David Teten

DECEMBER 16, 2015

I review a lot of board decks with a beautifully hand-crafted page with metrics for the company. Good metrics are comparable across industries; comparative ; readily understandable; and help drive decisions. Comparative means that you can compare a metric across time periods, groups of users, or competitors. So how do you do it?

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

As with most platforms, there are metrics that matter, and vanity metrics. With YouTube, for organic, average view duration (AVD) and click-through rate (CTR) should be prioritized over YouTube search optimization, descriptions, tags, and other vanity metrics. Both metrics represent high engagement.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Blog About Log in Register Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition In the many thousands of articles advising entrepreneurs on what they have to focus on to build successful startups, much has been written about three key factors: team, product and market, with particular focus on the importance of product/market fit.

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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.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 18, 2020

email marketing software,” “accounting software”), but Google processes more than 40,000 searches per second. 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.

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Mucker Lab

APRIL 6, 2023

You engage the marketing team and you do a lot of acquisition and people are coming. You can begin to work on position a little bit, but the early acquisitions are there to give you more users to work on to continue to build out the product. Then, any marketing budget or any acquisition effort you do at large scale is not wasted.

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Up and Running

JULY 15, 2015

50% of B2B companies find it difficult to attribute marketing activity directly to revenue results. Creating a scorecard can be as easy as creating your own Excel spreadsheet, or as elaborate as using marketing dashboards provided through your CRM or conversion software. Acquisition Cost of a New Customer. Cost Per Lead.

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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.

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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.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Most business buyers (95%) are not currently in the market to buy, according to research from the B2B Institute and Professor John Dawes of the Ehrenberg-Bass Institute. Marketers must adjust their expectations and metrics with expanded brand tracking. Use marketing as the vehicle to communicate your brand. Storytelling is personal.

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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. That would mean the 1100 new customers in March are the result of February’s acquisition cost. The key takeaway?

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors. I previously posted a detailed presentation with sales technology tools useful for B2B sales. Lean Case provides standard business models & metrics, so you can apply a standard approach to business planning, modeling, and profitability tracking.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 8, 2017

Having worked as a consultant at an A/B testing and personalization software company, I’ve seen many personalization efforts getting stuck in the weeds. Acquisition segments. Acquisition segments. If you are in B2B, you’ve certainly heard of account-based marketing by now. Image Source. The solution? Image Source.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 31, 2019

While one-third of the budget is allocated to marketing technology acquisition, nearly 21 percent of the budget is set aside for multi-channel advertising. Successful B2B companies allocate as much as 40 percent of their budget for content marketing. A recent Gartner ‘CMO Spend Survey’ showed that the marketing budget is 11.2

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ConversionXL

MARCH 5, 2019

For example, Jon Buchan of Charm Offensive is known for his humorous B2B emails, usually with pictures of cute animals included as attachments. recruiters, you may have significant segments by location, team size, budget, and existing software solutions. Ultimately, the only metric that matters is the positive reply rate.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 23, 2013

Whereas a normal software company might charge $100,000 for an Enterprise deal, and thus immediately earn back those “customer startup” costs plus profit, the same SaaS deal might be $5000/mo, and it might take 18 months to get that same amount of revenue. Drastically reduce the cost of customer acquisition.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

We tried, and opted out of, potentials for pivots; we pitched for game-changing partners and acquisitions that did not ultimately convert. Even though most of this message was already drafted, we also had a Hail Mary of a final acquisition conversation that closed the following morning. Obviously, it did not convert. Hello Chris Yeh!)

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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.

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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. 80-90% software products vs. 40-50% advertising products) and company maturity (e.g., customer acquisition cost or CAC).

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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). Perhaps you wake up in the morning and walk into a store and buy new clothes (or expensive software from Oracle). It is also rude.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 2, 2019

Both Bazaarvoice and Coremetrics started from scratch, and I’ve also angel-backed companies recently that have started from scratch, like Compare Metrics , where I serve as the Chairman of the Board (note that Compare Metrics also recently completed their Series A with Austin Ventures as the lead).

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View from Seed

MARCH 3, 2015

Ellie Mirman was the first marketer hired by the CMO of HubSpot, the Boston-based marketing software startup that IPOed in 2014. 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. Where do you start?

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Occam's Razor

MARCH 23, 2010

Because every tool uses its own sweet metrics definitions, cookie rules, session start and end rules and so much more. You already have the paid analytics software combos mentioned above. If you don't kill 25% of your metrics each year, you are doing something wrong. Let's flip the coin. Usually for free.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

Blitzscaling — lays out a useful framework for thinking about this, including the relevant B2B customer scale: Organizational Scale OS1 : Family (1’s) OS2 : Tribe (10’s) OS3 : Village (100’s) OS4 : City (1000’s) OS5 : Nation (10,000’s) As with every model, it is only that? Stanford’s CS183c?—?Blitzscaling So how do you get it done?

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. “Just say no” to on-premise deployments The most important part of Software-as-a-Service isn’t “Software” it’s “Service”! Cracking The Code. at 11:09 AM.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 12, 2013

We have fought valiant battles, paid expensive consultants, purchased a crazy amount of software, and achieved an implementation high that is quickly, followed by a " gosh darn it where is my return on investment from all this?" There are few things more complicated in analytics (all analytics, big data and huge data!) " low.

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Agile VC

AUGUST 12, 2011

” The challenge is that while there’s a simple answer, it’s not one that can be easily distilled into a set of metrics that can be followed as a cookie cutter plan. 4) Metric momentum – Everybody likes those up and to the right graphs. There’s no magic formula for a successful Series A unfortunately.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

signup, upgrade, trial pricing Zuora – online subscription management FeeFighters – find the cheapest credit card processors HealPay – Collections made easy Customer Support Tender – support, knowledgebase tool for your site GetSatisfaction - conversations between companies / customers.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 20, 2013

Digital advertising and marketing is a key part of ZQI's multi-channel acquisition portfolio. How should you decide which one of these acquisition sources you should invest in more? how can you figure out which acquisition channel is more important? And what metric should you focus on in this proper end-to-end view?

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

It’s one of many ecommerce software platforms on the market but only the fifth most popular by market share. Studies show that only 5% of B2B customers are ready to buy. For example, in this Mailchimp presents story broken down by Erica Schneider in her guide to business storytelling , the main character is a software developer.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 1, 2022

95% of B2B buyers are not ready to buy your product right now. When B2B buyers are considering a purchase, they spend only 17% of their time meeting with potential suppliers. According to Walker: “B2B buyers are discovering, researching, and evaluating products in places companies can’t track.”. Far from it.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 28, 2020

It wasn’t quite a flip from B2C to B2B, but it was close. This is the model my customers referenced when I was selling them demand-gen software in 2014. 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.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

Individuals don’t make B2B buying decisions; groups do. Programmatic ABM: One-to-many accounts marketing that leverages ABM software to tailor and personalize marketing programs for specific named accounts at scale. Does your company clearly understand current CAC , LTV, CAC payback period, and other core growth metrics?

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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? Which have the most potential?

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ConversionXL

APRIL 7, 2021

If you’re selling B2B, you know it’s a wide and competitive market. Compared to selling sophisticated software bundled with professional services to large enterprise companies (Fortune 500) which involves navigating a lot of complexity in the buying cycle. They won’t magically show up at your doorstep and sign a $100K cheque.

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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. via B2B Marketing Alliance ].

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Startups for startups – the top B2B tools used by Startups – Includes the list of top 50 startup vendors in 2012 by Vendorstack , a reviews and Q&A platform on enterprise vendors for startups and mid-market companies. Startup Metrics for Pirates â?? SaaS Metrics Tutorial â?? marketing automation software.

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