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6 Key Principles For Inducing Customers To Buy Today

Startup Professionals Musings

Solis outlines the heuristics of social psychology that are key to building positive customer experiences today. These begin with the following Cialdini’s Six Principles of Influence , which consumers use to make decisions, buttressed by results from various social media surveys he references in the book: Social proof – follow the crowd.

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Seven Reasons Why Customer Reference Programs Fail

YoungUpstarts

by Bill Lee, author of “ The Hidden Wealth of Customers: Realizing the Untapped Value of Your Most Important Asset “ Harnessing the power of references and referrals seems like an obvious win. There are certain predictable mistakes companies make that can derail customer reference programs before they ever get off the ground.

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Visions of Web 3

Version One Ventures

an image) and are frequently referred to as NFTs or non-fungible tokens. Meanwhile, developers in the Lightning Network ecosystem are working to tie identity to nodes in layer 2s built on top of more secure blockchains like Bitcoin. E.g. Urbit is attempting to build an entirely new type of computer and networked communication protocol.

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Build the Right Social Network Resume for Business

Startup Professionals Musings

In reality, it doesn’t matter whether you are preparing an online profile for your favorite social network, or a written resume (Curriculum Vitae) in the old-fashioned sense, you need to make certain that it helps your case rather than hurts it. References on request.

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Network effects on social platforms: why the quality of user matters

Version One Ventures

Back in July, we wrote about network effects in marketplaces and social platforms and how they are critical to defensibility. In the post, we talked about the difference between direct and indirect network effects, and how they may or may not relate to virality.

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6 Elements of Customer Psychology Drive Buy Decisions

Startup Professionals Musings

Solis outlines the heuristics of social psychology that are key to building positive customer experiences today. These begin with the following Cialdini’s Six Principles of Influence , which consumers use to make decisions, buttressed by results from various social media surveys he references in the book: Social proof – follow the crowd.

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Social Networks Make Resumes Obsolete

Startup Professionals Musings

In reality, it doesn’t matter whether you are preparing an online profile for your favorite social network, or a written resume (Curriculum Vitae) in the old-fashioned sense, you need to make certain that it helps your case rather than hurts it. References on request. Marty Zwilling.