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Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition | For Entrepreneurs

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A quick look around all the B2C startups shows that, although viral growth is often hoped for, in reality it is extremely rare. Far more common is a need to acquire customers through a series of steps like SEO, SEM, PR, Social Marketing, direct sales, channel sales, etc. that will cost the company significant amounts of money.

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Transcript of Changing Minds in Sales, Marketing, and Business

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And so I’ve gotten the chance to work with large fortune five hundreds from the Googles and the Nike’s and the Apples to small startups and mid size companies and B2B and B2C, dry cleaners, everything, every business you can imagine. It’s very fast, won’t mess with your SEO. Checkout Zephyr. It’s yours.

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

Cracking the Code

This is a clear example where business-to-business (B2B) marketers need to learn from their business-to-consumer (B2C) counterparts. As private investors and public acquirers become more SaaS savvy, multiples of CMRR will likely become the primary valuation metric. Detailed SaaS Spreadsheet (Valuation and CAC benchmark).

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CXL Live 2017 Recap: Optimization & Growth Insights from 20+ Experts

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The CEO doesn’t care about his website, he cares about his valuation (i.e. Sell CRO by calculating the valuation increase. Valuation increase? Bill Leake: Optimizing for the “Considered Purchase”: What Changes if You’re B2B or Expensive / Long Sales Cycle B2C? They ended up with 70/30 in favor of positive results.

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No-brainer for B2B companies but also for B2C companies (making special advertising deals for example) Reply steveblank , on June 8, 2011 at 9:05 am said: Martin, Any suggestions? I think actually actively selling your stuff is very important for a startup these days.