ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 25, 2020

For most online vendors, this new revenue model was a significant change in the way brands set advertising campaigns. It’s during the rise of this revenue model; banks found a way to increase their presence by pushing development in online payment gateways like Paypal, VISA, etc. This is where customer retention comes into play.

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eCommerce Technical Review Social Media Analytics 152

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2016

In SaaS (or any recurring revenue business) this is also a very difficult task. One big, beginners mistake people make in LTV is to measure revenue. If your economic case is built on increasing LTV over time or on retaining recurring revenue streams please remember to layer on “re-marketing or retention” costs into your equation.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Kawasaki’s Law of Pre-Money Valuation: for every full-time engineer, add $500,000; for every full-time M.B.A., A good way to think about valuation in seed/pre-seed is to reverse engineer the next round. A founder should know (more or less) what milestones she can achieve with the current round (in terms of product, revenue, etc).

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Founder Startup Valuation Pre-Money Valuation 187

View from Seed

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Most series A’s in B2B require a minimum level of top line revenue and a minimum amount of historical data to prove retention and some sort of repeatable growth engine. Further down the road, I find that second seeds are often necessary to help B2B companies achieve a really strong series A, even for companies with solid PMF.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Yet, offboarding is such an important and under-rated opportunity to provide a positive experience that can actually yield advocates, saved customers, and higher retention. There’s no need to over-engineer it: Groove started sending out a simple email that asks users to reply with why they cancelled. Image source ).

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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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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

1) It all starts from the Growth Hacking Funnel - in the early stages, startups should not just focus on top/bottom line metric like unique users and revenue. They should understand the different states of the user (Acquisition, Activation, Retention, Revenue) and focus on moving users from one state to the next. like/+1/follow?

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

There are two reasons to raise money: You have a killer idea that is only partially validated, that you think can get to $50M+ of revenue in 5 years with 80%+ gross margins (if margins are lower, you need a lot more revenue)and you need money to get to product-market fit, or. Revenue per customer? Revenue, Gross Margin?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 17, 2011

I put in these particular elements because I did a study of the reasons people cancel at WP Engine , and these are the main reasons for cancellation. For a quality-service company like WP Engine a high cancellation rate is a sign of terminal cancer even if acquisition rates are also increasing, so this metric isn’t useful to us.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The expansion of e-commerce should also bring about seeing returns as a strategic lever, similar to how companies used faster delivery to drive customer experience and revenue. While platforms like Instagram offer a great starting point, the key to differentiation lies in the age-old strategy of Search Engine Optimization (SEO).

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Salesforce, for example, increased its revenue market share to 18.4% Product should be your main channel for customer acquisition, retention and expansion. And the content you create will differ depending on the channel: long-tail, pain-point content for SEO, or conversion-engineered landing pages for PPC.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 4, 2016

The single most important SaaS metric is retention , because cancellations indicate lack of product/market fit, no matter the cause (price, features, severity of need, duration of need). So, retention is most-important, regardless of stage. The unicorns are dying not for of lack of revenue, but for lack of profit.

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Metrics Retention Revenue Equity 270

Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 6, 2022

In my last book, the ultimate marketing engine, I actually went as far as saying the top 20% of who you're doing business with today probably represents your ideal client. I mean, if we've got some problem we're trying to solve or trying to understand, we turn to search engines. Retention now becomes really the biggest part.

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SMS Retention Metrics Networking 90

Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 23, 2019

How to Improve Customer Retention Through Paid Search written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. But the great thing about paid search is that it’s also a powerful way to improve customer retention. Here are some ways to put paid search to use specifically in boosting customer retention for your brand.

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Retention Search Customer PPC 66

ReadWriteStart

MAY 16, 2018

Its sophisticated mobile solution increased user retention by 60 percent and significantly improved awareness and understanding of DKMS’s service with the simplicity of a cleaner presentation. Node, an AI-powered discovery engine , is going all-in on sales enablement.

Sales 90

Sales Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Software Review 90

The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

It helps your brand stand out from competitors; it involves strategically creating, promoting, distributing, and publishing content to boost your search ranking, attract audiences, build trust, and establish your brand authority to drive purchases and revenue. SEO ensures that web pages and content are visible to your target audience.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Engineers initially failed to understand the new possibilities of the new paradigm. Loyalty experts add social media to their programs in the same way that 19 th century engineers added combustion engines to their existing carriages. Automobiles started out looking exactly like old-style carriages, but without the horse.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 3, 2021

Many new businesses have a small customer base, limited revenue, and a finite amount of funding to work with. Content marketing is also effective because it has a natural synergy with search engine optimization (SEO). It also increases your “authority,” or trustworthiness, which can, in turn, boost your search engine rankings.

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Early Stage PPC Retention Churn Rate 125

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 26, 2016

The environment you work in has a big effect on your staff and is one of the major factors contributing to employee retention or turnover , according to Abasyn Journal of Social Sciences. Despite being a bootstrapped company with little revenue, we over-invested in a central New York City office at a rate of 15% rent to revenue.

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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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Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2015

Founders assumed they understood customer problems/needs, wrote engineering requirements documents, designed the product, implemented /built the hardware/software, verified that it worked by testing it, and then introduced the product to customers in a formal coming out called first customer ship. customer relationships to create demand.

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Guy Nirpaz

MAY 7, 2012

The Totango team is excited to announce its participating in the Engine Yard’s add-ons program. Engine Yard is the leading Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) provider. Once Engine Yard’s customers have developed an application, attention rapidly shifts to monetization.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 22, 2016

If the target company is able to show a ten percent EBITDA (earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization), then the acquisition team should be able to create a way to make the resulting acquisition yield forty percent EBITDA after re–engineering the combined entity. That’s quite a goal to achieve.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 19, 2013

They''ll typically appear to do well early on, but won''t have enough of a passionate following to achieve meaningful growth or revenues. For less technical developers, I''ll be covering some methods and tools to get functional prototypes built with less dependency on engineering know-how.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

It drives media attention and fosters customer retention rate, which is why most companies strive to have it in their mission statement. Mindbody is a shining example of a business that used innovation and quick thinking to turn negative circumstances into an incredible new revenue stream. Google wasn't the first search engine around.

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Technical Review Entrepreneur Software Review SEO 124

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Your most powerful growth engine is your existing customer. SAS Canada “customer champions” helped the firm restore declining customer retention rates—which had fallen as low as the mid-80s percent — back to the firm’s traditional high retention rates of 97-98 percent. That’s right.

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NZ Entrepreneur

APRIL 29, 2019

Productivity and revenue models are the big winners. I think this is more about productivity, not new revenue streams per se. But then it would potentially reflect on everything – staff retention, acquisition, being seen as a modern/technology-first business. So how can IoT be monetised?

New Zealand 40

New Zealand Technical Review Retention Acquisition 40

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 20, 2013

Meaning, the gross revenue you expect to get from a customer over its entire lifetime. You earn R revenue from them in January. Said another way, the actual distribution of revenue over infinite months would add up to the same thing as if all customers stayed 1/c months, and then all cancelled.

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Retention Metrics Revenue Bandwidth 262

Up and Running

APRIL 17, 2018

B2B ecommerce sales , (businesses selling directly to other businesses) generate three times as much revenue as B2C, at $7.7 Retention: the customer is satisfied with your product and or your brand and continues to patronize your business. And, these trends don’t just apply to businesses selling directly to consumers (B2C).

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SEO eCommerce Analytics Software Review 80

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Would a better onboarding experience improve month-one retention? Month-one retention will improve between 4 – 7%. And one might fail because an engineer unilaterally made a decision. Could the improved onboarding process reduce tech support tickets? Reduction in cancellations will meet or exceed our 75% goal.

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Metrics Database Retention Hiring 114

Steve Blank

APRIL 4, 2011

Politely it was described as “poor customer retention” but in reality it was because the product was really hard to use. Each side of a market has it’s own Value Proposition, Customer Segment and Revenue Model.) And as engineers they believed weed versus crop recognition, while hard, was doable.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 7, 2017

That latter term is used to describe an initial offer that generates enough revenue to offset the cost of acquiring a customer. Say you have 1000 customers and $1000 to spend on customer retention and loyalty. of our total sessions, still contributed 43% of the revenue during this period. It’s not what I am talking about here.).

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

Maintaining that growth would result in a 200% revenue increase. This would mean we could hire two more engineers to grow the features of the tool, as well as a designer to focus on the UX/UI. During Covid, I have seen good performance of employees during WFH and the retention rate also increased. Photo Credit: Angus Chang.

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Forecast Artificial Inteligence Entrepreneur Technical Review 129

Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 15, 2017

#7- To prioritizes employee and client retention. The company that employed us began putting profits above people and new sales above client retention. The three of us had the exact opposite mentality and created a company that prioritizes employee and client retention. increase not only brand share but also revenue.

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Entrepreneur Czech Republic Retention B2C 115

www.avc.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

The first bracket is the senior management team; the CFO, Chief Revenue Officer/VP Sales, Chief Marketing Officer/VP Marketing, Chief Product Officer/VP Product, CTO, VP Eng, Chief People Officer/VP HR, General Counsel, and anyone else on the senior team. And the fourth bracket are employees who are not in key functions.

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Equity Employee CTO Hire Fractional CTO 64

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 5, 2018

From smart cities and driverless cars to artificial intelligence, big data, CRM and SaaS, 2018 is ripe for technology companies to achieve record revenue and profits. The company’s success depends on the ability of its sales teams to deliver sustainable, predictable revenue at scale. They understand their product inside and out.

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Sales Artificial Inteligence Retention Startup 113

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

The Biggest Problem in Mobile: Retention – [link]. Must-read for marketers … Reverse Engineering Facebook EdgeRank – [link]. The Biggest Problem in Mobile: Retention – [link]. Red All Over: Newspaper Revenues Fall In Q3 – [link]. – [link]. What’s the secret to a great team?

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