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How to Use Growth Hacking to Increase Revenue 20x in Just 12 Months

Up and Running

Your customer acquisition cost and lifetime value are the two magical numbers you need to calculate for each one of your campaigns. Cost of Acquisition (CAC): The total cost of acquiring a user through a given channel. Using this approach, we’ve been able to identify a number of profitable customer acquisition channels for Slidebean.

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eCommerce: A VC Story [guest post]

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For example, some companies may choose to outsource their SEM activities, some may decide that their R&D can be outsourced, while others may eventually outsource customer support. This is due in part to the relatively simple and immediate validation of business models that are not fully dependent on advertising.

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Growth Marketing: The Skills and Frameworks You Need

ConversionXL

They are so named for their acronym coined by Dave McClure, AAARRR : Acquisition (generating leads and gaining new users); Activation ( getting customers to use the product more often); Revenue (crosses over into pricing strategy); Retention (reducing churn and influencing repurchasing); Referral (influencing customers to refer others).

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The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 5: Customer Relationship Hypotheses

Steve Blank

Many of the students had heard phrases that fall under Customer Relationships before; “customer acquisition, SEO/SEM, public relations, Social Network, Advertising, Loyalty programs, cross-sell and up-sell” etc., But the big project for the week was testing and analyzing Customer Acquisition Costs. Agora Cloud Services.

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Bitesize Tuesday: Tracx, Innovid, Kenshoo, uTest and More Investment Rounds [recap]

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A number of investment rounds and acquisitions took place in recent weeks and it’s worth taking note. Started in 2008 by Eran Gilad, Yaniv Ben-Arie, Asaf Shtekler and Niv Singer, the company has a headcount of 15 in Tel Aviv and works with Israeli agencies and advertisers. Innovid raised $4.1 calcalist ]. calcalist ].