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10 Reasons Your Business Website Is Struggling To Convert Sales

YoungUpstarts

Inadequate Mobile Optimisation. The statcounter.com data shows that over 50% of your site’s traffic will come from a mobile audience. Whether taking the DIY approach or using a professional web design service, mobile optimisation is vital. . Besides, you’d never reach an audience of that size through other direct marketing. .

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Tips For SaaS Businesses To Up Their Game By Leveraging Web Push Notifications

YoungUpstarts

Hence, it is critical to market it the right way. Direct marketing doesn’t work out often, so, to make the brand visible, you need other marketing efforts. Web Push Notifications are interactive messages that work seamlessly across Desktop (All OS) and Mobile (Android only). Does your app have what it takes?

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Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple

Steve Blank

Fifteen years and 2 billion smartphones shipped in the 21 st century and Microsoft’s mobile OS share is 1%. These misses weren’t in some tangential markets – missing search, mobile and the cloud were directly where Microsoft users were heading. Yet a very smart CEO missed all of these. They had lots of these projects.

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Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple

Steve Blank

Fifteen years and 2 billion smartphones shipped in the 21 st century and Microsoft’s mobile OS share is 1%. These misses weren’t in some tangential markets – missing search, mobile and the cloud were directly where Microsoft users were heading. Yet a very smart CEO missed all of these. They had lots of these projects.

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

ConversionXL

If you take a random article on The Washington Post and load it into Google’s Mobile-Friendly Test , you can see that Google has no issue crawling or rendering the content: That’s because the Google Mobile-Friendly Test uses the real Googlebot user agent and IP. Lead-ins with content in HTML or structured data for Google only.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 4

Both Sides of the Table

Zong – mobile payments has been a very hot area over the past couple of years with the success and growth of both Boku and Zong. Boku and Zong focus mostly on mobile payments for virtual goods. It has proven a very successful strategy to get consumers to activate the payment on their mobile phone bill. VC Financings: 1.

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From Loyalty Programs To Fan Clubs, A Paradigm Shift

YoungUpstarts

CRM became more sophisticated, resulting in detailed monthly statements and targeted direct marketing. We experimented with tap and go technology, both on cards as well as embedded in mobile phones. Then at the request of merchants, we settled for the mobile number. Customers get a discount and retailers get cash flow.