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Facebook Advertising / Marketing: Best Metrics, ROI, Business Value

Occam's Razor

A good business analyst will measure how many clicks came through from Facebook, and she/he will also measure the conversion rate, revenue, etc., Revenue per Facebook-referred visitor (staying with last click attribution for now). But not, ever, in aggregate.]. from those clicks. Number of qualified leads. Too strong?

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Email Marketing: Campaign Analysis, Metrics, Best Practices

Occam's Razor

Measure retention rate over time in aggregate – or for optimal health, segment retention rate – and measure it for the various objectives you have set for your email marketing program. Not revenue. Profitability = (revenue generated – campaign cost – cost of goods sold) / # of emails sent.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

Pacer is useful to search prior litigation, bankruptcies, etc. Some notable metrics are revenue growth rates, free cashflow, leverage ratios, historical financing amounts, returns on marketing spend, customer acquisition costs, lifetime value of customers, customer churn rates, and team social scores.

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How to Pitch, Plan, and Track Your Business with LivePlan [VIDEO]

Up and Running

What is revenue going to look like? A persona is an aggregate of all the traits that your customers have, so that it becomes your most common customer. I want to have enough revenue to hire a manager. We’ve got our ‘Forecast’ tab, and within the ‘Forecast’ tab, we’ve got our Revenue Forecast.

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Cracking The Code: The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008.

Cracking the Code

Be prepared to cross the desert - SaaS requires R&D and sales expense up front for a multi-year stream of revenue, so it demands enough investment capital to fund 4+ years of runway. Farming is also often overlooked, but can help grow customer accounts and revenues from 30% upwards (if successful). Great list! Philippe Botteri.

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Out of the Crisis #20: the founders of Bitwise on the role of technology in empowering people, spreading benefits to underserved communities, and the creation of OnwardUS

Startup Lessons Learned

We are still reeling from the first order of consequences of the pandemic, but we are also starting to see the second and third order effects, unemployment, hunger, mass bankruptcy, and the inequity and injustice of this crisis. And then I, of course, need revenue for this." And so she had an Academy. "I

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