VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

One question that keeps coming up when speaking with early stage entrepreneurs when it comes to funding, is what metrics the company needs to hit to raise seed/series A/B etc: What’s a good conversion rate? Investors look beyond top line metrics to assess other important factors. What should our MRR growth be?

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B2C Technical Review Startup Retention 141

Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 25, 2023

From crafting a compelling brand identity to mastering digital marketing, it's a multifaceted journey that demands careful planning and execution. By creating high-quality, engaging content on your website, you drive sustained traffic over the long term and establish yourself as a reliable player in the market.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 8, 2023

Keeping up with trends is the reality show of the e-commerce world, which is constantly developing, gaining a significant market share, and driving online sales. The story behind its substantial growth in the market is simple: people love to shop in the most convenient way possible, and a smartphone is a perfect way to do it.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Right now there is almost certainly an enterprise exec in a boardroom somewhere saying, “We need it to go viral.” Kittens and memes and babies kissing puppies… viral. When most people think about going viral, they think about raising a lot of awareness for their product or company. Do you even want to go viral?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Others do far too little, assuming the viral effect and word-of-mouth will soon kick in, and sales will suddenly grow exponentially. Continually add new marketing and distribution partners. Real growth always requires real marketing. Ask every employee to focus on sales. Shorten the close cycle to grow faster.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 26, 2022

TikTok has evolved from a platform known for viral dance moves to a place of rapid product discovery. For ecommerce business owners and marketers, jumping on this bandwagon is different to jumping on Facebook and Instagram. The TikTok buying craze even has its own viral hashtag: #TikTokMadeMeBuyIt. TikTok users spent $2.5

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

TikTok Ads give you the chance to put your products in front of the platform’s highly engaged user base to raise brand awareness , build relationships and increase sales. TikTok even has its own viral hashtag: #TikTokMadeMeBuyIt , which is a one-stop shop for the weird and wonderful products brands sell on the platform.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 21, 2013

Insufficient capital, over investment, and low sales are just some of the reasons leading to this sobering statistic. Through rapid experimentation, short product development cycles, and rigorous measurements of the right metrics, they can ascertain what customers really want. This reduces guesswork, time, money and effort.

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leananalyticsbook.com

AUGUST 19, 2012

The One Metric That Matters. One of the things Ben and I have been discussing a lot is the concept of the One Metric That Matters (OMTM) and how to focus on it. That doesn’t mean there’s only one metric you care about from the day you wake up with an idea to the day you sell your company. Lean Analytics Book.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

You may be a product expert, but have little experience with running a business, or marketing, or sales. In the startup world, even the best-laid plans are probably wrong, so there is a need to be able to launch fast, have metrics in place to measure progress, learn from real customer feedback, and pivot as required.

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Stealth Startup Metrics Viral 406

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

YouTube Marketing and Analytics Framework for Success. Some have experimented with virality ( Pepsi Test Drive or Dove Beauty , etc.), Some have even tried original content (a la GoPro ), but originality without key integrations into the overall marketing strategy and media mix is hard to pull off/sustain. YouTube is amazing.

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Analytics Marketing Audience Channel 149

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 9, 2020

Others do far too little, assuming the viral effect and word-of-mouth will soon kick in, and sales will suddenly grow exponentially. Continually add new marketing and distribution partners. Real growth always requires real marketing. Ask every employee to focus on sales. Shorten the close cycle to grow faster.

Social Media 329

Social Media Metrics Viral Channel 329

Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 4, 2024

As the founder of The Clikk, Russell has witnessed the evolving landscape of newsletters, recognizing them as a powerful intersection of content marketing and direct response promotion. Discover the resurgence of email newsletters as a dynamic tool for content marketing and direct response promotion.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 6, 2019

The growth of B2B video marketing. Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat have thus far dominated the market in video ad spend on social media. Don’t copy the style of a popular video (especially a “viral” one) if you’re trying to drive home your unique value proposition or establish your brand. digital ad spend went to video.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Every year I teach classrooms full of students who leave class understanding the basics of how to search for product/market fit—and thinking their next goal is to “get funded.”. You (think) you have product-market fit with real customers and real revenue and need money to grow and expand. It’s sometimes called “product/market fit.”

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Cofounder Seed Stage Valuation Metrics 431

Cracking the Code

MARCH 10, 2008

Measuring sales and marketing effectiveness of SaaS companies. For companies with short implementation cycle (like e-mail marketing), then the revenue can be recognized in the same quarter and therefore the formula should be calculated with the S&M cost from the quarter N, not (N-1) for the same reason. at 8:58 PM.

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Sales Software Review Marketing Technical Review 79

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

They don’t know how to analyze a market or competition, so they make it up instead learning how to do it. The implication is that this was unknowable or bad luck, but the truth is, this was a predictable result of not understanding the market. Sometimes that’s airtight product/market it. But don’t get hung up on it.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 14, 2022

Of those competitors, a few of them have marketing and sales budgets equal to millions of dollars which are used on paid advertising, media mentions, influencers, and more. Tiny marketing and sales budget. How we leveraged SEO in our go-to-market strategy. This is a subjective metric but still important.

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SEO Software Review Search Acquisition 104

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

A large and growing market opportunity. Investors look for startups which can address large markets, meaning those larger than a billion dollars and growing at double-digit rates. Small markets tend to change more rapidly with the economy, and may be more easily influenced by fads and competitors with recognized brand names.

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Exit Strategy Technical Review Distribution Viral 120

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

What metrics do we use to see if we learned enough in Customer Discovery ? And without revenue how do we know if we achieved product/market fit to exit Customer Validation?” I gave my boilerplate answer, “I’m a product guy and I tend to invest and look at deals that have measurable revenue metrics.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 3, 2018

In today’s world, a business can’t thrive online without a strong content marketing strategy. Marketing experts agree that selling any product or service requires building a relationship with the customer first, and relationships with web visitors are built through content. Redefine the way you interpret the ‘engagement’ metric.

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Social Media Media Marketing Viral 124

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2023

How To Maximize The Power Of Newsletters written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with Russell Henneberry In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Russell Heneberry. He’s the Founder of theCLIKK, an email newsletter about digital marketing. Like this show?

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ChatGPT Advertising Email Viral 91

ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Digital marketing is a series of tools that most modern businesses use to bring customers to their products and services. It involves using digital outlets like websites, social platforms, and software applications as marketing channels. There are a wide variety of options in digital marketing encompassing many different methods.

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Marketing Early Stage Startup PPC 158

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

There are obvious reasons the industry has had less-than-desirable returns, including: massive over-funding of the sector, huge increases in inexperienced venture capitalists that took a decade to peter out, and the massive correction in the value of the public stock markets that closed many exit opportunities for half a decade.

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Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

Cracking the Code

MARCH 23, 2007

Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Popular Media is a hosted, web-based technology platform that enables customers to quickly create, optimize, and scale viral marketing programs - and it seems to work pretty well. Labels: internet , sales and marketing. sales and marketing. (10).

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Software Review Viral Media Marketing 48

www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Blog About Log in Register Designing startup metrics to drive successful behavior Great companies are almost always run by great management teams. Blog About Log in Register Designing startup metrics to drive successful behavior Great companies are almost always run by great management teams.

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Metrics Design Entrepreneur Startup 55

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

This post gives you a data-backed approach to win more repeat sales. In marketing, cohorts are groups of customers who exhibit similar behaviors during a certain time span (e.g. Cohort analysis can be done for revenue, churn, viral word of mouth, support costs, or any other metric you care about. By month of first order.

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Retention Analytics Campaign eCommerce 126

www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Blog About Log in Register Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition In the many thousands of articles advising entrepreneurs on what they have to focus on to build successful startups, much has been written about three key factors: team, product and market, with particular focus on the importance of product/market fit.

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Acquisition Cost Customer Entrepreneur 103

Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Over the last 13 years he’s worked with companies like Target, Jeeter and Shopify to implement performance marketing campaigns. Key Takeaway: In today’s complex marketing landscape, Ryan emphasized the vital role of a fractional CMO in steering your business towards success. This is John Jantsch.

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Channel Acquisition Framework B2B 65

ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2018

#CXLLive speaker @HanaAbaza talking change and driving growth thru better marketing @Shopify #digitalmarketing #betterleadgen pic.twitter.com/mZhn60TUW2. Marketing can polish a turd. Positioning isn’t something marketing makes up, it’s something marketing uncovers. There are low-hanging fruits everywhere.

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Retention Artificial Inteligence Channel Email 106

ConversionXL

MAY 19, 2016

Gone are the days of simple funnels and so there are many external factors that influence a purchase decision, such as content marketing or social media. While McKinsey talks of profound changes … Marketers have long been aware of profound changes in the way consumers research and buy products.

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Analytics Metrics Channel Software Review 78

ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

If you haven’t invested in brand awareness marketing then the opposite will happen. In this article, you’ll learn what brand awareness marketing is and how to become the only obvious choice when the prospect is ready to buy. What is brand awareness marketing, really? Brand is how you win in crowded markets.

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Audience Technical Review Social Media Campaign 122

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 22, 2020

Websites offer a good platform for point of contact and a sales lead magnet. This can help reduce the money spent on marketing. Good content that’s likely to impress search engines contains the following metrics. Acts as a Sales Generator. The goal of websites is to generate sales and grow their businesses.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 22, 2009

Building Your SaaS Sales Compensation Plan. Compensating the sales force is a difficult task and the key is usually to keep things simple, so that each sales rep knows what he needs to optimize to make more money at the end of the quarter. which is very close to the typical 8% paid for sales commissions.

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Software Review Clawback Sales Salary 91

ConversionXL

MARCH 31, 2021

With content marketing, it can be easy to get lost in the noise and miss what matters. For this article, let’s consider just two metrics—an engagement metric—social shares and an SEO metric—keyword rank. But given marketers are often limited on time and resources, which should you prioritize if you have to choose?

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SEO Metrics Social Media Audience 163

Cracking the Code

JULY 6, 2007

SaaS business metrics: why are they different? Different models require different performance metrics. developed a white paper on performance metrics for Technology service Vendors (TSV) and this post present the key elements of his reflexion adapted for SaaS companies. The MRR is a great metrics, but it can be perfected.

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Software Review Metrics Valuation Technical Review 66

View from Seed

AUGUST 30, 2016

Let me start with a few addresses: 1355 Market Street. Incepted in 2012, Alignable’s platform hit the market in 2014, and since then, we’ve seen hundreds of thousands of business owners in North America join. SMBs account for 54% of all US sales. Full disclosure: NextView is an investor in Alignable. 2029 Stierlin Court.

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