ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

We come in after a product has landed and found product market fit and has some escape velocity. So there’s a product side and a business side. . The vast majority of their customer acquisition is word of mouth. So is this a one-time acquisition or a multiple-time acquisition to get the person to that door?

Partner 132

Partner Cofounder Retention Acquisition 132

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Click-Through Rate Definition The Conversion Rate Formula: How to Calculate Conversion Rate Bounce Rate: Everything You Want to Know and More How To Calculate and Increase Customer Lifetime Value PPC Click-Through-Rate: What it Means and How to Use It (and Improve It) How to Track and Improve Ecommerce Customer Acquisition Effectiveness.

Metrics 105

Metrics Analytics Marketing Acquisition 105

SVPG

APRIL 6, 2015

Quite a few of you wrote to me and said this was a hot topic at your company, and several asked about the same basic topic, but less from an engineering perspective and more from a product and design perspective. Internationalize the product)? That product vision is in support of a business strategy.

Churn Rate 60

Churn Rate Leadership Design Mobile 60

Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 11, 2015

When Elon Musk received $200 million from the proceeds of the PayPal acquisition in 2002, he re-invested everything to build the next big thing: $100 million in SpaceX and $100 million in Tesla. You can read the full story here ) #8 Engine Developing a scalable sales and marketing engine is a key element of success for SaaS companies.

San Francisco 48

San Francisco Churn Rate Silicon Valley Engineer 48

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Prescriptive analytics The digital analytics metrics you need to know How to use analytics to improve marketing campaigns Define your mission, goals, and KPIs Set key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure marketing performance What to look for in a digital analytics product 9 tools for your digital analytics stack 1.

Analytics 106

Analytics Metrics Channel Campaign 106

Seeing Both Sides

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Conventional wisdom suggests that the most important metrics for a startup - such as unit economics, cost of acquisition, lifetime value, churn rates - typically get better with time. Thus, more mature companies naturally have slower growth rates than younger ones. Customer acquisition is like drilling for oil.

Metrics 20

Metrics Churn Rate Acquisition SEM 20

ConversionXL

AUGUST 21, 2014

In other words, growth slows, becomes stagnate or worse, churn is so bad, you’re losing more customers than you are gaining every month. That’s why you need to be simultaneously feeding your growth engine , while monitoring churn and your other startup metrics. churn rate meant the company’s growth was unsustainable.

Retention 106

Retention Churn Rate Metrics Software Review 106

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

It’s no secret that email is the most effective acquisition channels for any marketer. Cybot” as a finished product.). The concept was brilliant: with each issue, you invest more of yourself into the finished product. The more successful they become using your product/service, the more likely they’ll upgrade to the next tier.

Marketing 97

Marketing Campaign Software Review Email 97

Up and Running

AUGUST 21, 2014

If you’re in a really crowded area, let’s pretend one of you is selling flowers and competing in the online flower market, it’s going to be really hard to rank in search engines. All that money that you spend in pay-per-click is going to go into your customer acquisition cost. Those keywords are very, very expensive.

Metrics 84

Metrics Startup Churn Rate Forecast 84

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Automation allows you to spend less time on tedious tasks and will help boost productivity, especially within a small marketing team. Russell Rothstein, Founder and CEO, IT Central Station , a product review site, said, “We see VCs on our site very often. They read reviews of the products of target investments.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 21, 2013

If you're working on the Sticky Engine of Growth , you're focused on very different metrics from those that you care about in the Viral Engine of Growth. Similarly, a two-sided marketplace cares about different things from a traditional e-commerce product. So churn for those product categories may be lower.

Analytics 167

Analytics Lean Metrics Churn Rate 167

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Building Product 2. Product/Metrics (70%/30% time) * Get your product activation (sign-up + meaningful action) to 60% * then, Get your product retention to 20% weekly. Would it be a good idea clubbing all the other products / services under 1 venture, because some of them are totally unrelated. Then launch.

Technical Review 44

Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44

SVPG

MARCH 10, 2014

There are of course many different types of analytics, but here are the four main types of product analytics that I consider critical for product work: 1. For most consumer products, the user is the customer, but for most business products, there can be many users and in fact many types of users. User Analytics.

Analytics 63

Analytics Churn Rate Aggregator Acquisition 63

Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

Not only because it’s a product that Bplans and Palo Alto software makes, but because before I joined the company, I used LivePlan to pitch and raise my investment capital. When they fund you, they know that they have to believe that you can also go out and sell the product. Are you saving them time? Are you saving lives?

Technical Review 60

Technical Review Software Review Due Diligence Exit Strategy 60

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Like SaaS products themselves, we now intend for these laws to be periodically refined through major releases to reflect the changing landscape of the SaaS world. Save Asia for post-IPO Single instance, multi-tenant, single datacenter - Have only one version of the code in production. Cashflow is the other key metric.

Software Review 48

Software Review North America Europe Metrics 48

andrewchenblog.com

JANUARY 28, 2010

To become profitable using a freemium business model, this simple equation must hold true: Lifetime value > Cost per acquisition + Cost of service (paying & free) Said in plain english, the lifetime value of your paying customers needs to be greater than the cost it took to acquire them, plus, the cost servicing all users (free or paying).

CPA 51

CPA Retention Viral Acquisition 51

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 30, 2021

To capture intent and drum up interest, you run an ad that directs traffic to a product demo page. They already know about your product, and now they’re evaluating whether it’s for them. They already know about your product, and now they’re evaluating whether it’s for them. This person is more likely in the consideration stage.

Customer 140

Customer Marketing Social Media CPA 140