Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

Yesterday I wrote a post about The Silent Benefits of PR in which I pointed out that most young companies I encounter don’t fully grasp the benefits of PR because they are less measurable than product milestones or customer acquisition analyses (like CAC/LTV). When to start PR? It’s a continual process.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 7, 2017

My company, EcoFlow Tech, raised more than one million in sales and achieved our goals of getting customer feedback and generating buzz. However, having a high top-line sales numbers doesn’t necessarily mean you will hit your goals, or even that your campaign was a success. The biggest driver of success is also the hardest to measure.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

At times I wanted the engineering team to produce features to support our sales efforts to I occasionally leaned on them a bit. So he would allocate say – 20% to sales, 15% to marketing, 20% to eng priorities, 10% to customer support, 10% to ops, 20% to ‘platinum customers’ and maybe 5% directly to me as the CEO.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

Customer Acquisition. Usually you have a catch-all bucket for “direct” or similar that often came through PR or word-of-mouth. Those two things together would lower your acquisition costs nearly in half to $6.11. Ironically, there are times where it may actually pay to INCREASE your customer acquisition costs.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 13, 2020

Public Relations (PR) involves efforts to raise the profile of your company, manage your reputation, and build relationships with key people or organizations to attract customers and increase sales. In this post, you’ll find out the importance of including PR in your business plan. Anchor Your Sales And Marketing Efforts.

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 25, 2012

This acquisition is a long story, but if you have a few minutes let me tell you the best parts. If you’re interested you can read about one of my acquisitions from a few years back in a post titled The Inside Story of a Small Software Acquisition. The site was once great; marketed by a high-end NYC PR firm.

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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. Here are some resources to learn more about paid acquisition: Customer Acquisition Master Course (includes SEO). When Does Paid Acquisition Work for SaaS Startups?

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 4, 2015

They range from social customer insights, marketing, sales, analytics, demand management, support, and customer experience, to mobile and location based services. Avoid confusing Social CRM with its disparate components like database marketing, IT systems, loyalty programmes, social media platforms, or marketing and PR alone.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2018

When Sloan arrived at GM in 1920 he realized that the traditional centralized management structures organized by function (sales, manufacturing, distribution, and marketing) were a poor fit for managing GM’s diverse product lines. billion in sales in today’s dollars). Yet, you never hear who built GM to that size.

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View from Seed

MARCH 3, 2015

But even with that webinar’s success, we still had a lot of education to do in order to get people to understand what we did and even how we saw marketing in general, which we needed to do to generate demand and sales. But marketing should always be ahead of sales to alleviate pressure. We got 300. Should you do that at all?

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

Although the company created an incentive plan to boost sales, its sales growth fell from 19% before the recession to 8% after—five percentage points below Staples’ postrecession sales growth rate. Bain offers a rubric based on your current market position and financial strength: ( Image source ).

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 14, 2013

To do so, the authors propose “20 secrets for turning social media into social sales”, namely: 1. Drive Discovery : To channel serendipitous sales, drive product discovery through a fusion of the social graph (personal relations of Internet users) with the interest graph of consumers. Find a way to tap onto this; 16.

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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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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

Why I Walked Away From a $12M Acquisition Offer 18 Months After Our Startup’s Launch – buff.ly/1ECc6AO. This Simple Sales Trick Is Positively Brilliant – crowdspring.co/1wVhAUF. Flash Mobs Have More to Teach About Managing Teams Than Any Textbook – crowdspring.co/1yOIIpD. It’s All About Nuance. crowdspring.co/1A0l3H8.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Karrie is Chief Marketing Officer at Typeform, leading brand strategy, advertising, PR, internal communications, and DEI efforts as well as overseeing the internal creative studio. 12:29] Where do you stand on your messaging for client acquisition? [15:49] Marketing Podcast with Karrie Sanderson. So Carrie, welcome to the show.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Often they are “soft landings” for PR purposes. So, too, does PR. Both can hurt you in an acquisition. Don’t put all your eggs in the “corp dev basket” – often deals are champions by the business units (product or sales). I’m assuming that’s for positive outcome deals.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

billion in sales and thus controls less than 10% of the market. After a year in the market, MakeSpace was growing rapidly and our biggest issue was CAC (customer acquisition costs) relative to payback period (when we get our marketing investment back) and relative to LTV (lifetime value).

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 19, 2018

After a monumental year that saw Voices.com raise a Series A investment from Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital, followed closely by the acquisition of a formidable competitor in our space, I am more excited than ever to grow our business and its influence. #2- Two goals. Photo Credit: David Ciccarelli. Thanks to Kelly Howard, EightSixtySouth

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Indeed’s German branch was struggling to close sales because they had no awareness in that market. After running a culturally relevant marketing campaign, Indeed rose to number one in traffic and sales in Germany. Marketing initiatives include campaigns, content, PR, and interactions with your target audience or customer.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 8, 2013

The Ultimate Guide to Customer Acquisition | KISSmetrics Blog – [link]. 7 Usability Mistakes That Will Kill Your Online Sales | KISSmetrics Blog – [link]. The Ultimate Guide to Customer Acquisition | KISSmetrics Blog – [link]. The Ultimate Guide to Customer Acquisition | KISSmetrics Blog – [link].

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

The sales productivity ratio (measured with the Customer Acquisition Cost or CAC ratio) are also fairly similar for the two groups (except for a small cap dip in Q4 09) and therefore do not explain the difference Why is scale so much rewarded by public markets? sales and marketing. (10). anecdotes. (13). Cloud Computing. (1).

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 4, 2019

If managed well from day one, a great brand reputation can mean increased exposure, higher sales figures, and even global expansion. Ensure your team is trained to deal with any PR disasters, and your business won’t make headlines for the wrong reasons. The importance of brand reputation should never be underestimated.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 11, 2021

Sponsors will have different reasons for backing your project: sales, lead generation, brand awareness, product launches , corporate social responsibility, etc. PR Week does this in a Twitter poll. Try not to think of this as a sales meeting. As you build out your list of assets, do it with your audience in mind. Audience data.

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Up and Running

MARCH 25, 2013

One summer while in college I took a sales job to pay the bills. The sales rep may have met his performance quota, but now every time you use that product you feel resentful and swear you’ll never return to that store. You might make an even bigger sale. Introverts can be extraordinary entrepreneurs.

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SVPG

APRIL 28, 2012

Product communications/PR/social media (what can we say that will make others do the talking about us?). Sales support, salestools (this includes demos and the product knowledge required to build a compelling one). Product positioning (what is it, why is it different, and why should the world care?). when to use each and to what end).

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

But the unintended consequence of our collective lead generation obsession is that the task of actually determining which of the leads generated are sales-ready is relegated to the back-burner. That ultimately results in sales teams being sent troves of contacts who are either unable or not ready to buy. Lead quantity vs. lead quality.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 12, 2010

The SaaS growth recovery does not seem to take a "V" shape 2) Sales productivity is ramping up: bottom was hit in the first half of 2009 However, the sales and productivity of the group, measured by the median "Customer Acquisition Cost ratio" or "CAC ratio", seems to be recovering more steeply. sales and marketing. (10).

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

While poised with a limited number of transactions this year, the world of public Cloud Computing and SaaS companies has been marked by two events in the past few months: the acquisition of Omniture by Adobe and the high profile IPO of LogMeIn, a leading provider of PC remote access and support with a very interesting freemium model.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2015

“the ecommerce company gained fauxmentum by raising artificially high amounts of venture capital and spent lavishly on customer acquisition despite long payback periods and questionable LTV” __. I’m not saying don’t hire sales staff or market your products aggressively. __. faux·men·tum.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 25, 2014

I’ve been having this PR discussion with three separate portfolio companies at once so I thought I’d just publish my thoughts more broadly. I have written many times about PR so if you want a deep dive on the “how” of PR you may enjoy reading some of these posts. PR pays dividends in Biz Dev.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MARCH 15, 2021

Devise a Winning PR Strategy. It’s important to devise a winning PR strategy, to ensure that your business is portrayed positively in the media. As well as this, your PR strategy should outline how you communicate within your company, and within your market. Your strategy should include a roadmap to help you manage a PR crisis.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 8, 2013

Here are a few tips to making the most of your earned media to benefit sales and lead generation: 1. You may find a number earned media placements are not the result of your direct PR efforts, in which case are you certain you’re aware each time your brand is mentioned in the press? Keep Track of It. If You Liked This Post. :

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2015

Best is if you have a combination of ad revenue, sponsorships and some forms of non ad revenue (subscriptions, merch, music sales, etc.). And given that Facebook and Twitter currently pay you zero for content marketing and Google SEM charges you for customer acquisition – what exactly are you b g about? post-script.

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Up and Running

JUNE 16, 2014

They’re the PR and the security. To demonstrate traction you might recruit a good management team, start making sales, build an advisory board or secure strategic partnerships. This may include planning for an IPO, a strategic acquisition or for management buyout. Investors are just as the title suggests – investors.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 15, 2016

You have to invest time and money into building a sales and marketing team to acquire customers beyond early adopters. To begin with, let’s illustrate the sales process with a simple graphic of the funnel that comes from an excellent post on Stratechery about marketing channels. sales or support). Use the right tools.

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ConversionXL

MAY 25, 2016

It’s important, then, to get the right kind of reviews and really understand how they can affect your sales and reputation. According to Reevoo, reviews produce an average 18% uplift in sales. Third-party user reviews strengthen the impact of sales on retailer-hosted reviews. How Do People Consume Product Reviews? Image Source.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 8, 2009

But does Larry hate cloud computing that much or is he hiding a potential future acquisition of Salesforce.com? sales and marketing. (10). Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing pr. Building Your SaaS Sales Compensation Plan. Measuring sales and marketing effectiveness of Saa. anecdotes. (13).

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