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

David Teten

Keren Moynihan, CEO, Boss Insights , said, “Last week at an industry function, we asked a high rolling VC, “how’s your lead gen?” So we probed, ‘Oh, so you don’t need a qualified lead generation tool then?’ She answered, ‘We see a lot of deals.’ Her answer? ‘I I chose my words very carefully. I said we had a lot of deal flow.

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Designing startup metrics to drive successful behavior | For Entrepreneurs

www.forentrepreneurs.com

For Web and SaaS businesses with smaller transactions at higher volumes, this kind of modeling and tracking is much easier, as web-based lead generation and marketing have easy to implement measurements, and the greater the volume of transactions, the more clearly patterns emerge. All rights reserved.

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Eight Silly Data Things Marketing People Believe That Get Them Fired.

Occam's Razor

Measuring Visits and Conversions in aggregate first and segmented by keywords (or even key word clusters) will get you on the path to showing real impact. You can graduate to looking at search traffic by site content or types of content you have (it's a great signal your SEO is working).

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I’ve Built Multiple Growth Teams. Here’s Why I Won’t Do It Again.

ConversionXL

We ran A/B tests around the clock on our free-trial funnel for nine months and got these wins: Quadrupled monthly lead volume in one year; Tripled the conversion rate from visitor-to-trial signups on our homepage. The team started as all marketers focused on lead generation. It was a typical lead-gen team when I joined.

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Twitter Conversions: 7 Steps to Generate More Clicks

ConversionXL

Check aggregator sites that feature tweets. Viral Content Bee , my own platform, allows users to upload (non-promotional) URLs for others to share on a variety of social media platforms, including Twitter. For example, one of my Twitter lead-generation campaigns was based on giving away a free writing checklist.

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Cracking The Code: The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008.

Cracking the Code

The most innovative B2C companies are lead generation machines, leveraging search engine optimization (SEO), viral marketing, Search Engine Marketing (SEM), email marketing, and other technically-advanced methods. 3) Analyze the aggregated data to determine best practices and benchmarks across your customers.