The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2024

Marked by their brevity and exclusivity, limited-time offers and flash sales are time-sensitive promotions that create a sense of urgency and excitement among customers. These techniques are primarily employed to stimulate immediate customer action, and they do so by leveraging the psychological principles of scarcity and urgency.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The product design team helped them identify their users’ pain points and redesign the product to provide a more seamless customer experience. It makes the product more user-friendly and can also help build trust with customers and differentiate the product from competitors in the SaaS market.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

I have been involved in many of these innovations, mainly through my last startup venture, a company that became the world’s leading provider of credit card loyalty solutions with bank customers in 30 countries. We, as an industry, have lost track of the original business goals of loyalty and have turned the process into a monstrosity.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

With digital analytics , you have access to all the data you need to make smart decisions without solely relying on feelings. In this guide, you’ll learn how digital analytics can benefit your business and how to use it to communicate with stakeholders. Table of contents What is digital analytics and what can you gain from it?

Analytics 106

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View from Seed

MAY 16, 2019

Below the headline figures you can see that a key driver of revenue growth is “expansion” revenue of existing customers spending more each year with Slack. You can see this both by looking at a cohort “layer cake” graph or by examining the net dollar retention. Slack’s net dollar retention rate is an incredibly impressive 143%.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 19, 2014

This is work we do often over at Analytics Ninja , so I feel more than happy to provide this guide for ConversionXL’s readers. We’ve seen this again and again during the Google Analytics audits that we perform, and use of a Tag Management System certainly decreases this occurrence. See this post for further details and examples).

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

Account-based marketing is an approach where marketing and sales work together to nurture target accounts and convert or retain customers. Sales finds aligned accounts and works with marketing to create customized journeys. Sales and marketing collaborate until a deal is closed and beyond to secure long-term customer retention.

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David Teten

AUGUST 6, 2015

I look at a lot of spreadsheets and analytic reports, and way too many are difficult to read and therefore hard to understand. In an effort to make my life easier, I’ve summarized here the steps that will make it much easier for people to read, understand, and hopefully invest in your business.

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Balance Sheet Software Review Forecast Acquisition 60

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2016

To win, you need to think outside the box to deliver a better customer experience, business model, and new positioning. It isn’t something that comes naturally to most business people. They are trained in school, and by many experts, that running a business requires logical workflows and analytical thinking.

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Agile VC

MAY 16, 2019

Below the headline figures you can see that a key driver of revenue growth is “expansion” revenue of existing customers spending more each year with Slack. You can see this both by looking at a cohort “layer cake” graph or by examining the net dollar retention. Slack’s net dollar retention rate is an incredibly impressive 143%.

Lock-up Period 100

Lock-up Period Retention Azure .Net 100

Austin Startup

JULY 2, 2021

The self-service Chargify Business Intelligence analytics suite enables users to create custom dashboards with real-time billing and revenue management data. After listening to the needs of our customers, we realized this was a serious gap in the market,” said Paul Lynch, CEO of Chargify. and Canada.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 17, 2011

.”) So although it’s a single number combining several factors, and we know that averaging can obfuscate , I think cancellation rate is a good overall measure of how well the company is servicing its customers, and with tools like our detailed log you can still break apart the single number into concrete, actionable influences.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 10, 2022

It drives media attention and fosters customer retention rate, which is why most companies strive to have it in their mission statement. It seeks to solve customer problems in a better and more modern way and help such companies edge over the competition. And as we all know, wowing the customer over and over is no easy task.

Entrepreneur 123

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Growthink Blog

MARCH 1, 2016

How much research into customers and competitors should I do? Either outcome, both painful, naturally lead to the kind of hard introspection and business model re-positioning upon which solid financial projections (and yes ultimate business success!) to proposals, to sales, to retention, to ongoing revenue.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

I’ve built a loyal customer base and by selling directly through image consultants, stylists, at shows and on my website I am able to give my clients top quality at almost wholesale affordable prices. (I Our business has started little bit over a month ago, but we have already had more success that we have expected.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 30, 2014

You may have heard that Google recently announced that Universal Analytics was officially out of beta. But what does that mean & more importantly, how can you take advantage of Universal Analytics to improve your business? Universal Analytics is Google Analytics. Let’s start with the basics. This includes.

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Growthink Blog

JANUARY 20, 2015

How much research into customers and competitors should I do? Either outcome, both painful, naturally lead to the kind of hard introspection and business model re-positioning upon which solid financial projections (and yes ultimate business success!) to proposals, to sales, to retention, to ongoing revenue.

Conversion Ratio 48

Conversion Ratio Venture Capital Business Model Retention 48

ConversionXL

MAY 19, 2016

Linear funnels are conducive to the traditional customer lifecycle you’re used to hearing about. All of these questions lead to pages like this… Josh suggests that actual customer journeys are much more complex than a linear funnel would indicate. Like any model it has its pros and cons. Tweet It!].

Analytics 78

Analytics Metrics Channel Software Review 78

Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

Let’s look at XX completely different types of business, and pick just six metrics (two each for A, B and O) that would be the very best ones to measure their digital success. The goal is for each company’s Google Data Studio to not look like a CDP (customized data puke), but to be a focused strategic dashboard with an emphasis on IABI.

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Metrics Acquisition eCommerce Analytics 141

Mucker Lab

APRIL 6, 2023

Are there types of companies, market segments, industries, or business models where PLG does not make sense? If you go back to thinking about what kind of company is a great fit for PLG, there are two important criteria: The first one is your target segment, your customer size. This is awesome, but is this a fit for me? ”

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Product CTO Hire Startup Fractional CTO 78

Venture Chronicles

JUNE 10, 2011

Customer Lifetime Value (CLV) is an important metric in any SaaS business, it explains the potential for profitability and more directly the extent to which a company should spend to acquire customers, measured as Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC).

Analytics 36

Analytics Forecast Retention Metrics 36

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

You (think) you have product-market fit with real customers and real revenue and need money to grow and expand. For a Series A round you want to prove you have built a repeatable and scalable sales/revenue model and understand all parts of the business model. Team, Product, Traction, Business Model and Market.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 10, 2013

2) Add Google Analytics events everywhere. One thing that every startup should implement is tracking how customers are using their interface. You can also generate funnels to see customer retention and discover where they exit the website. . - Nadav Poraz, Founder, WhoSampled. Mohammed Elalj, CEO, Refurb.me.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 26, 2012

The more your narrow down your target audience, the higher the chance is that you will be able to reach the crucial turning-point where you offer your customers enough added value to make them happy and returning. The metrics that matter the most are returning customers (user retention), turnover per customer and viral growth (k-factor).

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Bankruptcy Technical Review Intellectual Property Due Diligence 121

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 19, 2013

Here I''d recommend developers build as minimal as possible of an HTML5 app, hook up all the requisite analytics, and test as early as possible for retention on the core action loop they want their users to take. How would you recommend that the developer pivot to the new idea without losing all of the existing customers?

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ConversionXL

JUNE 24, 2014

So, combined with the right product and services, social login can help users become loyal and habitual users, in turn boosting your customer lifetime value (LTV). Be warned, however, that social login might not be an ideal choice for all businesses. Users quickly took to Twitter and other social networks and roundly criticized the ad.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

In other words, potential customers are often put off by the effort to fill out a form, and may even leave the checkout process altogether. So, combined with the right product and services, social login can help users become loyal and habitual users, in turn boosting your customer lifetime value (LTV). Screenshot from: Society6.

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Web Analytics blog was to pull us up 10,000 feet to do something we do less than 1% of the time in the web analytics world – look at the bigger business picture. It was called: Secret To Winning With Web Analytics? Can I add any business value? Starting points for a customer centric strategy.

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Web Analytics eCommerce Campaign 139

Hearpreneur

JULY 10, 2015

Whether you pull off unique marketing stunts, have products which need no introduction or style yourself as an innovative CEO, having a defining quality is what customers will notice. However, the next evolution of the subscription commerce will become the curated subscription business model. 1) Hybrid Approach. 2) Facebook Ads.

Entrepreneur 48

Entrepreneur Software Review Technical Review Small Business 48

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Of course, when the new site launches, everyone’s too busy giving each other high fives and patting themselves on the back, that nobody notices that the new design is a near carbon copy of a major competitor & that we completely neglected to ask existing customers why they liked shopping with us in the first place.

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Conversion Design Caching eCommerce 112

Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

If you don’t have any existing customers yet talk about perspective customers. That moves into the customer acquisition strategy. This includes again another acronym I’m going to share, CAC, the cost to acquire a customer, the customer acquisition cost. The customer acquisition cost that I talked about.

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Technical Review Software Review Due Diligence Exit Strategy 60

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

A Rejoiner study found that over 50% of the cart abandonment emails they send are opened on a device that is different than the one the customer originally abandoned on. Why Your Customers Are Leaving Without Purchasing. So, here are three popular reasons so many of your customers are abandoning their carts without making a purchase.

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Sales eCommerce Email Mobile 48

Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 15, 2017

#7- To prioritizes employee and client retention. The company that employed us began putting profits above people and new sales above client retention. It was becoming a business model destined to fail. The three of us had the exact opposite mentality and created a company that prioritizes employee and client retention.

Entrepreneur 114

Entrepreneur Czech Republic Retention B2C 114

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 19, 2017

So, too, should the Test Manager take direction from their cohort of subject matter experts: Product Managers, Technical Directors, Web Designers, and Customer Service Representatives.”. Benefits of the centralized model. In the same way, the President is (or should be) surrounded by an experienced cabinet.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 10, 2017

link ) Personal — AKA I have some part in these via Degree Analytics 1st Generation Students: Success vs Failure — Case Study( link ) How IoT & Big Data is Changing Education ( link ) Just How Important is Academics to Retention? link ) Got feedback? Did I miss some awesome proposal that deserves to be on this list?

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Analytics Retention Africa Artificial Inteligence 59

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Home Books for Startups Guide Secret History-Bibliography Steve Blank Startup Tools Steve Blank Entries RSS | Comments RSS Email Subscription Get Steve Blank via your RSS Feed RSS - Posts RSS - Comments Categories Air Force (12) Ardent (10) Audubon (1) Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan (39) Business Model versus Business Plan (..)

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ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2019

Joanna Wiebe: “Writing Mirrors: How to Use the Voice of the Customer to Write High-Converting Copy”. Carrie Bolton: “Get Real with Your Customers and Your Executives—How to Really Improve the Customer Experience. The customer experience is the customer’s perception of their interaction with your business.

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