View from Seed

AUGUST 30, 2016

These companies are all over the map: B2B, B2C, SaaS, ecommerce, healthcare, SMB-focused, enterprise-focused, etc. SMBs account for 54% of all US sales. “Users” is interesting, but the engagement metrics and value of users is where real success comes into play. Doesn’t look all that compelling.

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Social Media B2B North America Media 185

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 8, 2023

Keeping up with trends is the reality show of the e-commerce world, which is constantly developing, gaining a significant market share, and driving online sales. According to the Adjust and Sensor Tower report, in 2021, m-commerce accumulated 54% of all e-commerce sales worldwide, whose market exceeds $3.5 Only in 2021, 72.9%

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 29, 2011

Startups that have helpful mentors, track metrics effectively, and learn from startup thought leaders raise 7x more money and have 3.5x more likely to successfully scale with sales driven startups than with product centric startups. Here are 14 of the report’s key findings: 1. Founders that learn are more successful.

Silicon Valley 230

Silicon Valley Cofounder Technical Cofounder Startup 230

YFS Magazine

JANUARY 29, 2019

Whether you run a B2B or B2C small business, these four metrics will shed light on the strength of your marketing efforts.

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Metrics B2C B2B Marketing 99

Mucker Lab

APRIL 6, 2023

Today, a lot of the PLG SaaS tools require sales motion upfront because nobody understands those tools. Those types of tools actually require work in the initial days of the sales motion. The success of the foundation is can you get to the first PLG conversion and actually have a user or prospective customer without talking to sales?

Product 78

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 22, 2024

Unlike direct marketing or sales efforts, the impact of PR can be less tangible. However, modern PR firms employ various tools and metrics to track the effectiveness of their strategies, from media impressions and social media engagement to changes in customer sentiment and brand perception.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Measuring customer acquisition for peak effectiveness How to calculate ecommerce customer acquisition cost Calculate much your customers are worth: LTV MRR, churn rates, and other factors that affect your LTV/CAC ratios Find and fix customer acquisition funnel leaks 5 customer acquisition strategies to increase sales and loyalty (with examples) 1.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 10, 2020

Into the realm of visual merchandising, we are going to see how this vital and exciting marketing technique can propel sales in the fashion business. The key factors that boost several metrics via visual merchandising are as follows: Engagement and time-on-site. Store navigation and ease. Order inventory. Conversions.

Startup 78

Startup eCommerce B2C Metrics 78

Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2011

Founders that learn are more successful : Startups that have helpful mentors, track metrics effectively, and learn from startup thought leaders raise 7x more money and have 3.5x more likely to successfully scale with sales driven startups than with product centric startups. Startup Genome Report. Some of their key findings : 1.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

They can, however, consistently be grouped into three: (1) Business to Business (B2B) startups, (2) Business to Consumer (B2C) startups, and (3) Business to Business to Consumer. Their advanced AI platform seamlessly offers unique and highly sought-after access to customer journey metrics and upselling opportunities.

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Seeing Both Sides

JULY 11, 2013

I''ve been thinking a lot lately about scaling sales. . Before this occurs, the sales process is a craft or an art - custom-made by the founder or evangelist sales VP. How do I build a repeatable, scalable sales process that is like an industrial machine - not a crafts project? 1) Enterprise Sales.

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Sales Technical Review Software Review B2B 50

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Marketing metrics are a competitive advantage. You have to track metrics you can act on. In this article, you’ll learn which metrics to measure to understand and improve marketing performance. Table of contents What are digital marketing metrics? KPIs vs. digital marketing metrics 1. – Seth Godin.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 13, 2023

Another marketing-related error that starting entrepreneurs will often commit is failing to measure the right metrics. The return on investment (the impact of marketing on sales) – this is a trailing indicator. Entrepreneurs will often not focus enough on sales. You will not be able to read this from your dashboard in real time.

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Cost Entrepreneur ChatGPT B2C 78

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Improve sales efficiency (i.e. For example, take into account these ‘scorecards’ for series B startups in both consumer (B2C) and Enterprise Saas (B2B). Source: The Metrics to Raise a Series B (Downturn Edition). Accelerate marketing/ sales as CACs could possibly come down given less competition.

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B2C B2B Security Metrics 109

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

In their own words, it’s: “B2C and B2B marketing that optimizes value to the buyer at any stage of the customer life cycle, dramatically increasing the propensity of that customer to purchase. Others data Extraprise metrics' This concept, according to Extraprise , is seen as real time revenue optimization.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Overall acquisition costs for both B2C and B2B have gone up by 50% in the past five years. This post gives you a data-backed approach to win more repeat sales. Cohort analysis can be done for revenue, churn, viral word of mouth, support costs, or any other metric you care about. The second relies on retention.

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Brandanew

OCTOBER 13, 2015

> 66% B2B and 60% B2C “best in class” content marketers had a documented Content Marketing Strategy according to the Content Marketing Institute. Some of the quantitative metrics that companies use to measure their Content Marketing success include: a) Traffic. b) Sales lead quality/ quantity.

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Austin Startup

MAY 29, 2019

and therefore the sales?—?that Brands would get higher margins but lower revenues while retailers would get lower margins but higher revenues (generally speaking, with Apple being a notable exception owning both sides of that for much of their sales). The retailers were to provide the audience?—?and that the brands needed.

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Networking Fractional CTO CTO Hire B2C 48

Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 9, 2013

It does require working with your CMO, VPs, Directors, IT, Offline Sales, UX, IT, and more people than you could ever imagine. Bonus: Facebook Marketing: Best Metrics, ROI, Business Value ]. For B2B companies Macro Outcome Rate is related to lead generation, for B2C it is often the e-commerce Conversion Rate. Inform Me.

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Analytics Marketing Channel Metrics 165

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

In their own words, it’s: “B2C and B2B marketing that optimizes value to the buyer at any stage of the customer life cycle, dramatically increasing the propensity of that customer to purchase. Others data Extraprise metrics' This concept, according to Extraprise , is seen as real time revenue optimization.

Metrics 100

Metrics B2C B2B Channel 100

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 7, 2023

Tiffani emphasizes the need for a balanced approach to company strategy that involves all stakeholders, including IT, Marketing, Sales, Operations, and HR. Every year inbound brings together leaders across business, sales, marketing, customer success, operations, and more. A marketer sends a sales qualified lead over to the sales team.

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Employee Technical Review Advisory Board Sales 75

YoungUpstarts

MAY 17, 2017

Here’s an example of a B2B buyer persona for a customer who is looking for tools that offer marketing automation and assist him in analyzing the social media activities of his business: Get started with a blog. For promotional/sales related content, try producing content which resonates with the beliefs of your target customers.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

Related: when people say that execution is the most important metric of who will win, keep in mind that executing a fundraise is almost paramount. swing for the fences category-building B2C software capital?—?wasn’t We have the consumer market, but not investor market for what I’m selling : B2C software.) That’s a metric!

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Silicon Valley Startup B2C Sweat Equity 54

Up and Running

APRIL 17, 2018

In fact, according to Shopify , global retail ecommerce sales are on track to reach $4.5 And, these trends don’t just apply to businesses selling directly to consumers (B2C). B2B ecommerce sales , (businesses selling directly to other businesses) generate three times as much revenue as B2C, at $7.7

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SEO eCommerce Analytics Software Review 80

View from Seed

MARCH 3, 2015

But even with that webinar’s success, we still had a lot of education to do in order to get people to understand what we did and even how we saw marketing in general, which we needed to do to generate demand and sales. But marketing should always be ahead of sales to alleviate pressure. We got 300. Where do you start?

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Marketing Sales Cycle Startup CTO Hire 120

The Startup Magazine

APRIL 24, 2020

Whether you’re interested in selling a website you built from scratch, or want to sell your Amazon-based B2C brand, there are many different baseline factors that go into determining an appropriate website valuation number. but we do cover the rudimentary metrics (along with tips for improving your own site’s value).

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eCommerce Valuation B2C Revenue 91

ConversionXL

MARCH 18, 2019

In a world of fake news and fake reviews—only 37% of B2B buyers trust vendors—genuine customer success stories are precious assets. Yet, a 2018 B2B content marketing report found that case studies, while frequently created, aren’t always persuasive: ( Image source ). This is a missed opportunity. This is a missed opportunity.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 21, 2019

Most B2B leads don’t become customers. Additionally, most B2B marketers aren’t nurturing lead-magnet downloaders properly. I downloaded 25+ B2B lead magnets and discovered an array of shortcomings: Sending one or no follow-up emails, even when I opted-in to learn more. Schedule a call with sales. Or at all.

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B2B Technical Review Email Sales 131

View from Seed

JUNE 5, 2018

Intense discussion on what are the right metrics to track around recruiting. Measure and manage your recruiting effort like a marketing/sales funnel. Metrics, metrics, and metrics! Without metrics you cannot manage (and improve). How to track your recruiting funnel like a pro.

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Hiring Portfolio Metrics B2C 120

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors. I previously posted a detailed presentation with sales technology tools useful for B2B sales. Many VC funds rely on general-purpose CRM and sales funnel solutions like Copper , Pipedrive, Salesforce , Streak , and ZenDesk.

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Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Mike Michalowicz

JUNE 2, 2015

While lots of folks get themselves needlessly worked up over five years’ worth of financial projections, an incredibly useful metric can be a company’s immediate ability to pay its bills. Profit Margin = Net Income/Sales. AR Turnover Ratio = Sales/Average Accounts Receivable. Divide clients by prospects to get this ratio.

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Metrics B2C Equity B2B 60

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

An investor had few hard metrics other than the actual financials, and little technology to make the process scaleable. Over the past few decades, better metrics became available, and investors could take a more analytical, data-driven approach. Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

ConversionXL

MAY 22, 2017

Though it wasn’t intended, the last two articles I wrote on the PlainFlow blog have formed a series: The Modern SaaS Stack and the Unexploited Amount of Data is a walkthrough that shows how companies use Modern SaaS Stack to cover their Marketing/Support/Sales activities from day-0. All manual operations. The rise of PQL over MQL model.

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Customer Marketing Artificial Inteligence Clickthrough 92

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

I can report on pageviews and bounce rates and sessions and all the other lovely metrics we normally obsess about. Now, all those other metrics suddenly have a purpose and context. This the reason I love setting engagement goal types (remember though, don't call the metric Engagement, it's an excuse and not a metric).

Analytics 60

Analytics eCommerce Metrics Acquisition 60

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

To ensure customer delight was delivered in a timely manner, it was also decided that Average Call Time (ACT) would now be The success metric. The success metric, ACT, did go down. That ACT was an activity metric was terrible – if you have a The success metric, it should always be an outcome metric. Another issue.

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Metrics Analytics Acquisition Naming 60

Occam's Razor

JULY 22, 2013

My solution to these problems was to create a simple framework we can use to put our customers first, evaluate our marketing programs, and right-align our view of success (metrics). If we work in sales, all we care about are sales touch points. And that comes before you think about marketing/sales/advertising/billboards/tv.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Are there use cases for voice search in B2B? Notably, Dean continued, “the growth in voice isn’t coming 100% from smart speakers like Google Home, which aren’t super relevant for B2B companies anyway. Instead, a good chunk of all searches are becoming voice searches on mobile phones and—important for B2B—desktops.”.

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B2B eCommerce Search Technical Review 100