ConversionXL

JULY 3, 2020

By early 2017, some publishers had had enough. Google ended FCF in October 2017, shifting the responsibility of metering and experimentation back to publishers. Flexible Sampling (2017). Paywalls, by default, are a barrier to organic acquisition—they stop some users from accessing some content. Metering vs. lead-in.

SEO 122

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

The primary source of your funds should be your paying customers, i.e., your business should generate enough revenues and profits to fund the growth and expansion. These usually play a role in the very early stage of your business, primarily pre-revenue. billion dollars in 2017. Government programs. Stages of Funding.

Startup 150

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Just take a look at these three channels: Facebook : 171% Increase in Cost per Thousand Impressions, or CPM ( 2017 ). Twitter : 20% Increase in CPM ( Q4 2017 ). LinkedIn : 44% Increase in CPM ( Q2 2017 ). customer acquisition process and channels). Tidal Wave 2 – Rising Acquisition Costs. ?. ideal customer).

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

It partners with sales to close more revenue, informs product teams to deliver better products, and in some cases, co-owns demand generation activities with marketing teams. Founder Nathan Barry launched in 2013 to help creators sell their books and courses but failed to meet revenue goals and eventually stalled.

Marketing 110

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

It occurred to me that although we mentioned our new thematic approach when we raised our last fund in 2017, we haven’t really shared a broader manifesto about how we are approaching the early stage market. It’s been an interesting several years in the early stage venture eco-system, and the sands have shifted considerably.

North America 120

North America Seed Stage Early Stage Lead Investor 120

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Get data-backed ecommerce guidelines you can implement right away to increase revenue. If you want to be competitive in 2017 and beyond, you should be at least as good as these guidelines. The post Ecommerce Best Practice Report 2017 appeared first on ConversionXL. Learn more about the ecommerce guide here.

eCommerce 48

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 17, 2017

John Imlay of MSA occasionally took me on road shows with analysts to talk about his new acquisition Peachtree Software. Hurricane Irma had a major negative revenue impact on one whose fall book of business was mostly in Florida. None of us can un-ring the bell for whatever happened in 2017, but we can decide now to improve in 2018.

Silicon Valley 48

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ConversionXL

APRIL 28, 2020

To do that, we built a demand funnel that took us from nothing to 44X revenue growth in a single year. That difference cascades down the funnel, allowing you to track the ROI of your lead sources between inbound and outbound campaigns—all the way through to revenue. Honorable mention: SiriusDecisions Demand Unit Waterfall (2017).

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Compounding is the ability of an asset to generate earnings that are reinvested in order to generate exponential revenue growth. It has never paid out dividends, and clocks around $200 billion in revenue. In 2017, Atlassian paid $425 million to acquire Trello, even though Trello only made about $3.5 Alpha generation.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

The solution has to balance four variables: Revenue for publishers that sell ad space; Targeting capability for ad networks; Return on ad spend for ad buyers; Privacy for users who see ads. Publishers will get their ad revenue. Ad platforms will keep selling inventory. But eliminating third-party cookies won’t improve ad targeting.

Caching 140

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2017

Every business needs revenue to provide investor returns and offset costs. Free” is not an attractive revenue model to investors. Popular revenue models today include recurring subscription charges, licensing, as well the traditional sale or lease model. Marty Zwilling First published on Huffington Post on 07/08/2017.

Business Model 143

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Providing your product or service free to customers may sound attractive in marketing materials, but you need revenue sources to survive. Project revenues, costs and investment needs. The best way to do this is to highlight a recent similar company payback to investors, via going public or acquisition exit.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Macro conversions are the primary goal of your website, to convert user traffic into revenue. On the other side of the coin, micro conversions are actions a user completes that are either on the path to revenue-generating macro conversions or not directly related to revenue-generation at all. Jared Spool at CXL Live 2017.

Metrics 121

Metrics Acquisition Conversion Revenue 121

View from Seed

JUNE 13, 2019

The company launched in 2011 and then was acquired by PetSmart for over $3 billion in 2017 (PetSmart itself owned by PE firm BC Partners), but Chewy is now preparing for life as a standalone public company. revenue business still growing >50% YoY? I’ll break down Chewy’s business based on their recent S-1 filing here.

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Leadership .Net Revenue Acquisition 214

Up and Running

JANUARY 5, 2018

acquisition of Jet.com in August 2016 transformed the company beyond the addition of the Jet platform. Jet.com founder Marc Lore ascended to CEO of Walmart’s US e-commerce operations, and since joining has taken the company on an e-commerce/apparel acquisition spree. POTENTIAL ACQUISITION TARGETS. Walmart’s $3.3B

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2017

You need 5 percent or more of revenue for marketing, more for new development, and people costs will double as you add benefits, insurance, training, IT and processes. If you want to be assessed as a “premium” acquisition candidate down the road, an aggressive but reasonable target might be doubling revenue each year.

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Burn Rate Forecast Angel Investor Revenue 144

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2018

by Walker Deibel , Managing Director of Centra and author of “ Buy Then Build: How Acquisition Entrepreneurs Outsmart the Startup Game “ If I asked you to name a business success story, what would you think of? I can speak to this myself, since our aluminum railing company grew at over 38 percent in 2017. Hardly high tech.

Startup 182

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ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2017

Reporting in the Harvard Business Review on a major study of growth stalls they conducted, Olson and his colleagues cite the case of the iconic brand Levi Strauss, which hit a historic high mark of sales in 1995, reaching revenue of $7 billion, but then, starting in 1996, saw a decline in sales so precipitous that by 2000, revenue was down to $4.6

Technical Review 127

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Transformify

AUGUST 1, 2019

Carlos, a lot has been said about diversity and inclusion but there is little to no guidance of building diverse teams post-mergers and acquisitions. Exela is a new brand that exists since 2017. Prior to that, it was a group of smaller companies put together through mergers and acquisitions. How do you address such cases?

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Merger Acquisition Securities and Exchange Commission America 70

ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2020

Last year, I gave a presentation on how we generated 40% year-over-year organic revenue growth by focusing on out executing the competition, not outsmarting them. I detailed the full process of my content gap analysis back in 2017. Enterprise SEO has been my topic of choice for extracurricular “thought leadership” over the years.

SEO 121

SEO Technical Review Software Review XML 121

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Robert Tallack is chief executive of a fast-growing e-commerce company, ConversionPoint Technologies, that launched in July 2016, hitting over $70 million in estimated revenues in 2017. The word was coined after a late night, dinner and drinks business meeting between his executive team and that of a possible acquisition candidate.

Technology 140

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Austin Startup

APRIL 25, 2017

Revenue needs to grow 20x, and margins must expand dramatically. I won’t dive into cost structure in this blog post, but let’s think through how Snap could grow revenue 20x. I won’t dive into cost structure in this blog post, but let’s think through how Snap could grow revenue 20x. Global smartphone revenue is about $420B.

Valuation 48

Valuation Technical Review Forecast Social Network 48

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 28, 2017

The accountant may accurately record every transaction, but only you can make the strategic tradeoffs on marketing costs versus customer revenue, product quality versus support, and so forth. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 07/14/2017. New business owners should be signing every check, and managing every expense.

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Cost Advisory Board Entrepreneur Angel Investor 180

ConversionXL

MARCH 6, 2019

The strategy, according to Google, improves ad recall (and, undoubtedly, YouTube revenues). LinkedIn began beta testing video ads in October 2017. 15- and 30- versions to grow reach and impact. A return to 6-second ads to reinforce the past message. Image source ). LinkedIn video ads: tech specs, targeting, metrics, and cost.

Video 129

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 5, 2018

2017 was capped by the announced bankruptcy of Toys “R” Us, a once formidable retail giant. This popular model could also prove valuable for retail chains and stores looking to stave off Amazon and generate new revenue streams. The retail industry, despite being a cornerstone of the U.S. economy, has seen better days.

Programming 113

Programming Bankruptcy Curation Retention 113

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

In the 21 st century the DOD/IC community have realized that adversaries are moving at a speed that our traditional acquisition systems could not keep up with. The program will scale to 13+ universities in 2017. More than 70 percent of the In-Q-Tel portfolio companies have never before done business with the government.

Silicon Valley 246

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

In 2017, it is expected that the franchise industry will add a new 11,500 locations and outlets across all of the brands in the market, that’s a lot of new burger, fitness, tax and burrito joints popping up on street corners. by Christopher Conner, President of Franchise Marketing Systems.

Customer 124

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Agile VC

JUNE 13, 2019

The company launched in 2011 and then was acquired by PetSmart for over $3 billion in 2017 (PetSmart itself owned by PE firm BC Partners), but Chewy is now preparing for life as a standalone public company. revenue business still growing >50% YoY? I’ll break down Chewy’s business based on their recent S-1 filing here.

Leadership 100

Leadership .Net Revenue Acquisition 100

Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

It occurred to me that although we mentioned our new thematic approach when we raised our last fund in 2017, we haven’t really shared a broader manifesto about how we are approaching the early stage market. It’s been an interesting several years in the early stage venture eco-system, and the sands have shifted considerably.

North America 36

North America Seed Stage Early Stage Lead Investor 36

ConversionXL

JANUARY 24, 2017

Similarly, growth marketers, digital analysts, email marketing specialists, and customer acquisition specialists all do some form of conversion optimization. The key to 2017 conversion is evolving your traffic dynamics and that starts with behavioral marketing. Interactive Interfaces. Image Source.

Conversion 48

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 19, 2016

billion, and by 2017, nearly half of global mobile users are likely to own a smartphone. Marketers should also be looking at acquisition (visits, unique visitors, pageviews), behavior (pages per visit, time on site, bounce rate), and revenue (if you’re eCommerce). According to Dazeinfo research , there were about 1.13

Mobile 48

Mobile Technical Review Software Review Metrics 48

Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

For growth companies (usually Series D or later), there are pretty clear market comparables based on growth rate, revenue, gross margin %, and type of company. I expect we will make around ten new investments in 2017. What other “macro” trends do you see affecting the rest of 2016 and 2017?

Venture Capital 70

Venture Capital Private Equity Early Stage Valuation 70

Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

#tearsofpain One way of removing silos and focusing on the entire business is to leverage Acquisition, Behavior and Outcome metrics. A small change I’ll make in this post is that when I recommend the metrics, I’ll follow the Outcomes | Behavior | Acquisition structure throughout this post. Hence that’s the macro-outcome.

Metrics 141

Metrics Acquisition eCommerce Analytics 141

thebarefootvc

JUNE 4, 2018

Coinbase continued its acquisition spree, buying Paradex, a decentralized exchange (DEX — discussed in one of our newsletters earlier this year). We create a dataset on 4,003 executed and planned ICOs, which raised a total of $12 billion in capital , nearly all since January 2017.

Accredited Investor 40

Accredited Investor Boston Acquisition Sales 40

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

In the 21 st century the DOD/IC community have realized that adversaries are moving at a speed that our traditional acquisition systems could not keep up with. The program will scale to 13+ universities in 2017. More than 70 percent of the In-Q-Tel portfolio companies have never before done business with the government.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Afghanistan Iraq Community 120

ConversionXL

MAY 3, 2017

A customer survey conducted by BigCommerce revealed that 51% of SMBs expect social advertising channels (specifically Facebook Ads) will play a major role in accelerating revenue throughout 2017 and beyond. In April of 2017, Facebook announced that there were more than 5 million active advertisers using their ad platform.

San Jose 133

San Jose Customer Database Campaign 133

ConversionXL

JUNE 11, 2018

In July 2017, the month this automation was established, the abandoned cart flow brought in $5990. By the next month, revenue from the flow had nearly tripled , bringing in $14,923. conversion rate, while a typical (non-automated) campaign for this client has an open rate of around 18% and drives about $3000 in revenue.

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