Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 9, 2017

If your business is industrial B2B products, social media should be low on your list. Your Twitter and YouTube messages better match your print advertising message. Return-On-Investment metrics are not new, but the tools are different. Assess social media relevance to your product or service.

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Social Media Media Cost Analytics 166

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Measuring customer acquisition for peak effectiveness How to calculate ecommerce customer acquisition cost Calculate much your customers are worth: LTV MRR, churn rates, and other factors that affect your LTV/CAC ratios Find and fix customer acquisition funnel leaks 5 customer acquisition strategies to increase sales and loyalty (with examples) 1.

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Acquisition eCommerce Customer Churn Rate 129

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2012

If your business is industrial B2B products, social media should be low on your list. Your Twitter and YouTube messages better match your print advertising message. Return-On-Investment metrics are not new, but the tools are different. Assess social media relevance to your product or service.

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Social Media Media Cost Startup 238

ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

Stage 1: Target the right metrics for an effective long game. 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. Metrics for your demand generation funnel. Mistakes to avoid when targeting metrics.

Demand 124

Demand B2B Distribution Channel 124

Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

There is no golden metric for everyone, we are all unique snowflakes! :). and tell you what are the best key performance indicators (metrics) for them. In the past I’ve shared a cluster of metrics that small, medium and large businesses can use as a springboard…. If you want to play along. Don’t read what I’ve chosen.

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Metrics Acquisition eCommerce Analytics 141

ConversionXL

MARCH 18, 2019

In a world of fake news and fake reviews—only 37% of B2B buyers trust vendors—genuine customer success stories are precious assets. Yet, a 2018 B2B content marketing report found that case studies, while frequently created, aren’t always persuasive: ( Image source ). This is a missed opportunity. This is a missed opportunity.

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B2B Non-disclosure Agreement Technical Review Naming 134

Up and Running

JULY 15, 2015

50% of B2B companies find it difficult to attribute marketing activity directly to revenue results. Others track Net Revenue (less Cost of Goods sold) or work off Net Income (less expenses). Acquisition Cost of a New Customer. Cost Per Lead. Marketing Costs. Some people only track actual costs of the campaign.

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Marketing Social Media Campaign Acquisition 60

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 13, 2019

If your business is industrial B2B products, social media should be low on your list. Your Twitter and YouTube messages better match your print advertising message. Return-On-Investment metrics are not new, but the tools are different. Assess social media relevance to your product or service.

Social Media 199

Social Media Media Analytics Viral 199

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.) The sum total of these costs divided by the number of new customers gives you CAC.

Acquisition 135

Acquisition Churn Rate Cost Customer 135

ConversionXL

JUNE 8, 2017

The website, the mobile application, the advertising, the support, the different screens and features of the product… everything could be personalized. If you are in B2B, you’ve certainly heard of account-based marketing by now. This is a correlative metric – a behavioral cohort used as a heuristic for growth.

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Programming Revenue Analytics Software Review 97

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2013

If your business is industrial B2B products, social media should be low on your list. Your Twitter and YouTube messages better match your print advertising message. Return-On-Investment metrics are not new, but the tools are different. ROI entrepreneur startup metrics social media business' Marty Zwilling.

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Social Media Media Entrepreneur Metrics 252

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 8, 2017

If your business is industrial B2B products, social media may be low on your list. If you are selling a B2B printing platform from Xerox, posting on LinkedIn would likely be the best choice. For example, if your world is printers, your blogging messages better match your print advertising message.

Social Media 147

Social Media Media B2B Analytics 147

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 Typically, the customer journey includes the following stages : Awareness: the customer becomes aware of your brand or product through social media, advertising, or word-of-mouth. trillion in 2021, up from $1.3

SEO 80

SEO eCommerce Analytics Software Review 80

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 23, 2013

I know the argument: The pay-back period on sales, marketing, and up-start costs is long, but there’s a profitable result at the end of the tunnel. The mindset works like this: It costs a lot of money to land an enterprise customer. So these costs are amortized over the customers you do land. for every $1.00 Just wait!

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Business Model .Net Revenue IPO 335

Seeing Both Sides

JULY 11, 2013

Across our portfolio and in my own entrepreneurial experience, I have seen three main sales models work successfully in scaling B2B sales: 1) Enterprise; 2) Telephone; and 3) Developer-driven. 80-90% software products vs. 40-50% advertising products) and company maturity (e.g., customer acquisition cost or CAC).

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Sales Technical Review Software Review B2B 50

ConversionXL

MAY 22, 2017

After that, the adoption of the cloud as a more scalable and cost-effective approach allowed small/medium business to build CRMs around very specific market needs and establish dominance in new vertical segments. This happens in advertising all the time. The Salesforce era was only at the beginning. Image Source.

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Customer Marketing Artificial Inteligence Clickthrough 92

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Pay per minute and pay per text costs in 2019. It’s also the reason why NPS is a board-level metric—happy customers stay with giffgaff even without the contractual obligation. They even created a B2B technology agency called Ocado Solutions to help build other online supermarkets. Image source ).

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Customer Community Revenue Software Review 85

Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 30, 2012

Pay-per-click advertising (PPC), when used correctly, is a very powerful way to drive traffic and conversions. The used correctly part includes effective targeting and testing, writing compelling ads, creating compelling offers and managing the bid and budget process in the most cost effective manner.

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Advertising PPC Social Media B2B 69

ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

The average B2B buyer has 27 brand interactions before deciding. Only around 10–15% of B2B leads turn into paying customers, and it’s because tactics optimizing for the early stages of the funnel only cater to early-stage goals. Because the best marketers have their own perspective on everything from metrics to channels to branding.

Demand 95

Demand Management B2B Campaign 95

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

A majority of YouTube consumption is on mobile, yet if there is an advertising or content strategy inside a company for YouTube it rarely accommodates for this reality. Mobile content consumption, behavior along key metrics (time, bounces etc.) If you have ecommerce you will see key metrics related to money making. Many reasons.

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Analytics Metrics Mobile DC 141

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2011

If your business is industrial B2B products, social media should be low on your list. Your Twitter YouTube messages better match your print advertising message. Return-On-Investment metrics are not new, but the tools are different. Assess social media relevance to your product or service. Find the right tools to analyze the ROI.

Social Media 232

Social Media Media Entrepreneur Analytics 232

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 1, 2023

So yeah, I've launched a lot of advertising technology products in my day and recently I joined the Adobe Lightroom product marketing team leading that up. So yes, I've done a lot of launches in the B2B and consumer space, so thought I'd write a book, John Jantsch (02:36): Okay, so awesome. It's how do you build onto it?

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Product Framework Technical Review Cofounder 61

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Talk to any B2B marketer about attribution and they’ll either roll their eyes or rant about how it’s important but hard to get right—long lead cycles, multiple contacts from a single organization, etc. As a group, we’ve gotten a firmer grasp on top-of-the-funnel metrics. Some might stare blankly and ask what you mean.

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B2B Marketing Analytics Campaign 131

The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2018

With more and more businesses realizing videos for marketing and brand education, 73% of B2B organizations say they have received a positive ROI after using video marketing. Furthermore, you can opt for additional bandwidth, storage and customizations with additional costs accordingly. 5. Ustream (IBM Cloud video).

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Software Bandwidth API Flash 105

Up and Running

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Did you, as an eCommerce store owner, know that for online retailers, the average cost to fulfill an order is about 70% of the average order value ? Be that as it may, there are always alternatives that can help a business owner like yourself reduce such costs. Shocking, right?

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eCommerce Customer Retention Reputation 110

YoungUpstarts

MAY 22, 2015

Online sales metrics have reached a high of $248.7 The Cost Effectiveness. The price of establishing a business website or an e-store is less than half of your physical establishment costs. A physical infrastructure costs anytime more than a website. billion in 2014. High Accessibility. Easier Customer Connection.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 6, 2010

Take a week to segment that data and find out how to save 10% of the cost. No longer can tools or "analysts" just puke 15 metrics on a report and hope to survive. Now go buy advertising on those sites (from any ad network) and earn a higher ROI on your campaigns. Count the number of links on your main pages.

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Analytics Web Campaign PPC 99

Ben's Blog

MAY 15, 2020

What are those metrics? Andrew : If you are a travel company right now, I think you’re seeing very specific metrics dropping. As a result of that, all of those metrics go up. People saying, “This is what’s happening to B2B SaaS or this is what’s happening to this category.”

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Founder Conversion Technical Review Cash Position 36

Women Entrepreneurs Can

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Whether a business operates in a B2B or a B2C environment, it can benefit from a strong content marketing strategy. Secondly, it is relatively cheap, making it a cost-effective marketing approach compared to other options. Focus on keywords, back-end SEO, and metrics to give your content the best possible chance for success.

Marketing 40

Marketing B2C SEO B2B 40

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Users get credits toward BigQuery; extensive querying of GA data in BigQuery could generate added costs.). Custom dimensions and metrics. Import Salesforce Sales Cloud user attributes, Einstein Lead Scoring, and ecommerce metrics into GA360. A 10% increase in efficiency would nearly cover the cost of GA360. Export size.

Analytics 126

Analytics Cloud Audience Campaign 126

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

It will also help you to identify any potential issues or new opportunities to help expand your efforts and see even better metrics. . Create, send, and manage SMS messages, social media, and digital advertising. Here’s what it will cost you: . Here’s what it will cost you: . Here’s what it will cost you: .

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Marketing SMS Campaign Channel 179

Occam's Razor

JULY 6, 2016

Yes, I worry that Analysts, and Marketers, are spending too much time with their head buried in custom reports and advance segments and smart calculated metrics and strategic or tactical dashboards. It does not matter if you are are B2B or B2C. The Shipping Cost is described as "flat rate repair shipping cost."

Design 86

Design Software Review Mobile Analytics 86

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 23, 2022

” No one questions the importance of revenue, but asking the question enabled us to start thinking on what would be the right metric. Did you know that companies like Airbnb, Spotify and Netflix purposely avoid setting revenue as their North Star Metric? Why is revenue not a good ‘North Star’ Metric?

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Metrics Revenue B2C Portfolio 179

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 1, 2013

We’ll look at relevant metrics to help you assess whether a specific marketing channel could work for you, and also highlight additional resources to help you get a better understanding of that channel. People’s dissatisfaction with advertising helps to explain why inbound marketing is gaining popularity. Online Marketing.

Small Business 107

Small Business Marketing Affiliate PPC 107

ConversionXL

APRIL 7, 2021

If you’re selling B2B, you know it’s a wide and competitive market. Sorry, but ABM is not B2B, nor is it right for all markets, business models, or companies (just like every company should not be running freemium aka PLG for acquisition.) They won’t magically show up at your doorstep and sign a $100K cheque.

IP 98

IP Marketing Technical Review Software Review 98

Occam's Razor

JULY 22, 2013

My solution to these problems was to create a simple framework we can use to put our customers first, evaluate our marketing programs, and right-align our view of success (metrics). Truly reflect on whether our marketing and advertising initiatives are broad enough and optimized enough for each customer consideration stage, and finally.

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Framework Marketing Metrics Audience 163

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

As bad customer service is a massive long-term cost – and short-term pain –, it was decided that the company would undertake a serious re-training effort for all the customer service reps and with that problems would get solved faster. The success metric, ACT, did go down. Metrics matter. Another issue. Humans are pavlovian.

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Metrics Analytics Acquisition Naming 60