Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 27, 2012

The registration process to join can give you a very targeted email list. Curation is humanly aggregating, filtering, and re-posting the best-of-the-best content on the web, relative to your product or service area. Keep the atmosphere relaxed and fun, to increase traffic, and maybe even go viral. Widgets and badges.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 15, 2011

The registration process to join can give you a very targeted email list. Curation is humanly aggregating, filtering, and re-posting the best-of-the-best content on the web, relative to your product or service area. Keep the atmosphere relaxed and fun, to increase traffic, and maybe even go viral. Widgets and badges.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2015

The registration process to join can give you a very targeted email list. Curation is humanly aggregating, filtering, and re-posting the best-of-the-best content on the web, relative to your product or service area. Keep the atmosphere relaxed and fun, to increase traffic, and maybe even go viral. Widgets and badges.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 20, 2010

The idea was that websites (think news, blogs) could push out a regular “feed&# in an open, XML format that could be read by an RSS Reader otherwise known as a feed aggregator. Twitter resurfaces things and can drive old content viral. And the company that helped websites publish RSS? Twitter is information discovery.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 12, 2010

While the group sentiment for 2010 did not improve significantly vs. November 2009, the projections for 2011 are now a lot more optimistic - 42% higher 2011 aggregated EBITDA announced in March 2010 vs. the November 09! Subscribe via email. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. All in all, an interesting start for the year!

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ConversionXL

JUNE 24, 2014

Not only can it enhance the user’s experience on your site – no need to fill out a registration form or remember yet more passwords – it also allows marketers to gather more accurate data, including verified email addresses, age, gender, relationship status and interests. Impressive, but given only 3.4%

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

There is a place for the wide open faucet of information that Twitter can supply, and there are times when the traditional outlets can not compete, For instance, in the case of breaking, fast-evolving events such as the Arab Spring uprisings the best place to get instant factoids is via the person-on-the-street accounts aggregated via hashtag.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Not only can it enhance the user’s experience on your site—no need to fill out a registration form or remember yet more password—it also allows marketers to gather more accurate data, including verified email addresses, age, gender, relationship status, and interests. Impressive, but since only 3.4% This post contains video, click to play].

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 28, 2008

Wize provides consumers with a unique way to leverage the online wisdom by aggregating the opinions of millions of users and by letting people ask questions about a specific product or need to the Wize community. Subscribe via email. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. We decided to fund Wize.com to answer this question.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

First of all, it means that most aggregate measures of success, like total revenue, are not very useful. Products can find sources of validation with impressive stats along a number of dimensions, such as high engagement, viral coefficient, or long-term retention. This unit of progress is remarkable in several ways.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Bookmarking is a pretty basic skill these days as you must be able to find and aggregate large amounts of information of risk drowning in the virtual sea of stuff related to your chosen field. All I do is set up a Google Alerts for the term Duct Tape Marketing and have it sent to my email inbox. Basic bookmarking. Content discovery.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

For example, they might have attended a webinar, downloaded a white paper, taken advantage of a free trial, and responded to an email promotion. aggregate pipeline created in a given week) could be altered reflexively by their measurement -- a sort of Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle for high-velocity sales. All rights reserved.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

In an ecosystem, each participant acts according to its own imperatives, but these selfish actions have an aggregate effect. In a previous post , I covered the three main drivers of growth: Paid, Sticky, and Viral. Let’s look at a viral growth company, like Facebook. A successful startup strives for this latter case.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Using the same playbook that I developed at KISSmetrics, we ran non-stop A/B tests on our email subscription funnel, driving 480,000 leads in 2016 and smashing our lead goals for the year. One time, we ran a bunch of tests on our drip email campaigns over a five-month period. Their growth came from users, and they had true virality.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

Remember: All data in aggregate is crap, segment or suck. Outcomes: Autograph Pre-orders | Email Signups Behavior: Unique Page Views (Gallery) | Bounce Rate (Mobile) Acquisition: Visits | Click-to-delivery Rate. I have a massive bias against the current click-bait, let’s go viral , “hot story of the moment” traffic.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

At Flow Capital, we use HubSpot’s sequences and workflows functions to automate a bulk of our emails and internal tasks. I use Superhuman , an email app which speeds up my email processing, and also gives me background information on all of my correspondents. 4Degrees helps leverage your network for sourcing.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 22, 2011

Aggregation of Marginal Gains: Recession Busting Analytics! Email Marketing: Campaign Analysis, Metrics, Best Practices. Viral, Social, Sentiment, Mobile: 4 Delightful Web Analytics Solutions. Web Analytics Segmentation: Do Or Die, There Is No Try! Analyze This: 5 Rules For Awesome Impromptu Web Analysis. How do I choose well?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

Creativity in our business lives – The average tech startup these days spends time talking with colleagues & investors about a multitude of things: customer acquisition, viral adoption, raising capital, hiring / firing employees, product features, technology trends, marketing / branding, and on and on.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

You can also set up email alerts for Twitter search, but I would hold off until you’re a bit more comfortable with the niche; otherwise, your alert parameters may be too loose. To keep tabs on specific companies and influencers, I recommend using Tweet Alerts , a Twitter-monitoring platform that lets you set up email notifications.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Like data segmentation , audience segmentation makes it easier to uncover optimization opportunities that you might not see when looking at aggregate data. You can use segmentation to run smarter tests , launch more effective paid ads , send more compelling emails , etc. . Segmentation has many benefits. How to get segmentation right.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 30, 2008

In order to get optimal results from a group-based effort, you need three things: diversity, Independence , and an objective method for aggregating results. Aggregate results carefully. Let me briefly summarize the part of the book I find most helpful (leaving a few out, which arent germane to todays topic). Not all crowds are wise.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

4 email share Last August we featured a post with more than 230 online apps for running your business. Crowdsourcing, Networking & Community Wild Apricot – Online tools for clubs, associations, and communities that include email newsletters, blogs, discussion forums, a member database and more.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 8, 2015

And it’s not about aggregating traffic better. So my advice to many is to study online companies that understand how to use technology for audience development, engagement, viral distribution and subscriptions. In this case your email. There’s a reason that Maker pulled away while most online video companies did not.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 16, 2016

But that’s just aggregate information, not totally useful because it’s not your specific industry. Seeing an improvement in your aggregate NPS is nice, but the real value comes in the feedback from follow up questions. The range of NPS is from -100 (all detractors) to +100 (all promoters. Combine it With User Research.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 19, 2014

at a level of aggregation or granularity you need, and send it into your digital analytics tools. Raise your hand if you've heard this: "How can we make our video viral?" And you know the moment those words are uttered you are dealing with a video/effort that is most definitely never going to become "viral."

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Brandanew

JANUARY 8, 2016

The team at Buffer are very friendly and will reply to your emails quickly. I have tested a lot of tools that do a great job of measuring aggregate data and spitting out a recap, but NUVI has a unique way of score influencers, color coding sentiment, and finding trends in real-time. I used to use Hootsuite, but I switched to Buffer.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

For a more detailed explanation of CMRR and how it’s calculated, you can signup to receive David Cowan’s whitepaper Measuring Growth Businesses with Recurring Revenues at www.bvp.com/saas or send an email to saasvc@bvp.com. 3) Analyze the aggregated data to determine best practices and benchmarks across your customers.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Twitter’s significance stems from the fact that it is a real time, open, asymmetric, social, viral referral network that is often location aware and provides both explicit and implicit interests and preferences. Our Twitter handle has become our identity, on par with an email address. Twitter is inherently viral.

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VC Cafe

JULY 20, 2011

MultiMi aggregates messages from email, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Flickr, Picasa, and file storage services. Perhaps AVG’s 110 million users worldwide will give the product the boost it needs to go viral. In may of 2010, AVG made a strategic investment in Zbang and took 20% of equity.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

This introduction was also the opportunity to illustrate the amazing growth of our software and saas portfolio in the past years, with aggregated revenues reaching $1.2B Subscribe via email. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Newer Post. Older Post. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Subscribe in a reader. Add RSS feed.

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

Paypal famously offered customers $5 to invite a friend, who would then also get $5 as part of a highly successful viral marketing campaign (they actually started at $20, and then reduced it to $10 and then ended at $5). Also, take a look at this critically important data point , also aggregated by Professor Jay Ritter.

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Cracking the Code

MAY 15, 2008

The next wave of internet will come from companies aggregating these various data sets and leveraging them to provide more value to the user. Subscribe via email. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. but we have reached the inflection point when these silos will get connected. Newer Post. Older Post. Subscribe in a reader.

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