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Conversion, retention and churn benchmarks

VC Cafe

It’s not just the competition against the incumbents and the large tech platforms that founders has to worry about, but most importantly is the company’s performance and product market fit. Understanding the benchmarks on conversion, retention, and churn for your business is therefore critical.

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The Essential SaaS Metrics for Growth

ConversionXL

Foong said the company knew right away that they couldn’t rely on the same metrics for CandyBar that they had been using to measure ReferralCandy’s success, like LTV or CAC: Darren Foong: The product was at an early stage, so traditional marketing metrics were pointless. Image source). Image source).

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5 Key Growth Metrics Every Enterprise Startup Should Track

YoungUpstarts

Pricing is especially tricky for enterprise startups because there’s very little data available, and new entrepreneurs often price their product or service way below its value. Being able to charge more for a product is great, but along with higher prices come longer sales and payment cycles. You should also analyze churn by cohort.

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Acquire New Users by Adding Growth Hacking to your Marketing Strategy

ConversionXL

But, as Sean Ellis notes, it isn’t about manipulating customers—it’s about helping them: “Sustainable growth is about understanding the value people get from your product and helping people realize this value. Growth hacking is about caring for and optimizing the user experience to build trust and keep customers using your product.

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The 7 Key Metrics Every Business Owner Should Monitor

Up and Running

If you’re running a subscription business , you’ll want to track churn rate, monthly recurring revenue, lifetime value, and so on. However, there are a number of metrics that every business owner should know, including cash flow, accounts payable, accounts receivable, direct costs, operating margin, net profit, and cash burn rate.

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Critical Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for Founders

Up and Running

You need to use your time and resources productively by focusing on the right metrics so you can use data to help you implement improvements that matter. Daily active users to monthly active users ratio: reflects how often users engage with your product, i.e., its stickiness. Customer Support KPIs.

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Visualizing the Interactions Between CAC, Churn and LTV

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

There are numerous online resources to help with the exact mathematical formulas for CAC, CAC payback, churn rate and LTV. From that point and until they eventually decide not to renew the subscription (called “churn”), you progressively accumulate net profit for that customer (called “lifetime value”).