YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

by Robbie Kellman Baxter, author of “ The Membership Economy: Find Your Super Users, Master the Forever Transaction, and Build Recurring Revenue “ Everyone knows that retention is crucial for subscription-based companies. Blue Apron is hardly alone with its churn problem.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

billion in ad revenue in 2020. But you can also accumulate significant exposure and revenue through an organic YouTube strategy. Given that most users abandon apps within 30 days post-installation, high downloads don’t lead to high audience retention, satisfaction, or revenue. YouTube generated $19.77

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Salesforce, for example, increased its revenue market share to 18.4% Product should be your main channel for customer acquisition, retention and expansion. And the content you create will differ depending on the channel: long-tail, pain-point content for SEO, or conversion-engineered landing pages for PPC.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Yet, offboarding is such an important and under-rated opportunity to provide a positive experience that can actually yield advocates, saved customers, and higher retention. There’s no need to over-engineer it: Groove started sending out a simple email that asks users to reply with why they cancelled. Image source ).

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 3, 2021

Many new businesses have a small customer base, limited revenue, and a finite amount of funding to work with. Content marketing is also effective because it has a natural synergy with search engine optimization (SEO). It also increases your “authority,” or trustworthiness, which can, in turn, boost your search engine rankings.

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Early Stage PPC Retention Churn Rate 125

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

is an elegant way to model any service-oriented business: Acquisition Activation Retention Referral Revenue We used a very similar scheme at IMVU, although we werent lucky enough to have started with this framework, and so had to derive a lot of it ourselves via trial and error. The AARRR model (hence pirates, get it?)

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Engineers initially failed to understand the new possibilities of the new paradigm. Loyalty experts add social media to their programs in the same way that 19 th century engineers added combustion engines to their existing carriages. Automobiles started out looking exactly like old-style carriages, but without the horse.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 4, 2017

Paid Acquisition. You’re undoubtedly familiar with paid acquisition, as it’s the digital equivalent of traditional advertising. This is generally split into two areas, though they’re often used together to some varying proportion: Search Engine Marketing. When Does Paid Acquisition Work for SaaS Startups?

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Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2015

Founders assumed they understood customer problems/needs, wrote engineering requirements documents, designed the product, implemented /built the hardware/software, verified that it worked by testing it, and then introduced the product to customers in a formal coming out called first customer ship. customer relationships to create demand.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

According to ProfitWell , customer acquisition costs (CAC) have increased by over 55% in the last 5 years: At the same time, customer willingness to pay for features has dropped by 30% during that same period: So, on one hand, we have rising costs; on the other, we have a lower willingness to pay. customer acquisition process and channels).

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Marketing Sales Cycle Acquisition Sales 289

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 Retention: the customer is satisfied with your product and or your brand and continues to patronize your business. And, these trends don’t just apply to businesses selling directly to consumers (B2C).

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SEO eCommerce Analytics Software Review 80

NZ Entrepreneur

APRIL 29, 2019

Productivity and revenue models are the big winners. I think this is more about productivity, not new revenue streams per se. But then it would potentially reflect on everything – staff retention, acquisition, being seen as a modern/technology-first business. So how can IoT be monetised?

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New Zealand Technical Review Retention Acquisition 40

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 7, 2017

That latter term is used to describe an initial offer that generates enough revenue to offset the cost of acquiring a customer. Say you have 1000 customers and $1000 to spend on customer retention and loyalty. And once I took customer acquisition costs into account, this segment was unprofitable and negative-LTV. Whales rock.

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 6, 2018

In other words, you should demonstrate that revenue and/or engagement are repeatable and achievable in a cost-effective manner, and not just a function of pent-up demand from a small segment of underserved customers that will dry up in the near future. . Retention rate: What percentage of users can you retain quarter over quarter?

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

No changes were made to the customer journey, and it had nothing to do with revenue lift. It isn’t about finding quick hacks to boost short-term revenue. They work to improve top-of-funnel metrics like brand awareness and identify opportunities to improve customer activation, retention, and referral efforts.

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Framework Marketing Acquisition Retention 102

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

So first, we were much more sort of with a high growth rate, and we did not even care about how we got the revenue when we got it. And now we are much more careful about revenue quality revenues. The vast majority of their customer acquisition is word of mouth. But stuff like retention is super important.

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Seeing Both Sides

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Growing revenue and profits is a core objective of most companies, and it is the responsibility of every function to contribute to the pursuit of this goal. The Growth Manager function typically lives at the intersection of marketing and product development, and is focused on customer and user acquisition, activation, retention, and upsell.

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Seeing Both Sides

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Growing revenue and profits is a core objective of most companies, and it is the responsibility of every function to contribute to the pursuit of this goal. The Growth Manager function typically lives at the intersection of marketing and product development, and is focused on customer and user acquisition, activation, retention, and upsell.

Management 20

Management Analytics Technical Review Framework 20

Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

Lloyed explores the intricate art of harnessing the community’s strength as your ultimate acquisition channe l, brand differentiator, feedback source, retention lever, and catalyst for transformative change. I asked their chief revenue officer, how do you do attribution on this community? I'm an engineer.

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Community Kuwait Cofounder Bootstrapping 54

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

The very top yellow bar: “The improved trading engine is released. The second drop-down with “What is your current revenue?” Don’t focus only on acquisition. When “more customers” is your primary (or only) goal, you inevitably forget about retention. What else is unclear? Some important details on our blog. Read more.”.

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Affiliate Email Technical Review Registration Rights 116

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.

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Metrics Analytics Marketing Acquisition 105

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Validated learning about customers Would you rather have $30,000 or $1 million in revenues for your startup? All things being equal, of course, you’d rather have more revenue rather than less. And yet revenue alone is not a sufficient goal. More on that in a moment.

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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.

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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. Diving in a bit more into some thoughts here: 1b) Ad-based revenue streams generally have terrible unit economics. This is obvious. Marketing first. Product second.

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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. Diving in a bit more into some thoughts here: 1b) Ad-based revenue streams generally have terrible unit economics. This is obvious. Marketing first. Product second.

Founder 48

Founder Sales Cycle Affiliate Retention 48

Mucker Lab

APRIL 6, 2023

It's very hard for PLG to be the only or main motion with infrastructure products because it's not something one engineer will just test and buy. A lot of times as founders–especially technical founders, engineers, product people–believe if we build this awesome feature that solves your pain point, you should come and use it.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 24, 2017

As Ronny Kohavi , Distinguished Engineer, General Manager, Analysis and Experimentation at Microsoft, put it: Ronny Kohavi: “Experimentation is getting more recognized as essential to guide product development, when it is applicable (not always, as you can see in Section 6 in this paper ). How do you do that?

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

In this article, you’ll learn how to define your ABM strategy so you can target the right accounts and increase your revenue. Think of it as a filter that helps you find the highest chance of return on investment, revenue potential, and profitability. Cloud-based data warehouse Snowflake had an ambitious goal to triple its revenue.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

A recent job posting by zlien , a construction industry software company, frames the product manager’s mindset this way: Do you find yourself staring at a complex world and identifying problems to engineer away? so that the talent, the designers, engineers, analysts and data scientists, can focus on their core work. What do they do?

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Management Product Technical Review Software Review 85

Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 26, 2023

03:41] Number 2: Revenue and profit. [04:07] So the next one of course is revenue and profit marketing is driving a lot of that, right? So is your revenue growing compared to, you know, performance maybe in the industry or you know, what about profit margin? We'll go beyond sales to retention referral. Is there a focus?

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Marketing Artificial Inteligence Retention Audio 57

Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 3, 2023

I’ve mapped this out in what I’m calling the Customer Success Track – a concept I talk about deeply in my latest book – The Ultimate Marketing Engine. Resources I Mention: Get the Kindle version of The Ultimate Marketing Engine for just $2.99. Learn more about my book The Ultimate Marketing Engine.

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Customer Marketing Engineer Advertising 87

Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 17, 2018

He is the president and founder of Revenue & Associates and the creator of The bullseye marketing framework and we’re going to talk about a book built on that called Bullseye Marketing: How to Grow Your Business Faster. Are they doing search engine advertising? This is John Jantsch and my guest today is Louis Gudema.

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Ben's Blog

JULY 20, 2011

The hockey stick refers to the shape of the revenue graph over the course of a quarter. When I ran a large engineering group at Netscape, I measured one of our engineering products on schedule , quality and features. When I was at HP, we ran all the businesses by the numbers with extremely strict revenue and margin targets.

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Hockey Stick Management Employee Retention 78

Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 26, 2023

03:41] Number 2: Revenue and profit. [04:07] So the next one of course is revenue and profit marketing is driving a lot of that, right? So is your revenue growing compared to, you know, performance maybe in the industry or you know, what about profit margin? We'll go beyond sales to retention referral. Is there a focus?

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Marketing Artificial Inteligence Retention Audio 44

Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 10, 2022

I’ve mapped this out in what I’m calling the Customer Success Track – a concept I talk about deeply in my latest book – The Ultimate Marketing Engine. Resources I Mention: Get the Kindle version of The Ultimate Marketing Engine for just $2.99 (during the month of August 2022). 1:41] Stage 1: Foundation. [7:46]

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 21, 2014

This equates to a loss of revenue, which requires more and more signups from new customers just to replace what you are organically losing every month. That’s why you need to be simultaneously feeding your growth engine , while monitoring churn and your other startup metrics. How to Improve Mobile App Retention Through Customization.

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Retention Churn Rate Metrics Software Review 106

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Freemium and free-trial signups have one thing in common: Neither generates revenue. If freemium still seems like a barrier to acquisition, you’ve got plenty of money in the bank, and you’re crossing your fingers for a buyout by Google or Facebook, a fully free product may make the most sense. Free-trial models. Hybrid models.

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