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Source: The Guardian

More money from more users should be music to Spotify's ears

Is Spotify missing a trick by not focusing on data analysis to turn higher profits? Vindicia's Gene Hoffman thinks so.

 Spotify has changed the way we listen to music yet again and boasts subscriber numbers that most digital businesses would envy. But with many millions of people only ever tuning in for free, is the music-streaming giant missing a trick? The answer may lie in data Spotify already holds. Subscriptions are fast becoming an everyday way for us to purchase products and services as diverse as online...
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Source: Diversity

Go To Market for SaaS Companies
As the world moves to the oft-heralded “subscription economy”, seemingly every software company is reinventing itself as a SaaS company.

But deciding to go subscription, and actually having everything in place to deliver a service are two different things. Recently I took part in a...
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Source: Real Business

Digital business: keeping good customers is the next frontier
Digital businesses must shift their focus to quality, not quantity, when it comes to customers. This hinges on using good data.

As UK entrepreneurs take to the internet in droves, a revolution in how content is delivered has followed. Games, music, films, software and books...
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Source: Xconomy

Vindicia Helps Subscription Providers Keep a Bird in the Hand
Cloud commerce is here to stay.

The advent of subscription-billed digital delivery has brought massive, recurring revenues to the media and content industries, as well as makers of...
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Source: Venturebeat

Vindicia adds mobile payments to CashBox via Boku
Vindicia, a provider of the CashBox billing and customer management system for online merchants, is announcing today that consumers will be able to pay for items with their mobile phone numbers through a partnership with mobile payments firm Boku.

That could help generate millions of dollars in additional annual revenue for the merchants that use CashBox, and it fits with the company’s mission...
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Source: Fourth Source

A customer for keeping
According to Ofcom’s latest report, in the last three years alone e-commerce has grown at 10 times the rate of other retail sales.

This makes sense as the priority of almost all marketers working in digital media has been and will continue to be customer acquisition. But the...
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Source: eSeller

How to choose the right payment provider
Sanjay Sarathy, CMO Vindicia, outlines the critical questions to ask yourself and your payments vendor for success in building your online revenues.

For any new online business, how you capture and manage payments is directly linked to your ability to grow revenues. It’s also one aspect of your...
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Source: CNBC

The Collector
Boosting brands' revenues and managing millions of customer accounts, Gene Hoffman's firm Vindicia takes number-crunching to the next level.

The term 'industry veteran' is much overused. But when it comes to Gene Hoffman, if anything it's an understatement. The CEO of Vindicia, a company...
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Source: The Next Web

Online dating spend grows by 60% on last year, and the industry can only get bigger
Regardless of your personal opinions on online dating, there’s little question it has emerged from the lonely shadows of the Web’s dark-side and become embedded in the mainstream’s consciousness.

As the barrage of Valentine’s Day-themed press releases show no sign of letting up, it’s certainly as good a time as any to take a look at the...
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Source: Forbes

Vindicia in Top 100 Lead Response Ranking
Vindicia ranked #16 with a lead response time of 03:20. Other popular companies in the ranking: Intuit #50 (12:18), Salesforce #59 (14:18), Marketo #84 (22:24).

In the interest of full disclosure, my company is InsideSales.com, the leading cloud-based provider of sales automation and analytics for inside...
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Source: Xconomy

Why Innovators Should Still Aim for an IPO, Not An Acquisition
I was extremely pleased to see Congress pass and the President sign the JOBS Act, which will loosen the IPO process for emerging growth companies.

A lot of ink (or is that pixels) was spilled talking about how this bill will help the economy, but I want to dig a bit under the covers to explain...
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Source: CRM Buyer

Better Billing Means Happier Customers
Following a few simple but essential best practices in billing can improve the customer experience and beef up your company's bottom line.

When accepting credit card payments, it is imperative for a merchant to offer easy and convenient payment options in order to keep customers happy....
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Source: Talking Payments

Cloud billing: pick and mix revenue models take digital retailers wherever their customers go
What else can the cloud do for us?

As retailers navigate their way through digital disruption, cloud-based billing is becoming an increasingly attractive option says Sanjay Sarathy,...
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Source: Canadian Business Magazine

Digital distribution challenges titans of video game industry
Like chain-retail record stores before it, video game retail’s days are numbered and its demise will come at the hands of the same killer: the Internet.

Digital distribution is steadily sweeping away the incumbent channel and delivering it to a clutch of online-based services and retailers like Steam...
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Source: Industrygamers

The State of the Games Industry: 'Consoles Are In Trouble'
The Games Summit track of panels at CES contained some interesting topics and revealed some new insights.

The panel on the State of the Games Industry was moderated by Mike Vorhaus, the president of Magid Advisors, strategic consulting firm. Panelists...