crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 28, 2019

Here, in no particular order, are the top 16 small business marketing blogs you should read in 2019. You’ll find insightful articles on social media, SEO and organic search, retargeting campaigns, content marketing, lead conversion, copywriting, and more. We’ve got your back. Social Triggers. Noobpreneur. Marketing Profs.

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Small Business Marketing Social Media SEO 106

BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

In 2019, we’ll be doubling down on this effort as we are hiring a GM for our CXO Advisory Board & Network ( job description here ). Fortune December 2019 Investor Roundtable. Enterprise Tech in 2019. Consider 2019 another year of blocking and tackling as the Fortune 500 continues their march to the cloud.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

This is the most comprehensive guide online to creating a strong brand identity for your business or organization in 2019. Make your feedback process a conversation so that your customers know that their input is valued. No matter what method you use, make sure that you’re engaging with your customers in a conversation.

Marketing 162

Marketing Charlotte Naming Design 162

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2019

They want ongoing conversations, not just annual reviews. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 05/10/2019. They demand to be valued as individuals, and coached to understand and build their strengths, rather than treated as soldiers and directed to march into battle. I also found it’s never too late to start.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

In 2019, well be doubling down on this effort as we are hiring a GM for our CXO Advisory Board & Network ( job description here ). Other states are also creating legislation around privacy of a consumers data and expect 2019 to be the year that the US creates a national standard.

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Advisory Board Stealth Cloud Virginia 78

The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2019

Social media is an irreplaceable element of a perfect marketing strategy in 2019! With the right headline, you are doomed to get higher engagement, conversions, SEO rankings, and as a result, better marketing! The post 8 Tools For Effective Marketing In 2019 appeared first on The Startup Magazine.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 14, 2018

So that’s why we are excited about 2019 because there will be more and more entrepreneurs and businesses. Here’s something other entrepreneurs look forward to: #1-In 2019, I want to get deeper! My company has been growing and expanding significantly the past few years and we’re projected to reach $1M in revenue in 2019.

Entrepreneur 89

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2019

Research shows that people pay more attention to how your conversation ends, rather than how it starts. Keep the conversation positive, and give the requestor your full attention, including body language. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 06/18/2019. Soften any delay or decline with a “thanks for asking.”

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 26, 2020

Digital transformation” was a buzzword throughout 2019, but 2020 is when we’re going to see its real impact. In 2019, Amazon raised the bar even higher to one-day delivery. All about optimizing the customer experience as the ultimate conversion booster, she’s based in Boulder, CO, but her clients are based all around the world.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

At MakeSpace we had to build complex models to tell us how our pricing and conversion compared down to the neighborhood level. No prizes for guessing what some of MakeSpace’s innovations will be in 2018 and 2019. What Happens When Startups Turn from Their Innovation Stage to Operational Excellence?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2019

Scott Kupor is the managing partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where he’s responsible for all operational aspects of running the firm. He's been with the firm since its inception in 2009 and has overseen its rapid growth, from three employees to 150+ and from $300 million in assets under management to more than $10 billion.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 10, 2019

How Did the Customer Journey Evolve in 2019? Let’s take a look back at how the customer journey evolved in 2019 and where we might expect it to go in 2020. And in 2019, you gained even greater options. Instead, ask a question or write a response that invites them to engage in conversation.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 26, 2019

To learn more about great website design, check out Grow Your Small Business With These 7 Website Design Best Practices and 7 Modern Web Design Trends for 2019. Here are our comprehensive guides: How to Start a Business: A Step-by-Step Complete Guide (2019). How to Start a Real Estate Business: The Complete 11 Step Guide (2019).

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2019

While the Bird Zero has shown massive improvements, as you can imagine the company has built an entire vehicles team and designed an entire roadmap of scooters that will hit the roads in 2019 / 2020. Having ridden some of the future models I can tell you they are nothing short of stunning. I think you’ll learn a lot.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 18, 2020

The world as we know it has irrevocably changed after 31 st December 2019. This is because animated videos are one of the best ways to improve conversions and help make your product more visible on the internet. The novel coronavirus (also known as COVID-19) quickly spread throughout the world, infecting almost 7.9

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VC Cafe

MAY 4, 2021

Perhaps it’s boredom, or Zoom fatigue, but there’s something quite appealing these days about having social conversations without turning on a camera. While Clubhouse is the most popular of this lot, several new startups are vying to be the place where the conversation happens. Spoon – audio live streaming.

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Audio Software Review Open Source Social Network 139

VC Cafe

MAY 28, 2020

If you think about virtual meetings, instead of being on Zoom — having a hologram of the person next to me to converse, a few years ago would be considered sci fi but now we have AR companies working on that,” he adds. In 2019 we had $6 million in revenue. This new medium has such a huge potential. With COVID-19, who knows?

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Technical Review Israel Cloud Forecast 164

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

One question that keeps coming up when speaking with early stage entrepreneurs when it comes to funding, is what metrics the company needs to hit to raise seed/series A/B etc: What’s a good conversion rate? What should our MRR growth be? Is my churn rate below the category average?

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B2C Technical Review Startup Retention 141

ConversionXL

JUNE 15, 2021

traffic, engagement, conversion, sharing). It must align with the marketing funnel stages (awareness, consideration, conversion, retention) as well as the customer journey. Whether that’s to: Intrigue (awareness); Educate (consideration); Influence a purchase (conversion); Or inspire engagement (retention).

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 26, 2024

Both of those questions and the conversation that followed proved to be a very effective way of preserving the drive and energy in our culture while keeping folks grounded in the reality of early stage companies. In fact most were quite jaded about prior startup experiences that resulted in companies going out of business.

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Hunter Walker

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

So I recently re-shared a 2019 blog post where I’d basically advised founders who’ve raised seed capital to worry less about “how will I raise the next round” and more about “how will I execute my plan?” I tried early on to engage him with data and conversation, but got nowhere. Hunter Walk : Thanks for doing this with me Kristen.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 13, 2020

I was even able to spend a month in my favorite UK city in 2019! 10- During a random conversation. During a random conversation, my husband suggested I begin charging clients for my help. Thanks to Gina Moccio, Babe Crafted ! #8- 8- Serve a niche I was part of. Photo Credit: Dawn Jones. Photo Credit: Felicia Y.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

In 2019 market conditions often are such that founders retain control of the board through the A-round, usually in a 2–1 (common to investor) ratio but sometimes it’s 3–2 (common to investor). Further, if you don’t trust that VC to serve on your board then why would you take money from them in the first place?

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Up and Running

JUNE 7, 2021

In 2019, 181 CEOs of some of the world’s wealthiest companies, including Apple, Amazon, and Citigroup, signed a document declaring their intention to work for the benefit not just of shareholders, but also of customers, employees, and the society that is the source of their prosperity.

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Framework United States Vesting Employee 191

ConversionXL

AUGUST 13, 2019

While email acquisition generally measures the strength of your top-of-funnel content, this conversion metric is heavily influenced by your mid-funnel content (e.g. Use lead scoring but don’t ignore “conversational values.”. product comparison articles, new feature announcements, how-to guides, and customer success stories).

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Metrics SQL Retention Churn Rate 117

This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 12, 2020

I kicked off the idea to my current LPs that there would be another fund in February of 2019. She wound up pulling through—but yeah, after my wedding, things in 2019 kind of sucked. I had a lot of great conversations this year—not all of them were easy or comfortable, but they were real. You cannot die today.

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LP Technical Review Software Review Valuation 146

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Social commerce is helping businesses improve their engagement and conversion rates. The mobile commerce market estimated at $472 billion in 2019 will grow to $3.9 Marketplaces are gaining a renewed impact in the merchant retail sector. Mobile retail is growing faster than many retailers can keep up. Mobile for Retail. trillion to $3.56

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Mobile eCommerce 146

The Startup Magazine

JULY 5, 2020

In 2019, there were 30.7 You should also ditch emails and use modern production tools like Slack as it’s more laidback and conversational. Part of growing a small business is making it easy for customers’ voices to be heard. Here are tips for improving communication with customers for startups. million small businesses in the U.S,

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2020

We developed Pages based on actual conversations we had with our customers,” explains Kenny Rueter, Kajabi co-founder and CEO. “We Posted by Kajabi on Wednesday, December 11, 2019. We learned what was working, where the roadblocks were, and what would take their online businesses to the next level,” Rueter continues.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 27, 2019

The following checklist is a summary of key elements that will help you get more online sales (or whatever conversion you’re after). Additional reading : The Buyer Persona Manifesto (PDF); How Buyer Personas will Rock the Conversion Rates of your Landing Pages (webinar). A key ingredient of high conversions is relevant traffic.

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Sales Conversion Design Video 128

Steve Blank

JUNE 7, 2019

And conversely show our sponsors in the Department of Defense and Intelligence community that civilian students can make a meaningful contribution to problem understanding and rapid prototyping of solutions to real-world problems.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 19, 2019

As 2019 draws to a close, you have no doubt already got an eye on next year. You might need to share content more often, you might need to reach out for conversation and interaction or perhaps the type of content that you are sharing needs to be more informative or comical in order to get some engagement.

Social Media 173

Social Media Media Software Developer 173

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 21, 2019 Fifty diverse startups will aim to impress a panel of judges and a live audience with their skills, creativity and innovation at SXSW Pitch Presented by Cyndx. What are your goals for BehaviorMe in 2019? Parents who wish they had more resources to teach their kids how to be adults.

Technical Review 71

Technical Review Startup Software Review Florida 71

Up and Running

JANUARY 18, 2021

However, Amazon’s profits, and those of its founder and CEO, have spurred some conversation about how consumers should spend their money. Starting with 2019 data, eCommerce brands saw increases in customers wanting more options and information on their shipping capabilities.

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eCommerce B2B Forecast Demand 150

ConversionXL

APRIL 1, 2019

Growth Strategist & Speaker (@MarianaNNorton) March 14, 2019. Joanna Wiebe, conversion copywriter and the brains behind Copyhackers , recommends to “Start ‘ethically eavesdropping’ on the people who are, will be, and should be your customers.” Transfer parts of the conversation back into your copy. Answer comments.

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Technical Review Marketing Software Review Audience 133

ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Founded by Aron Schwarzkopf and Sebastian Castro , Kushki is improving payment systems in Latin America by facilitating currency conversions and international transfers across the region. Its platform supports over 10,000 checks per hour and was part of the Winter 2019 Y-Combinator class.

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Colombia America Technical Review Startup 146

ConversionXL

JULY 28, 2021

Google Analytics 4 is the rebuilt, rebranded and expanded version of the App + Web property rolled out by Google in 2019. Set up conversions: Create custom conversions to assign value to important interactions (e.g. Set up conversions and event tracking. The results will then be shown in the “Conversions” report.

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