Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

Then I went into banking, specifically investment banking in the early ’90s. What areas in both technology investing as well as distribution or sales do we really need a bolster to really take the company to the next level?” Think about the ascendancy of the cloud in terms of technology environments.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 26, 2023

Optimizing short-term gains with long-term investments and controlling customer acquisition costs (CAC) leads to more sustainable growth. Building a useful and entertaining brand helps produce sustained value and ensures the right customers take notice and remain engaged over time.

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Blulogix

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Unlike the erratic income from one-off sales, subscriptions ensure a steady cash flow, facilitating better financial planning and investment in growth initiatives. Predictable Revenue Streams: For businesses, the allure of subscription models lies in the predictability of revenue.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Entertainment is this $2T a year industry. And the dirty secret is that entertainment is imaginary friends that don’t know you exist. But friends you can do really fast, it’s just entertainment, it makes things up, that’s a feature. It’s a cool first use case for AGI. Noam Shazeer, Character.AI

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 31, 2019

At a time when SaaS companies represent the vanguard of disruptive innovation, it’s not surprising that an armada of non-software companies are following suit by attempting to replicate the business model in a bid to attract investment. Ultimately, all these threads have contributed to two very fundamental shifts.

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Buffer Resources

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

This usually involves confirming your eligibility, agreeing to the program's terms, and possibly providing additional information about your content and audience. Under the Creator Fund, creators reported earning modest amounts that didn’t reflect the value or time invested in the content.

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Neil Patel

JULY 22, 2021

They’ve invested in technology like text-to-speech, voice morphing, and a backend audio creation tool to make it more enjoyable for creators. You also have a variety of options to take your followers off the podcast and entertain them elsewhere, like in Facebook groups and messenger groups as well. Long term, I think it will.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Because it takes time, upfront investment, and excellent content creation and promotional expertise to ensure your content gets found by prospects. Inbound’s core principle involves creating educational or entertaining content pieces to address a problem faced by a specific audience. Time to grow an email list.

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FastSpring

MARCH 15, 2024

And since acquiring it, we’ve really invested in creators, so we continue to have teams that play on behalf of Ghost and try to win gaming tournaments. But we also now have a large roster of creators who are leaning into gaming to entertain. So just know what’s most important in terms of the genre.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

They were aware of it, but startups that I work with closely or invested in, if they got all the way to 25 million with 75% NRR, I would tell them to quit today. VCs can only invest in outliers. I want to invest in her.” And every year for SaaStr, except for this year, this is our best year in terms of execution.

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Neil Patel

JUNE 7, 2021

Ranking a blog on Google simply means getting your website listed in the search results when someone Googles a term or question. If you’re writing an article on “How to Take Care of Your Cat,” and the next on “How to Start Your Own Investment Bank,” then Google might wonder where your expertise truly lies. There’s a catch, though.

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 30, 2022

Public & Local Services face the highest average keyword difficulty for target terms. Next, we looked at the average keyword difficulty for terms in each industry. To improve their search rankings, these industries will likely need to spend more time on their SEO strategy or invest more heavily in paid ads.

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Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

MARCH 23, 2020

MSPOTs are a valuable tool for a number of reasons - they drive alignment and communicate in simple terms what can often be a complex area. The lesson here is to view your products in terms of S Curves and ensure you’re investing in your next greatest hit. MSPOT stands for: Mission - rarely changes.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 16, 2022

For example, your best, most active customers may pull back on expansion talks or inquire about term or price adjustments. Of course, they don’t want to take their foot off the gas in terms of goals — which leaves a lot of revenue teams grappling to do more with less. Show them you care about them and will invest in them.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 12, 2021

Dan believes it’s better to invest in integrated systems and to sacrifice a few extra features in favor of a better user experience. It made a lot of sense in terms of the vision and strategy. At Intercom, we use the term conversation to describe our messaging tickets. Reduce the complexity of your tech stack.

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Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Simply put, you may jeopardize long-term growth if you stop marketing to reduce short-term costs. So, instead of cutting back, figure out how to ease the short-term pain and expand the usefulness of your marketing budget to plan for the recovery period. As a business hoping to market successfully, this is absolutely essential.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 5, 2021

Avoid jumping to conclusions and, instead, investigate or ask your prospects directly about who they work with and for, and how they expect this to change in the short term. Many entertaining stories like this can come from cultural misunderstandings. But would you rather have a great dinner party anecdote or a signed deal?

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Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

With improving digital resources and the increasing availability of technology, Gen Alpha will have better access to long-term education than any previous generation. We can be reasonably sure that they’ll be largely invested in the experience economy , including live entertainment, amusement parks, spectator sports, and tours.

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Buffer Resources

APRIL 3, 2023

She is known for her entertaining yet informative content and has a dedicated following of nearly 20,000 creative individuals looking to succeed online. I operate alone and so to avoid tunnel vision, I invest in a business coach every year. In this interview, we talk about the many hats she wears as a creatorpreneur.

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Buffer Resources

JANUARY 18, 2023

Especially if the aim of your content is to educate, you may need to invest more time in research than a creator focused on entertainment. Google Trends Price : Free Description : Google Trends is a tool that can help you track the popularity of different search terms over the years. The following tools can help.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Using VTuber technology can make any type of content you create more entertaining. You don’t need to invest thousands of dollars. If you can, start with what you have and then invest in better video equipment as you learn more. As you design your avatar, think about the long-term goal of your VTube content.

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Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

With no minimum advertising budget to get started, Twitter offers the chance to grow your business without significant upfront investment. You can use hashtags for topics, events, places, industry terms, or popular themes. This free tool offers key terms and long-tail phrases to try in your Twitter advertising and other marketing.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 29, 2021

And as we know, building those personal customer relationships is the key to long-term growth. Dee: Well, to be fair, there are elements to that history in terms of filmmaking, in terms of education and storytelling that I think is probably very well expressed in your world today. Joei: Yeah, looking back. . Dee: Absolutely.

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Neil Patel

APRIL 12, 2021

According to Paysafe , 69 percent of Americans have multiple subscriptions, and 36 percent of those consumers believe they’ll invest in more soon. Subscription boxes, then, offer much-desired entertainment value, as well as (hopefully) value for money. Subscription boxes mean you’re likely to build a consistent consumer base.

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 12, 2020

Website builders make it possible to create a responsive site optimized for SEO without having to invest a ton of money or time, which is perfect for small businesses. Long-Term Options. The best part? There are many free website builder options. But you have to learn what features to look for first.

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Neil Patel

AUGUST 4, 2021

Entertaining Videos. As your video marketing strategy develops over time, you can upgrade and invest more time and money into video creation. Of course, Facebook isn’t the only place where you could choose to invest in ads. If you’re getting the most exposure out of YouTube, invest in YouTube ads. The best part?

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 5, 2018

It worked out well in terms of getting users, and I ended up doing that all over the world. We didn’t want to make something that was just there to entertain, or to make money and get users and be the next thing that everyone forgot a year later. It’s too much of an investment. It’s similar to what I did with Tumblr.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

In conversation with a16z managing partner Jeff Jordan (and former CEO of OpenTable and former GM of eBay among other things) — so, from all sides of investing, operating, life — Annie shares tips for decision makers of all kinds making decisions under uncertainty… really, all of us. It’s like you’re trying to reconstruct an investment memo.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

With hundreds of thousands of apps in each app store vying to rank above one another, the amazing reality is that most publishers are not investing in app store optimization. You can also use a keyword research tool like Ubersuggest to find common key terms and test them. To reap the rewards of ASO, you need to invest time and effort.

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OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Considering how short our attention span is, the use of videos to quickly inform, educate, entertain, and convert strangers to customers is pretty ideal. This explains why SaaS companies that earn $1 billion annually can expect to make, on average, an additional $1 billion in revenue within three years of investing in customer experience.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 22, 2020

The downside of this is that you’ll need to invest a lot of time and effort into engaging with those leads and making them want your product/service. Long Term Content Strategy Plan, PDF: $500. Long Term Content Strategy Plan delivered: 10 Days. Why are the Sales Accepted Leads important? Deliverables. TOTAL: $3,500. Milestones.

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ProfitWell

MARCH 10, 2020

And the term RevOps is an acknowledgment that things are moving extremely quickly and we need to align better,” Robert says. But in order to get people invested, you have to develop a lower barrier of entry, i.e., pricing tiers. The value of entertainment never went away, it just migrated and we’re paying more than ever.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 22, 2019

Sarah Richards, who’s a content designer with the GDS and gov.uk, codified this term “content design”. In terms of making the unclear clear, one of the things they’re trying to do is to help the organization communicate in a very simple and very on-voice way. It’s quite superficial in terms of what you do.

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Unbounce

MAY 4, 2023

And marketers are quickly discovering how these AI-powered tools can help ‘em spin up entertaining blog content, optimize their social ad campaigns, and analyze their email performance. For example, in 2019, Microsoft dumped a $1 billion investment into OpenAI , an AI research and development lab. But not all AI is created equal. (Or,

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ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Customers enjoy the convenience of auto-renewals and having access to a high-value offer for a low ongoing investment. In the streaming-video realm, Netflix , Hulu , and HBO all provide high-quality entertainment for a low price. It’s simple: the subscription revenue model benefits both customers and companies. While your $8.99

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Whether that’s a learning experience, an entertainment experience, or both — it’s worth watching your videos. Simply type in your main key term and click “Keyword ideas” in the right sidebar, and it will deliver more than 400 keywords for you to consider. So, you may want to invest in a quality external microphone.

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OpenView Labs

JUNE 29, 2020

In the meantime, craft stores , anointed with essential status, are appealing to entirely new and affluent segments of parents who are responsible for educating and entertaining their children. Gender roles are changing as families working from home redefine household responsibilities and who is making purchases.

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