ConversionXL

JULY 8, 2021

If audience building is a priority, email subscribers should be an important metric. If you’re using content to generate leads for your B2B or SaaS business, it’s critical you measure how well your activities are contributing to the cause. This doesn’t factor the costs of email marketing and retargeting into overall profitability.

Conversion 156

Conversion CPA Metrics Analytics 156

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 8, 2021

That’s why Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) is such a critical metric. Cost of software/hardware used in sales and marketing Agency, PR, or any third-party costs involved in sales and marketing. The sum total of these costs divided by the number of new customers gives you CAC. The key takeaway?

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Acquisition Churn Rate Cost Customer 135

ConversionXL

JULY 21, 2022

Its study of B2B buyers shows an even split in how decision-makers interact with sales reps traditionally, remotely, and self-served digitally: Of the B2B leaders that use omnichannel marketing, 83% say it’s a more successful way to prospect and secure new business than traditional “face-to-face only” selling.

Customer 118

Customer Marketing Channel Audience 118

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Marketing metrics are a competitive advantage. You have to track metrics you can act on. In this article, you’ll learn which metrics to measure to understand and improve marketing performance. Table of contents What are digital marketing metrics? KPIs vs. digital marketing metrics 1. – Seth Godin.

Metrics 105

Metrics Analytics Marketing Acquisition 105

Up and Running

JULY 15, 2015

50% of B2B companies find it difficult to attribute marketing activity directly to revenue results. Others track Net Revenue (less Cost of Goods sold) or work off Net Income (less expenses). Acquisition Cost of a New Customer. Cost Per Lead. Marketing Costs. Is the cost per lead on track?

Marketing 60

Marketing Social Media Campaign Acquisition 60

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

In my daily work with ecommerce brands, I see two types of companies: The first type focuses on acquisition and conversion. Overall acquisition costs for both B2C and B2B have gone up by 50% in the past five years. To offset these costs, you need to earn more repeat purchases from existing customers.

Retention 126

Retention Analytics Campaign eCommerce 126

Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

With over a decade of experience in his toolkit, he specializes in helping clients build out cross-channel acquisition systems using a mix of owned, earned and paid tactics. 07:17] What is you cross-channel acquisition strategy? [11:13] 17:30] How deep into financials and metrics do you get before taking a client on? [19:01]

Channel 65

Channel Acquisition Framework B2B 65

ConversionXL

AUGUST 18, 2020

In this article, I walk you through a framework—the SEO pyramid—and how to think about keyword research for B2B SaaS businesses. The SEO Pyramid categorizes search term types for B2B SaaS businesses. As you continue your research, start adding metrics like volume, competitiveness, etc. What is the SEO pyramid? Problem terms.

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Framework B2B SEO Search 123

Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

There is no golden metric for everyone, we are all unique snowflakes! :). and tell you what are the best key performance indicators (metrics) for them. In the past I’ve shared a cluster of metrics that small, medium and large businesses can use as a springboard…. If you want to play along. Don’t read what I’ve chosen.

Metrics 141

Metrics Acquisition eCommerce Analytics 141

ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

Stage 1: Target the right metrics for an effective long game. However, due to B2B market saturation, customer acquisition costs are rising ; this digital marketing strategy of giving a little and getting a lot no longer works. Metrics for your demand generation funnel. Mistakes to avoid when targeting metrics.

Demand 124

Demand B2B Distribution Channel 124

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Pre-launch customer development data is another way, sometimes in the form of user surveys for consumer companies or interviews with potential beta customers for B2B businesses. One of our portfolio investments, a B2B SaaS company, was a pre-product startup at the time of the seed round.

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Seed Stage B2B Seed Capital Revenue 149

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2019

For B2B environments, consider who makes the buy decisions. Use business metrics and tools to tune your efforts. Always gauge progress by business indicators, like customer acquisition cost and customer satisfaction. As with any business tool, you need to use it correctly, and measure the cost against the return.

Social Media 247

Social Media Media Reputation Viral 247

Up and Running

APRIL 17, 2018

B2B ecommerce sales , (businesses selling directly to other businesses) generate three times as much revenue as B2C, at $7.7 It can be tempting to reuse product descriptions from your own copy and from product manufacturers throughout your website, but you should try to avoid it at all costs. trillion in 2021, up from $1.3

SEO 80

SEO eCommerce Analytics Software Review 80

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 23, 2013

I know the argument: The pay-back period on sales, marketing, and up-start costs is long, but there’s a profitable result at the end of the tunnel. The mindset works like this: It costs a lot of money to land an enterprise customer. So these costs are amortized over the customers you do land. for every $1.00 Just wait!

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Business Model .Net Revenue IPO 335

ConversionXL

MARCH 25, 2020

A B2B website that educates potential buyers isn’t a personal “weblog.” With roughly 700 posts, there are too many for a manual review, but we don’t have to automate every last metric. This metric is static unless a post is updated enough to change the publish date in WordPress. Turning metrics into a weighted score.

Analytics 68

Analytics Metrics Technical Review Search 68

ConversionXL

MARCH 5, 2019

Undoubtedly, this takes more effort and costs more. For example, Jon Buchan of Charm Offensive is known for his humorous B2B emails, usually with pictures of cute animals included as attachments. Ultimately, the only metric that matters is the positive reply rate. Those metrics include: Delivery rate.

Email 130

Email Campaign Reputation San Diego 130

The Startup Magazine

APRIL 24, 2020

In this blog, we aim to decipher the meaning behind some of the more abstract metrics when it comes to an eCommerce website valuation. but we do cover the rudimentary metrics (along with tips for improving your own site’s value). Variation of customer acquisition channels. What you’re left with is your business’s SDE.

eCommerce 91

eCommerce Valuation B2C Revenue 91

ConversionXL

JUNE 8, 2017

Quantitative research with digital analytics tools like Google Analytics , Mixpanel, Amplitude or RJ Metrics will inform you about where your users are coming from, what they are doing during their sessions and where they are dropping off from your conversion funnel or when they churn. Acquisition segments. Acquisition segments.

Programming 97

Programming Revenue Analytics Software Review 97

Seeing Both Sides

JULY 11, 2013

Across our portfolio and in my own entrepreneurial experience, I have seen three main sales models work successfully in scaling B2B sales: 1) Enterprise; 2) Telephone; and 3) Developer-driven. customer acquisition cost or CAC). To that point, a well-run telesales operation will be super metrics-driven. Related articles.

Sales 50

Sales Technical Review Software Review B2B 50

Genuine VC

MARCH 24, 2014

The five conditions for a Series A financing which he enumerated are: a core team ready to scale, demonstrable market size, repeatable cost effective customer acquisition, metric momentum, and plausible monetization. For B2B startups especially, revenue is the best signal of product-market fit. Generate Real Revenue.

Seed Capital 212

Seed Capital Metrics Cofounder Revenue 212

ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

The average B2B buyer has 27 brand interactions before deciding. Only around 10–15% of B2B leads turn into paying customers, and it’s because tactics optimizing for the early stages of the funnel only cater to early-stage goals. Because the best marketers have their own perspective on everything from metrics to channels to branding.

Demand 95

Demand Management B2B Campaign 95

View from Seed

MARCH 3, 2015

Webinars have a whole other cost in terms of time, effort, headaches, etc. Even identifying as a demand-gen marketer or branding or B2B or B2C leaves a lot of decisions still on the table to actually execute. So we started doing both webinars and ebooks, then ultimately did more ebooks than webinars because they performed better.

Marketing 120

Marketing Sales Cycle Startup CTO Hire 120

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Pay per minute and pay per text costs in 2019. It’s also the reason why NPS is a board-level metric—happy customers stay with giffgaff even without the contractual obligation. They even created a B2B technology agency called Ocado Solutions to help build other online supermarkets. Image source ).

Customer 85

Customer Community Revenue Software Review 85

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

They will need two different implementations, it is quite likely that you will end up with two sets of metrics (more people focused for mobile apps, more visit focused for sites). The team at Google has done a great job of having the end-to-end view there across Acquisition, Behavior and Outcomes. And again, a custom set of metrics.

Analytics 141

Analytics Metrics Mobile DC 141

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Talk to any B2B marketer about attribution and they’ll either roll their eyes or rant about how it’s important but hard to get right—long lead cycles, multiple contacts from a single organization, etc. As a group, we’ve gotten a firmer grasp on top-of-the-funnel metrics. Some might stare blankly and ask what you mean.

B2B 131

B2B Marketing Analytics Campaign 131

ConversionXL

AUGUST 10, 2021

This article assumes you: Already deeply know your audience and have conducted research to understand what types of posts will resonate with them Have a solid brand messaging strategy in play, so you can emulate relevant, customer-centric content on social Have clearly defined goals tied to measurable metrics (e.g.

Metrics 152

Metrics Audience Curation Algorithm 152

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 6, 2010

Take a week to segment that data and find out how to save 10% of the cost. I hope that before you go for massive web analytics glory that your use your wonderful powers first to make sure your site and customer acquisition strategy does not suck. Got a creative use of statistics in your web metrics practice? I mean count them.

Analytics 99

Analytics Web Campaign PPC 99

Ben's Blog

MAY 15, 2020

What are those metrics? Andrew : If you are a travel company right now, I think you’re seeing very specific metrics dropping. As a result of that, all of those metrics go up. People saying, “This is what’s happening to B2B SaaS or this is what’s happening to this category.”

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Founder Conversion Technical Review Cash Position 36

ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Studies show that only 5% of B2B customers are ready to buy. Brand equity helps build the relationships between the perceived benefits and perceived costs that people relate to that product. There’s no metric to measure customers’ emotional responses and what impact those subjective emotions have on your business.

Equity 94

Equity Marketing Social Media Software Review 94

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

APRIL 28, 2020

It wasn’t quite a flip from B2C to B2B, but it was close. I also liked the DemandGen Framework because it considered customer expansion revenue in addition to the acquisition side , which is covered by the SiriusDecisions models. In that unannounced meeting, Brett Hurt, our CEO and co-founder, laid it out for us. Image source ).

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Demand Revenue SQL B2B 101

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

Up and Running

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Despite our heroic intent, the lack of planning results in scattered messaging, inconsistent posting, and—drumroll please—a lack of reportable metrics! We’re not here to talk about vanity metrics such as likes, retweets, shares, and so on. For example, say you need to increase the number of top-of-funnel leads for your B2B company.

Social Media 60

Social Media Media Small Business Marketing 60

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Leveraging our financial skill sets, my partner and I started Harper Partners, a tech-enabled factoring company that helps innovative B2B businesses and startups fund their working capital. Customer acquisition will be harder than expected. See Also: The 5 Metrics You Need to Track for Your Subscription (SaaS) Business to Succeed.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Acquisition B2B Partner 60

Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 30, 2012

The used correctly part includes effective targeting and testing, writing compelling ads, creating compelling offers and managing the bid and budget process in the most cost effective manner. The service delivers lots of low-cost visits, but the trick has always been to convert with a very simple and engaging call to action.

Advertising 68

Advertising PPC Social Media B2B 68

ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

The metrics. B2B demand generation focuses on ROI. Vanity metrics are less important. Look instead at measuring KPIs like close rate, cost per acquisition, cost per lead, conversion rates, average contract value, and lifetime customer value. Which channels have the best engagement?

Demand 115

Demand Affiliate Audience Leadership 115

ConversionXL

APRIL 7, 2021

If you’re selling B2B, you know it’s a wide and competitive market. Sorry, but ABM is not B2B, nor is it right for all markets, business models, or companies (just like every company should not be running freemium aka PLG for acquisition.) They won’t magically show up at your doorstep and sign a $100K cheque.

IP 98

IP Marketing Technical Review Software Review 98