Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

One thing I’ve noticed is that almost every repeat, previously-successful-founder focuses on the same thing for their respective startups: customer acquisition. But, if they are not, it’s very hard to use paid acquisition to generate that type of traffic for under $5. Sales cycles matter though.

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Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

One thing I’ve noticed is that almost every repeat, previously-successful-founder focuses on the same thing for their respective startups: customer acquisition. But, if they are not, it’s very hard to use paid acquisition to generate that type of traffic for under $5. Sales cycles matter though.

Founder 48

Founder Sales Cycle Affiliate Retention 48

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Products can find sources of validation with impressive stats along a number of dimensions, such as high engagement, viral coefficient, or long-term retention. Do you have any thoughts on scalable customer acquisition in cases where a decent bit of knowledge work has to be invested into each customer? Fantastic post.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2018

Tara Robertson – How to 10x Growth by Optimizing Customer Marketing & Retention. Retention is the most important thing – if that’s poor, nothing else matters. Retention is the most important thing – if that’s poor, nothing else matters. Start with retention. Offline sale – typically.

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ConversionXL

MAY 19, 2016

The biggest shortcoming being that it considers the sales cycle to be a linear process where a customer passes sequentially through sales steps and where he/she is the only one involved in the decision making process. One of my favorite examples of this is the design of viral loops. And I think this is really the point.

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