ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

In my daily work with ecommerce brands, I see two types of companies: The first type focuses on acquisition and conversion. Overall acquisition costs for both B2C and B2B have gone up by 50% in the past five years. The second relies on retention. The second type is winning. How to drive repeat purchases by cohort.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

This isn’t limited to the B2C space. Three out of every four B2B buyers would rather self-educate than learn about a product from a sales representative, according to Forrester. Just take a look at these three channels: Facebook : 171% Increase in Cost per Thousand Impressions, or CPM ( 2017 ). Target or enemy (i.e. Tidal Waves.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 17, 2023

How To Scale Your B2B Marketing Strategy written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with Louis Gudema In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Louis Gudema. Louis is a fractional CMO for B2B companies, and mentors startups at MIT. And I, that's really my expertise.

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View from Seed

MARCH 3, 2015

Then there were also certain social channels that worked for awhile but didn’t stick. For awhile, that channel was a share option on all our blog posts, and we tried paying for stumbles for some campaigns. I don’t want to put all my trust just into one channel because that’s too risky. Where do you start?

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 8, 2021

That’s why Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) is such a critical metric. That would mean the 1100 new customers in March are the result of February’s acquisition cost. The freemium version influences acquisition of new users. This will help you attribute the conversion to the correct acquisition cost. The key takeaway?

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 24, 2020

Whether you’re interested in selling a website you built from scratch, or want to sell your Amazon-based B2C brand, there are many different baseline factors that go into determining an appropriate website valuation number. Variation of customer acquisition channels. Examples of these include the following: Age of business.

eCommerce 91

eCommerce Valuation B2C Revenue 91

Austin Startup

OCTOBER 15, 2017

We had to estimate hardware costs at various volume levels, distribution channel discounts, competitive pressures from Imsai and a few others, and then decide to go to market with a strong conviction in our pricing strategy. What is your Customer Acquisition Cost?

Technical Review 48

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

In their own words, it’s: “B2C and B2B marketing that optimizes value to the buyer at any stage of the customer life cycle, dramatically increasing the propensity of that customer to purchase. This concept, according to Extraprise , is seen as real time revenue optimization.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

In their own words, it’s: “B2C and B2B marketing that optimizes value to the buyer at any stage of the customer life cycle, dramatically increasing the propensity of that customer to purchase. This concept, according to Extraprise , is seen as real time revenue optimization.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Are there use cases for voice search in B2B? Notably, Dean continued, “the growth in voice isn’t coming 100% from smart speakers like Google Home, which aren’t super relevant for B2B companies anyway. Instead, a good chunk of all searches are becoming voice searches on mobile phones and—important for B2B—desktops.”.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Click-Through Rate Definition The Conversion Rate Formula: How to Calculate Conversion Rate Bounce Rate: Everything You Want to Know and More How To Calculate and Increase Customer Lifetime Value PPC Click-Through-Rate: What it Means and How to Use It (and Improve It) How to Track and Improve Ecommerce Customer Acquisition Effectiveness.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Behavior Scoring = evaluating a lead based on the observed activities and behaviors of the individual across multiple channels (attending a webinar, viewing an RFP, downloading a thought leadership piece, scheduling a call with Sales, etc.). Hybrid = uses both Profiling & Behavioral Scoring to assess the viability of each lead.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Lead generation , customer acquisition, and sales resources are being approached differently. If you are a small to medium-sized business, you may be contemplating how to transform your sales team to maximize the results from lead generation and customer acquisition activities while minimizing sales resources. Personalizing Pitches.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 30, 2016

Acquisitions are happening more and more, while companies like PillPack, Actifio, CarGurus, OnShape, Acquia, Applause, and others continue to march forward. These companies are all over the map: B2B, B2C, SaaS, ecommerce, healthcare, SMB-focused, enterprise-focused, etc. Thank you for reading our insights and our story.

Social Media 185

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Seeing Both Sides

JULY 11, 2013

Across our portfolio and in my own entrepreneurial experience, I have seen three main sales models work successfully in scaling B2B sales: 1) Enterprise; 2) Telephone; and 3) Developer-driven. customer acquisition cost or CAC). I''ll discuss each one below. 1) Enterprise Sales. in quota for a rep (i.e., $1m

Sales 50

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ConversionXL

JUNE 8, 2017

Acquisition segments. Acquisition segments. If you are in B2B, you’ve certainly heard of account-based marketing by now. Following are the main types of segments that you will be able to actually build and use with the technology available today. Contextual segments. Behavioral segments. Historical segments. Image Source.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 7, 2016

If you’ve ever thought about running a PPC campaign for the first time, there’s a good chance you were wondering which PPC channel to use. As of today, Facebook ad targeting is much stronger than any other PPC channel when it comes to demographics. LinkedIn (not great for B2C). Education level. Work/career. Political affinity.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Explore the impact of dark social on brand discovery and gain insights into the four key channels for optimization: traditional search engines, rented channels like social media, earned media through endorsements and PR, and emerging media such as voice and AI platforms. So it's not just sort of a one. And that's the other thing.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 5, 2013

This explosive growth has made Pinterest a viable traffic and revenue source for many B2B and B2C businesses. Integrate Pinterest With Your Other Social Media Channels. Because of this, many brands have established followings on one or both of these networks and a need was created to raise awareness for their Pinterest channel.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Over a third of email marketers struggle with acquisition and close to a half say increasing engagement is their number one challenge. Email generates as much as $42 for every dollar spent , and is a top-three marketing channel for 87% of B2B and 76% of B2C marketers. via B2B Marketing Alliance ].

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Email Customer Marketing Software Review 136

Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 9, 2013

From step five on you were likely already delivering some multi-channel value for your company. Now in step eight , we really kick things up multiple notches when it comes to creating a truly fantastic multi-channel (or the flavor of the month, omni-channel) execution engine. It is a part of multi-channel analytics chapter.

Analytics 165

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

While I can't know all the goals you should set (and the economic value you should use for each goal), let me share with you five goals that every business, B2B or B2C, should set up in their analytics practice (in Google Analytics, IBM Analytics, Adobe Analytics, or whatever it is that you are high on right now). Lameness ensues.

Analytics 60

Analytics eCommerce Metrics Acquisition 60

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

It’s nothing more than another marketing channel for you to experiment with, analyze, optimize and grow. Are you aware of your cost per acquisition on other channels? B2B Affiliate Programs Look a Little Different. According to the benchmark report, most affiliates work in the B2C space (79.45%).

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VC Cafe

MARCH 15, 2016

To begin with, let’s illustrate the sales process with a simple graphic of the funnel that comes from an excellent post on Stratechery about marketing channels. At the end of the post, we’ll have a look at sales within the broader context of customer acquisition and customer success. My post focuses mostly on conversion. Online chat.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors. A tool like Quuu identifies relevant, shareable content to keep your social media channels active. . I previously posted a detailed presentation with sales technology tools useful for B2B sales.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

VC Cafe

MARCH 22, 2021

Although this has been known for years for B2C companies, it is interesting to see B2B companies realizing the importance of marketing early on, as well. . It also gives brands a way to differentiate themselves in a fragmented market, where traditional channels become very costly. Part time CMO for B2B and B2C startups.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 20, 2013

Part of the reason is that even if you work for a multi-channel company you are likely in the "web," "interactive," "internet," or "digital" division. Digital advertising and marketing is a key part of ZQI's multi-channel acquisition portfolio. Not too shabby, right? That is not bad.

Analytics 139

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ConversionXL

MARCH 21, 2017

Influencer marketing works in part because it bypasses the very real shortcomings of channels like display. Treat it like any other acquisition growth experiment. We have been focused on improving and expanding our influencer marketing channel since then (20 months ago).”. How Does the Influencer Marketing Relationship Work?

Marketing 78

Marketing B2C Social Media Channel 78

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

It also has massively delicious implications in your data, acquisition and retention strategies (ignoring the sweet, heavenly, implications on your customers). Extend the above incentive purification and imagine the day-to-day behavior of your Acquisition team if you measure them based on CPH. Applying it to digital advertising….

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Metrics Analytics Acquisition Naming 60

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

If you are a regular reader of this blog you know how deeply fond I am of the Acquisition, Behavior, Outcomes framework. Now it's time for acquisition. It will be a great reflection of how well thought out their acquisition strategy is, or how sub-optimal it is. ~ Channels where they should exist but don't.

Web 138

Web Analytics Technical Review Affiliate 138

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

The team at Google has done a great job of having the end-to-end view there across Acquisition, Behavior and Outcomes. It does not matter if you are a B2B or B2C or A2K, you will always see this. controlled experiments) in the reality check section of my detailed post on multi-channel attribution modeling. Thank you.

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Analytics Metrics Mobile DC 141

www.rocketwatcher.com

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Rocket Watcher Product Marketing for Startups Product Marketing for Startups About Speaking Contact Email Posts Startups Product Marketing Messaging Social Media Commentary Uncategorized Marketing Metrics 101 for B2B Startups 13. Rocket watcher b2b marketing metrics View more presentations from April Dunford.

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B2B Metrics Marketing Startup 42

Occam's Razor

JULY 22, 2013

Identify gaps in our content/engagement/channel strategy on the web, 2. At the end of this exercise, you'll end up with a really great understanding of what each of your marketing/acquisition strategy is solving for. You might also get asked this question: Wait, don't we have Facebook, Twitter and Google+ channels?

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Framework Marketing Metrics Audience 163

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Most of us have no idea how to participate optimally in this unique channel – we are doing TV on Twitter (breaks my heart). I want to propose a framework you can use to measure success using metrics that matter for one simple reason: They actually measure if you are participating in the channel in an optimal fashion. Google Plus.

Social Media 165

Social Media Metrics Conversion Media 165

Mucker Lab

MAY 1, 2013

The list of industries where the marketshare leader still haven’t learned how to use software to accelerate their customer acquisition, improve their customer retention, increase their customer satisfaction, lower their manufacturing cost, shorten their supply chain etc, etc is long and impressive. E-commerce is the canary in the coal mine.

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Software Silicon Valley Los Angeles Columbus 107

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

The top performing SaaS companies typically achieve annual customer renewal rates above 90% - with most of the churn due to death (bankruptcies) or marriage (acquisitions) - and over 100% renewals on a dollar value basis due to up-sells into this installed base. Cashflow is the other key metric. Philippe Botteri. Bessemer SaaS Law #2.

Software Review 48

Software Review North America Europe Metrics 48

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 28, 2017

Improved talent acquisition. Over 50% of B2B and B2C content marketers identify creating engaging content as a challenge. Over 90% B2B clients distrust content created by vendors. They can be influencers, niche experts (bloggers or content channel owners) or employees. Crowd-sourced content.

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