerce site has to obsess about Revenue. Always adapt to what’s most important and sensible for you (and remember that nothing is free, every measurement decision you make has a cost!).

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 27, 2009

These are companies that generate revenue by offering a free product with an upsell or premium version. Here the key is for your free customers to get value from the site that is greater than the costs they perceive by the fact that youre selling access to them. At a high level, anything that drives virality should be free.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I use Google Drive to host my conference presentations , which are all embedded at teten.com. Some notable metrics are revenue growth rates, free cashflow, leverage ratios, historical financing amounts, returns on marketing spend, customer acquisition costs, lifetime value of customers, customer churn rates, and team social scores.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

In a previous post , I covered the three main drivers of growth: Paid, Sticky, and Viral. A business that strives for something like this should absolutely be charging money from day one, in order to establish baselines for their two key metrics: CPA (the cost to acquire a new customer) and LTV (the lifetime value of each acquired customer).

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Ben's Blog

MAY 15, 2020

Andrew : Why Loom and Zoom and Clubhouse and some of the other new social experiences benefit is that you can use the current boom in engagement and viral growth to build out your network. ” At least at Reforge, a lot of our revenue comes from company education budgets. Transcript: Hi, and welcome to the a16z podcast.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 21, 2013

If you're working on the Sticky Engine of Growth , you're focused on very different metrics from those that you care about in the Viral Engine of Growth. On the other hand, in an industry with relatively low switching costs, churn will be substantially higher. So churn for those product categories may be lower.

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ConversionXL

MAY 29, 2019

The higher production costs, off-site hosting, and late adoption have made YouTube a tangential component of many strategies, even as video—according to seemingly every study —moves toward the center. billion in annual revenue that trades on the NASDAQ—had published only four videos in nearly 12 years. Inc 500 0.27.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 11, 2020

There's a good enough vaccine to get the virality rate below one. Yet, it's the startup community that has gone all in on decisive action, even though relatively speaking, the cost for some of these startups, it'll be suspending the whole company or maybe risking the whole company on the solution. ER : I've seen the same thing.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

If you get particularly active and helpful, you may even start receiving invites to host Twitter chats. Viral Content Bee , my own platform, allows users to upload (non-promotional) URLs for others to share on a variety of social media platforms, including Twitter. Most any business whose products cost more than $100.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 1, 2019

He’s the host of EOFire , an award-winning podcast that interviews successful entrepreneurs seven days a week. It is the golden age of podcast and you’ll hear it over and over again, but for a host, if you’re starting any time this year or next, find that narrow niche and dominate it. That’s right.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 19, 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. Then I want to talk to you about adding a new revenue stream to your business that will completely change how you work with clients. John Jantsch (08:40): Yeah.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 3, 2013

I’m super proud to announce that DataSift has just completed a $42 million financing round coming at the end of a year where its revenue grew several hundred percent year-over-year. Considering our revenue is SaaS revenue this achievement is even more remarkable. And a host of many other people I’m leaving out.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

My co-hosts were Bob Walsh and Patrick Foley , hosts of the well-known Startup Success Podcast. Totally automate all that so it doesn’t bring me down all the time and instead I can sign all the revenue, because that’s fun. Patrick: How close did he get? Ryan: 50%, sort of. Patrick: All right.

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Software By Rob

MARCH 26, 2015

The interesting part is that my own path moving from consulting to products followed the same steps, as you can see in my product revenue chart from the past decade: Each revenue jump is when I made the move to the next step of the Stairstep Approach. Step 2: Rinse and Repeat.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

APRIL 9, 2013

It turns out that the cost of customer acquisition for consumers was too high compared to the revenue being generated. “In Most consumer apps get around the high acquisition costs with some sort of virality, but backup isn’t viral. Those are horrible economics. Validated learning isn’t always quantitative.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

The difference here is the entry-level cost to buying web property, not physical property, is much lower than what it is to buy real-world properties. It made this site very sticky and it grew organically through viral word-of-mouth as a result of doing that. Adding Ad Revenue. I had someone running the forum.

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Cracking the Code

MAY 25, 2010

A few highlights from the different keynotes and speakers On top of Jason, we also had the chance of having many great speakers at the event and here are a few quotes and notes that I have taken during the different keynotes and panels: Joe Payne, CEO of Eloqua moderated the panel on Revenue Performance Management. Tuesday, May 25, 2010. "10

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

” April, 2012 – Andrew Chen writes Growth Hacker is the new VP Marketing , which goes viral (2.4K October 2012 – Erin Turner and Gagan Biyani host the first Growth Hackers Conference in Menlo Park, California. They can’t make a bad product’s revenue move up and to the right. via TechCrunch).

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Software By Rob

MARCH 26, 2015

The interesting part is that my own path moving from consulting to products followed the same steps, as you can see in my product revenue chart from the past decade: Each revenue jump is when I made the move to the next step of the Stairstep Approach. Step 2: Rinse and Repeat.

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leananalyticsbook.com

AUGUST 19, 2012

That might sound pretty standard, but the variety of revenue models can complicate things. Game startups care about Average Revenue Per User Per Month and Lifetime Average Revenue Per User (ARPUs). Viral coefficient (how well your users become your marketers.). Second: what stage are you at? 23 Jul 2012. 31 Jul 2012.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Android Advertise Network Blippr iPhone App Mashable France MashDeck Twitter App Mobile Site Social Media Events Twitter Guide Book Facebook Guide Book Partners App Development WordPress Experts MaxCDN Content Delivery Dynect Managed DNS Rackspace Hosting Intridea About Us Submit a Tip! com) newsletter. What will you find here?

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