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7 Key Factors Obscure Your Customer Acquisition Costs

Startup Professionals Musings

As a business consultant and angel investor, I often ask for your own assessment of marketing ROI , or customer acquisition cost (CAC). Leaders and investors need to know if you have and are tapping into your key sources of relevant data, including web analytics, sales management data, and customer relationship management (CRM) software.

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Telling Their Story – The Magic of Customer-Driven Video Content

YoungUpstarts

Whether it be an established Fortune 500 company or a growing upstart business, modern marketing programs are built on the backbone of video marketing campaigns. More often than not, these campaigns excel by capturing the thoughts and journeys of loyal customers as they work with company products in exemplary or innovative fashions.

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6 Keys to Attracting Customers Based On Social Needs

Startup Professionals Musings

Yet, these days, I am seeing overwhelming evidence that customer buying decisions, especially with consumers, are often based on emotional and psychological factors , including passions from others, your experience, and social relationships. Other startups use technology to provide personalized products to all customers.

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How To Pull Customers To Your Website With Real Value

Startup Professionals Musings

Traditional marketing says you have to “push” your message out to customers, over and over again, to get you remembered. A more effective approach in today’s Internet and interactive culture is to use “pull” technology to bring customers and clients to your story. Skip the Flash videos. Sprinkle graphics and pictures.

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Customer Trust Is An Opportunity With A Huge Payback

Startup Professionals Musings

Use video and audio, rather than jargon, abbreviations, and computer lingo on your site. I see lots of new software put together on a shoestring as a “proof of concept” – but then gets rolled out to customers “asis” due to lack of time or money to “harden” the product. Don’t take shortcuts on these.

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5 Keys to Ensuring Credibility, Trust, and Customers

Startup Professionals Musings

As a long-time business executive and adviser to entrepreneurs, I see a definitive shift away from customer trust in traditional business messages, and the executives who deliver them. I summarize the key elements of the transformation as follows: Customers are seeking control in a run-away world.

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Best practices for customer verification

The Startup Magazine

The internet is a great tool for business, transforming how companies interact with their customers and providing new channels to sell products, provide services, and make money. With that in mind, if you’re running an online business, you need to consider implementing customer verification best practices. Customer verification steps.