ConversionXL

JANUARY 28, 2021

As we wrote previously : Back to those (early) days when Marketing Automation was just born, the world was web-centric. While suitable for web applications and mobile use cases, the general consensus based on digesting hundreds of reviews is that they are strongest for web applications.

Technical Review 86

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Technical Cofounder 86

Version One Ventures

MARCH 26, 2013

(Photo credit: Wikipedia) Google recently released the results of a new study on mobile search and conversions. Along with Nielsen , Google analyzed over 6,000 mobile searches and the actions that came after the search. Survey respondents said they chose mobile over desktop search for convenience and speed.

Mobile 145

Mobile Vertical Search Conversion 145

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 14, 2011

This rapid contraction will leave the space run by just a couple of “big guys,” some finely positioned vertical players and a long tail of “local guys,” finding ways to thrive by serving a few small regions or cities. Mobile, Mobile, Mobile. Small businesses move to the cloud. 2012, the year of Creativity.

Cloud 192

Cloud Small Business Mobile Social Media 192

The Equity Kicker

MAY 11, 2016

Andy Dunn, the founder of Bonobos and one of the most thoughtful writers I know on ecommerce, penned a good piece yesterday entitled Digitally Native Vertical Brands. It’s a brand, and that brand is vertical. Personalisation is a common way for vertically integrated ecommerce companies to differentiate their physical product (e.g.

Vertical 60

Vertical eCommerce Differentiation Distribution 60

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2016

There are elements of vertical integration and franchising , classic business strategies for achieving operational efficiency and scale. These days that means things like designing a frictionless web experience, and providing a mobile app so people can interact with your business anywhere, any time. What is platform thinking?

Japan 100

Japan Global Asia API 100

ConversionXL

JULY 3, 2020

Google announced its First Click Free (FCF) policy in 2008, requiring publishers to: allow all users who find your page through Google search to see the full text of the document that the user found in Google’s search results and that Google’s crawler found on the web without requiring them to register or subscribe to see that content.

SEO 122

SEO HTML Technical Review Caching 122

mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

So, you’re a small or medium-sized business, and you want to build a Facebook, mobile or web app. Here’s a quick overview of the ins and outs of getting web work done as an SMB — as always, with tight budgets in mind. Do a web search to find platform-specific tools.

Small Business 104

Small Business Technical Review Social Media Software Review 104

VC Cafe

MAY 23, 2023

For example, Neeva, a startup that tried to push the boundaries of web search and challenge Google by being the first ‘AI-powered’ search engine, found the hard way that’s one thing building a product and quite another to get users to change their habits and switch search engines.

Generative AI 165

Generative AI Artificial Inteligence ChatGPT API 165

The Equity Kicker

MAY 19, 2015

We’ve been doing a good deal of thinking about the future of ecommerce as the world goes mobile. On the web these retailers found their customers via search, but that doesn’t work as well on mobile. So how will discovery work on mobile? In a couple of different ways, I think.

eCommerce 60

eCommerce Mobile Aggregator Vertical 60

ConversionXL

APRIL 30, 2019

In the first study, participants twice rated the visual appeal of web homepages presented for 500 ms each. Key takeaway: Make your web design simple and familiar. seconds for eyes to settle on key areas of a web page. Researchers monitored students’ eye movements as they scanned web pages. Follow conventions.

Design 132

Design eCommerce Search Chile 132

Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 1, 2011

I received at least one email a day last week pitching a politics oriented web startup. The web and social media are critical tools for any candidate. The polite version of my answer has been “Thanks for reaching out but we aren’t interested in investing in the politics vertical market.”

Web 126

Web Vertical Startup Social Media 126

Version One Ventures

APRIL 19, 2016

Front Desk is powering the personal services economy, helping providers manage their scheduling, payments, and admin from their mobile device. We welcomed two new companies to our portfolio in Q1; both will be announced at a later date but fall into the themes we have been exciting about: AI/ML/bots and vertical social networks.

Portfolio 60

Portfolio San Francisco API Software Review 60

ConversionXL

APRIL 18, 2019

Proxies like backlinks and keywords have long been—and still are—stand-ins for the likelihood that a web page will satisfy user intent. This answer has to be correct and complete, and can be displayed in a relatively small amount of space: the size of a mobile phone screen. Satisfying search intent is Google’s fundamental goal.

Search 126

Search Aggregator New York SEO 126

techcrunch.com

AUGUST 12, 2012

The top layer of applications and services that use the innovations of the first two layers to transform vertical markets (e.g, « previous story Following App.net’s Reboot, Smore Introduces App Flyers For DIY Mobile App Marketing. Enterprise. Smartphones. Digital Cameras. Headphones. CrunchBase. Hot topics. Disrupt SF.

Early Stage 70

Early Stage San Francisco Los Angeles Southern California 70

The Next Web

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Rahul Varshneya is the co-founder of Arkenea , a company committed to helping entrepreneurs and businesses build, market and monetize their mobile apps. Building a mobile app startup is the “I want to build an Internet startup” of the late 1990s. The only difference is, this time, there is no bubble waiting to burst. The answer is no.

Mobile 151

Mobile Startup Singapore India 151

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Popup ads, full-screen mobile ads, and auto-playing and prestitial video ads, for example, all have high disapproval ratings from users, pushing them towards using ad blockers. Mobile analysts say that fewer than one in three users are likely to grant permission, while 96% of U.S. This included web and app usage and reader preferences.

Advertising 131

Advertising Cost Customer PR 131

Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 15, 2014

The Future of Mobile Search Marketing written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. 1 in 4 worldwide mobile phone users will have a smartphone this year, and each of them are using this device to find products and services, many of them locally. Search on Mobile Devices.

Search 72

Search Mobile Marketing United States 72

thebarefootvc

AUGUST 13, 2013

These vertical solutions would focus on specific pain pain points in the enterprise, such as logistics or customer relationship management. Client-server has moved to the cloud (dramatically decreasing the cost of software development and deployment), and mobile apps are everywhere. Fast forward to 2013.

Advisory Board 70

Advisory Board Cloud Venture Capital Vertical 70

The Next Web

JANUARY 23, 2014

Over the past few years, I’ve helped build and market mobile apps that have reached hundreds of millions of people. have focused relentlessly on being the best-in-class in their specific vertical. But the truth is that many of the best products are created by marketing geniuses. I’ve also built several apps that flopped.

Product 147

Product Elevator Pitch Silicon Valley Vertical 147

Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

This makes it laboriously difficult to identify rising stars and make comparisons within a specific vertical. Fortunately, web apps like Mattermark , DataFox , and PitchBook wrangle, clean and organize the data so that we can focus on analyzing it. Vertical SaaS. Mobile marketplaces. Online education. B2B marketplaces.

Vertical 153

Vertical B2B B2C Venture Capital 153

Cracking the Code

MARCH 24, 2015

The objective of the conference was to understand how APIs will power the next great web and mobile companies and share some best practises in understanding when to use APIs or not and how can API company best market to developers.

API 48

API Fractional CTO CTO Hire San Francisco 48

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Most consumer web/mobile companies focus on user growth and usage early in the company’s lifecycle before shifting to monetization. This is especially true for those with a media / ad based business model (e.g. Some potential customers won’t take your product seriously unless you’re charging for it.

Revenue 234

Revenue Product B2B Marketing 234

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

If you've read my first book Web Analytics: An Hour A Day, you know that I've advocated this strategy since 2008! If you don't stink completely, things on the the web always go up and to the right over time – the argument is simply about the slope of the line and short term fluctuations. See Page 269. :).

Analytics 133

Analytics Vertical Metrics Web 133

Occam's Razor

JULY 24, 2018

To name a few: Digital Marketing & Measurement Model | Analytics Ecosystem | Web Analytics 2.0. For every session on your desktop or mobile site, Session Quality provides a score between 1 and 100 as an indication of how close the visitor is to converting. Slice the matrix vertically along the time-to-useful dimension….

Analytics 93

Analytics Framework Metrics Algorithm 93

ConversionXL

MARCH 9, 2016

Typically, when people think of false bottoms, they think of vertical scrolling. Due to the rise of mobile, horizontal scrolling has become somewhat familiar as well. Since vertical scrolling is more familiar to most people, let’s start there. Would you not assume that to like something in a mobile app, you double tap?

Cost 48

Cost Vertical Portfolio Design 48

Austin Startup

OCTOBER 19, 2019

Now the cans are sleeker, the typography is more modern (while paying homage to Coca Cola’s past), and each can’s design includes a bold and colorful vertical stripe. Technological shifts can also nudge entrepreneurs to update their branding. Solution: Consider how long it’s been since you last updated your branding.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Design Campaign Vertical 48

Rob Go

JULY 31, 2012

One of the strongest factors credited for Ebay’s return to form is continued strong growth in mobile commerce. ” First, mobile commerce is often thought of as driving in-store purchases. After all, that’s the benefit of mobility – you can react to coupons or offers that are presented in the right context.

Mobile 50

Mobile Vertical Search Web 50

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 21, 2013

This tip comes from Peep himself, but storing credit card details can significantly increase the velocity or purchases, especially from mobile devices. Reading on computer screens is tiring for the eyes and about 25% slower than reading on paper” and “79% of web users scan rather than read,” as reported by Nielsen Norman Group.

Revenue 124

Revenue Caching Software Review eCommerce 124

ConversionXL

AUGUST 7, 2014

This is the first of a two-part series on mobile conversion and how to improve it. It’s based on thousands of user tests conducted by UserTesting , the leading usability testing service for mobile apps and websites. Why Doesn’t Mobile Convert? But according to Forrester , up to 30% of traffic to major websites comes from mobile.

Mobile 122

Mobile Conversion eCommerce Design 122

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

We also talked about how brands are increasing driving much of their traffic to Facebook and away from their own web pages. Reportedly, Softbank and Zynga have discussed jointly distributing games through Softbank’s mobile-phone service in Japan and other countries. first vertical to launch by 2010 Holiday Season. 406 Ventures.

Venture Capital 225

Venture Capital Non-Compete Vertical Europe 225

mobile.smashingmagazine.com

JANUARY 16, 2013

Web Design. Mobile Design’s Wake-Up Call Preparing Websites For The Unexpected. Mobile devices shake old habits in two ways. Now, not only do we have small-screen iPhones, Android phones, Kindles, iPads and other mobile devices, but we’re asking websites to adapt to whichever device comes knocking. Newsletter.

Mobile 101

Mobile HTML Flash Software Review 101

Austin Startup

APRIL 25, 2017

The smartphone is for everyone, we don’t have to think the iPhone is about a certain demographic, or country or vertical market: it’s for everyone. The details of how an augmented reality OS should work are incredibly complex — far more than desktop or mobile computing. I think AR is that big, it’s huge.

Valuation 48

Valuation Technical Review Forecast Social Network 48

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Creating a vertically oriented regional ecosystem is a pretty amazing accomplishment for any country or industry.

Global 335

Global Australia Silicon Valley China 335

ConversionXL

AUGUST 12, 2014

This is the second of a two-part series on mobile conversion. In the first part , we described the most common usability mistakes made in mobile commerce sites and apps, and how to fix them. In this part, well discuss the frontiers of mobile commerce: trends were seeing in user tests that may fundamentally change eCommerce.

Mobile 99

Mobile eCommerce Design Analytics 99

Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2011

This week they were testing one of the most confusing sections of a company’s business model – Customer Relationships - the activities used to “Get, Keep and Grow” customers in a physical or virtual (web or mobile) channel. If their team was a web or mobile app they actually had to buy Google or Facebook ads and create demand.).

Customer 247

Customer Cloud EC2 Channel 247

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 7, 2013

With their lives perpetually tethered to the mobile web, the rise of these generations of tomorrow’s customers, managers and workers will change how we develop and consume technology. There are nearly 941 million smartphones/tablets manufactured in Asia, with over US$203 billion spent on voice and mobile data services.

Technology 159

Technology Singapore Malaysia Indonesia 159

Lightspeed Venture Partners

JANUARY 6, 2011

Joe Greenstein of Flixster , the leading movies app on all social and mobile platforms, wants to take big risks with small dollars. Andy Dunn of Bonobos , a vertical web retailer, will be driving attention to one of their core values in 2011: Focus on self-awareness, the core trait of leaders, both people and firms.

Stealth 60

Stealth Startup Lean Cofounder 60