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by betashop 15y ago
"Fab.com features daily design inspirations and sales at up to 70% off retail." We've A/B tested many other variants and this far out performs all else.
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by betashop 15y ago
We've tested numerous variants on language/messaging and this converts best to subscribers + purchasers so far. Always testing though...
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by betashop 15y ago
More than 50% of our members joined via viral invites -- from emailing friends, twitter posts, facebook posts, etc. We think it is because of the social tools we weaved into our site + the social nature of design itself.
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by betashop 15y ago
Here's my blog post on the pivot. http://betashop.com/post/3741657155/when-to-change-your-game... I've always said that if you can't gain some considerable traction in 1 years time, it's time to move on and try something else as there are
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by betashop 15y ago
Actually, no. We only have had less than 5000 our of former social network members sign up for the new Fab.com design site.
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by betashop 15y ago
Thanks. Appreciate the comments. We agree that the social nature of the design community has really helped spur our growth. Our viral coefficient is off the charts for an e-commerce site. A lot of that has to do with people loving to sha
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by betashop 15y ago
Hah! We were previously operating a different business/product as fabulis. I got sick of telling everyone who to spell it, so I went out and negotiated to buy Fab.com, and got a great deal on it!
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by betashop 15y ago
Answers are as follows: * Margins are really good, above 25%. * We are backed by angels and VC's. I've also personally invested. * We pivoted our business earlier this year. Before, we were a social network for gay people. In February we
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by betashop 15y ago
I should also note that we constantly test and rotate about 10 different landing pages, optimizing towards the ones that convert best.
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by betashop 15y ago
hmmm ... we've had incredibly high conversion rates on our landing page. Always looking to improve it though.
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by betashop 15y ago
Hey everyone. Jason Goldberg, CEO of Fab.com here. Happy to discuss and answer any questions.
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by betashop 15y ago
The biggest key, however, has been just great product selection. Our team's ability to effectively find and procure amazing design objects that delight and inspire people is what gives this thing momentum.
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by betashop 15y ago
Thanks Bartek. I would say that was one of the keys to our initial success.
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The Fab.com Business Model(betashop.com)
4 points by betashop 15y ago|3 comments
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We Fab Braintree Payments(betashop.com)
1 points by betashop 15y ago|0 comments
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The Day Social Media Took Ahold of Fab.com(betashop.com)
2 points by betashop 15y ago|0 comments
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Energy, Transparency, and Sanity(tumblr.com)
1 points by betashop 15y ago|0 comments
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50% of flash sales happen in first 3 hours(tumblr.com)
1 points by betashop 15y ago|0 comments
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by betashop 15y ago
We checked the raw data and it all clusters around $75 during that time period for some reason. Items on Fab.com range from $10 to $5000, with thousands of purchases captured in that data.
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What happens at 4am?(betashop.com)
3 points by betashop 15y ago|3 comments
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The death of email is greatly exaggerated (betashop.com)
3 points by betashop 15y ago|0 comments
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by betashop 15y ago
The NYT story was both print and online. It's impossible to measure the direct traffic from the print version. Maybe another 1%?
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by betashop 15y ago
Happy to share other data on this as we get it. Transparency IS good design.
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Fab.com: 150,000 pre-launch signups, viral engine(blog.fab.com)
1 points by betashop 15y ago|0 comments
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by betashop 15y ago
Curious to hear peoples' thoughts on this one.
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How Big of a Company are You Building?(betashop.com)
7 points by betashop 15y ago|1 comments
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Managing the Board of Directors in a Startup(betashop.com)
2 points by betashop 15y ago|0 comments
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Founders: Mature But Don't Grow Up(betashop.com)
7 points by betashop 15y ago|1 comments
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by betashop 15y ago
Having started 4 companies I respectfully disagree. If you treat investors as purely money, that's all you'll ever get from them. In this market though there's tons of money out there. It's more important to get smart money. And from my
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Tips on Choosing Your Investors(betashop.com)
3 points by betashop 15y ago|4 comments

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