Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

If you hire 6 sales reps in January at $120,000 / year salary then you’ve taken on an extra $60,000 per month in costs yet these sales people might not close new business for 4-6 months. So your Q1 results will be $180,000 less profitable than if you hadn’t hired them. Hiring more people isn’t always the right answer.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Due to the nature and growing popularity of online fitness, you should also include how you will differentiate your business and specifically operate in the online space. The financial plan section of your fitness business plan should discuss everything relating to your revenue, income, and budget. Management team.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 1, 2023

As I've taken the time to invest in companies and programs that can manage various facets of my business on my behalf, I've been able to increase my revenue and provide better financial insulation for my firm to help it withstand the negative effects of a recession. This will keep them sustainable should revenues take a dive.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

by Robbie Kellman Baxter, author of “ The Membership Economy: Find Your Super Users, Master the Forever Transaction, and Build Recurring Revenue “ Everyone knows that retention is crucial for subscription-based companies. Blue Apron is hardly alone with its churn problem.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 3, 2019

Has your company’s customer retention rate increased, decreased, or maintained the status quo over the past five years? Are you actively working on retention? Have you outlined and initiated a formal customer retention strategy? Make your retention strategy personal. Opinions don’t get people back. Email performance.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 15, 2022

In fact, as per Forbes , companies with great cultures can increase their revenue by four times. Clearly, workplace empathy is vital for both engagement and retention when it comes to millennials. The greater your effectiveness in terms of implementing these retention strategies the better the results.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Instead, watch payback period for acquisition efficiency, watch retention for product/market fit, watch expansion revenue for long-term growth, and watch gross margin for long-term profitability. The “boring” but established, large market is where revenue is easy and competition is old, slow, and has something to lose.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 18, 2017

If you have to sell them the idea that they should do CRO and that they should hire you, there’s way more friction. ” If it’s a company that does $1M in revenue per year, and we increase sales by 1%, that’s $10,000 extra revenue (who knows about profit?). Differentiation is hard. It makes a massive difference.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 12, 2023

Companies can increase their revenue potential and access new customer bases by expanding into new markets. Companies in the IT management industry need customer acquisition and retention strategies that work to set them apart from the competition. This calls for cutting-edge creations, first-rate support, and savvy advertising.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

is an elegant way to model any service-oriented business: Acquisition Activation Retention Referral Revenue We used a very similar scheme at IMVU, although we werent lucky enough to have started with this framework, and so had to derive a lot of it ourselves via trial and error. The AARRR model (hence pirates, get it?)

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 24, 2018

dropout rate at 45%, student debt at $1 trillion and student depression on the rise, colleges are under intense pressure to increase retention and demonstrate an ROI for students. It should also reflect the brand’s story, values and key differentiators. With the U.S. Tell us about your products and services. How do you help clients?

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Build a strong team – this sounds obvious, but is especially important at the early stage, where there are less metrics or revenue to assess the attractiveness of your company to investors. What roles will you need to hire? Do you have the skills in house to do UA/ retention? Think about innovation and differentiation.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 26, 2019

Even pre-launch, there’s work you can do here to differentiate yourself. Being able to staff your customer service team to respond quickly to customers, often directly on these social channels, will increase retention and repeat purchasing and also serve to drown out negative feedback. How will you take advantage of SEO and SEM?

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 8, 2020

Key concepts such as gross margin, cost per purchase, and cost of goods sold (cogs) are covered both conceptually and with real-world examples to ensure maximum retention. Kevin covers how to hire, fire, and manage a remote team and even dives into handling specific functions such as “spreadsheet based fulfillment.”.

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Guy Nirpaz

DECEMBER 12, 2011

When you develop and execute on a truly unique approach to client engagement that will absolutely be a differentiator from your competitors, brand it. This executive owner should be responsible for client retention. Increase your sales revenue! Market and Promote your client lifecycle program. Try it now for FREE.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Your product or service must have a unique sales proposition, a pitch that differentiates yours from others. Hire performance. It’s your mistake to hire friends and relatives. As long as the product is yours, you manage the relationship and retention. Revenue follows sales. Making your startup succeed.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Plenty of research shows that hiring and promoting with equality in mind, especially at the top, is critical for company success for a number of reasons. This aids tremendously with our employee recruiting and retention strategy. But, we must also recognize WHY gender equality is so important.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 26, 2023

03:41] Number 2: Revenue and profit. [04:07] So the next one of course is revenue and profit marketing is driving a lot of that, right? So is your revenue growing compared to, you know, performance maybe in the industry or you know, what about profit margin? Does it differentiate you from your competitors? (04:55):

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 26, 2023

03:41] Number 2: Revenue and profit. [04:07] So the next one of course is revenue and profit marketing is driving a lot of that, right? So is your revenue growing compared to, you know, performance maybe in the industry or you know, what about profit margin? Does it differentiate you from your competitors? (04:55):

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Mike Michalowicz

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

To increase sales; hire people. For companies making a food product you must clearly differentiate your product in a crowded market place. Be sure you understand how to make every aspect of the business repeatable and scalable: aggregation, ingredient purchasing, production, fulfillment, customer experience and customer retention.

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

Would that help retention and NPS (Net Promote Score)? Anytime you hire someone to represent you in a transaction you are subject to principle agent risk , the concern being you never know if the “agent” might be optimizing things for their own behalf, rather than simply working in the best interest of the client. Would they be loyal?

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 3, 2023

07:40): Now, obviously, that may not make the phone ring, that may not actually take you from a revenue standpoint where you want to go. Then I want to talk to you about adding a new revenue stream to your business that will completely change how you work with clients. (11:08): So what's the next level of maturity? Do I need a coo?

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 6, 2022

It just simply is a recognition that if you want to stand out, differentiate your business, you have to tell people here's who I help. In many cases is going to allow you to differentiate your business example. They wanna learn why making the decision to buy from you or to hire you is gonna be the right decision.

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Up and Running

APRIL 6, 2016

spa industry recorded more than 160 million visits, an increase of almost 16 percent from the previous year, with total revenues of $12.8 By 2013, the number of annual spa visits had increased to 164 million, with total revenues of $14.7 Wraps and packs used to combat cellulite and reduce water retention.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 10, 2022

John Jantsch (07:39): Now, obviously that may not make the phone ring that may not actually take you from a revenue standpoint where you want to go. And we're gonna have much higher retention and referral. It's time to actually probably bring on a strategic marketing hire as well. So what's the next level of maturity.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

In this way, you can clearly visualize what percentage of people would buy at a given price (in the chart above, 3% of people would buy at $41), and you can determine which price would maximize revenue. To reiterate, use this is product categories with little differentiation and where brands make a huge impact on pricing. Image Source.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

September, 2012 – Andrew Chen, who currently does growth at Uber , writes You don’t need a growth hacker , which encourages companies to really consider whether they have product-market fit before hiring a growth hacker. This means users love it, that there’s lots of retention and engagement, even at small numbers.

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ConversionXL

JULY 11, 2016

Three tactics to maximize revenue from a CRO program: Free test software. Be aware of your USPs and transfer them to your online business to differentiate from the ‘big’ competitors. As a publisher, content doesn’t make you very much money (with ads at least), so: Think about additional revenue streams.

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