Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

The challenge is to increase response rates and propagate a single view of the customer, by integrating customer data from multiple Web and social media interactions. Then companies can determine promotional effectiveness by narrowly defined customer segments, by location, or by delivery channel.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 4, 2011

This week they were testing who the customer, user, payer for the product will be (and discovering if they have a multi-sided business model , one with both buyers and sellers.) The news from customers was not good. talk to more customers? cold calls, in-person interviews, and a web survey. (We Week 4 of the class.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2014

The challenge is to increase response rates and propagate a single view of the customer, by integrating customer data from multiple Web and social media interactions. Then companies can determine promotional effectiveness by narrowly defined customer segments, by location, or by delivery channel.

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Analytics Entrepreneur Retention Social Media 257

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Most businesses, even Mixpanel’s paying customers, retain Google Analytics. You’ll be able to see which channels (paid, organic, social, etc.) You’ll be able to see which acquisition channels are best for long-term retention or lifetime value, not simply those that drive initial conversions.

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Analytics Technical Review Acquisition Retention 119

YoungUpstarts

MAY 12, 2017

If you’ve been in business in a while, you may already know that there is no adage truer than “the customer is king”. Poor business relationships with clients are a major driver in low customer retention and ultimately low sales. These channels include phone calls, organizational web pages, direct-mail, social-media and so on.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 12, 2013

The challenge is to increase response rates and propagate a single view of the customer, by integrating customer data from multiple Web and social media interactions. Then companies can determine promotional effectiveness by narrowly defined customer segments, by location, or by delivery channel.

Analytics 246

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

The challenge is to increase response rates and propagate a single view of the customer, by integrating customer data from multiple Web and social media interactions. Then companies can determine promotional effectiveness by narrowly defined customer segments, by location, or by delivery channel.

Analytics 120

Analytics Retention Social Media Campaign 120

The Next Web

JANUARY 25, 2014

Noam Fine, co-Founder and CEO of Widdit , providing app developers engagement solutions over the mobile and Web platforms. These products risk marketing too aggressively in their monetization setting the stage for bad reviews and discontented customers. Of course, user retention will also increase monetization.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 14, 2011

I completely agree that email is the key communications channel for social media and have written about this before in posts like 100% Click Through Rate , Email – The Original Social Graph and Email Is Still The Best Login. In Fred’s post, the comm channel is email. But email isn’t the only comm channel.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2021

Shawn immediately said the name I had given the four steps was confusing – I had called it market development – he suggested that I call it Customer Development – and the name stuck. In other words, you prove retention. It’s really all that matters at the earliest stage.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 28, 2021

We won’t proclaim one is the ‘best’ customer data platform (CDP) for which every business, including yours, should use. Instead, we’ll be covering the core use cases that customer data platforms address and explore whether Segment or Mparticle ultimately deserves a spot in your tech stack. The Rise of CDPs.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 26, 2023

In 2015, he launched the MeasureSchool YouTube channel to reach out and teach this new way of marketing to others. We also learned how privacy concerns and changing data retention practices have driven the need for this transition. This is John Jantsch and my guest today is Julian Juenmann.

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Analytics Software Review Channel Europe 78

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Your next question is: how do you get customers to see the value in what you’re selling enough to want a piece of the pie? Attracting new customers is a challenge every entrepreneur faces, but retaining their business is equally critical to the growth and survival of a business. Attracting New Customers. Retaining Customers.

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

Marketing 101: Customers love free stuff. As a result, it is a common marketing practice to offer things “for free” in order to impact customer behavior or encourage customer loyalty. Customers have shown again and again that they really love free stuff. You know what customers like more than free stuff?

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 8, 2022

The 4-step marketing strategy - How to stand out from your competition in the minds of your ideal customer With the current obsession around marketing tactics, it has become increasingly harder to figure out the best marketing strategy for your business. From hacks and quick fixes to the next big idea and new trending platforms.

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Marketing Software Review Technical Review Retention 92

ConversionXL

JULY 28, 2021

Google Analytics 4 is the rebuilt, rebranded and expanded version of the App + Web property rolled out by Google in 2019. The change benefits marketers by allowing accurate tracking of user journeys across the web and mobile apps. Custom events. What is Google Analytics 4 (and why should you make the move)? Improved debugging.

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Up and Running

APRIL 6, 2021

Social media is a Customer Success Manager’s dream tool. As customers become more aware, leveraging the growth of SaaS , marketing professionals need to keep up. While obviously, building brand awareness and acquiring new customers is crucial, what businesses fail to do is pay attention to the churn.

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Social Media Media Customer Churn Rate 105

Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

We are also looking at the Core Web Vitals that are due in 2021- which will look at some very important factors that determine user experience on websites. With the development of more option for team communication, project management, and customer retention, I can only expect better things for my business. 6- Two strategies.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Technology Entrepreneur Artificial Inteligence 78

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Or, if the content team is producing awesome content but not distributing it across email and social channels, you’re once again missing an opportunity to maximize the ROI. At Web Profits, we call this your “one trackable metric,” while Sean Ellis—who invented the term “growth hacking”—calls it the “ North Star.”

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

What Is Web Personalization? For example, you could be dealing with different channels (“on-site”, “in-app”, “mobile web”, etc.). Essentially, it’s the real-time individualization of a site to suit each visitor’s unique needs and guide them through a custom conversion funnel.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

It drives media attention and fosters customer retention rate, which is why most companies strive to have it in their mission statement. It seeks to solve customer problems in a better and modern way and helping such companies edge the competition. Innovative is a word often used to describe successful companies. 5- Shiseido.

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Technical Review Entrepreneur Software Review SEO 120

Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 4, 2022

Brooke is the CEO & Founder of B Squared Media, an award-winning digital marketing agency focusing on social media management, advertising, and social-led customer care. She’s also the author of a new book — Conversations That Connect: How to Connect, Converse, and Convert Through Social Media Listening and Social-Led Customer Care.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, December 14, 2009 Business ecology and the four customer currencies Lately, I’ve been rethinking the concept of “business model&# for startups, in favor of something I call “business ecology.&# Let’s begin with the four customer currencies. And this is true outside of games.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Validated learning about customers Would you rather have $30,000 or $1 million in revenues for your startup? This may sound crazy, coming as it does from an advocate of c harging customers for your product from day one. They are gaining valuable customer data.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

The term “Growth Hacking”, invented by Sean Ellis , and made popular by Andrew Chen , a Silicon valley marketer and entrepreneur, is a combination of two disciplines – marketing and coding: Growth hackers are a hybrid of marketer and coder, one who looks at the traditional question of “How do I get customers for my product?”

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API Viral Startup Retention 167

ConversionXL

JULY 16, 2021

This will help you gauge who your audience is and how to speak to them at every customer touchpoint. The point isn’t to complicate your content creation—it’s to ensure your messaging is aligned with the customer journey every step of the way. Instead, pinpoint your unique customer base and speak directly to them.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

You (think) you have product-market fit with real customers and real revenue and need money to grow and expand. Better answer, “Because I’m the customer.”) Now that product/market fit is part of the lexicon most understand that the product also needs passionate customers. Not all startups need outside investment to grow.

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Cofounder Seed Stage Valuation Metrics 429

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

4 times / 100 means if a customer uses your app frequently (say 10-20 times / day) then they are crashing nearly every day. Customer Acquisition. At the highest level you’ll obviously want to track how many customers your adding every month (and for some businesses that have hit scale this is measured on a daily basis).

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Up and Running

JULY 7, 2021

Top-tier customer service, competitive pricing, and streamlined fulfillment are all just expectations at this point. It’s everything from your visual style, to your brand persona and even the way your customer service teams communicate. Without it, you’ll be entirely dependent on customers and third parties defining your business.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

is an elegant way to model any service-oriented business: Acquisition Activation Retention Referral Revenue We used a very similar scheme at IMVU, although we werent lucky enough to have started with this framework, and so had to derive a lot of it ourselves via trial and error. The AARRR model (hence pirates, get it?)

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 15, 2017

#7- To prioritizes employee and client retention. The company that employed us began putting profits above people and new sales above client retention. The three of us had the exact opposite mentality and created a company that prioritizes employee and client retention. Photo Credit: Steven Randall.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 28, 2021

When e-commerce first took off in the 1990s, web traffic was regarded as the most critical metric for measuring a website’s popularity. Website activity is estimated in visits, also known as “sessions,” which is a popular way to assess an online business’s ability to draw customers. Ways to Increase Traffic.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Questions I ask Mark Schaefer: [2:03] What’s the difference between community and audience/customers? [3:45] That this is actually how it starts as opposed to it being a bolt-on channel – could you talk more about this idea? [14:26] It's customer self-service. I don't know. All right, let's get into your book.

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VC Cafe

JULY 15, 2021

What are the main channels for app marketing and distribution today? App discovery today: Word of mouth – family and friends remain the #1 channel for new app discovery. Ads – targeted advertising is perhaps THE most reliable channel to market and distribute a consumer app. Several startups, like Copy.ai

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Mobile Social Media Distribution PR 190

ConversionXL

JANUARY 24, 2017

Talia Wolf , CEO of taliagw.com CRO training and consulting, puts it this way: Talia Wolf: “The knowledge gained from a more in-depth approach increases retention rates and generates invaluable knowledge to every unit within the business. For example, a web designer. Conversion Optimization as a Mainstream Discipline.

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Conversion Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Analytics 48

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 19, 2020

A well-designed website channels the same message you put in your ads, thus succeeding in your marketing strategies and increasing awareness. Clear, consistent web design leads to a better user experience. If you don’t have experience in web design, try using website builders with designer-made templates, like Zyro.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 7, 2009

SEO for Startups and Negative Customer Acquisition Costs ) and, of course, the product itself. Normally the product is defined as a web site. Most founders are fairly passionate about the features and functions of the web site, iPhone application, Facebook application, or whatever web application represents the product.

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