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Subscriptions, Social and CRM

Subscriptions, Social and CRM

By Denis Pombriant on March 19, 2013

“Who is the customer?”  It’s a great question and one that my managers liked to ask when I was a young sales representative.  Like all great questions, it got to the meat of the matter with an economy of words that impressed as much by the brevity as for the meaning. The customer’s identity is [...]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged advertising, Business Model, Customer, Newspaper, publishing, Social Media | Leave a response

Sense and Respond, Operating a Social Business

Sense and Respond, Operating a Social Business

By Michael Fauscette on June 29, 2012

Over the past several years I’ve spent quite a bit of time looking at the impact of several change factors, including the application of social web driven ideas into business, the impact of mobile, cloud, and socialytics and a few…

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged adaptive, Business Model, enterprise, Management, S&R, socbiz, Social, strategy | Leave a response

SAP, Ariba, and SuccessFactors -- By the Numbers

SAP, Ariba, and SuccessFactors — By the Numbers

By Jason Busch on May 22, 2012

Please excuse our back-of-the-napkin math, but while we’re waiting on hold to join the SAP/Ariba analyst call, we thought we’d share some quick arithmetic on SAP’s recent cloud transactions.

SuccessFactors

2011: 1,578 employees, sal…

Posted in Business | Tagged Ariba, Business Model, Cloud Computing, netsuite, sap, sapariba, SuccessFactors | 2 Responses

Facebook’s Next Business Model

Facebook’s Next Business Model

By Bob Warfield on May 16, 2012

VC Chris Dixon muses in a recent post that Facebook has yet to uncover a business model that will support its IPO valuation and drive future growth in that valuation.  As he puts it: Facebook relies on an old internet business model: display ads. Display ads generally hurt the user experience, and are also not [...]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Business Model, Facebook, google, Initial public offering, IPO, marketing, strategy, user interface | Leave a response

"Late" to the Cloud?

"Late" to the Cloud?

By Michael Fauscette on April 20, 2012

It’s a statement that I hear often lately, as more traditional software vendors start to invest in cloud computing, that they’re "late to the cloud". Of course many of those who are saying it are "pure play" SaaS vendors that…

Posted in Business | Tagged Business Model, Cloud, SaaS, Technology / Software, vendor | 2 Responses

Freemium Mechanics

Freemium Mechanics

By Jeff Nolan on December 15, 2011

I read an interesting blog post by Ruben Gamez titled Why Free Plans Don’t Work. If you are interested in freemium business models or any of the variations on the theme, this is well worth reading however I take issue with a couple of points. First and foremost, Gamez uses a statistics breakdown (in %) [...]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged analytics, Business Model, Business Models, Churn rate, freemium, Get Satisfaction, marketing, SaaS | 2 Responses

CLV, Cohort Analysis, and Survival Curves

CLV, Cohort Analysis, and Survival Curves

By Jeff Nolan on June 13, 2011

Customer Lifetime Value (CLV) is an important metric in any SaaS business, it explains the potential for profitability and more directly the extent to which a company should spend to acquire customers, measured as Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC). Custora is a company that provides an analytics platform specific to customer value and survival, which is [...]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged analytics, Business Model, CLV, Customer Lifetime Value, Custora, SaaS, Uncategorized | Leave a response

Online Business Model Innovation

Online Business Model Innovation

By Michael Fauscette on June 6, 2011

The Internet is enabling some very innovative and creative twists on traditional business models. Back in the day (you know, 1995ish) businesses made money simply by selling a product or service directly or perhaps indirectly through a distribution partner. Value…

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged airbnb, Business Model, collaborative consumption, Groupon, innovation | 1 Response

The Cloud, ERP and the Channel Partners

The Cloud, ERP and the Channel Partners

By Brian Sommer on April 25, 2011

Cloud solutions are impacting application software ecosystems. Channel partners will need to change several aspects of their businesses to optimize their revenues and profits.

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Business Model, channel partners, Channel Sales, Cloud Computing, erp, microsoft, netsuite, SaaS, salesforce.com, sap, SAP Business ByDesign, software as a service | 10 Responses

Time to Ask the Adult Questions for Social Business

Time to Ask the Adult Questions for Social Business

By Esteban Kolsky on February 7, 2011

You all know uber-smart Sameer Patel.  If you don’t, you must. He tweeted something yesterday that stuck with me through my excellent meetings and phone conversations (if I talked to you yesterday, please consider yourself thanked for restoring my faith in technology and business – it was a most awesome day as Bill & Ted [...]

Posted in Business | Tagged Business, Business Model, Customer Experience, mlm, Rate of return, Sameer Patel, social business | Leave a response

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