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. Below, she shares lessons learned from the earliest days of marketing the company and how this has translated to her second startup role as VP of Marketing at Toast. How did you address that?

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Austin Startup

APRIL 17, 2017

Internship Title: Marketing Intern Compensation: Unpaid Description: As the Marketing Intern at Thrillbox, you’ll be helping run all internal marketing campaigns for 30,000 users in 115 countries of their mobile app 360 video player. To Apply: Email jobs@Thrillbox.com and reference the Capital Factory intern program.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Marketing metrics are a competitive advantage. They allow you to create and optimize campaigns based on actionable evidence rather than intuition. In this article, you’ll learn which metrics to measure to understand and improve marketing performance. Table of contents What are digital marketing metrics?

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 8, 2021

That’s why Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) is such a critical metric. In most cases, it includes: Salaries of sales and marketing teams Advertising spend on acquiring new customers (Search/Display Ads, Social Ads, Sponsorship, etc.) That would mean the 1100 new customers in March are the result of February’s acquisition cost.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 31, 2021

The most successful agencies are beginning to invest more time and money in content marketing to establish expertise in their industry and, more importantly, generate inbound appointments. Here are some example questions we recently used during a client campaign: Why did you decide to work with [AGENCY]?

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ConversionXL

JULY 7, 2020

Cosmopolitan is already creating content around fashion in the fall, and we’re only in July: If you’re planning a campaign related to a particular day or season, start creating pins at least two months in advance. It’s a similar pattern to other content marketing plays. Pins are going to “settle” in search results.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 8, 2017

I will also discuss common traps to avoid, available tools in the market and additional resources you could use to strengthen your skills and improve your success rate. You can check the Web Marketing and Measurement Model by Avinash Kaushik (who is an analytics legend): Image Source. Acquisition segments. Acquisition segments.

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VC Cafe

JULY 15, 2021

Yet despite the huge size of the mobile market and the economic opportunity it presents, the process of discovering new apps by consumers has been pretty static in the past decade. As a VC that invests in B2C, I often try to put myself in shoes of a founder looking to grow the audience for their new app to consumers.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2021

If you want to build a successful business, a strong email marketing strategy is one of the best ways to do it. Over a third of email marketers struggle with acquisition and close to a half say increasing engagement is their number one challenge. via B2B Marketing Alliance ]. However, it’s not without challenges.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

In their own words, it’s: “B2C and B2B marketing that optimizes value to the buyer at any stage of the customer life cycle, dramatically increasing the propensity of that customer to purchase. Think of it as marketing at the right time, in the right place, and with the right offer in the way the buyer wants to interact with you.”.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 17, 2023

How To Scale Your B2B Marketing Strategy written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with Louis Gudema In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Louis Gudema. He also has a side hustle as a ghostwriter of business and marketing books. What was needed?

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

In their own words, it’s: “B2C and B2B marketing that optimizes value to the buyer at any stage of the customer life cycle, dramatically increasing the propensity of that customer to purchase. Think of it as marketing at the right time, in the right place, and with the right offer in the way the buyer wants to interact with you.”.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 28, 2020

I got one of those in 2018, mere months after I started at data.world as their first growth marketing and demand generation hire. We had built the world’s largest open-data community but—like so many startups—didn’t have a clear product-market fit. . It wasn’t quite a flip from B2C to B2B, but it was close. Image source ).

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VC Cafe

MARCH 15, 2016

After spending months and maybe years looking for product-market fit, you now proudly got a product and are ready to go to market. You have to invest time and money into building a sales and marketing team to acquire customers beyond early adopters. Then, I’ll share some tips on how to be effective at interacting with customers.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 7, 2016

If you’ve ever thought about running a PPC campaign for the first time, there’s a good chance you were wondering which PPC channel to use. The PPC targeting options that Facebook has available are different from Google AdWords, LinkedIn, Twitter, and the abundance of other PPC marketing networks you have available. Parental status.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 25, 2021

The typical product lifecycle can be broken down into four stages: Introduction: Your product may still be in development and your marketing goals focus on generating awareness and motivating users to sign up and purchase. You’re adding new product features and looking to capture more market share from your competitors.

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Progress in digital marketing and analytics in either scenario becomes painful (the organization / systems / thinking is simply not in the optimal position). In this post I want to arm you with the evolution you should undertake in your companies when it comes to marketing and analytics. Owning audiences, instead of just renting them.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

Bo Bennett once said, “Affiliate marketing has made businesses millions and ordinary people millionaires.”. Of course, affiliate marketing has this mysterious aura about it. It’s nothing more than another marketing channel for you to experiment with, analyze, optimize and grow. What Is Affiliate Marketing?

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Occam's Razor

JULY 22, 2013

For example AIDA is from the siloed lens of Marketing (and full disclosure, I humbly believe serves company's own selfish perspective). Most of the frameworks we have also don't optimally capture the complexity of digital marketing and measurement. We don't think about our marketing expansively enough.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2022

This will improve customer lifetime value (CLTV), making customer acquisition costs (CAC) healthier. It’s also a marketing strategy used by Amazon on every product page with its “Frequently bought together” section. It’s important to track each campaign to identify what’s working and what can be improved. Track and tweak.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 3, 2021

When launching a digital brand, PPC can be a great way to immediately break into a new market and start generating website traffic. Even the most skilled digital marketers can struggle to run profitable Google Ads campaigns. In this article, I’ll break down how to use your Google Ads campaigns as prospecting tools for SEO.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

If you look at the mobile marketing strategies, you will see they don't reflect this shift to mobile. The post is written in these six steps: Step 1: Tag every shared link with campaign tracking parameters. Step 1: Tag every shared link with campaign tracking parameters. Amazing, right? Tag your mobile website.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Some are complex and require sales development and account executives to close, like Oracle’s marketing cloud. Merritt Aho , Marketing Director of Testing and Optimization for Dun & Bradstreet, taught a course on building optimization programs for ConversionXL Institute. Team Structure. Optimizing customer lifetime value.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 21, 2017

Influencer marketing is the talk of the town right now. And to take a step back, what is influencer marketing in the first place? What Is Influencer Marketing? At its core, influencer marketing is the development and delivery of promotional messages through influencers instead of the brand itself. Image Source.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

While the journey of JuiceBox Hero is coming to a close, we know that our small but mighty team’s commitment to innovation for women, families, and under-represented markets is far from over. The Skinny: Two years ago I embarked on a mission to bring to market a modern way for parents to find daycares and preschools. We did that?—?and

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

In liquid markets, most of the calories expended on technology and analytics are focused on trade selection, or “ origination ”. I use another live Google doc to maintain my database of companies I’m marketing to other VCs. 2) Market . Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Throw in Machine Learning and I weep at how many glorious sales, marketing, deep relationships initiatives are impossible because companies have not solved identity. It also has massively delicious implications in your data, acquisition and retention strategies (ignoring the sweet, heavenly, implications on your customers).

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

My normal recommendation to address this supremely corrosive issue is to encourage each company to go through the process of creating a Digital Marketing and Measurement Model. How smart is their digital marketing strategy? Now it's time for acquisition. Will I analyze Search first or Campaigns? It is that simple.

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ConversionXL

JULY 9, 2015

For many SaaS and cloud service providers, 100% of customers sign up for a free trial as part of the sales process — yet one study suggested that even the best-in-class of SaaS marketers were losing a staggering 75% of those who signed up for a free trial before they entered their credit card details. Who’s coming to your site?

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 6, 2015

Marketing is an analytical process. Most small businesses and startups follow some version of this rational approach to operating and marketing a business. Customer Acquisition Cost. Every business, whether B2B or B2C has to bring in customers. Small Business and Startups: Customer Service Marketing Manifesto.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 20, 2013

At ZQI U, a vast number of students enroll into online-only courses (just like our analytics, PPC, mobile, and SEO Master Certification students at my awesome Market Motive ). Digital advertising and marketing is a key part of ZQI's multi-channel acquisition portfolio. They do everything. Business As Usual.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 10, 2011

and Marketing-minded people who are using lousy measures of success ("I got 158,632 Fans! So to make our marketing more efficient we shout more loudly, more frequently! That's Marketing money just can't buy. Marketing, relationships and a reach that money, honestly, can't buy. And it is a lot of work.

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www.rocketwatcher.com

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Rocket Watcher Product Marketing for Startups Product Marketing for Startups About Speaking Contact Email Posts Startups Product Marketing Messaging Social Media Commentary Uncategorized Marketing Metrics 101 for B2B Startups 13. Rocket watcher b2b marketing metrics View more presentations from April Dunford.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 8, 2015

Inbound vs. Outbound Marketing written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. It’s guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing, and today’s guest post is from Jolynn Oblak – Enjoy! There are two basic types of marketing – inbound and outbound. What is Outbound Marketing?

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 18, 2010

When 37signals talked about giving something away for free as a marketing strategy , it made a lot of sense to me: “For us, Writeboard and Ta-da list are completely free apps that we use to get people on the path to using our other products. Taking advantage of word-of-mouth marketing requires more users than most of us will attain.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Loading… Markets. Loading… Market Data. Media & Marketing. Marketing & Strategy. In early 2011 an acquisition by a Fortune 500 company fell apart. Opinion: Noonan: The Romney Campaign Needs a New CEO. Consumer Services (B2C). Marketing Services. » More. » More.

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 28, 2011

I mean Social Media campaign metrics like Number of Followers (or Likes), Video Views, or (just kill me now!) # of Press Reports. Our Goal as a B2B business is to connect a high value prospect to an Authorized Dealer / Rep, to try to revolutionize our marketing by going after the search long tail with AdWords, and more.

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