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How to Calculate & Maintain a Healthy Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC)

ConversionXL

In most cases, it includes: Salaries of sales and marketing teams Advertising spend on acquiring new customers (Search/Display Ads, Social Ads, Sponsorship, etc.) Cost of software/hardware used in sales and marketing Agency, PR, or any third-party costs involved in sales and marketing. Growth marketing is a funnel.

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Conversion, retention and churn benchmarks

VC Cafe

It’s not just the competition against the incumbents and the large tech platforms that founders has to worry about, but most importantly is the company’s performance and product market fit. Understanding the benchmarks on conversion, retention, and churn for your business is therefore critical. Hope you find this helpful.

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How to Create a Marketing Funnel by Responding to Customer Behavior

ConversionXL

The marketing and sales funnel is a time-tested framework for mapping the customer journey. In the current landscape, to successfully guide a person from prospect to customer, you need to think about their behavior and deliver marketing that fits their needs at every stage of the funnel. Image source. Image source. Image source.

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How to Optimize SaaS Development Costs

Up and Running

In the last decade, SaaS (Software as a Service) has become a very popular model for new software product development. Requirement analysis is one of the earliest and most important stages of software development. They were able to take their market valuation to $1.0 billion just with the iOS MVP. . Do your design first.

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Product Design for SaaS Startups: Best Practices and Examples

ReadWriteStart

I’ll start by taking you to the world of Startup X, a passionate team of entrepreneurs who believed they had the next big thing in the world of software as a service (SaaS). It makes the product more user-friendly and can also help build trust with customers and differentiate the product from competitors in the SaaS market.

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Transforming Marketing With Artificial Intelligence

Duct Tape Marketing

Transforming Marketing With Artificial Intelligence written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Paul Roetzer. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Paul Roetzer. 5:18] How will AI impact the marketing profession? [7:21]

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One of the Biggest Mistakes Enterprise Startups Make

Both Sides of the Table

The era of VCs investing in successful consumer Internet startups such as eBay led to a belief system that seemed to permeate many enterprise software startups that hiring sales or implementation people was a bad thing. We only want software revenue.” We prefer to sell software, not get involved with client systems.”