The #1 Goal of Your Website: Slides from my Business of Software Talk
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The Business of Software 2010 was last week in Boston. This is without a doubt my favorite conference every year.
I had a great time and met a ton of new people (including finally meeting Jason Cohen and Patrick McKenzie after exchanging many emails over the past year or two). The whirlwind of the conference was such that it took me about 48 hours before I could hold a conversation about anything but starting a software company.
My talk was titled The #1 Goal of Your Website and I promised I would post my slides (and here they are).
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8 comments ↓
Thanks Rob – your talk was great! Lots of good stuff to get started with 🙂
Great to hear you at BOS2010.
A very ‘actionable’ talk. Will link to your slides from my blog and the write up I did of yours at http://thebln.com/2010/10/rob-walling-business-of-software-a-developers-guide-to-making-your-website-profitable/
Thanks for sharing the slides.
Mark Littlewood
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Thanks Rob. This will be helpful for a marketing proposal I’m making to a client next week. Would you happen to have the audio or video to your presentation? I didn’t know what the heck the concrete wall was about. -lol
>>Would you happen to have the audio or video to your presentation?
Nope; I know BoS recorded it, but they won’t release the video for a while.
I will email you my notes from the talk, though, which might clear up the meaning of a few of the slides.
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Thanks for posting a copy of your slides. I attended BoS2010, and got a lot of value out of your talk. For me, the email marketing portion was the most interesting part. I was surprised to see that email marketing conversion rates are so high. I’ve always thought of email marketing as ineffective, and spammy.
If I could add to the discussion regarding spam filters. I recently launched a web security software startup, and had a lot of problems with my emails getting flagged as spam. I found a good resource to be email verification tools. Two such free tools that I used, and would recommend, are from All About Spam (http://www.allaboutspam.com/email-server-test) and Port25 Solutions (http://www.port25.com/domainkeys).
I wrote up a detailed summary of your presentation and posted it on my blog. You can find it here: http://lightpointsecurity.com/content/increasing-website-sales-rob-walling-2010-business-of-software-presentation
Rob Reply:
December 2nd, 2010 at 6:19 pm
That’s an awesome summary of the presentation; thanks for sharing.