YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Cold emailing is a challenge, and anyone’s who’s tried email outreach as part of their marketing strategy knows this well. With that being said, cold emailing can be effective. With that being said, cold emailing can be effective. GMass is an excellent Chrome extension , even if you’re not doing a lot of cold emailing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Understand the basic tools – the social media trinity. Blogging (Wordpress), micro-blogging (Twitter), and social networks are the trinity. Key social networks are Facebook (500 million consumers) and LinkedIn (60 million professionals). Put your social network links on your stationery, business cards, and email.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 18, 2015

Email makes the world go around, right? No matter how many times you read about “the death of email”, it remains paramount in the online world. In fact, I’ll bet you’ll receive at least two emails in the time it will take you to read this article from start to finish. Are all emails created equal?

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Existing companies can segment their email database to reveal their most loyal customers. Currency can be defined as email addresses, tweets, cash or anything your customer gives up to receive a solution to their problem. Fabulis.com was initially intended to to be a social network for gay men.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

There’s a good chance I’ve missed something — if you feel that way, by all means, please share your point of view on Twitter (or email) and link to the post. Also during this time, the underlying metrics in that business can change positively, potentially trapping companies to accept the initially-agreed upon valuation.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

As a result: They’re converted via email. Cohort analysis can be done for revenue, churn, viral word of mouth, support costs, or any other metric you care about. Cohort metrics can help drive more repeat customers. This metric reveals the longer-term relationship. They’re converted via organic or direct traffic.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 8, 2013

To win in business you need to follow this process: Metrics > Hypothesis > Experiment > Act. We are far too enamored with data collection and reporting the standard metrics we love because others love them because someone else said they were nice so many years ago. That metric is tied to a KPI.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 31, 2015

Entrepreneur Ryan Hoover transformed an email list experiment into a venture-funded startup community with tens of thousands of active members. With positive feedback from his peers, Hoover decided to transform his email list into a website. Today, that MVP has evolved into a thriving online community with more than $7M in funding.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 14, 2012

Investigate social settings in your CRM and add Rapportive to your email. Investigate social tools such as TweetDeck , HootSuite or SproutSocial to help monitor mentions. Bonus: Add paid options like Radian6 or Trackur for deeper listening metrics. Start sharing your blog posts on social networks.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Sometimes, Ill use LinkedIn to contact my network, but mostly I still just go to their profile and email them. When I recently was looking to find people who had experience with using social networks to reach people for what might be considered guerilla marketing efforts, again LinkedIn worked great.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 18, 2011

With all the sexiness oozing out of social media it might seem insane to write about email. Email remains an immensely credible and profitable channel, with an immense reach to boot. Embrace permission marketing and email will be a surprising and loyal BFF. Analyzing email campaigns requires three important insights: 1.

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Haystack

JULY 4, 2019

If a founder I’ve backed simply sends 5-7 bullet points per month with some key stats, metrics, and requests for specific connections and help, then over time I follow their “story” and it becomes a part of my daily vocabulary. The investors don’t own or run the company.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 20, 2019

CRM’s will often integrate with an email service like Google’s Gmail or Microsoft’s Office 365 to automate the importing and organizing of customer emails. If you’re setting business goals – and you absolutely should be – CRMs can help you review your metrics (i.e. Need email ?

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The Next Web

MARCH 11, 2014

They called it a social network, they called it microblogging, but it was hard to define, because it didn’t replace anything. They didn’t create a landing page to see if people would enter their email. Early on, skeptics questioned, “What problem does it solve?” It wasn’t clear what [Twitter] was. Ev Williams ( source ).

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

We’ve also consulted companies regarding national sales strategies by calibrating and customizing values and metrics to better suit the region and for their beliefs to bridge a goal that suits both the company and it is employees. TSM: What are the disruptive factors in your industry that make it so promising?

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ConversionXL

MARCH 3, 2016

Once you’re sure your analytics are healthy, you can begin trying to understand the five key elements of custom reports: users, sessions, hits, metrics and dimensions. Dimensions: Every report is made up of dimensions and metrics. Metrics: Every report is made up of dimensions and metrics.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 2, 2013

It seems to me that there is abundant proof in the marketplace of the financial returns to both large and small businesses, the low cost of entry, and the ubiquity of social networks. They don’t know if they should move to social networks for lead generation, branding, customer loyalty, or for direct marketing and e-commerce.

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Up and Running

JULY 26, 2016

This is when metrics come into play. See Also: The Top 10 Tools for Tracking Your Web Metrics. If there’s something that we’re really proud of in Slidebean, it’s our onboarding emails. Intercom allows you to build drip email campaigns based on specific actions users take on your site. Successful and failed experiments.

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Up and Running

JULY 10, 2017

It’s critical to understand the metrics in terms of dollars per additional user, as you’ll have to spend this amount to serve thousands of your non-paying customers. It offers a freemium of their social network to everyone, has a premium plan as well as a free trial of this plan, plus it also monetizes on the ads.

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Up and Running

APRIL 27, 2012

Sure, the barriers to entry are lower, and customers are one mere click away from their growing social networks. Internet entrepreneurs in the UK need to push managing metrics right to the front of their to-do lists. Most meaningful metrics. But if only the entrepreneurship journey was as straightforward as this.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 24, 2016

Equally valuable is finding activities that correlate with higher customer success – whether that be RPV, LTV, or whatever metric you’re optimizing for. But how do you find these correlative metrics? What’s a Correlative Metric? But it does act as a predictive metric that you can explore with testing.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 24, 2022

2:58] What metrics to look at throughout the different levels of the marketing funnel. [3:32] 9:11] Metrics at the middle of the funnel are more engagement-based. [11:39] That's the reason for tracking the metrics a again, yay. Topics I Cover: [1:41] What the point of tracking is. [2:58] Like this show? Duct Tape Transcript.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2011

I suggested that he add some social network marketing initiatives, and his answer was he is “too busy.” He is not alone, according to a recent study , which concludes that only 47% of companies use social media today for marketing, despite the fact that 78% of executives polled feel it’s critical for success. What’s the problem?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

This was 2004, and we had never even heard of MySpace, let alone had any understanding of social networking. It required hearing customers say it over and over again for us to take a serious look, and eventually to realize that social networking was core to our business. But the early customers all compared it to MySpace.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Business model viability, in the majority of startups, will come down to balancing two variables: Cost to Acquire Customers (CAC) The ability to monetize those customers, or LTV (which stands for Lifetime Value of a Customer) Successful web businesses have long understood these metrics as they have such an easy way to measure them.

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ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

JULY 11, 2012

Social, Agile, and Transformation. social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 decide on success metrics, measure, and then decide if additional investment is warranted. Email This BlogThis! Business minded, agile CIO with strong social networking background. More to come.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 31, 2014

Surely, what’s “appeals” to a 54 year old mother of 5 who goes online to check Facebook and Metafilter will be vastly different from a Google Glass wearing, 27 year old power-user of social networks you haven’t even heard of yet. Ask Peep about analytics, and he’ll tell you, “Metrics are there to provide actionable insight.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

For example, one angel investor reportedly invested in several hundred social networking ventures employing this philosophy. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. Good stuff. Great blog!

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Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

How They Do It: Build email list of consumers interested in local deals (mainly via paid search & social network ads), sell coupon programs to merchants via telesales. IMO this is much ado about nothing, as any comptentent analyst can look at Groupon’s GAAP and non-GAAP metrics and get a good sense of the business.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 28, 2016

Just as a social graph represents the interconnection of relationships in an online social network, the knowledge graph will represent the interconnection of all the data and communications within your company. Specialized AIs will be ubiquitous throughout the organization, indexing every document, folder, and file.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 4, 2010

I suggested that he add some social network marketing initiatives, and his answer was he is “too busy.” According to this study from last year, over 65% of existing small businesses still ignore social media for marketing, so he is still the rule rather than the exception. Start social networking with peers.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

The 5 Types of Metrics Every Small Business Must Track written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. I guess I should add you can grow a business without metrics a lot like you can win at roulette from time to time. Below are the five types of metrics every small business must rely on to navigate growth and profit.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Pick a similar product that they do use, and ask them "who was the first person you know who started using [social networking, mobile phones, plasma TV, instant messaging.]? If you have a minute, post your answers in a comment, or email me. My background isnt metrics, but we came to it as a matter of practicality.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 15, 2021

Marketing isn’t just a new ad campaign, an email series, or this month’s current promotion. Key marketing metrics – sales generated, leads generated, referrals generated, PR generated, social media growth. It’s not just the people with marketing in their titles. It is so much deeper than that.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Merchant tools such as reports and analytics help you keep an eye on profits and other metrics and make decisions accordingly. Social network integration, Facebook selling, Facebook ads, Google ads, discount codes, and coupons, and other enticing options are interesting ways to retain customers. AC Email Marketing Automation.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

An investor had few hard metrics other than the actual financials, and little technology to make the process scaleable. Over the past few decades, better metrics became available, and investors could take a more analytical, data-driven approach. ” Historically, investing was a manual, artisan process. 4) Manage deal flow.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 13, 2014

By searching these mentions of their brand on Instagram, they’ll be able to find all the tagged photos and videos of Coca-Cola on the social network. Look for the users that shared content about your business the most, have the best quality content and a loyal following on the network.

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