Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2013

In fact, the average spent by Inc 500 companies for sales and marketing expense continues to hover around 10% of overall revenues. Use social media and Search Engine Marketing (SEM) to start. Find partners and channels which are complementary, and not directly competitive. Get exposure for your expertise.

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Marketing Viral SEM Startup 265

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

No changes were made to the customer journey, and it had nothing to do with revenue lift. You’ll also learn how to apply growth marketing to five key channels and how to plan and execute experimentation. It isn’t about finding quick hacks to boost short-term revenue. For example, say you’re trying to improve top-line revenue.

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Framework Marketing Acquisition Retention 102

Seeing Both Sides

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Growing revenue and profits is a core objective of most companies, and it is the responsibility of every function to contribute to the pursuit of this goal. They work cross-functionally with engineering, design, analytics, product management, operations, and marketing to design and execute growth initiatives.

Management 20

Management Analytics Technical Review Framework 20

Seeing Both Sides

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Growing revenue and profits is a core objective of most companies, and it is the responsibility of every function to contribute to the pursuit of this goal. They work cross-functionally with engineering, design, analytics, product management, operations, and marketing to design and execute growth initiatives.

Management 20

Management Analytics Technical Review Framework 20

ConversionXL

MARCH 29, 2017

Rob Sobers of Varonis confirms… Rob Sobers , Varonis : “While traditional marketing teams might appear to operate like growth teams in terms of the channels they use (SEM, content marketing, email, etc.), Make sure you have a good understanding of your value proposition, cost structure, revenue streams, customer segments, etc.

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Marketing Distribution Retention eCommerce 48

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2010

I’ve introduced a new class at Stanford to teach engineers, scientists and other professionals how startups really get built. 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. Direct channels, indirect channels, OEM.

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Wiki Lean Management Business Model 311

www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

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. It appears that LTV should be about 3 x CAC for a viable SaaS or other form of recurring revenue model. For more on the topic of Viral Growth, refer to my blog post on that topic here.)

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Acquisition Cost Customer Entrepreneur 103

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 1, 2013

But marketing, when planned and executed correctly, can also lead to more sales and revenue. We’ll look at relevant metrics to help you assess whether a specific marketing channel could work for you, and also highlight additional resources to help you get a better understanding of that channel. Search Engine Marketing.

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Small Business Marketing Affiliate PPC 107

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2010

In fact, the average spent by Inc 500 companies for sales and marketing expense continues to hover around 10% of overall revenues. Use social media and Search Engine Marketing (SEM) to start. Find partners and channels which are complementary, and not directly competitive. Get exposure for your expertise.

Marketing 235

Marketing SEM Startup Viral 235

Gust

MARCH 9, 2014

In fact, the average spent by Inc 500 companies for sales and marketing expense continues to hover around 10% of overall revenues. Use social media and Search Engine Marketing (SEM) to start. Find partners and channels which are complementary, and not directly competitive. Get exposure for your expertise.

Marketing 146

Marketing SEM Viral Social Media 146

VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

That picture can include a range of things such as how you define your culture, values, employee morale, size, revenue growth, market domination, etc. To do this well you often hire designers, engineers, and product managers. The more customers, the more revenue, and hopefully the greater the profits. 37 Signal s).

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Sales Product Marketing SEM 75

Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 14, 2022

As a revenue-driven founder specializing in sales and business development, Melissa has learned how to build companies with very few resources — by automating what she could, outsourcing wherever possible, and inspiring talented people to join her team with shared focus and enthusiasm. [3:35] We're very happy that they're engineers for.

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Technical Review Demand Cofounder Video 84

VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

That picture can include a range of things such as how you define your culture, values, employee morale, size, revenue growth, market domination, etc. To do this well you often hire designers, engineers, and product managers. The more customers, the more revenue, and hopefully the greater the profits. 37 Signal s).

Sales 48

Sales Product Marketing SEM 48

Up and Running

MARCH 3, 2021

Especially when the world, and your customers, are shifting to digital channels for entertainment, shopping, and communication with brands. So why is this important to know as you sift through all the potential marketing channels you could choose from? It is often used interchangeably with SEM, or “Search Engine Marketing.”

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PPC Small Business Management Advertising 81

Seeing Both Sides

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

The law of large numbers suggests it is easier to double in size when you are doing $1 million in revenue as compared to when you are doing $10 million, never mind $100 million. One of the themes I explore in the class is the tough reality that many metrics can actually get worse over time for a startup. Take growth rate as a simple one.

Metrics 20

Metrics Churn Rate Acquisition SEM 20

Occam's Razor

JULY 1, 2008

conversion rate (average as reported by shop.org) and you are dutifully reporting our revenue of $1 million as a result. While you might be doing great in terms of direct revenue impact of your website, pause and consider what in God's name is happening to that other 98.3% "unconverted" traffic on your site?

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Analytics Conversion Campaign Redemption 116

Occam's Razor

JUNE 6, 2007

If you have fifteen years of experience you'll still learn loads from chapters that cover holistic search analytics (internal, SEO, SEM/PPC) and Statistical Significance and Multi Channel Marketing Analytics and Advanced Conversion Rate measurement and more. Bonus: Interactive CD.

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Analytics Web Affiliate Metrics 60

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Be prepared to cross the desert - SaaS requires R&D and sales expense up front for a multi-year stream of revenue, so it demands enough investment capital to fund 4+ years of runway. Farming is also often overlooked, but can help grow customer accounts and revenues from 30% upwards (if successful). Great list! Philippe Botteri.

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