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3 Creative Ways to Grow Your Email List

Duct Tape Marketing

This churn rate, as it’s called, is comprised of subscribers who unsubscribe, mark your email as spam, change employers (and therefore email addresses), and so on. On top of the 30% churn rate, there is a portion of your list – in many cases a significant portion – who are unemotionally subscribed.

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Metrics that matter to social platforms (Part 1/3)

Version One Ventures

In fact, when we use the term “social platforms” at Version One, we’re referring to messaging (e.g. WhatsApp, SnapChat, Facebook Messenger), private social networks (e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Shift Messenger ), public social networks (e.g. After we understand engagement and churn, we can perform cohort analysis.

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

David Teten

We use Google Analytics, HubSpot, and LinkedIn Campaign Manager for the majority of our analytics. Boardex and Relationship Science make it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. This provides us more time to develop meaningful relationships with prospects and customers. 3) Raise capital.

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8 Smart and Practical Ways To Increase Your Small Business Profits

crowdSPRING Blog

It might be fun to spend two hours daily on Facebook or Twitter hunting for customers, but the more important question you should be asking is whether your prospective customers are looking for you on those social networks. For example, take a look at Buffer’s 5 Unique Ways to Measure and Evaluate a Social Media Campaign.

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The Lean Analytics Cycle: Metrics > Hypothesis > Experiment > Act

Occam's Razor

Perhaps it's an increase in your conversion rate; Or a higher number of visitors who sign up; Or a greater number of people who share content with one another; Or a lower monthly churn rate for users of your application; Maybe it's even something as simple as getting more people into your restaurant. Form a hypothesis.

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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

maplebutter.com

You get a bunch of traffic and increased rankings, then when the app goes back to paid you still get a bunch of run off from the campaign. If you’re getting 2% upgrade to paid, but 15% monthly churn, then you need to spend more time on the Pro features to insure the cost benefit is there. How can I lower my apps churn rate?