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. The same video content likely works well in other channels. This post focuses on deployment rather than production, but here are high-level takeaways from those posts: Quality = attention span.

Video 129

Video B2B Technical Review Campaign 129

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

As Neal Schaffer points out: “…Companies still look at social media as a promotional and advertising channel rather than as a grand arena to collaborate with social media users, primarily customers and influencers, and work them through a relationship funnel to incite word of mouth marketing for your brand in social media.”

Social Media 142

Social Media Media Developer Marketing 142

Brandanew

MAY 14, 2015

By definition, they are closer to both their products/services and their customers, so their passion – so critical to good content marketing – is genuine, authentic, and accessible. Brandanew: In terms of content distribution, do you think social is the single biggest channel out there? Thank you Ken for your insights and time.

Social Media 100

Social Media Marketing Technical Review Distribution 100

ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

You’d think that no one could recreate a product so sophisticated and advanced as space rockets, right? With enough resources, products can always be copied. It’s tough to compete on product alone and you’re likely to see diminishing returns. And yet, revenue went up by 45% YoY. In 2002, Elon Musk created Space X.

Marketing 109

Marketing Social Media Non-Compete Audience 109

ConversionXL

MARCH 31, 2021

Using a tool like SparkToro , you can uncover the channels and influencers that your audience is most engaged with. Interviewing them will provide you with their wants and needs from a messaging perspective and uncover topic ideas and distribution channels. Your existing clients are your most significant source of insights.

Audience 127

Audience Non-Compete Distribution Channel 127

View from Seed

AUGUST 30, 2016

Regardless of your opinion of any of these companies, their successes or failures in going public, or the future of their businesses, they’ve all succeeded in convincing hundreds of millions of people (or even billions) to use their product. The city I call home, Boston, is not known for its social products. A Story of Impact.

Social Media 185

Social Media B2B North America Media 185

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Overall acquisition costs for both B2C and B2B have gone up by 50% in the past five years. Cohort analysis can be done for revenue, churn, viral word of mouth, support costs, or any other metric you care about. Also, cohort behavior often reflects the use of the product over time. The second relies on retention.

Retention 126

Retention Analytics Campaign eCommerce 126

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

More metrics need to be identified such as product testing, market validation, and/or customer validation in order to show that a market opportunity exists. Our business model back then was very complex, and it included a B2C as well as a B2B business model, that wasn’t being implemented yet. Reasons for rejection analyzed + tips.

Programming 124

Programming Chile B2B B2C 124

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 21, 2012

Compared to social media and content marketing, email is a mature channel for engaging online consumers. Regardless of whether your business is in the B2B or B2C space, your email marketing effectiveness can be optimized. A deep link in your website such as a product or features page. A dedicated landing page.

Campaign 111

Campaign Email Clickthrough Sales 111

VC Cafe

JULY 15, 2021

According to Statista, revenue generated from apps (paid downloads and in-app advertising) will reach $935 billion by 2023, and that doesn’t doesn’t include the many trillions of dollars transacted via apps in the last decade alone (think Amazon, Uber, games, etc). Worldwide mobile app revenues in 2014 to 2023 (in billion U.S.

Mobile 190

Mobile Social Media Distribution PR 190

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. You basically take the overall revenue from your business (i.e. Variation of customer acquisition channels.

eCommerce 91

eCommerce Valuation B2C Revenue 91

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 13, 2017

Initially, it was estimated that TV would be on top until 2017 but surprisingly social channels overtook the tv numbers very early this year. Additionally, it’s predicted that the amount of money spent on social media advertising is set to catch up with newspaper ad revenues by 2020. There is always that anxiety to get started.

Social Media 62

Social Media Media Marketing Lead Generation 62

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 15, 2018

As recently as a few years ago, brands and wholesalers only had a few sales channels to consider: they sold directly to retailers, or to distributors who in turn sold to retailers. Your B2B customers are also consumers, and B2C commerce is leading the way with companies like Amazon and Ebay way out in the front. Cost savings.

B2B 153

B2B B2C PPC SEO 153

Austin Startup

OCTOBER 15, 2017

What seems to be the best way to create customers and revenue may result in a business model that is out of vogue with the investment world and shortchanges you on enterprise valuation. If you bill for your technology services on a percentage of ad spend, you are guaranteed to look like an agency that deserves a revenue multiple of 1–2X.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Software Review Nevada Silicon Valley 48

ConversionXL

JUNE 25, 2021

An effective product launch strategy helps you generate awareness, build intrigue, and validate your product positioning. The best product launches take into account the product lifecycle—understanding where it fits into the bigger picture, and how to transition through each phase. But it’s not a linear journey.

Product 96

Product Social Media Audience Software Review 96

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 13, 2023

One would be hard-pressed to come up with an example of a product that consumers are not yet buying online in 2023. On the marketing front, e-commerce entrepreneurs will often fail to take advantage of the many free marketing channels that exist. As a result, they either underinvest or overinvest in certain channels.

Cost 78

Cost Entrepreneur ChatGPT B2C 78

Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 15, 2017

And I was blessed to receive many awards for our product too. I started my business, Eco-Bags Products in 1989 for three key reasons. Thanks to Sharon Rowe, Eco-Bags Products ! #4- The differences between B2C and B2B within the same brands were staggering! So Snuggwugg was invented. There are valleys and a lot of ditches.

Entrepreneur 114

Entrepreneur Czech Republic Retention B2C 114

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

This concept, according to Extraprise , is seen as real time revenue optimization. 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.

Metrics 133

Metrics B2C B2B Channel 133

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

This isn’t limited to the B2C space. Three out of every four B2B buyers would rather self-educate than learn about a product from a sales representative, according to Forrester. Let me ask you two questions: Would you like to see and use a software product before buying it? You wanted to see the damn product in action!

Marketing 289

Marketing Sales Cycle Acquisition Sales 289

Austin Startup

JULY 12, 2010

One, a focus on great customer care has become, in the era of Zappos, not just a requisite checkbox, but an opportunity for differentiation, and a primary means of acquiring and retaining users (customer care as a revenue generator, not just a cost center). Encourage them to join and support the Company-Customer Pact.” Forest for the Trees.

Customer 80

Customer Harvest B2C Technical Review 80

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

This concept, according to Extraprise , is seen as real time revenue optimization. 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.

Metrics 100

Metrics B2C B2B Channel 100

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 19, 2019

Every business, including B2B or B2C, has to bear the financial loss in their implementing their business strategies. If your business has no visibility on social media channels, you lack the most significant marketing well. You can also use your social channels for sponsored ads.

Small Business 138

Small Business Marketing SEO Social Media 138

Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Often, this is a product of the “quantity drives quality” line of reasoning – the higher the volume of leads generated, the more likely it is that some of them will be “good.” How Lead Scoring Increases Marketing ROI & Sales Productivity. Hybrid = uses both Profiling & Behavioral Scoring to assess the viability of each lead.

Lead Generation 28

Lead Generation Baltimore Programming Framework 28

Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

Last week, I wrote about Akamai , a company with strong network effects that successfully transitioned from a single product to build a platform that garners over a billion dollars in revenue and is now a core part of the Internet’s fabric. Going B2C was daunting and not in our core DNA,” Kaufer remarked.

Part-Time VPE 54

Part-Time VPE Software Review Costa Rica Technical Review 54

Brandanew

APRIL 15, 2016

However, according to The Content Marketing Institute, only 44% of B2B and 43% of B2C marketers can envision what content marketing success actually looks like. Or, maybe, boosted revenues? Here’s an illustration of what I’m talking about: It’s often easy to forget simple #guidelines to #productivity and great work.

Marketing 100

Marketing B2C Social Media Germany 100

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

A tool like Quuu identifies relevant, shareable content to keep your social media channels active. . Automation allows you to spend less time on tedious tasks and will help boost productivity, especially within a small marketing team. They read reviews of the products of target investments.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

The Next Web

DECEMBER 8, 2013

By the end, 99 percent of the B2B marketplaces had cratered and only B2C eBay was left standing and thriving. it’s really a software business, not liquidity driven) and that B2C marketplaces could not be built under the giant momentum of eBay’s “ network effect. Create “point” product value. Leverage influencers for liquidity.

B2C 136

B2C B2B Demand Vertical 136

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 7, 2020

A startup may have an excellent product or service that will bring infinite value to a market in need. A business is more than its product or service. Great content can last for decades and become a reliable revenue engine and act as a pillar for other content. This pipeline is not meant as a channel for profits, not a drain.

B2C 78

B2C B2B Architecture Dilution 78

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Critiquing the “one-size-fits-all” used by Goliath advertising on traditional channels, the authors proclaims that digital advertising allows marketers to “speak directly to the people who most want to hear what they have to say”. Determine campaign media channels. Does it increase performance and productivity?

Social Media 100

Social Media Campaign SEO B2C 100

Seeing Both Sides

JULY 11, 2013

In every start-up, finding initial product-market fit is a magical moment. You dive deep into a customer development process, working closely with a few customers who feed you requirements and are willing to trial an imperfect product that is evolving quickly. I''ll discuss each one below. 1) Enterprise Sales.

Sales 50

Sales Technical Review Software Review B2B 50

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Traffic by channel: Find out where your visitors come from Where to track traffic by channel 3. Their insights support decision-making and budget management by identifying profitable channels and honing in on where to maximize conversions. Traffic by channel: Find out where your visitors come from. in an app).

Metrics 105

Metrics Analytics Marketing Acquisition 105

www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Blog About Log in Register Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition In the many thousands of articles advising entrepreneurs on what they have to focus on to build successful startups, much has been written about three key factors: team, product and market, with particular focus on the importance of product/market fit.

Acquisition 103

Acquisition Cost Customer Entrepreneur 103

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 8, 2021

But what if your product offers a free trial and your data team tells you it takes 30 days on average for “free trial users” to become paid customers. Therefore, you need to attribute revenue by their monthly cohorts rather than when they converted in order to properly measure ROAS. And what if your product is freemium (i.e.

Acquisition 135

Acquisition Churn Rate Cost Customer 135

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Like SaaS products themselves, we now intend for these laws to be periodically refined through major releases to reflect the changing landscape of the SaaS world. Save Asia for post-IPO Single instance, multi-tenant, single datacenter - Have only one version of the code in production. I particularly agree on points #2 and #4.

Software Review 48

Software Review North America Europe Metrics 48

YoungUpstarts

JULY 29, 2013

You’re supposed to demo the business, not just the product. The investors who come to Demo Day might nod politely when you talk about the features of your product. But they’ll sit up and pay attention when you talk about the customers and revenues of the business. Have we confirmed a CHANNEL to reach our market?

Asia 207

Asia Singapore Cofounder Incubator 207

Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 7, 2020

Just because it’s an established marketing channel, though, doesn’t mean it’s lost any of its relevance. Some business owners have written off the concept of paid search because they’re not a retailer or B2C. How do you ensure that those clicks are actually resulting in revenue for your business?

Search 71

Search PPC Kansas City B2C 71

VC Cafe

MARCH 27, 2022

Metaverse – it has both B2B and B2C applications. For the market to develop, new talent must come in to the space, and developers, designers, product managers etc, who are looking to enter this space must go through the ‘rabbit hole’ and face the steep learning curve. Decentralised tech, centralised ownership?

Cofounder 179

Cofounder Venture Capital Equity 179