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5 Effective Ways for Startups to Lower Customer Acquisition Costs

Up and Running

Especially in the early stages of growth, standing up to competition means that your business also needs to minimize the cost of acquiring new customers. In remarketing, on the other hand, the goal is to collect emails from visitors and users and create email campaigns targeted to them. What about remarketing?

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Solving the Low-Budget Online Marketing Dilemma

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

You’ve heard affiliate programs can work wonders, so you sign up with a cloud affiliate provider and figure you can afford to pay $50 per signup. A hundred affiliates take the bait, but two months later, half of them haven’t sold anything, and most of the others have sold only once. Maybe your ads suck?

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Brand Marketing vs. Product Marketing: What’s the Difference and Which Should You Invest In?

ConversionXL

They use these insights to launch branding campaigns aimed at influencing brand associations (customer feelings about your brand). When a company is in a growth stage, focus product marketing in your marketing department. In the early stages: Use product marketing to execute the GTM strategy.

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How to Use Growth Hacking to Increase Revenue 20x in Just 12 Months

Up and Running

These may range from joining an affiliate marketing platform to trying new Google AdWords keywords. Your customer acquisition cost and lifetime value are the two magical numbers you need to calculate for each one of your campaigns. Cost of Acquisition (CAC): The total cost of acquiring a user through a given channel.

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Introduction to Growth Hacking for Startups

VC Cafe

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. In a nutshell: Acquisition - Get people to hear about your product from press, blogs and social channels. First Steps in Growth Hacking for Startups.

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Revenue benchmark for Series A – $1m run-rate and 20% MoM growth

The Equity Kicker

Ecommerce – good ecommerce startups typically have gross margins in the 40-60% range and revenues are predictable only to the extent that the company has found a scalable channel for acquiring customers, hence their revenues are lower quality than SaaS companies and all things being equal a $1m revenue run rate will attract a lower valuation.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

A tool like Quuu identifies relevant, shareable content to keep your social media channels active. . We use Google Analytics, HubSpot, and LinkedIn Campaign Manager for the majority of our analytics. Data companies focused on early-stage startups include Aingel , fundsUP , Preseries , PredictLeads , and Sploda.