ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Your ecommerce marketing strategy is the blueprint and high-level vision that guides how you’ll interact with prospects, the channels you’ll use to reach them, and the messaging you’ll develop to communicate benefits and build your brand. From here, attach valid marketing metrics to each goal. Both are critical.

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eCommerce Marketing Social Media Retention 129

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2019

More and more customers these days are doing their own marketing research, scanning internet reviews and feedback from friends, rather than trusting messages that you push out through advertising. Today people want to see customer needs highlighted, mobile friendly, recommendations from prior customers, and interactive help channels.

Marketing 235

Marketing Social Media Technical Review Mobile 235

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Unfortunately, your personal assessment that you have traction probably won’t be convincing to potential investors and partners, so it’s important that you create and track your progress against some metrics. Define metrics on customer feedback and user counts. Count connections with experts, media, and influencers.

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Advisory Board Technical Review Metrics Business Model 199

Steve Blank

MARCH 15, 2017

His company had marched through customer discovery, learning about the customer problem, validated solutions and was now scaling sales and marketing. After a few months of talking to customers and working with sales, we defined the marketing Mission (our job) as: Help Sales deliver $25 million in sales with a 45% gross margin.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Where campaigns to build brand awareness and generate top-of-funnel sales drive traditional marketing, data across the entire customer lifecycle drives growth hacking in marketing. Channel-level expertise: An understanding of how the channels work (e.g., SEO, email marketing, Facebook advertising). Image source.

Retention 113

Retention Marketing Acquisition Channel 113

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Gather customer data across various channels and devices to have a more comprehensive profile. Align better with your sales team to define what a qualified lead looks like. All of these different scenarios can be a great way to integrate personalization into all of your marketing channels. Improve conversion rates and ROI .

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Marketing SMS Campaign Channel 179

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

They can be everywhere—between departments, such as the marketing and sales department, or within departments. Or, if the content team is producing awesome content but not distributing it across email and social channels, you’re once again missing an opportunity to maximize the ROI. Growth killer #2: Different goals and metrics.

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Metrics Campaign Channel Advertising 132

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Advertising can be seen as an insurance. This defines how to connect problem themes to a metric strategy, building a metric-driven action system. A marketing strategy should include a go-to-market plan that is sales-led and product assisted. He explained how lead generation uses a short term, sales-focused strategy.

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B2B Marketing Curation PPC 94

Up and Running

MARCH 3, 2021

Especially when the world, and your customers, are shifting to digital channels for entertainment, shopping, and communication with brands. So why is this important to know as you sift through all the potential marketing channels you could choose from? PPC stands for “pay-per-click advertising.” Let’s get started. What is PPC?

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PPC Small Business Management Advertising 81

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Others do far too little, assuming the viral effect and word-of-mouth will soon kick in, and sales will suddenly grow exponentially. There is no magic lever for growth, so several initiatives are required, with metrics to assess value returned. Ask every employee to focus on sales. Shorten the close cycle to grow faster.

Startup 335

Startup Social Media Metrics Viral 335

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2022

The power and influence of paid media advertising, including print ads, TV commercials, radio, and even online digital campaigns is waning, in favor of unpaid earned and owned messaging from your website, social media, key market influencers, and existing customer word-of-mouth. Long-term sales. Real customers.

Marketing 319

Marketing Framework Social Media Metrics 319

Up and Running

JANUARY 18, 2021

eCommerce marketing tends to follow broader sales and social trends, prioritizing ease of access for its innovation. Other social channels also made inroads as 2020 ended. That same research highlights the preference extends to B2B and B2C customers, and only 20% of B2B shoppers want to return to in-person sales.

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eCommerce B2B Forecast Demand 150

crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 25, 2012

If nothing else, using Yellow Page advertising guarantees that your business name is right there along with your competition’s and that you have an equally good chance of capturing the customer who is looking for you. Lean Marketing: Facebook advertising for newbies. Outdoor and print. Photo: Howard Lake.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 8, 2023

Keeping up with trends is the reality show of the e-commerce world, which is constantly developing, gaining a significant market share, and driving online sales. According to the Adjust and Sensor Tower report, in 2021, m-commerce accumulated 54% of all e-commerce sales worldwide, whose market exceeds $3.5 Only in 2021, 72.9%

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eCommerce Technical Review Software Review Analytics 185

ConversionXL

MARCH 6, 2019

The same video content likely works well in other channels. Video content allows advertisers to tell a more complex story than text or images alone. LinkedIn video ads: tech specs, targeting, metrics, and cost. are a big reason why Linkedin has become a popular, if expensive, platform for B2B advertisers.

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Video B2B Technical Review Campaign 129

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2017

The power and influence of paid media advertising, including print ads, TV commercials, radio, and even online digital campaigns is waning, in favor of unpaid earned and owned messaging from your website, social media, key market influencers, and existing customer word-of-mouth. Long-term sales. Real customers.

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Advertising Marketing Startup Framework 166

Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

They must narrow the marketing focus to crucial marketing channels and formulate a winning and repeatable plan for the business. For example, they could help define the ideal clients, propose the best markets to target, and choose the most appropriate marketing channels that lead to more business.

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Fractional CTO Small Business Metrics Revenue 62

Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 4, 2024

Uncover diversified monetization strategies, including advertising, consulting, and info products, ensuring a sustainable and profitable newsletter business. Learn crucial metrics for success, from open rates to the quality of subscribers. 15:09] What are some of the metrics that showcase success in Newsletter writing? [17:17]

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Revenue Advertising Email ChatGPT 78

ConversionXL

JANUARY 30, 2013

eCommerce sales during the last Black Friday topped $1 billion for the first time in history. For Facebook average order value was $74 with 76% of total social sales and 69% of total clicks. For Twitter average order value was $190 with 8% of total sales and 11% of total clicks. Wrong metric. Black Friday data.

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Social Media Sales Media Social Network 134

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

Obviously this definition is generic, so my first recommendation is that you take the lead in defining traction metrics for your startup, and then selling your results convincingly to investors. As an investor, I would like to see one month of sales, and see how that compares to your projections.

Hockey Stick 304

Hockey Stick Early Stage Metrics Acquisition 304

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 9, 2020

Others do far too little, assuming the viral effect and word-of-mouth will soon kick in, and sales will suddenly grow exponentially. There is no magic lever for growth, so several initiatives are required, with metrics to assess value returned. Ask every employee to focus on sales. Shorten the close cycle to grow faster.

Social Media 329

Social Media Metrics Viral Channel 329

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2021

Switch your focus from product development to sales. Explosive growth to an enterprise normally requires a scalable sales model, a well-documented process with incentives, training, and metrics for tracking and management. Isolate marketing from sales for maximum customer focus.

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Merger Due Diligence SEC IPO 379

VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

Electric Vehicles – Lower battery costs powering adoption mean EV sales could reach 74 million in 2030. A lightweight “agent” with access to logs and metrics can, to start, retrieve relevant information (e.g. Robotaxis – Robotaxi platforms could create $28 trillion in enterprise value in 2030.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Software Review Generative AI 176

YoungUpstarts

JULY 18, 2013

To achieve Youtility, one should consider three different facets: 1) Self-Serve Information - Customers prefer to help themselves to information prior to purchase rather than talk to a sales person. Discerning what the best channel and mode of delivering useful content would be. In fact, shoppers in 2011 need 10.4 Insourcing Youtility.

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Technical Review Phoenix Metrics Singapore 133

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

Up and Running

MAY 1, 2014

Marketing and Sales Plan. What marketing and sales tactics will you be using? Milestones and Metrics. Highlight the key aspects of your financial plan, ideally with a chart that shows your planned sales, expenses, and profitability. Marketing and Sales Plan. Advertising. Will you be advertising online?

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Business Plan Forecast Balance Sheet Distribution 163

Up and Running

MAY 12, 2020

Establish milestones and metrics for your business plan. To make your business plan work for you, you’ll want to incorporate milestones and metrics from the start. Point of Sale system (if necessary). You’re basically looking to establish multiple avenues of communication with customers through digital and traditional channels.

Software Review 153

Software Review Exit Strategy Technical Review Business Plan 153

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2019

The power and influence of paid media advertising, including print ads, TV commercials, radio, and even online digital campaigns is waning, in favor of unpaid earned and owned messaging from your website, social media, key market influencers, and existing customer word-of-mouth. Long-term sales. Real customers.

Media 238

Media Cost Framework Social Media 238

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2023

14:58] What are some of the metrics that show you’re doing things right? [17:02] 20:20] Do you feel like you have a different relationship as an advertiser because of the relationship with your readers? [21:34] Like, you're gonna need to get somebody on the phone, there's gonna need to be a sales process and so forth.

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ChatGPT Advertising Email Viral 91

Occam's Razor

MARCH 23, 2021

Does advertising really have a long-term business impact ? Product/regions/channels. The benchmark for the beautiful metric AVOC is 15.3%. Now repeat this across many, many metrics, for many dimensions, in the three clusters you see above. sales) impact of my brand marketing? Tactical strategies. Ad unit types.

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Analytics Algorithm Artificial Inteligence Campaign 131

Seeing Both Sides

JULY 11, 2013

I''ve been thinking a lot lately about scaling sales. . Before this occurs, the sales process is a craft or an art - custom-made by the founder or evangelist sales VP. How do I build a repeatable, scalable sales process that is like an industrial machine - not a crafts project? 1) Enterprise Sales.

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Sales Technical Review Software Review B2B 50

Occam's Razor

JULY 24, 2018

work (collection, processing, reporting, analysis), processes, org structure, governance models, last-mile gaps , metrics ladders of awesomeness , and… so… much… more. Remember, tools, work, processes, org structure, governance models, last-mile gaps, metrics ladders of awesomeness, and… so… much… more. The Implications of Complexity.

Analytics 93

Analytics Framework Metrics Algorithm 93

Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

17:16] Is there a small set of metrics that you rely on? [19:43] Andrew Warden (05:09): Channel, I got you. And so it is so helpful to hear how teams think about bets on a quarterly basis of, yeah, we think that we can capture more people through advertising on Hulu. We think that BEC, which is a new channel, right.

SEO 84

SEO Channel Campaign Audience 84

The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2020

The realms of sales and marketing are highly competitive, and employees are tense to perform and meet their targets effectively. An organization relies on a highly skilled and qualified sales force and marketing team to maximize its profits. Marketing and sales professionals carry the burden of a formidable responsibility.

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Sales Marketing Employee Revenue 107

Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

In the tactics section, list your sales channels and describe how you will be selling your products. While it’s useful to be able to have a sales forecast and expense budget early on, it’s not something you need until you’ve validated your idea. A few resources you may want to check out include: How to Forecast Your Sales.

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Software Review Software Delaware Forecast 74

YoungUpstarts

JULY 2, 2020

Many companies, in the face of declining sales, are becoming more aggressive in their marketing strategies. Empathize with your customers and understand that pushy sales pitches won’t work – worse, you could come across as uncaring and greedy. If you use these same metrics, you’re going to be sorely disappointed in the results.

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Marketing Metrics Channel Differentiation 262

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Facebook is about to try to dominate display ads the way Google dominates text ads - Chris Dixon , May 15, 2010 It is customary to divide online advertising into two categories: direct response and brand advertising. Through advertising or direct sales, these sites harvest intent. Tech support is sales.

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Fractional CTO Startup Venture Capital Cofounder 248