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Too Many Small Businesses Still Ignore Social Media

Startup Professionals Musings

Dell announced years ago that it had earned $3 million in revenue from using Twitter, and other businesses report daily on increases in web traffic up to 800%. They don’t know if they should move to social networks for lead generation, branding, customer loyalty, or for direct marketing and e-commerce.

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Introduction to Growth Hacking for Startups

VC Cafe

The term “Growth Hacking”, invented by Sean Ellis , and made popular by Andrew Chen , a Silicon valley marketer and entrepreneur, is a combination of two disciplines – marketing and coding: Growth hackers are a hybrid of marketer and coder, one who looks at the traditional question of “How do I get customers for my product?”

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10 Reasons Your Business Website Is Struggling To Convert Sales

YoungUpstarts

Besides, you’d never reach an audience of that size through other direct marketing. . Users won’t find yours unless you actively direct them to it. . Users won’t find yours unless you actively direct them to it. . If people can’t complete purchases due to poor infrastructure, your revenue will continue to struggle. .

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

Steve Blank

And the final lesson was that we were keeping score on our packaging with the wrong metrics – it wasn’t about awards, it was about sales in the retail channel. We had been outsourcing an important part of our demand creation strategy – packaging – to an outside agency without having the expertise to judge or manage the results.

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Standard Metrics Revisited: #3: Bounce Rate

Occam's Razor

So what is this mysterious metric? In Adobe's Site Catalyst bounce rate is not a standard metric, but you are able to create a special custom metric. If you don't fall into those two categories you need to pay very careful attention to this metric. It is almost instantly accessible in any web analytics tool.

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7 Steps To A Memorable New Venture Marketing Rollout

Startup Professionals Musings

In fact, the first challenge is to build a strategy, put together a budget, and define measurement metrics. Set specific objectives, budgets, and metrics for each one. Expand marketing in channels that work and add others. You can’t do everything that you would like, even if you had the money.

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How To Begin Using Social Media In Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Dell announced years ago that it had earned $3 million in revenue from using Twitter, and other businesses report daily on increases in web traffic up to 800%. They don’t know if they should move to social networks for lead generation, branding, customer loyalty, or for direct marketing and e-commerce.