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Elevating Your Business Profile: The Strategic Value of a PR Company

The Startup Magazine

Unlike direct marketing or sales efforts, the impact of PR can be less tangible. However, modern PR firms employ various tools and metrics to track the effectiveness of their strategies, from media impressions and social media engagement to changes in customer sentiment and brand perception.

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Paywalls, SEO, and the Need for a Damn Good Brand

ConversionXL

Google’s own research , done “in cooperation with our publishing partners,” showed that “even minor changes to the current sampling levels could degrade user experience and, as user access is restricted, unintentionally impact article ranking in Google Search.”. Start with 10 monthly clicks.

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Introduction to Growth Hacking for Startups

VC Cafe

The term “Growth Hacking”, invented by Sean Ellis , and made popular by Andrew Chen , a Silicon valley marketer and entrepreneur, is a combination of two disciplines – marketing and coding: Growth hackers are a hybrid of marketer and coder, one who looks at the traditional question of “How do I get customers for my product?”

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Is There a Valuation Bubble for Social Media Companies (and if so, is it Bursting)?

Pascal's View

Capital Markets Advisory Partners cleaves the demand for pre-public VC-backed equities into two worlds: “Demand Pull (Buzz) and Supply Push (No Buzz) companies. … We have a stock market that works for one kind of buzzy (Demand Pull) stock but is a disaster for the rest of the economy.

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Learning is better than optimization (the local maximum problem)

Startup Lessons Learned

At least, not in the traditional sense of trying to squeeze every tenth of a point out of a conversion metric or landing page. Many optimizers are in favor of split-testing, too: direct marketers, landing page and SEO experts -- heck even the Google Website Optimizer team. For example, I’m a big believer in split-testing.

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Post-Purchase Emails: How to Boost Retention and LTV

ConversionXL

Broad data about email marketing reinforces the fact that it is an effective and powerful medium for customer engagement. The Direct Marketing Association’s (DMA) 2015 National client email report tells , “Email has an average ROI of $38 for each $1 spent.” Image Source. click rate. Image Source. Image Source.

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Excellent Analytics Tip#5: Conversion Rate Basics & Best Practices

Occam's Razor

Conversion rate is a very important metric, used properly. More importantly being a practitioner I feel metric definitions should incorporate on the ground reality and using Unique Visitors accommodates that reality. Is your company heavily into Direct Marketing (email, snail mail etc)? So hopefully it was helpful to you.

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