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Paywalls, SEO, and the Need for a Damn Good Brand

ConversionXL

Metering does allow sites to segment users who hit your paywall—a key audience for conversion optimization. For sites that rely on a lead-in, it’s a different conversation. News is an especially challenging vertical since no site owns a newsworthy event. It always boils down to the same conversation,” said Adams.

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Effective Ways To Differentiate And Scale Your Business

Duct Tape Marketing

They were a marketing agency that just kind of said, oh, well, what do you want us to do this quarter? ? So because they didn't know the industry, they just didn't have that ability to come into the conversation with something innovative. We thought there has to be a way to really elevate the conversation within our industry.

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Demand Generation vs. Lead Generation: Integrating To Drive Growth

ConversionXL

Bootstrapped startup Omnisend carved out a $19 million niche in an already saturated vertical. With a tactical understanding of two different marketing strategies: demand generation and lead generation. Organic search is a highly competitive domain for many SaaS verticals (email marketing, for example).

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #14: Selling to the “Cool Kids”

Austin Startup

My parents were entrepreneurs from the time I was born, specifically in retail and direct marketing. How have you shaped your sales culture, and how did you identify your first clients to create that market spark? Let me pause here and explain my own background a bit because I think it will help make my points more clear.

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7 Easy and Effective Customer Segments to Target in Facebook Ads

ConversionXL

According to the Nanigans Facebook Advertising Benchmarks Report , there’s been a 92% year over year CPM increase for the ECommerce vertical. Customer segmentation is an old trick in the marketing book. According to Direct Marketing Association , 77% of ROI is attributed to segmented, targeted, and triggered campaigns.

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Transcript of Using Story to Win on Social Media

Duct Tape Marketing

And for a while I was working on the vertical of religion. So I think that the big, big thing that people really get wrong about social media, and this is the real impetus behind why I created this book is that people mistake… They think that social media is a tool for what we call direct marketing and not really for brand marketing.

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SuperMac War Story 9: Sales, Not Awards « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

As a pay-per-click marketer, now I will look at retail packaging as a source of ideas on landing page design. If you look at the top 3 online retailers by conversion rate, none of these are award-winning designs : [link] [link] [link] However, they convert ~25% of visitors to customers. That’s 10x what many websites convert.

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