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Looking Back On Tech, Startups, And VC In 2018

Haystack

Also during this time, the underlying metrics in that business can change positively, potentially trapping companies to accept the initially-agreed upon valuation. Governments blocking acquisitions, the curtailment of company expansion, more scrutiny on overseas operations of U.S. That will take a long time to settle.

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Excellent Analytics Tip #18: Make Love To Your Direct Traffic

Occam's Razor

People driven by your offline campaigns. If you were really smart you would use campaign tagged vanity url so you can segment them!]. Free, non-campaign, traffic. In a nutshell these are people show up without invitation (email, display, social campaigns) or they are people who already know you.

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The Modern Approach To Account Based Marketing

ConversionXL

The book dedicates quite a few pages to the ‘customer-centric stack’ and argues that because you’re now able to know when someone is in the market for a solution like yours [via IP lookup or 1st or 3rd party intent data], you don’t need to “spam” them. Which brings us to our next question: . Is ABM right for you?

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Email Deliverability: Get into More Inboxes, More Often

ConversionXL

There are few things worse as a marketer than putting a ton of time and effort into your email campaigns only to see them perform poorly. While the usual suspects of content , design , and campaign strategy make a difference, none of that matters unless your email actually makes it to your subscriber’s inbox. Domain Keys (DKIM).

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A Complete Guide to Account-Based Marketing: Win Over Your Ideal Customer

ConversionXL

It’s not a channel, campaign, or tactic. How you approach it will depend on your business model and ideal accounts and how (or if) you plan to expand campaigns. For 90% of companies , the top goal for ABM is new business generation— new clients, new contracts, new logo acquisition, etc. ABM isn’t a quick and easy win.

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The Lean LaunchPad – Teaching Entrepreneurship as a Management Science

Steve Blank

What are your hypotheses around customer acquisition costs? Actually engage in “search engine marketing” (SEM)spend $20 as a team to test customer acquisition cost. use Google Analytics to measure the success of your campaign. Dave McClure, “Startup Metrics for Pirates”, [link]. Did you learn anything different?

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The Direct-to-Consumer Checklist

Austin Startup

25 questions that DTC entrepreneurs should ask themselves before scaling customer acquisition So you run a direct-to-consumer (DTC) brand. You just spent a few thousand dollars on advertising and your paid customer acquisition cost (CAC) numbers tested well relative to your best guess for customer lifetime value (LTV).