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WTF is Traction? A 6-Step Relationship Guide to VC

Both Sides of the Table

They get their widgets embedded or their products piloted. They tell you that they’re working on biz dev deals with distribution partners and they get the deals signed. They tell you they’re going to ship product and they do. They hire key staff. They get positive product reviews on TechCrunch, GigaOm or Paidcontent.org.

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Understanding the Underbelly of Online Marketing & Why You’ll Lose if You Don’t

Both Sides of the Table

In the earliest days of widgets many companies realized that by pushing their functionality out to widgets carried on 3rd party sites that pointed back at their website they could drive better PageRank. So they’ll have to look for other competitive advantages for distribution. Underbelly.

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Transform Your Business with the Metronomics Framework

Duct Tape Marketing

They do a thing every day, and there's so many of those things they do every day, and we call them widgets. So a metric represents a widget. And so everybody who works on a team in a business owns a thing. It connects everybody in the company to the overall team results.

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How To Work Better with Your Co-Founder

ReadWriteStart

In other words, say you have a widget that you think will take three days to build. In scrum, however, after the first day you would say, "How much time do I think it will take to finish this widget?" However, one of the great things about scrum is that you are always estimating forward the amount of work remaining in a given task.

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Streamline Your Sales Process With These Five Proven Techniques

YoungUpstarts

They don’t buy a widget because they like having a widget; they do it because they need it and it fulfills a particular purpose in their personal or professional life. The product/service you are selling or the cash you’re receiving in exchange for that product/service isn’t as important as its perceived value.

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Finding The High Converting PPC Keywords That Are Right Under Your Nose

ConversionXL

We see our Red Widgets Ad Group in the Products Campaign has the lower CTR of the two, and is less than half the CTR of the day before. Dig into the keywords in the Red Widget Group to find out which ones are generating impressions without clicks. It might be worth it to run one or both Ad Groups on Saturday.

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(Un)Limiting Beliefs

Duct Tape Marketing

If you want to do more and spend less, take a free test drive at oracle.com/ducttape Wix work in sync with your team all on one canvas, and reuse templates, widgets, and sections across sites. Work in sync with your team all on one canvas, reuse templates, widgets, and sections across sites.