Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2014

In essence Muhammad thinks the “growth hacking” is a charlatan term for online marketing that consists of a bunch of everyday tasks that all online businesses should be doing: SEO, SEM, Content Marketing, Social Media, Referral Marketing, etc. “How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Doesn’t.

Technical Review 384

Technical Review Hockey Stick SEM Channel 384

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.

Acquisition 103

Acquisition Cost Customer Entrepreneur 103

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

This may also be the moment when you get your first big acquisition offer, rather than a clone appearing. Appreciate the media accolades and peer success feedback. Surprisingly, word-of-mouth and viral efforts require more work and a larger budget than you would expect. Managing cash-flow personally and continually.

Sweat Equity 296

Sweat Equity Startup Salary Viral 296

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Google Analytics is the standard for measuring acquisition—identifying the sources of traffic to your website or app. You’ll be able to see which channels (paid, organic, social, etc.) You’ll be able to see which acquisition channels are best for long-term retention or lifetime value, not simply those that drive initial conversions.

Analytics 119

Analytics Technical Review Acquisition Retention 119

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. Referrals (generating direct customer referrals and new revenue channels with fellow local business owners). How do you create an infinite loop?

Social Media 185

Social Media B2B North America Media 185

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 4, 2015

The greatest challenge of the social media age isn’t to grow the largest fan or follower base. Nor to achieve the greatest “virality” in our digital campaigns. Rather, it is this: “How can we better reach prospects, convert them to customers, and serve their interests through social media?”. 23 ways to use Social CRM.

Technical Review 100

Technical Review Software Review Customer Social Media 100

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Successful product launch campaigns have a strong value proposition, multi-channel distribution, supporting content, and other trappings common to every marketing campaign. Andrew Macarthy wrote about social media use during the Mahabis launch. While those acquisition efforts worked well, not all do. Image source ).

Product 110

Product Campaign Acquisition Social Media 110

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2020

This may also be the moment when you get your first big acquisition offer, rather than a clone appearing. Appreciate the media accolades and peer success feedback. Surprisingly, word-of-mouth and viral efforts require more work and a larger budget than you would expect. Managing cash-flow personally and continually.

Sweat Equity 435

Sweat Equity Salary Viral Leadership 435

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Growth Hacking isn’t viral marketing (although viral marketing is part of it). and answers with A/B tests, landing pages, viral factor, email deliverability, and Open Graph. If a startup is pre-product/market fit, growth hackers can make sure virality is embedded at the core of a product. like/+1/follow?

API 167

API Viral Startup Retention 167

The Next Web

AUGUST 19, 2013

This post is about choosing the right sales strategy and channels for your startup from the start. Being an engineer, I built myself a kind of algorithm that helps determine an early-­stage startup’s sales channels, and that’s what I’m sharing with you today. Step 2: Choose your sales channels. LTV ­ CAC = ROI.

Belarus 137

Belarus Viral Channel Startup 137

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. Cohort analysis can be done for revenue, churn, viral word of mouth, support costs, or any other metric you care about.

Retention 126

Retention Analytics Campaign eCommerce 126

mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

The search giant’s VP of Corporate Development, along with CEO Larry Page, signs off on the dozens of acquisitions and acqui-hires made every year, large and small. There’s YouTube , of course — well established in its own right, it rewrote the book on how an acquisition can be run delicately, as a company within a company.

San Francisco 104

San Francisco Acquisition Social Media Mobile 104

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Increased investment in Facebook as an engagement/acquisition channel has translated into requests from CEOs, CMOs and other CxOs about the return on that investment. As Facebook is a very young channel, it is not surprising that everyone's struggling with the answer. The Client could still do massive media buys (TV!

Metrics 165

Metrics Advertising Marketing Social Media 165

YoungUpstarts

MAY 13, 2020

The primary aim of public relations is to inform or raise awareness among the general public and gain appropriate media coverage. Maximizing your PR efforts involves defining, controlling, and distributing relevant messages in the form of a press release to your target media outlets, as well as your intended audience and business partners.

Public Relations 235

Public Relations Business Plan PR Distribution 235

VC Cafe

JULY 15, 2021

What are the main channels for app marketing and distribution today? App discovery today: Word of mouth – family and friends remain the #1 channel for new app discovery. Social media – while a lot of the social media exposure to apps is done via targeted advertising, with over 2.5 Unfortunately not.

Mobile 190

Mobile Social Media Distribution PR 190

Up and Running

JULY 26, 2016

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. If the CAC is above the LTV, but not too much—there’s some potential in this channel.

Revenue 60

Revenue Acquisition Channel Campaign 60

ConversionXL

MARCH 6, 2019

The same video content likely works well in other channels. Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat have thus far dominated the market in video ad spend on social media. Don’t copy the style of a popular video (especially a “viral” one) if you’re trying to drive home your unique value proposition or establish your brand. Stay on brand.

Video 129

Video B2B Technical Review Campaign 129

Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

12:29] Where do you stand on your messaging for client acquisition? [15:49] If you're moving out of brick and mortar into online, more and more businesses, whether you're B2B or you're b2c, are realizing that digital is a primary channel or at least equal. ” Do you ever fight the urge to say we have to be different again? [12:29]

Marketing 75

Marketing Differentiation B2C PR 75

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

In a previous post , I covered the three main drivers of growth: Paid, Sticky, and Viral. Now consider a traditional media business. The value of the attention that the media company collects determines how profitable it is. If you’re starting a new media company, does it make sense to charge from day one?

Customer 156

Customer San Francisco Viral Lean 156

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 26, 2022

TikTok has evolved from a platform known for viral dance moves to a place of rapid product discovery. In this article, you’ll learn how to gain traction on TikTok to grow awareness, traffic, and acquisition. In this article, you’ll learn how to gain traction on TikTok to grow awareness, traffic, and acquisition.

Sales 115

Sales Customer Viral Marketing 115

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 8, 2009

In many cases, I can break it down into: Customer Acquisition Cost – how will you reach prospects, how will you convert them and how much will it cost to convert them Customer Lifetime Value – how much will you make off of each converted customer This very simple model works for a surprising number of business models. Great stuff.

Metrics 225

Metrics Startup Retention Acquisition 225

ConversionXL

MAY 29, 2019

What does it take to grow a YouTube channel? Is a channel more than the sum of its video parts? Some solutions are simple—you need a consistent visual presentation on your channel page and across videos. If YouTube channel growth has felt unattainable, you’re not alone. Are most companies’ YouTube channels succeeding?

Channel 106

Channel Video Audience Software Review 106

ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

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. Pay attention to your close rate per channel. Clicks and conversions are typical KPIs for paid media. I spend time on social media sites, like Instagram.

Demand 124

Demand B2B Distribution Channel 124

Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 25, 2016

Everything You Need To Know About Marketing Channels In 5 Minutes Or Less written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. In this article, you’ll discover everything you need to know about marketing channels. First, let’s take a look at the most popular marketing channels. Those 19 channels are: Targeting Blogs.

Channel 28

Channel Viral Marketing Acquisition 28

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2016

This may also be the moment when you get your first big acquisition offer, rather than a clone appearing. Appreciate the media accolades and peer success feedback. Surprisingly, word-of-mouth and viral efforts require more work and a larger budget than you would expect. Managing cash-flow personally and continually.

Sweat Equity 120

Sweat Equity Salary Startup Viral 120

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

The key is channeling what you learn when you drive onto paper for retention purposes so you have to write it down soon afterward. I started to build this into a media & entertainment value chain that broke down the components of the industry into discrete parts. How does social media on Facebook & Twitter change things?

Technical Review 356

Technical Review Framework Audience Media 356

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2015

This may also be the moment when you get your first big acquisition offer, rather than a clone appearing. Appreciate the media accolades and peer success feedback. Surprisingly, word-of-mouth and viral efforts require more work and a larger budget than you would expect. Managing cash-flow personally and continually.

Sweat Equity 120

Sweat Equity Salary Viral Leadership 120

Venture Chronicles

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Social Media Monitoring evolved out of the explosion of non-traditional media channels developed in the last decade combined with the increased velocity of information flow as a consequence of viral information sharing. In its most pure form social media monitoring is both listening and responding to social channels.

Social Media 60

Social Media Media Viral Channel 60

ConversionXL

MARCH 31, 2021

The more shares a piece of content gets, the higher the chance of it ‘going viral. 45 percent of US adults shared an opinion piece they agreed with on social media. Organic reach for many social media platforms is declining, making it more difficult for content to get seen organically. Social media posts are time-sensitive.

SEO 163

SEO Metrics Social Media Audience 163

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

“We’re using … TinyLetter for our “Content Newsletter” … and Buffer to schedule social media posts. Point Nine Capital uses Mention for media monitoring. I use Hootsuite to coordinate my social media activity, which consists of Teten.com, PEVCTech.com , Linkedin , AngelList , and (passively) Twitter and Facebook. 7) Negotiate .

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

After a few acquisitions they offered many of the services you think about as foundations to social networks today. It did not have the same success as Google’s acquisition and MySpace sold Photobucket 2 years later to a relatively unknown Seattle-based startup called Ontela for a reportedly $60 million. Twitter is much more.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Internet Technical Review 318

Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

#tearsofpain One way of removing silos and focusing on the entire business is to leverage Acquisition, Behavior and Outcome metrics. A small change I’ll make in this post is that when I recommend the metrics, I’ll follow the Outcomes | Behavior | Acquisition structure throughout this post. Hence that’s the macro-outcome.

Metrics 141

Metrics Acquisition eCommerce Analytics 141

Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 17, 2023

09:24] What are the significant like channel differences even, or approaches to a B2B marketer as opposed to a B2C marketer? [12:44] In a recent episode, they talked with Kevin Perry about how he goes viral on every single platform. I produce content, we're on social media, I speak on stages, I do webinars. I have found.

B2B 82

B2B Marketing B2C ChatGPT 82

ConversionXL

JANUARY 8, 2018

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is one of the biggest levers that a business can use within their acquisition strategy as part of their Growth goals. You’re likely familiar with the different Growth frameworks like AARRR (Acquisition, Activation, Retention, Referral, Revenue). It all start with Acquisition.

SEO 134

SEO Metrics Analytics Search 134

Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

One thing I’ve noticed is that almost every repeat, previously-successful-founder focuses on the same thing for their respective startups: customer acquisition. A typical ad-based revenue stream on a media website is around $5 per 1000 eyeballs ($5m CPM and give or take $1-$20ish CPMs). Marketing first. Product second.

Founder 48

Founder Sales Cycle Affiliate Retention 48

Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

One thing I’ve noticed is that almost every repeat, previously-successful-founder focuses on the same thing for their respective startups: customer acquisition. A typical ad-based revenue stream on a media website is around $5 per 1000 eyeballs ($5m CPM and give or take $1-$20ish CPMs). Marketing first. Product second.

Founder 48

Founder Sales Cycle Affiliate Retention 48

Lightspeed Venture Partners

JUNE 11, 2012

In 2009, viral growth through invitations and notification were the way that Facebook games could get discovered. As these channels became better policed, discovery moved to the feed. Borrowing IP from another media. Paid acquisition. For both mobile and Facebook, games are the most popular category of apps.

IP 113

IP Distribution Viral Mobile 113