Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2014

The challenge is to increase response rates and propagate a single view of the customer, by integrating customer data from multiple Web and social media interactions. Companies need the same service on partner and acquisition candidates, even vendors. Customer retention with churn modeling. Predictive advertisement targeting.

Analytics 257

Analytics Entrepreneur Retention Social Media 257

Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 14, 2022

It could be more revenue, hiring clients, or launching a new product or service, but every new year is an exciting time because it’s ripe with opportunity. Our mission is to arm businesses with high-level information accuracy to avoid web lawsuits and, in turn, create a seamless web experience for disabled communities.

Entrepreneur 112

Entrepreneur Retention SEO Employee 112

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 25, 2023

Some analysts argue that revenue drives growth, while others say user growth drives revenue. Google reached $1B in revenue within five years of incorporation, and now has a market capitalization of over $1 trillion. Long-term stability requires revenue growth and profit. Both have worked. Traditionally, it was simple.

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Valuation Revenue Viral Retention 235

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 acquisition channels are best for long-term retention or lifetime value, not simply those that drive initial conversions. Acquisition. The core use cases. Image source ).

Analytics 119

Analytics Technical Review Acquisition Retention 119

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 12, 2013

The challenge is to increase response rates and propagate a single view of the customer, by integrating customer data from multiple Web and social media interactions. Companies need the same service on partner and acquisition candidates, even vendors. Customer retention with churn modeling. Predictive advertisement targeting.

Analytics 246

Analytics Retention Startup Social Media 246

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

The challenge is to increase response rates and propagate a single view of the customer, by integrating customer data from multiple Web and social media interactions. Companies need the same service on partner and acquisition candidates, even vendors. Customer retention with churn modeling. Predictive advertisement targeting.

Analytics 120

Analytics Retention Social Media Campaign 120

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2014

Some analysts argue that revenue drives growth, while others say user growth drives revenue. Both have worked.Google reached $1 billion in revenue within five years of incorporation, and now has a market capitalization of over $400 billion. Long-term stability requires revenue growth and profit.

Revenue 246

Revenue Entrepreneur Valuation Viral 246

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

Customer Acquisition. If you have multiple versions of your product, how many are web vs. mobile? 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. Retention / Churn. per customer!

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Metrics Startup Acquisition SEM 346

ConversionXL

JULY 28, 2021

Google Analytics 4 is the rebuilt, rebranded and expanded version of the App + Web property rolled out by Google in 2019. The change benefits marketers by allowing accurate tracking of user journeys across the web and mobile apps. To add additional streams for iOS and Android apps and Web: 1. Reports snapshot.

Analytics 146

Analytics Artificial Inteligence eCommerce Audience 146

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2016

Some analysts argue that revenue drives growth, while others say user growth drives revenue. Google reached $1B in revenue within five years of incorporation, and now has a market capitalization of over $400B. Long-term stability requires revenue growth and profit. Both have worked. Traditionally, it was simple.

Revenue 145

Revenue Valuation Startup Viral 145

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

There are two reasons to raise money: You have a killer idea that is only partially validated, that you think can get to $50M+ of revenue in 5 years with 80%+ gross margins (if margins are lower, you need a lot more revenue)and you need money to get to product-market fit, or. Not all startups need outside investment to grow.

Cofounder 431

Cofounder Seed Stage Valuation Metrics 431

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

1) It all starts from the Growth Hacking Funnel - in the early stages, startups should not just focus on top/bottom line metric like unique users and revenue. They should understand the different states of the user (Acquisition, Activation, Retention, Revenue) and focus on moving users from one state to the next.

API 167

API Viral Startup Retention 167

Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

They are from my post The Biggest Mistake Web Analysts Make… And How To Avoid It! tearsofpain One way of removing silos and focusing on the entire business is to leverage Acquisition, Behavior and Outcome metrics. Every ecommerce site has to obsess about Revenue. Hence that’s the macro-outcome.

Metrics 141

Metrics Acquisition eCommerce Analytics 141

Occam's Razor

JULY 18, 2011

For everything you do it is important to measure your effectiveness of all three phases of your effort: Acquisition. Optimal Acquisition Email Metrics. Most good email providers will do this automatically for whatever web analytics tool you use. So for our email campaign analysis let’s look at metrics using that framework.

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Metrics Campaign Email Marketing 137

abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 1, 2013

No other metric so holistically captures as many critical aspects of a web site – user design, usability, performance, convenience, ad effectiveness, net promoter score, customer satisfaction – all in a single measurement. Nearly every Internet company on the planet has invested in some form of the first activity, customer acquisition.

Metrics 93

Metrics Conversion Internet Acquisition 93

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?)

San Francisco 167

San Francisco CPA SEM CTO Hire 167

Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 4, 2022

You put in keywords about your brand, your industry, your competitors, your products, and the social listening tool goes out there into the worldwide web and on social media channels and listens for those terms that you've put in and then brings all of the information back to you on what's being said about those terms. million in revenue.

Social Media 88

Social Media Conversion Media Artificial Inteligence 88

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 17, 2011

For a company laser-focussed on accelerating the number of active users, it might be actually worth having high cancellation rates if it meant an even higher acquisition rate. “LTV” means “the total revenue you’ll get from a customer over its lifetime.” So total expected revenue is $RN/ p.

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Business Model Metrics Engineer Technical Review 245

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Of course incumbents cannot be expected to jeopardize their revenue streams or investments in CRM platforms with new concepts that wipe out the need for their current solutions. Too much was at stake, we couldn’t afford the risk of destabilizing everything and losing substantial revenue. Early results are exciting.

Programming 150

Programming Turkey Social Media Redemption 150

The Next Web

JULY 16, 2017

Recurring revenue is a wonderful concept and, when a subscription business is firing on all cylinders, recurring revenue compounds beyond the costs of customer acquisition. Longstanding customer retention. These days, most entrepreneurs and investors are quite clear about the merits of the subscription model.

Retention 121

Retention Acquisition Metrics Revenue 121

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. When you’re creating new web pages, don’t forget about optimizing your URLs.

SEO 80

SEO eCommerce Analytics Software Review 80

Occam's Razor

APRIL 23, 2012

Choose the right metric and they'll create the most glorious digital experience in the universe, the perfect acquisition campaign, the most amazing customer service channel. This metric has been in every tool since we started torturing web server logs to measure hits (!). The web is littered with examples of this awfulness.

Metrics 152

Metrics Analytics Search Channel 152

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Check with the web analytics tool you use, every single tool allows you to do this, though each has a nuance you have to absorb. You can track mobile websites just fine with your standard web analytics tool. The team at Google has done a great job of having the end-to-end view there across Acquisition, Behavior and Outcomes.

Analytics 141

Analytics Metrics Mobile DC 141

Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 3, 2010

The online video networks are doing terrific business, and even Yahoo is benefiting from increased brand spend, seeing revenue growth for the first time in a while. Real time web usage outpaces business models. While perhaps only 10% of online ad revenue is currently flowing through these channels , the trend here is clear.

Internet 113

Internet eCommerce Advertising Flash 113

Occam's Razor

APRIL 21, 2014

If you can fix that, more revenue will immediately flow into your client's bottom-line. Find campaigns where they are spending most money, lower the bounce rate and reduce acquisition cost. Best Web Metrics / KPIs for a Small, Medium or Large Sized Business. They will show affection towards you. Earn more affection.

Analytics 131

Analytics Marketing Campaign Metrics 131

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

It also has massively delicious implications in your data, acquisition and retention strategies (ignoring the sweet, heavenly, implications on your customers). Extend the above incentive purification and imagine the day-to-day behavior of your Acquisition team if you measure them based on CPH. Revenue Per Human.

Metrics 60

Metrics Analytics Acquisition Naming 60

Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 15, 2017

#7- To prioritizes employee and client retention. The company that employed us began putting profits above people and new sales above client retention. The three of us had the exact opposite mentality and created a company that prioritizes employee and client retention. increase not only brand share but also revenue.

Entrepreneur 115

Entrepreneur Czech Republic Retention B2C 115

ConversionXL

JANUARY 24, 2017

Talia Wolf , CEO of taliagw.com CRO training and consulting, puts it this way: Talia Wolf: “The knowledge gained from a more in-depth approach increases retention rates and generates invaluable knowledge to every unit within the business. For example, a web designer. Conversion Optimization as a Mainstream Discipline.

Conversion 48

Conversion Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Analytics 48

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.

Metrics 225

Metrics Startup Retention Acquisition 225

VC Cafe

JULY 15, 2021

According to Statista, revenue generated from apps (paid downloads and in-app advertising) will reach $935 billion by 2023, and that doesn’t doesn’t include the many trillions of dollars transacted via apps in the last decade alone (think Amazon, Uber, games, etc). Worldwide mobile app revenues in 2014 to 2023 (in billion U.S.

Mobile 190

Mobile Social Media Distribution PR 190

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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Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167

Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

7:52] Was there competition that you had to buy up, and/or what type of acquisitions did you feel like you had to make? [9:19] But when I switched from that to online ordering the revenue and the business tripled with the same customer base and, and I realized just how much friction there was in the ordering process.

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Founder Chicago Kansas Startup 81

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

For example, I was on a call recently with a company that was struggling to get basic insights from their web app. They knew high-level numbers like sign-ups but couldn’t dig deeper into their onboarding flow or retention. Instead, they asked for vague information like “track our onboarding performance” or “track user retention.”

Retention 107

Retention Metrics Analytics Channel 107

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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Management Analytics Technical Review Framework 20

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

Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Web Analytics blog was to pull us up 10,000 feet to do something we do less than 1% of the time in the web analytics world – look at the bigger business picture. It was called: Secret To Winning With Web Analytics? " How would I start the process of web data analysis right? Starting Right! A real challenge!

Web 139

Web Analytics eCommerce Campaign 139

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