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Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

Master of 500 Hats: Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp 2008, London) This presentation should be required reading for anyone creating a startup with an online service component. He also has a discussion of how your choice of business model determines which of these metric areas you want to focus on. Choose one.

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6 Customer Journey Mapping Examples: How UX Pros Do It

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” I had the pleasure of speaking to Dr. Chip about customer journey and innovative service metrics. He also offered an example of a customer journey map for “Telephone Repairs,” from the book he co-authored, “Service Magic: The Art of Amazing Your Customers.” ” Click to enlarge. IdeaRocket. Website Setup.

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Growth Marketing: The Skills and Frameworks You Need

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They work to improve top-of-funnel metrics like brand awareness and identify opportunities to improve customer activation, retention, and referral efforts. If your campaign works and your brand awareness metrics improve, you win. What are “pirate metrics?”. Growth marketers focus on the entire customer journey.

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Why Every Company Needs a Growth Manager

Seeing Both Sides

. (this post was originally published in Harvard Business Review and is co-authored with Nadav Benbarak of Okta.). The Growth Manager function typically lives at the intersection of marketing and product development, and is focused on customer and user acquisition, activation, retention, and upsell.

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Why Every Company Needs a Growth Manager

Seeing Both Sides

. (this post was originally published in Harvard Business Review and is co-authored with Nadav Benbarak of Okta.). The Growth Manager function typically lives at the intersection of marketing and product development, and is focused on customer and user acquisition, activation, retention, and upsell.

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Lessons Learned: The App Store after the gold rush

Startup Lessons Learned

I think its helpful to think about two kinds of competition for distribution: acquisition competition and retention competition. On the web, we have many of these channels: SEM, SEO, world of mouth, PR and viral. Retention competition is how you get people to come back to your app. So what can you do? My advice: dont launch big.

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Lessons Learned: Q&A with an actual reader

Startup Lessons Learned

Luckily, the metrics helped us figure out the difference. Question 2: If your product has areas where people read and then different areas where people interact, are there ways to do metrics to determine where people spend their time? Were looking to metrics to determine how users interact with our product.