Board Effect

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Focusing on tailored targeting, as in the example of DCCU, can enable organizations to create more powerful membership engagement and increase new member acquisition by studying preferences, behaviors and needs. Contact BoardEffect to request a demo and learn how the right solution can transform your credit union today!

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Board Effect

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

They focus on tailored targeting, as in the example of the college, enabling organizations to create more powerful fundraising and donor acquisition and engagement by studying preferences, behaviors and needs. Contact BoardEffect to request a demo and learn how the right solution can transform your mission-driven organization today!

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 18, 2021

A product demo is a critical tool in the sales process. In this article, you’ll learn what makes a compelling demo. In this article, you’ll learn what makes a compelling demo. We’ll look at the important principles and break down how successful companies use demos to engage prospects. Done right, it’s a deal maker.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 5, 2010

Marco Zappacosta served up an cogent, business focused and nicely demo’d pitch of their product. would acknowledge – they needed to get to the demo more quickly. Jason let them run over their time slot by a long time – the demo was worth seeing and he obviously knew this. As I’m sure Pip.io

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Product should be your main channel for customer acquisition, retention and expansion. It has high close rates and shorter sales cycles, and some of the usual metrics are lagging indicators (demos attended, proposals sent, and average deal size). Daniel Layfield, Growth Product Manager at Codecademy.

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Board Effect

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

They focus on tailored targeting, as in the example of the college, enabling organizations to create more powerful fundraising and donor acquisition and engagement by studying preferences, behaviors and needs. Contact BoardEffect to request a demo and learn how the right solution can transform your mission-driven organization today!

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

A sales funnel focuses on the marketing campaign and purchasing process that leads to the acquisition of new and repeat clients. Each discussion should end with a clear next step with the potential customer, such as another call, a demo, or a training session. Instead, consider how to transfer a call at a convenient time for them.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2021

Unlike traditional demo days or Shark Tanks which are, “Here’s how smart I am, and isn’t this a great product, please give me money,” a Lessons Learned presentation tells the story of a team’s 10-week journey and hard-won learning and discovery. . – while simultaneously building a series of minimal viable products.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

YouTube / Vimeo – Demos of our software or website. Paper Trail – Log acquisition, merging from multiple servers, and analysis. Marketing and Communications. Mailchimp – Mailing list management, especially for externally-visible lists. WordPress – Corporate website, blogging.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

Customer Acquisition. Those two things together would lower your acquisition costs nearly in half to $6.11. Ironically, there are times where it may actually pay to INCREASE your customer acquisition costs. Measuring customer acquisition is clearly not enough because not all customers stick around. lowering $1.50

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View from Seed

JANUARY 10, 2022

With two successful accelerators under our belts, we’ve proven that going back to basics with smaller cohort sizes and zero demo days works. I liked that there was no organized demo day at the end of the program.” – Lillian, ShelfLife. The culmination of this accelerator program isn’t a demo day or a big show.

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Board Effect

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Using cost-per-acquisition bidding on Google ads, they’ve had a significant increase in new donors. Request a demo today to learn how BoardEffect can support your mission-driven organization’s efforts. New donors now constitute a fourth of their total YouTube donation revenue.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2015

The Founder needs to remember that meetings up to this point have been primarily off-site, with staged demos, and managed personally by the CEO or a small team. Sales and distribution channel activity will be analyzed, as well as cost of customer acquisition, to make an independent assessment of your financial projections.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 11, 2013

Investors Really Want Evidence of Traction So you built your MVP; you bring it to the investor; you demo it; and I will guarantee they will ask you: "So how many users do you have? You may have to build something out to show it working for someone to evaluate whether it really works better than what else exists.

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Board Effect

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Hospital trustees also need to be aware of how mergers and acquisitions create potential new risks and vulnerabilities. Request a demo today. Trustees must have a strong understanding of how their systems and information connect with other systems in ways that compromise security.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 6, 2019

On Facebook, an ideal customer may log on to see photos of a new nephew, not to check out a 30-second demo of your SaaS product. Product announcements and demos. At the same time, a formal video demo may not capture audience attention, especially at the top of the funnel. To watch the video on LinkedIn, click here.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Customer acquisition drives sales and profit margins and it needs to be measured and balanced together with the customers’ lifetime value (LTV). This article explains how businesses can resist one of the top startup killers known as high customer acquisition costs (CAC). We will go through 5 key strategies for lowering CAC.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Maybe you'll even get a wobbly demo. It sounds simple: The average cost of acquiring a customer is $C (advertising, sales, support, doing demos) and the lifetime revenue you get from that customer is $R, so if C < R you have a business. Cue sound of cicadas buzzing. (Or Or "crickets chirping" but in Texas the cicadas are louder.).

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ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2022

In addition to offering multiple ways for people to connect, we allow buyers to choose between getting a demo or getting started with our free software and upgrading through the product at a time that suits them. Each KPI will show whether a play is on course to hit a goal and flag up underperforming tactics.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

Unlike traditional demo days or Shark Tanks which are, “here’s how smart I am, please give me money,” a Lessons Learned presentation tells the teams’ stories of a 10-week journey of hard-won learning and discovery. We just finished our 5th annual Hacking for Defense class at Stanford. What a year.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

The launch of the Xbox and Kinect, and the acquisitions of Skype and Yammer happened on his shift. Visionary CEOs don’t need someone else to demo the company’s key products for them. If you think the job of a CEO is to increase sales, then Ballmer did a spectacular job.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

The launch of the Xbox and Kinect, and the acquisitions of Skype and Yammer happened on his shift. Visionary CEOs don’t need someone else to demo the company’s key products for them. If you think the job of a CEO is to increase sales, then Ballmer did a spectacular job.

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Version One Ventures

MAY 17, 2022

And thus we’ve seen the rise of product-led companies…companies that rely on the product itself to drive user acquisition, activation and retention. . P.S.: You can request a demo here! But most people don’t want to engage with salespeople – not if they can actually experience the product they’re buying.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

According to ProfitWell , customer acquisition costs (CAC) have increased by over 55% in the last 5 years: At the same time, customer willingness to pay for features has dropped by 30% during that same period: So, on one hand, we have rising costs; on the other, we have a lower willingness to pay. customer acquisition process and channels).

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ConversionXL

MARCH 5, 2019

The sender included a 30-second video interacting with his website: The custom, pre-recorded demo in this email won praise—and a response. Offering to send a pre-recorded demo in an initial email (rather than sending it at first contact) can preserve resources for interested recipients. Or a pre-recorded demo? Image source ).

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deal architect

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

I expected a marketing event , and it mostly was with a focus on “most significant product announcement in 23 years”, demo of prettier UX, talk new acquisitions, speed. I listened to the SAP S4Hana webcast today from the NYSE. Enterprise Software (IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP)'

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2016

Putting lean principles into NGA’s acquisition practices. As part of the Department of Defense, the NGA acquires technology and information systems through the traditional DOD’s acquisition system – which has been described as the antitheses of rapid customer discovery and agile practices. And the winners get to go Stage 2.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2016

Putting lean principles into NGA’s acquisition practices. As part of the Department of Defense, the NGA acquires technology and information systems through the traditional DOD’s acquisition system – which has been described as the antitheses of rapid customer discovery and agile practices. And the winners get to go Stage 2.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 25, 2016

What we’re trying to prevent is to have teams give the DOD/IC yet another great technology demo. The team made progress understanding the Special Operations Command (SOCOM) acquisitions process in slides 3-5 and mocked-up an MVP. They have plenty of those. However, they still list organizations as beneficiaries.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 25, 2016

What we’re trying to prevent is to have teams give the DOD/IC yet another great technology demo. The team made progress understanding the Special Operations Command (SOCOM) acquisitions process in slides 3-5 and mocked-up an MVP. They have plenty of those. However, they still list organizations as beneficiaries.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

A major way in which these clinics generate revenue is through open days where patients get to see live demos of new treatment and are able to book the treatment there and then, often at a discounted price. With [COVID-19], however, such events are no longer feasible and are unlikely to be for the foreseeable future.

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ConversionXL

JULY 21, 2022

They might then progress to learning how one product differs from another before searching for a demo that shows how a product specifically benefits them. For example, someone looking for accounting software might start their journey by searching for the benefits of using accounting software.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 18, 2022

The Navy has demos of alternatives, but there is no force structure built on a different set of principles that would complicate China’s plans and create doubt in our adversaries of whether they could prevail in a conflict. . The Navy has world-class engineering and acquisition processes to deal with hardware. In fact, there isn’t.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Here’s Proquo’s lead generation landing page: By doing this, they’re able to progress prospects through the funnel more quickly, reducing cost per acquisition. In the consideration stage, use demo videos, webinars, free trials, etc. Another great use of content advertising can be found in email marketing.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

In the 21 st century the DOD/IC community have realized that adversaries are moving at a speed that our traditional acquisition systems could not keep up with. First, our mantra to the students has been to learn about “Deployment not Demos.”

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

The hard part in a company is not getting a demo or setting up an internal accelerator, it’s getting something delivered all the way through your existing sales channel. What does it take to get from that demo into your engineering group, to be delivered as a product into your existing sales channel?

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Offer a live demo. As Dropbox CEO Drew Houston detailed in a presentation , a referral offer that let Dropbox users “earn” 16 extra GBs of storage space drove millions of signups and dramatically reduced customer acquisition costs. For example: Requests an industry research study? Suggest an email list signup. Ask for referrals.

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