View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

For consumer companies this is usually around user acquisition, engagement, and retention. If in the long run your B2C business is likely to have an ad-based revenue model, the ability to acquire a large number of users at zero or extraordinarily low cost is critical.

Seed Stage 150

Seed Stage B2B Seed Capital Revenue 150

ConversionXL

JUNE 8, 2017

Since you already “know” what is good for each of the segments you identified, you can just roll out your personalization to 100% of your audience and score a win. Acquisition segments. Acquisition segments. This is a correlative metric – a behavioral cohort used as a heuristic for growth. Image Source.

Programming 97

Programming Revenue Analytics Software Review 97

Mucker Lab

APRIL 6, 2023

You engage the marketing team and you do a lot of acquisition and people are coming. If you work in B2C or e-commerce, you optimize that Add to Cart flow like crazy because that is your revenue. Before you scale the acquisition like crazy, really figure out how to activate new users, how to convert them.

Product 78

Product CTO Hire Startup Fractional CTO 78

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 23, 2022

” No one questions the importance of revenue, but asking the question enabled us to start thinking on what would be the right metric. Did you know that companies like Airbnb, Spotify and Netflix purposely avoid setting revenue as their North Star Metric? Why is revenue not a good ‘North Star’ Metric?

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Metrics Revenue B2C Portfolio 179

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

After all, the goal is to systematically improve the success of a business, whatever that means metric-wise. The differences, much like the differences of B2B optimization in general, mostly come down to differing business cycles, purchasing decisions, and success metrics. The metrics in SaaS sound a little different as well.

Conversion 48

Conversion Churn Rate Retention Metrics 48

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Over a third of email marketers struggle with acquisition and close to a half say increasing engagement is their number one challenge. Email generates as much as $42 for every dollar spent , and is a top-three marketing channel for 87% of B2B and 76% of B2C marketers. However, it’s not without challenges. total revenue / total spend).

Email 136

Email Customer Marketing Software Review 136

Occam's Razor

JULY 22, 2013

My solution to these problems was to create a simple framework we can use to put our customers first, evaluate our marketing programs, and right-align our view of success (metrics). The foundational elements of the framework are the consideration stages and the audience in each stage. There are some audiences who exhibit that behavior.

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Framework Marketing Metrics Audience 163

Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Owning audiences, instead of just renting them. Email allows you to start building a owned audience that you can (if you don't stink) start relying on (rather than constantly having to rent them from TV or Google). Step four is focusing on expanding your reach to new relevant audiences. Learn that in step six.

Analytics 165

Analytics Marketing Channel Metrics 165

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 10, 2011

We have IT-minded people engaging in massive data puking (one report with 30 metrics anyone?) I want to propose a framework you can use to measure success using metrics that matter for one simple reason: They actually measure if you are participating in the channel in an optimal fashion. That is why I love this metric.

Social Media 165

Social Media Metrics Conversion Media 165

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Kyle Dunn, CEO, Meyler Capital , says, “Investors should focus on building a large audience within a CRM system (having the ability to categorize your different constituents); communicate consistently to that audience; and implement an automation platform that can leverage lead score to profile interest. 2) Market .

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

View from Seed

AUGUST 30, 2016

Acquisitions are happening more and more, while companies like PillPack, Actifio, CarGurus, OnShape, Acquia, Applause, and others continue to march forward. These companies are all over the map: B2B, B2C, SaaS, ecommerce, healthcare, SMB-focused, enterprise-focused, etc. Doesn’t look all that compelling.

Social Media 185

Social Media B2B North America Media 185

ConversionXL

MARCH 21, 2017

Treat it like any other acquisition growth experiment. In general, they have the biggest reach but usually the lowest engagement, and also because of their broad appeal, it’s not as targeted to your specific audience. And as with anything in marketing, the more narrow you can target your audience, the cheaper it tends to be.

Marketing 78

Marketing B2C Social Media Channel 78

Occam's Razor

JUNE 28, 2011

Web Analysts are blessed with an immense amount of data, and an amazing amount of valuable, even sexy, metrics to understand business performance. Yet our heroic efforts to report the aforementioned sexy metrics lead to little business action. Since crappy sounds bad, let's just say you are reporting super lame metrics.

Metrics 126

Metrics Web Analytics Campaign 126

ConversionXL

MARCH 3, 2021

Google Ads cost-per-conversion metrics. SEO has a wonderful way of drastically lowering cost-per-acquisition over time. Here are some of the Google Analytics metrics that provide insight into the quality of your PPC clicks. Exit Rate: This metric represents the rate at which people leave your website on specific pages.

PPC 146

PPC SEO Campaign Analytics 146

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Specific marketing tactics differ depending on your offer, audiences, and touchpoints. Focus instead on providing value to audiences with the potential to become customers. To raise awareness on social media, show up where your audience is. What marketing looks like at each stage of the funnel. Generating awareness through PPC.

Customer 140

Customer Marketing Social Media CPA 140

Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

The assumption is: Big Social Audiences + Big Pimping = Big Social Profits. In this post let's look at each Social Network, see what B2B and B2C brands are doing there today, from that draw lessons as to 1. Success Metrics. It can be a brand metric, say Likelihood to Recommend. Big mistake. It is not that hard.

Social Media 60

Social Media Media B2C B2B 60

ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2020

Byron Sharp and the Ehrenberg-Bass Institute have criticized differentiation, arguing that its role in the B2C setting is less important. ConvertKit is “audience building for creators,” and they’ve seen great growth, rising to number one in that market. When differentiation doesn’t matter. WP Engine used speed.

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Differentiation Software Review United States Demand 162