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How To Make Freemium Customers Generate Revenue For Your Startup

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Thus, we became one of the first ASP (aka SaaS) companies, by selling subscriptions of our screen sharing technology to customer service departments – the same market segment which had adopted BuddyHelp. We then sorted these email addresses by company and initiated targeted sales campaigns wherever we identified a critical mass of users.

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Domain Experience Gives Entrepreneurs an Unfair Advantage

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My first company launched in 1999 and we were offering a SaaS document management in the cloud (we were called ASPs back then). Assistly is a customer support product designed to meet the needs of the current era of multi-channel touch points (think Twitter, email, chat, forum in addition to phone calls). version of their product was.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Inventing Stuff, Obviously Impossible?

Frank Addante

Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. Even with my current company, StrongMail Systems ( Startup 5.0 ), an email infrastructure company, there were a number of skeptics. You would think that the importance of email would be obvious to everyone. Visit StrongMail Website Startup 4.0:

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Be Best at Something

Frank Addante

Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. We can solve so many different problems with email delivery ranging from performance to reliable email delivery to dynamic content. We focused on proving that StrongMail is the best way to get email reliably delivered to the Inbox. Zondigo, Inc.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: The Kool-Aid Test: “Why do I need anything? Why do I need yours? Why do I need it now?"

Frank Addante

Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. I need to send marketing, e-commerce or e-statements emails to my customers to drive revenue or reduce costs. StrongMail is proven to be the fastest, easiest and most reliable solution for email delivery. Visit StrongMail Website Startup 4.0:

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 1.0: “The Bug Bite” - The Internet Needs a Card Catalogue (I guess that’s a search engine)

Frank Addante

Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. As a matter of fact, part of the inspiration behind my current company, StrongMail Systems (Startup 5.0), an email infrastructure company, dates back 10 years ago to Starting Point. We had one (yes, only one) person answer thousands of emails a day.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 5.0 – I’m just going to chill out for a bit… (OK, for a month…)

Frank Addante

Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. We provide turnkey digital messaging appliances for enterprises, service providers and software developers to send marketing, e-commerce, CRM and customer service email. StrongMail was originally supposed to be the email infrastructure for the DHARMA project.

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