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10 Reasons Your Business Website Is Struggling To Convert Sales

YoungUpstarts

Getting people to your site is one thing, but you must not forget the desire for sales. Besides, you’d never reach an audience of that size through other direct marketing. . Users won’t find yours unless you actively direct them to it. . Important Details Are Missing. The SEO Features Are Lacking.

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2011 Consumer Internet Predictions

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Before I try gazing into my crystal ball to see what 2011 will bring for the consumer internet industry, let me first see how I did on last years predictions: 1. Foursquare and Gowalla have grown too, but off of much lower bases, such that only 4% of internet users currently use a check-in service. You want shopping to be fun.

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How to measure your power in the Internet marketplace.

Berkonomics

But businesses that expose their story to tens of millions of potential customers through the Internet need additional tools. Some of these are also applicable to non-Internet businesses. The old measures, including return on investment, percentage of profit against revenue or employee count, and more, obviously are still relevant.

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Measuring your power in the Internet marketplace.

Berkonomics

But businesses that expose their story to tens of millions of potential customers through the Internet need additional tools. Some of these are also applicable to non-Internet businesses. The old measures, including return on investment, percentage of profit against revenue or employee count, and more, obviously are still relevant.

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A Tradeshow Checklist, born of experience

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Examples: Make a sale on the tradeshow floor. Ask potential customers 3 specific things (market research). I frequently get a few sales just from the presentation. The sales guy you see at the counter screws things up. Sales people aren't enough. Get at least 20 genuine prospects. Talk with 10 industry leaders.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #14: Selling to the “Cool Kids”

Austin Startup

As I’ve helped entrepreneurs find their own product-market fit and connected them to potential clients, investors, and Advisory Board members, I’ve spent a lot of time telling them about the “cool kids”. I’ve also, of course, been spending a lot of time talking about this with our rapidly growing sales team at data.world.

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Getting to Know Maker Studios

Both Sides of the Table

And anybody who follows this blog knows that I believe television disruption has already begun and it is more likely to resemble Internet content than streaming long-form content to our living rooms. But when you produce on Internet you can test your content in the same way that Silicon Valley firms test early versions of their software.