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Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

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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Business ecology and the four customer currencies

Startup Lessons Learned

A business that strives for something like this should absolutely be charging money from day one, in order to establish baselines for their two key metrics: CPA (the cost to acquire a new customer) and LTV (the lifetime value of each acquired customer). This is the simplest ecosystem and simplest driver of growth. Sorry about that.)

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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

Both Sides of the Table

They had previously all worked together at a very successful company in the “telecoms meets Internet&# space, CallWave, which IPO’d 5 years ago or so. This form of advertising is know at CPA (cost per action). There will be new opportunities in this value chain. Branded advertising has not proven successful online.

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How to Fine-tune Your Small Business Finances—from Funding to Growth [Webinar Recap]

Up and Running

Three, I’m a book keeper, accountant or CPA and other. Three, I’m a bookkeeper, accountant or CPA or other. It helps you when you’re investing in a marketing program even though what ad spend or what cost of acquisition you’re comfortable with. My name is John Bates. I’ll say that one more time.

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Best Web Metrics / KPIs for a Small, Medium or Large Sized Business

Occam's Razor

Use my Acquisition, Behavior and Outcomes framework to ensure an end-to-end view of important activity and 2. Acquisition: Clicks? Cost Per Acquisition. Oh, and everything has a CPA (not just your paid search or display/banner ads). Oh, and everything has a CPA (not just your paid search or display/banner ads).

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