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EMaaS: How Email Marketing Can Be Your Agency’s Most Profitable Service

Duct Tape Marketing

EMaaS: How Email Marketing Can Be Your Agency’s Most Profitable Service written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Meanwhile, small business owners consistently rate email marketing as one of the top three performing channels , and unlike SEO, it’s not a black box and isn’t subject to algorithmic fluctuations.

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

Is it pay-to-play? Do you need to round trip an email to validate the email? Cloudsponge for email invites to large group? Do they generate emails or other external notifications? Email - are you sending out emails periodically? Are there complex rules for when emails go out? Commenting?

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

Is it pay-to-play? Do you need to round trip an email to validate the email? Cloudsponge for email invites to large group? Do they generate emails or other external notifications? Email - are you sending out emails periodically? Are there complex rules for when emails go out? Commenting?

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How The SEC Is Violating My Wife’s First Amendment Rights

Feld Thoughts

It got the name “pay to play&# , but was just another form of bribery. So, if I contribute $1,000 to the campaign of the Colorado state treasurer, I violate this SEC rule and become someone who is “paying to play.&# Now, don’t misunderstand me – I think pay to play is grotesque.

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The Great VC Ice Age is Thawing (for now) – Part 1 of 3

Both Sides of the Table

Enter the famous Sequoia “RIP Good Times” presentation and Ron Conway’s publicly leaked emails calling for big slashes in burn rates. If they wanted to fund a company but other investors didn’t then they got involved in protracted negotiations over issues such as “pay-to-play” provisions.

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The last money has the first say.

Berkonomics

These include forcing early investors to “pay to play,” or invest their pre-rata amounts to keep their original percentages, or suffer the consequences of being diluted to the extreme and losing preferences in a liquidation. Email readers, continue here.]

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What Does a CEO Do, Anyway?

OnlyOnce

Recruiting and retaining top talent are pay-to-play…but you have to go well beyond the standards and basics here. Don’t hold a meeting when an email or 5-minute recorded message will suffice. Actively work industry associations. Walk the floor at conferences. Meetings are a company’s most expensive endeavors.