The Equity Kicker

JUNE 1, 2015

With this slide in her Internet Trends deck Mary Meeker is making the point that as internet penetration passes through 10-20% in India companies matching the scale and significance of Netscape, Yahoo, Amazon, Tencent and Alibaba will be created. We are investing heavily in these verticals.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 19, 2016

Marketers should also be looking at acquisition (visits, unique visitors, pageviews), behavior (pages per visit, time on site, bounce rate), and revenue (if you’re eCommerce). According to Criteo, 40% of eCommerce transactions involve multiple devices along the path to purchase. But conversion rate alone is not a success metric.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

Popular eCommerce site Threadless has had a “feature request” thread on their customer forum since 2005. For industries with thin profit margins, offering an incentive like 2% off isn’t very enticing, and in many verticals, and in some cases might require a significant lift in sales in order to break even. image source.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

Popular eCommerce site Threadless has had a “feature request” thread on their customer forum since 2005. For industries with thin profit margins, offering an incentive like 2% off isn’t very enticing, and in many verticals, and in some cases might require a significant lift in sales in order to break even. image source.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

Popular eCommerce site Threadless has had a “feature request” thread on their customer forum since 2005. For industries with thin profit margins, offering an incentive like 2% off isn’t very enticing, and in many verticals, and in some cases might require a significant lift in sales in order to break even. image source.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Clean measures of conversion rates require a clean and standard implementation of the ecommerce tags. As you can see above you can leverage benchmarking even if you are not an ecommerce website (above data is for non-ecommerce site), or indeed you have any type of business. Even if they give you conversion rate benchmarks.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Technology is intertwined with eCommerce funding. Today, eCommerce startups are perhaps the hottest companies in the entrepreneurial sphere and for good reason. Moreover, eCommerce businesses that aim to use technology to make their customers’ lives easier, are the ones most likely to catch an investor’s eye.

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The Next Web

JULY 13, 2013

Editor’s note: This is a guest column by Sangeet Paul Choudary, who analyzes business models for internet startups at his blog Platform Thinking. Cash on delivery has proven to be a dud, the ecommerce model itself is broken in many places. You can follow Sangeet on Twitter at @sanguit. Amazon is entering India.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Klaviyo is a platform that helps growth-focused eCommerce brands drive more sales with super-targeted, highly relevant email, Facebook and Instagram marketing. Kim Spalding: You know, Local Service Ads is a product that we designed specifically for some of our local service verticals, like home services. Back to Podcast. Transcript.

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Up and Running

JULY 26, 2016

For ecommerce, this is based on transaction size, commission, and chances of the user returning. It’s significantly easier to get a press mention from smaller bloggers or internet evangelists (Youtube, Scoop.it). Get used to monitoring Twitter conversations around your vertical and try to engage with as many as you can.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 12, 2014

In this part, well discuss the frontiers of mobile commerce: trends were seeing in user tests that may fundamentally change eCommerce. One way to get around this is for sites to have a native app, which (depending on the vertical) has the user perpetually logged in, or requires the user to login before the purchase is finally made.

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Austin Startup

JULY 5, 2017

Rather, Tesla will be a full stack, vertically integrated clean energy company. But instead, Bezos executed towards a much larger vision: to generate revenue on every ecommerce transaction on the Internet. So instead, he set out to commoditize all the infrastructure that power ecommerce. Scale is everything.

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Rob Go

DECEMBER 10, 2012

As the first wave of the internet has come into some level of maturity, we’ve seen that most of the opportunities that have gotten us excited have been in “High Friction Categories.” These are areas that have historically seen much slower adoption of technology and much less leverage from the internet. Ubiquitous computing.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 7, 2014

If there’s a consensus about anything in the fast-changing mobile market, it’s the idea that mobile eCommerce conversions are lower than they are on personal computers. About 79% of American households have personal computers, 58% of Americans have smartphones, and 42% have tablets, according to Pew Internet and the US Census Bureau.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 9, 2019

In 2010, Dr. Anne Aula, a Senior User Experience Researcher at Google, presented some disappointing findings about mouse tracking: Only 6% of people showed some vertical correlation between mouse movement and eye tracking. Sites have been using well-selected images to boost conversion rates since the dawn of internet, and with good reason.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

Sure, there are many other events, including eTail and Internet Retailer. It is a non-profit, unlike eTail or Internet Retailer (today I hear that Shoptalk is the biggest eCommerce conference), and it is where the highest level people in digital retail go as a result. But Shop.org is where you go to learn and network.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Klaviyo is a platform that helps growth-focused eCommerce brands drive more sales with super-targeted, highly relevant email, Facebook and Instagram marketing. The wonderful internet, all it’s done is pollute all our brains and minds with all kinds of stuff coming at us all the time. Back to Podcast. Transcript.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 2, 2017

Others take bets on certain verticals or business models, such as marketplaces, SaaS, or enterprise technology. Internet-connected computing is an innovation wave on par with a few historical developments of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. Internet-connected computing as we know it is a bit over two decades old at this point.

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www.pakman.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

But if your service attracts particular verticals of content engagement, not all content is created equal, and some is much more valuable than others. General news carries the lowest CPCs whereas specific verticals like healthcare and finance command higher CPCs. Intent is well understood in this traffic and the signal is strong.

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ConversionXL

JULY 27, 2015

AbilityNet say that ecommerce is losing out £50 billion a year in the UK spending power due to poor accessibility [PDF]. The internet is an access point to a wealth of resources and services which could be of great benefit to people with disabilities. Let’s look at the numbers: The UK music industry loses 2.5 Label your fields well.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

As an informal observation, it’s not uncommon to see different companies in the same vertical adopt a “me-too” approach in their design aesthetic. Though you’re probably not a filmmaker, this talk has many universal lessons that can be easily applied to making your own eCommerce design more distinct & memorable.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 7, 2010

eCommerce is the smallest vertical in the US tech venture investments, with only $39 million invested in Q3, in eight companies. When you think about the size of the Internet and the US ecommerce market – that’s really not a lot. The average early stage round was $6.7

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

We all get our internet access from Internet Service Providers (ISP's), and as we surf the Web, our requests go through the servers of these ISP's to be stored in server log files. Just choose an industry from their site, I choose Internet Travel , and bam! 3: ISP (Network) Data. numbers for various industries.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Most outcomes analysis you will do in identifying your macro and micro conversions (for profit or non profit sites, government or ecommerce) will happen inside other tools mentioned in this blog post. For example you'll configure goals and ecommerce tracking in Yahoo! Web Analytics or Google Analytics or Piwik.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 22, 2010

ForNova provides a B2B turnkey solution to enable building aggregation solutions for classifieds eCommerce, travel and many other specific content verticals. The platform supports multiple verticals such as real estate, cars, travel, hotels, flights, jobs, events, products, eCommerce and more.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

An AI can provide recommendations based on user behaviors used in ecommerce to provide accurate suggestions of products to users for future purchases based on their shopping history. Examples here , here and here. Power Recommendation Engines. Examples: Alexa and Siri. Recognize and Understand Your Voice. An AI can understand spoken language.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Thanks to the internet, we have access to dozens of passive income ideas. One of my all-time favorite entrepreneurs, and a man who has had such a profound impact on our world, Elon Musk is a billionaire entrepreneur who has created fortunes in a variety of industries and verticals. He was only 27 at this point! billion dollars.

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Occam's Razor

MARCH 7, 2016

Basically everyone with internet access. But, some common KPIs for ecommerce websites can be CPA, Conversion Rate, Unique Pageviews, Time Lag and Path Length, Task Completion Rate etc. PS: If you love anything as a KPI for an ecommerce site or a non-ecommerce site (sorry, that's all the context you get :)), would you please reply?

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