www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Blog About Log in Register Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition In the many thousands of articles advising entrepreneurs on what they have to focus on to build successful startups, much has been written about three key factors: team, product and market, with particular focus on the importance of product/market fit.

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Acquisition Cost Customer Entrepreneur 103

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

The Next Web

OCTOBER 28, 2012

One explanation is that “growth hacking” is just a catchy way to rebrand marketers, but this begs the question as to why “growth hacking” went viral in the first place. Channel instability. The creation and destruction of channels is a common occurrence today. Channel saturation. Market leaders may be left behind.

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Technical Review Software Review Distribution San Francisco 150

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Should you be buying key words from search engines, building fabulous web content, blasting out e-mail campaigns, or putting all your efforts into viral videos or social media? Digital marketing is all about establishing a voice and sending a message that customers can relate too, and makes you stand out.

Marketing 240

Marketing Viral Channel Metrics 240

YoungUpstarts

JULY 19, 2018

With many people struggling to drive web traffic from Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn to their blog many people are beginning to give up. The channel IRL (In Real Life) has people live streaming everyday things from: painting, drawing, playing music, building things. People are still using Twitter wrong. It’s not a broadcast network.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 8, 2021

Discord is a great example of a company going viral mostly from word of mouth. How do you make your product go viral? What are the elements needed to focus upon in making the attempt to take a product viral? Email readers, continue here…] Second: channels. A story of an app from nowhere to near dominance.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

On social media, your company and customers can interact with each other. You can comment on each other’s posts, and, more importantly, share content to promote your business on these channels, and effectively at that. Helps Content Go Viral. Posting on social media can increase your chances of making your content go viral.

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Social Media Media Viral Channel 221

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Successful product launch campaigns have a strong value proposition, multi-channel distribution, supporting content, and other trappings common to every marketing campaign. The idea is that when you work backwards and start with the press release, it’s easier to put yourself in the customer’s shoes.”. Image source ).

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Modi also says startups should invest internally to inspire employees to have empathy for each other and for their customers. So many commerce startups get it wrong – focusing on customers before community.”. Without a mobile experience that tends to individual customers 24/7, the service would do little to help customers.

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Mobile Silicon Valley Viral Technical Review 136

The Next Web

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Locate your core customers, and prioritize your efforts to reach them where they are. With an innovative product in the consumer payment space, the company had viral-ready content. Take good care of them, and organic, viral sharing may welcome your product to the marketplace. Target influencers. Startup Example: Sprout It.

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Social Media Media Viral Startup 158

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

I break the answer to that question down into three engines: Viral - this is the business model identified in the presentation as "Get Users." Here, the key metrics are Acquisition and Referral, combined into the now-famous viral coefficient. If the coefficient is > 1.0 , you generally have a viral hit on your hands.

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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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Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167

The Startup Magazine

JULY 18, 2017

They’re demanding, they’re used to fast, easily streamed, top quality, low cost products and top customer service. They focused on a user experience where users can choose to download the IOS app if they have an iPhone or use the web app to access the platform from all other devices. The mobile generation.

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Design Social Media Technical Review Forecast 87

Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 17, 2014

Galactic Café sent customized preview builds of The Stanley Parable to well-known YouTube users who participate in Let’s Play videos. The result: Plenty of organic, viral interaction about the videos that boosted traffic for these YouTube users’ Let’s Play video as well as sales for Galactic Café. Reach customers on a deeper level.

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Video Marketing Harvest Bandwidth 74

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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Metrics Startup Acquisition SEM 346

Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

With over a decade of experience in his toolkit, he specializes in helping clients build out cross-channel acquisition systems using a mix of owned, earned and paid tactics. 07:17] What is you cross-channel acquisition strategy? [11:13] 20:58] Are there any overlooked channels or platforms worth exploring? This is John Jantsch.

Channel 65

Channel Acquisition Framework B2B 65

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Increased investment in Facebook as an engagement/acquisition channel has translated into requests from CEOs, CMOs and other CxOs about the return on that investment. As Facebook is a very young channel, it is not surprising that everyone's struggling with the answer. Lesson 1: Correlations don't imply causality.

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Metrics Advertising Marketing Social Media 165

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 14, 2013

I must have been channeling someone else for a moment there. Berger explains why people talk about certain produces and ideas more than others, why some stories have a greater tendency towards a viral effect and why some rumors are simply more infectious than others. What is the #1 activity on the web today? Wait, what?

Viral 93

Viral Small Business Social Media Technical Review 93

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Email marketing is one of the fastest ways to drive sales of any online channel. Think about it… What other channel can you launch something and drive sales immediately? How many businesses can afford to take away $50k from their online advertising channels to grow their email database? Launch a viral competition.

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Database Email Viral Campaign 48

The Equity Kicker

AUGUST 14, 2014

You could chart the history of web advertising like this (quotes from Adrian Saunders/beaconreader.com ): Display ads from Yahoo and AOL: “Incredible returns! Build up social capital, focus on “sharing” and watch your amazing work go viral! Ultimately the important question is: is web advertising moving forward?

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Advertising Web Viral Mobile 106

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2010

There are few courses which teach aspiring entrepreneurs the skills (business models, customer and agile development, design thinking, etc.) If you’ve read any of my previous posts, you know I believe that: 1) a product is just a part of a startup, but understanding customers, channel, pricing, etc. to optimize this search.

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Wiki Lean Management Business Model 316

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

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 9, 2018

To help you, we’ve assembled useful branding and marketing tips to help your beauty business reach and connect with customers. Get to know your customer. With customers increasingly reliant upon the referrals and opinions of their friends and colleagues, getting in front of your market is important. Get started.

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Marketing Social Media Cofounder Design 90

Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

3:23] As CMO, how do you look at the customer journey? [5:26] Talked about the, the idea of getting your customers, your prospects, in the habit of buying from you, or listening to you or following you. We can't expect our customers to know how to do that if we aren't doing that ourselves. John Jantsch (03:22): Way.

Marketing 75

Marketing Differentiation B2C PR 75

mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

So, you’re a small or medium-sized business, and you want to build a Facebook, mobile or web app. Here’s a quick overview of the ins and outs of getting web work done as an SMB — as always, with tight budgets in mind. Do a web search to find platform-specific tools.

Small Business 104

Small Business Technical Review Social Media Software Review 104

The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 22, 2020

Who knows, you might even go viral. There doesn’t exist a scientific formula for going viral. So, by increasing your business’s web presence on YouTube, you would, at the same time, increasing your chances of ranking higher on Google. Higher Ability to Connect with Potential Customers. Secondly, Google owns YouTube.

Video 128

Video Social Media Viral Media 128

Cracking the Code

MARCH 24, 2015

The objective of the conference was to understand how APIs will power the next great web and mobile companies and share some best practises in understanding when to use APIs or not and how can API company best market to developers. gathered at the event. It is not very polished but was designed for a fast read.

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API Fractional CTO CTO Hire San Francisco 48

mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

Hire someone well-versed in communication between developers, customers and team members. ); // Welcome to Mashable! Sign in with Facebook or Twitter to get started! While many IT professionals can think technically, they have a hard time communicating it to a wide audience. Erica Nicole , YFS Magazine: Young, Fabulous & Self Employed.

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CTO Hire Fractional CTO CTO Technical Review 73

Up and Running

JULY 26, 2016

The chicken-egg issue of getting customers to your platform while you don’t have any money to spare is a puzzle that many companies are unable to figure out at all. Then, in 2015, this is who we added to the team: Jan-15: Head of Customer Success (growth team). 1x hacker in charge of product/development.

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Revenue Acquisition Channel Campaign 60

The Startup Magazine

JUNE 6, 2021

It will also contribute to establishing a line of communication with your target audience that improves your chance of building a meaningful relationship with your customers. Come Up with a Business Plan. Creating a business plan shouldn’t be something way too time-consuming. Conclusion.

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Social Media Audience Affiliate Startup 174

ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

This value-based model bringing all the right customers to their yard is called demand generation. In today’s market ( 8,000 martech products alone ), it’s easier to attract the right customer with material they value than it is to chase down and convert a prospect who isn’t ready to buy. Pay attention to your close rate per channel.

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Demand B2B Distribution Channel 124

YoungUpstarts

MAY 3, 2018

Marketing experts agree that selling any product or service requires building a relationship with the customer first, and relationships with web visitors are built through content. They share content on social media hoping their posts will go viral, but it rarely happens. Social media sharing isn’t a strategy – it’s a method.

Social Media 124

Social Media Media Marketing Viral 124

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

AUGUST 27, 2011

During lunch at school, he would have sales calls with customers and say that he had a hard stop at 1pm. Unfortunately his customers didn’t know that his hard stop was really his social studies class. He said loyal customers will stick it through and give you feedback to make it better. Some vendors go bankrupt.

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EC2 Social Network Distribution Demand 53

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Thats the conclusion Ive come to after watching tons of online products fail for a complete lack of customers. Our goal is to find out whether customers are interested in your product by offering to give (or even sell) it to them, and then failing to deliver on that promise. We finally settled on a $1.99 Setup a simple website.

Demand 167

Demand San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 167

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

As a founder you are testing a series of hypotheses about all the pieces of the business model: Who are the customers/users? What’s the distribution channel? An early indication that you’ve found the right business model is when you believe the cost of getting customers will be less than the revenues the customers will generate.

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Balance Sheet Startup Burn Rate Metrics 304

ConversionXL

JANUARY 31, 2014

What follows is a list of resources that can be applied specifically to landing page optimization, found here on ConversionXL & from other great websites around the web. Conduct surveys & interviews to understand your customer’s pain points. Directly addresses who your customer is, (Stripe = Payments for developers).

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Analytics Video Matching Conversion 134

mashable.com

AUGUST 31, 2010

Remember to inform all your current stakeholders of your change, including your current and "potential" customers. :-) Thank You for sharing such valuable information. Parrot AR Drone Review [VIDEO] View More » Web Video Local FOX Station Airs Hilarious Soci. this.hearts.on.fire. Weekend Gaming: "Vanquish" and "Killz.

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LLC Ruby Social Media Startup 75