Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Tech IPO prices exploded and subsequent trading prices rose to dizzying heights as the stock prices became disconnected from the traditional metrics of revenue and profits. Startups with huge burn rates – building leases, staff, PR and advertising – ran out of money. Some have labeled this period as irrational exuberance.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 11, 2021

Not only do corporate sponsors offer the capital to help you forge ahead, their backing brings new contacts and exposure to new audiences that can take your project to the next level. All companies that This Week in Startups’ audience of entrepreneurs, company founders, and marketers would be interested in. Audience data.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 14, 2021

In this article, we’ll share key brand tracking metrics and methods for how to measure and optimize your success. Key brand tracking metrics. Supplement brand loyalty metrics with qualitative measures such as brand associations and perceived quality, as these can give you insight into why customers intend to repurchase.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Marketing initiatives include campaigns, content, PR, and interactions with your target audience or customer. Your organization may require multiple marketing plans at once, with each aimed at reaching different personas within your audience or working in service of different products and services.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 25, 2011

I know this sounds foreign to many of you, and that we’ll have a few skeptics in the audience. No BS, no vanity metrics, no launches, no PR. Votizen’s David Binetti will show you a real pivot story, including the actual metrics that helped him realize it was time to change. And those are just our keynotes!

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

Jocz , you may need to change how you segment your audience: Marketers typically segment according to demographics (“over 40,” say, or “new parent” or “middle income”) or lifestyle (“traditionalist” or “going green”). Think through options like family-friendly and kid-focused editions for an at-home audience.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Master of 500 Hats: Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp 2008, London) This presentation should be required reading for anyone creating a startup with an online service component. He also has a discussion of how your choice of business model determines which of these metric areas you want to focus on. Choose one.

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Up and Running

JUNE 27, 2018

You probably wouldn’t use the same strategy to market high heels to an urban, fashion-forward audience as you would to market running shoes to suburban fitness seekers. Targeting the wrong audience. When drafting your campaigns, it is crucial to keep your audiences and their preferences at the core of every tactic.

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Mucker Lab

AUGUST 9, 2023

These strategies lay the groundwork for an effective backlink foundation and extend beyond mere SEO; they can also serve a valuable PR purpose. Connecting with Different Audiences Ground zero link building isn't just about SEO. These tactics also provide an opportunity to reach new audiences and connect with people in various ways.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

We will accomplish this through demand-creation activities (advertising, PR, tradeshows, seminars, web sites, etc.), The same was true for PR. And the results weren’t the traditional PR metrics of number of articles or inches of ink. It wasn’t measured by how busy you were, it was measured by results.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 17, 2017

Begin by analysing the categories, keywords and audiences your competition is targeting. Define your target audience. Hence precisely defining your target audience becomes important and that’s where a buyer persona comes into picture. The next thing that you need to target here are referrals from news agencies, PR firms etc.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 11, 2017

While I would like to say there was a very expensive marketing and PR campaign for our company that really was not the case. Regardless of the circumstances or the audience, communications should be engaging, effective and garner accolades. 12- Symbolise bridge between marketing & PR. Photo Credit: Courtnie Nein.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 29, 2013

1) Can you tell me more about your audience? Oh, and your salespeople have to make sure bookstores will stock it, and your marketing and PR people will have to make sure readers know it exists. Based on attendee requests, some of our talks this year will be more in-depth and targeted to segments of our audience.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

JULY 9, 2021

Outsource PR Matters . Keeping track of all PR matters can be quite a time consuming affair, when you have many other jobs that you need to take off as well. Learn more from Treble’s founder Jeff Beckham about utilising PR metrics to fully understand how the business can adapt and grow.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 10, 2013

The critical metrics for each stage of your SaaS business | by Lars Lofrgren – [link]. Men and Hard-to-Reach Audiences Are Spending More Time Streaming Digital Video | Adweek – [link]. It’s difficult to fake corporate culture | Business Insider – [link]. 10 Myths about Startups – [link].

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Remember: Engagement is not a metric, its an excuse. ]. The ideal metrics for this desired outcome are Visitor Loyalty & Visitor Recency. You can compute two important metrics: Likelihood to Recommend / Brand Lift. There are a number of wonderful metrics you can use to measure online success of such marketing campaigns.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

There’s a tremendous wealth of insight in his answers and the way he engaged the Reddit audience. Metrics for Series A – [link]. The photo above shows a young Bill Gates during his early days at Microsoft. This week, Gates participated in a phenomenal Reddit AMA (ask me anything). The link is in the Other section below.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Business model viability, in the majority of startups, will come down to balancing two variables: Cost to Acquire Customers (CAC) The ability to monetize those customers, or LTV (which stands for Lifetime Value of a Customer) Successful web businesses have long understood these metrics as they have such an easy way to measure them.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 26, 2011

Show that you know how to target, acquire, and profitably build up a subscription customer base, all while tracking the right metrics, and *boom* you're hired. People have gotten so specialized, that we have people doing nothing but community management, SEO/SEM, PR, etc. In New York City, that just shouldn't happen.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 28, 2010

Max will be talking about how to properly resource an integrated marketing effort over the lifetime of a company and Eric will help you focus on narrowing down your target audience—and finding them. Mandatory RSVP Here!

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 8, 2018

They apply content/link/keyword research, technical audits, content creation and the ability to do massive PR/Awareness/Brand campaigns to help boost this. The more advanced you get the more SEO is already integrated into the product so the more time you’ll likely have to invest in figuring out what can really help move your metrics.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 2, 2016

One of the major benefits of the digital age is that marketers now have far more meaningful metrics by which to evaluate the success of their initiatives. It’s no longer just about creative swagger and assumptions regarding your audience. How does one explain that to the powers that be? Is this a perfect form of analysis?

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2010

This is the same issue we see with vanity metrics : companies are giving the appearance of sharing information while actually engaging in spin or outright deception. The higher the vanity ratio, the more effective the PR. It helps companies with PR. You are the intended audience for all of those expenditures of energy.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Customer retention is a metric that measures customer loyalty and how good your business is at keeping customers over time. While studies vary on just how much cheaper it is to retain a customer, it’s widely agreed that retention is anywhere from five to 25 times more cost-effective than marketing to a new audience. Conclusion.

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Brandanew

JULY 9, 2015

They may also engage with large PR houses to get the distribution going. And then share this with your audience. Content metrics, success is harder to measure especially with the multiplication and diversification of platforms: As a Content Marketing head in my previous avatar, my CMO would ask me questions every week on the figures.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

” A cautious person wouldn’t stand on stage and tell a large audience she is going to change the world while secretly wondering when the f**k her team is going to work out the bugs in the product so you can actually launch. Are tacking. But total transparency is what most people think they want, not what they really want.

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Seeing Both Sides

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

This task is accomplished through the selection of key performance indicators, and the development of reports on these metrics for consumption across the organization. Earned Media: SEO, PR, Word of Mouth. An intimate and specific knowledge of the channels that are most effective in reaching a product’s target audience is critical.

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Seeing Both Sides

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

This task is accomplished through the selection of key performance indicators, and the development of reports on these metrics for consumption across the organization. Earned Media: SEO, PR, Word of Mouth. An intimate and specific knowledge of the channels that are most effective in reaching a product’s target audience is critical.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 12, 2018

We look at social media , content, SEO, and PR, and we think that they’re all separate tactics out there doing separate jobs. They are going to increase your audience, which is going to draw more people. . There are a couple of metrics that I love to look at when I’m trying to analyze somebody’s content.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 9, 2010

Appozite’s TweetReach provides insight into how far an idea travels on Twitter by searching the social network for all mentions of a search term – usually a keyword, link, hashtag or name – and generates a report with metrics about that term.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Your audience will flock to brands with a strong reputation because they don’t associate you with their need. Brand recognition happens when your target audience recognizes your brand when they see it (even if they’ve never used your solution). Identify the channels where your audience is most active and double-down.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2018

In fact, the work you’re doing right now may actually be a core contributor to creating the metrics that future generations will use to measure their decisions. Most importantly, your audience must see that you are completely dedicated to that cause. However, this data can come from other sources.

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Lifelock, LinkedIn , OneStop, Perimeter and Retail Solutions) - among a total audience of about 25 people. It is time to fix your key SaaS metrics: P&L: MRR = MRE: you control your destiny when your monthly revenue equals your monthly expenses Sales & Marketing: Your cost of capital doubled, so if a CAC ratio > 0.5

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Up and Running

APRIL 29, 2019

There is little point in marketing to an area that lacks your target audience. As you begin to implement your marketing plans in service of your branding and sales goals, make sure you track metrics so you can measure the success of each campaign. SnackNation is one company with a strong UVP with a highly targeted audience.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

When you’re working with a shoestring budget, you want to release your app, gets some real feedback from your targeted audience, and have some funds left over for marketing.”. Do your own PR. Whether or not you’ve got the budget, doing your own PR to start with is a good idea. Step 8: Track your metrics.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

But part was a recognition that we could gain substantial competitive advantage by leveraging a community of like-minded visionary customers to serve a wider (and more mainstream) audience than we could alone. In the meantime, I think we have a good explanation for what all those PR dollars are being spent trying to obscure.

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trada.com

APRIL 7, 2010

You have to constantly be clear about what you are trying to achieve, what metrics move the business forward, how to learn enough about something to form an opinion of it, and in what order you think doing things will set your business up to scale. Every day in a startup you battle the same two limitations: resources and time. Great post!

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