ConversionXL

APRIL 18, 2019

Aggregators? Blue links of aggregator sites with “Best Restaurants” lists. displays aggregators when you’re an individual site, or vice versa). Google’s Knowledge Cards, Kohn offers , are a perfect example of aggregating intent—answering a query and providing valuable context. In SERPs, Google shows its hand. The lesson?

Search 126

Search Aggregator New York SEO 126

VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

I’ve recently come across several of such lists and I thought it could be useful to aggregate them and share them here. It’s been a while since they’ve updated their RFS list and it captures all the buzzword’s of today’s tech world: AI, defence tech, climate, spatial computing, etc.

Artificial Inteligence 176

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Software Review Generative AI 176

David Teten

JUNE 1, 2011

Deal aggregation websites Increasing in popularity, trying to increase market efficiency. Question : How do generalist PE funds differentiate and get in the advisers list? Question : How do PE funds differentiate in the LOI phase? Intermediaries. Banks, brokers, Advisors They have the confidence and trust of the business owner.

Private Equity 122

Private Equity Deal Flow Equity Developer 122

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The most important factor for differentiation in CXL Live is its unique format. Win beyond product : use a powerful narrative, positioning, messaging, content and differentiation strategy. Weak messaging strategies are hard to sell and market, with no differentiation and getting the wrong perception.

B2B 94

B2B Marketing Curation PPC 94

ConversionXL

APRIL 1, 2019

However, if everyone scrolls the whole way through, added detail may help differentiate your company for your (presumably) advanced audience. Live chat : You can aggregate data that you collect on audience interactions with live chat representatives or chatbots. Eat your own dog food. You know your product inside and out.

Technical Review 133

Technical Review Marketing Software Review Audience 133

Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 18, 2011

You must understand and create content for the most important keyword phrases for your industry, the essential themes of education in your business, and your company’s core points of differentiation. Filtering and aggregating content produced by others is not only a great service, it’s a great differentiator.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Alaska RSS Audio 78

ConversionXL

JANUARY 21, 2020

Aggregate them and consider how those needs transfer to your web analysis tool: What do you want to analyze? One Account for your company; Multiple Properties for regions (or brands) and one Property (with a different tracking code) to aggregate data from all sites; One roll-up View for each Property; One View per website.

Technical Review 73

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Aggregator 73

Occam's Razor

JULY 12, 2010

You have aggregated data into three pieces and we all know aggregated data stinks at delivering insights! No simplified over promise under deliver aggregates! StatsIt started off as a differentiated web analytics tool, but has morphed into a delightful social media monitoring tool. Clean into the three desired categories.

Analytics 97

Analytics Viral Web Mobile 97

Up and Running

MAY 1, 2014

Investors will want to know what advantages you have over the competition and how you plan on differentiating yourself. How do you plan on differentiating from the competition? The simple fact is that all businesses have competition. What are your customers’ primary needs and wants? How are your competitors positioning themselves?

Business Plan 163

Business Plan Forecast Balance Sheet Distribution 163

abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 1, 2013

This is the art of conversion: improve your site’s conversion and you simultaneously increase operating leverage AND increase competitive differentiation – a truly powerful combination. Unfortunately, conversion improvements typically are the aggregate gain of 100 tiny improvements, not one silver bullet.

Metrics 93

Metrics Conversion Internet Acquisition 93

A Crowded Space

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

HourlyNerd does not present a threat to McKinsey, but rather to the vast number of much smaller and less differentiated firms. MasterClass has aggregated some of the world’s top experts and celebrities and provided access to everyone in the form of online video classes. But, a new trend is coming.

Aggregator 60

Aggregator Audio Networking Differentiation 60

ConversionXL

APRIL 10, 2019

As Ahava continues in the same post, you can create an Event tag to differentiate between users who interacted with the form and those who didn’t. Some of the tools below track dozens of metrics—even aggregating them into broader field “health” metrics—and visualize those metrics in clear reports.

Analytics 130

Analytics Metrics United Kingdom Software 130

Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Furthermore, such solutions can be fully automated by using customer intelligence solutions which take information from different existing sources like census bureaus, sales points, CCTV, social media and aggregates it into a single relevant dashboard, ready to answer business questions. Challenges of data driven marketing. An ocean of data.

Artificial Inteligence 66

Artificial Inteligence Marketing Algorithm Social Media 66

Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

When an acquirer looks at your company, if your gross margin is dropping consistently year over year, they’re going to draw the conclusion that you’ve lost your marketing differentiation. But a lot more of them have the second point of differentiation, which is better marketing, right? So it’s important.

Entrepreneur 66

Entrepreneur Switzerland Revenue Differentiation 66

www.kalzumeus.com

AUGUST 13, 2012

The ways I’m aware of for generating confidence intervals for averages/aggregates of a particular statistic (like, say, “Average monthly revenue per visitor of all visitors who would ever sign up under the pricing plan”) all have to assume something about the population distribution. Michael Selik.

Revenue 62

Revenue Distribution Software Non-Compete 62

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

They aggregate other people’s content and curate it into categories. Bing is very open to 3 rd party elements in their index that create a differentiated user experience. Initially it was a UGC site that competed with sites like YouTube and Veoh. It had a strong user base and 50 million monthly uniques. 49:35-51:30).

Vertical 265

Vertical Curation Boston Burn Rate 265

betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

If it’s done right, feedback and postmortems are regular activities and reviews are just the official aggregation of such feedback.?. Very hard to do, but it’s what differentiates great companies from good companies. We do twice-yearly reviews of all Fab team members. But it should never be a surprise. Even executives need reviews.

Technical Review 108

Technical Review Technology Software Review Valuation 108

Occam's Razor

APRIL 21, 2014

If you have a lot of them, aggregate them up. You can also of course use this strategy to differentiate between new and old subscriptions. So a very long way of saying that if you do anything to generate traffic, always use campaign tracking parameters. Fruition Internet Marketing.

Analytics 132

Analytics Marketing Campaign Metrics 132

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Aggregate costs and results in a tool like Google Data Studio or BigQuery. According to Google, utm_content differentiates similar content, links within the same ad, links within a blog post, CTA buttons within an email, or variations of an A/B test. However, it’s easier to read in reports. Plus, it doesn’t apply retroactively.

Analytics 118

Analytics Campaign Email Channel 118

Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

Although even in that case it’s not possible to cover all the subspecialties in fields as complex as life sciences, it improves the odds of finding a calling for your advice just based on the number of deals aggregated in one spot. I came along before incubators and accelerators were “things” — but now they are almost over supplied.

Incubator 48

Incubator Vertical Deal Flow Technical Review 48

Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 14, 2012

In aggregate, the various revenue streams would continue to support the creation and distribution of high production value content. The group was particularly interested in discussing emerging technologies as a possible competitive differentiation, particularly in the context of data and analytics.

Business Model 159

Business Model Distribution Aggregator Channel 159

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Yesterday, The Wall Street Journal (courtesy of aggregator Yipit ) reported that nearly one-third (170 out of 530) all daily deal sites have been shut down or acquired. To quantify some of this, CB Insights has released a report covering valuation multiples for both M&A and venture financing for Daily Deal startups.

Valuation 124

Valuation Aggregator Acquisition Differentiation 124

Venture Chronicles

MAY 26, 2010

I’d be willing to bet that more investors lose a great amount of aggregate capital here than at any other stage. The case for being lean is also rooted in the belief that it causes the company to have more focus on the variables that position them for a next round of funding.

Lean 40

Lean Early Stage Valuation Startup 40

www.pakman.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

However look for Twitter to use Twittercards and link management (affiliate programs, “products in your stream”) to differentiate. ” Users tend to aggregate around platforms and content they identify with (organized around demographics, topics like movies or restaurants, shopping, etc.) David Pakman.

Social Media 47

Social Media Vertical Advertising Distribution 47

om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

In the early days, my belief was that blogs (or as I called them micro-pubs back in 2002) would grow really fast and it would allow me to aggregate large subsets of audiences around specific niches. I know it would be time for me to leave, and that I would have failed our company culture if we started erecting walls between our team members.

Founder 80

Founder Conversion Distribution Silicon Valley 80

ConversionXL

MAY 16, 2018

The reason wasn’t because the airline was inattentive or didn’t care about its customers, but because the airline’s differentiating factor was its low price-point and on-time service. In order to discover those changes at the aggregate level we need to have a sample size that is representative of our visitor population.

Marketing 133

Marketing Metrics Programming Design 133

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

They created a reason for their customers to aggregate on their site on a regular basis. I wanted to differentiate. My suggestion is to blog about your industry. Think Mint.com. In their early days they had an enormously effective blog on the topic of personal financial management. I guess I would have thought it was obvious.

Startup 373

Startup eCommerce Audience Community 373

Version One Ventures

JULY 19, 2018

In that handbook, our goal was to aggregate all the amazing content out there. However, over the past few years, we’ve seen new marketplaces succeed by differentiating through a new shopping experience (i.e. mobile) and/or new or differentiated supply. We purposely kept the tone factual rather than prescriptive.

Disintermediation 110

Disintermediation B2B Differentiation Aggregator 110

abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Specifically, the “narrow network” typically aggregates those providers that are willing to accept lower prices for their services (theoretically you could have a “premium” narrow network, but they are typically used to create more affordable plans). Clearly the market is speaking.

Customer 59

Customer Technical Review Venture Capital Software Review 59

The Next Web

MARCH 2, 2014

To measure the return on investment – or ROI – of your SEO campaigns, utilize the information aggregated from Positionly and Google Analytics to pull through the data and analyze patterns in traffic, increases in links, sustainable traffic and above all, increases in revenue.

SEO 159

SEO Analytics Social Media Metrics 159

Austin Startup

APRIL 25, 2017

Had Facebook not purchased Instagram, Facebook’s aggregate numbers likely would have dipped as millennials have largely abandoned Facebook for Instagram and Snapchat. But I can certainly see that Facebook usage has indeed grown among my mother’s and grandmother’s peers. 2 years ago my grandmother didn’t have Facebook.

Valuation 48

Valuation Technical Review Social Network Forecast 48

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 30, 2013

There is clear room in this space for innovation, aggregation, and higher efficiency. Expect design to be a differentiator this coming year. In 2012, the Nike Fuelband put self-monitoring devices on the radar of the mainstream consumer and the field is getting bigger. The efficacy of these devices is still evolving.

Artificial Inteligence 140

Artificial Inteligence Aggregator Cofounder Algorithm 140

Agile VC

JUNE 24, 2013

The average American’s daily commute is just under an hour (round trip), so in aggregate that’s potentially a lot of incremental time when they might be doing email, web surfing, playing games, or communicating with friends. People will seek these in other consumer goods and cars may become less differentiated.

Internet 153

Internet Caching Aggregator Audio 153

This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 11, 2010

I think we have a problem differentiating between the aggregate statistics and the experience of the individual entrepreneur. People say, for example, that the Valley is a much better place to build a business—just look at the number of businesses that get funded there versus New York.

San Francisco 108

San Francisco New York City Aggregator New York 108

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 27, 2020

In aggregate, long-tail queries can drive a ton of traffic. The key here is to differentiate the click-baity articles from actually useful and informative content. Image source ). So with Google surfacing more snippets from long-tail queries, how do you improve your chances of winning one? I hope I was able to accomplish the latter.

Algorithm 174

Algorithm Search Matching SEO 174

Hunter Walker

AUGUST 8, 2023

” What are my major assumptions for why there’s more markdowns to come in the aggregate for the last decade of venture portfolios? Lower performing VCs will disappear faster and new entrants will differentiate themselves. Valuations.

Portfolio 110

Portfolio Cap Table LP Valuation 110

Up and Running

MARCH 20, 2019

Instead, she summarizes and aggregates enough to make a useful forecast that she can track, review, and revise as needed with the ongoing business. Notice here that Magda doesn’t try to break lunches down into sandwiches, soup, burgers, ham versus cheese, turkey versus beef, or any of that detail. Estimating direct costs.

Forecast 115

Forecast Sales Turkey Aggregator 115