View from Seed

MARCH 3, 2015

Ellie Mirman was the first marketer hired by the CMO of HubSpot, the Boston-based marketing software startup that IPOed in 2014. Below, she shares lessons learned from the earliest days of marketing the company and how this has translated to her second startup role as VP of Marketing at Toast. EM: We had waves of topics.

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www.clickz.com

JANUARY 7, 2013

); //. Marketing News & Expert Advice. Strategies Data-Driven Marketing Marketing Automation Marketing to Latinos Conference Call Local Retail Sports & Entertainment Politics & Advocacy Automotive CPG Financial Services Healthcare & Pharma Agency Spotlight. SEO Paid Search Search Marketing.

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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. In this article, you’ll learn which metrics to measure to understand and improve marketing performance.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 16, 2022

What makes customer acquisition different from marketing? Create awareness with paid social media posts 2. Borrow trust for fast results with influencer marketing 4. Personalize the buyer journey with email marketing 5. Get seen with SEO-driven content marketing Conclusion. by posting about it on social media).

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 22, 2024

They are adept at identifying the unique aspects of your brand and strategically positioning them in the market. Through their extensive networks and relationships with media outlets, they can ensure your story reaches a wider, yet targeted, audience. Unlike direct marketing or sales efforts, the impact of PR can be less tangible.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Follow them on Twitter and/or other forms of social media, in order to find out about Q&A webinars they host or to contact them directly. Here are two of the reasons we were not accepted: The market strategy is not clear. The market strategy made complete sense to me and my team members. Contact accelerator staff.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Social media isn’t a perfect source of market research: It’s not a representative sample and, for small businesses, it’s simply too small of a sample. Further, consumers crave communication with brands on social media: 95% of adults between the ages of 18 and 34 are likely to follow a brand through social media channels.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 17, 2017

Similarly, there are bases that you need to cover before you actually launch your startup in the market amidst steady competition. Understand the USPs they are banking on and how you plan to beat them once you’re in the market. You may also audit the type of content they are sharing on social media and their blogs.

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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. In marketing, cohorts are groups of customers who exhibit similar behaviors during a certain time span (e.g. Cohort analysis can be done for revenue, churn, viral word of mouth, support costs, or any other metric you care about.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 2, 2014

by Hana Abaza, Director of Marketing at Uberflip. Today’s marketers know that content works. We also know that content performs for your business when you pair it with marketing automation software; you can use content to build up email subscriptions, understand your audience’s interests, and nurture the leads in your sales funnel.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 31, 2021

The most successful agencies are beginning to invest more time and money in content marketing to establish expertise in their industry and, more importantly, generate inbound appointments. What drove you to seek out content marketing as a growth solution? Well-defined goals and objectives.

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Up and Running

APRIL 17, 2018

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 trillion in sales, compared to B2C’s $2.3 trillion in 2021, up from $1.3 trillion in 2014.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

I was in charge of all product management and marketing for the first year-and-a-half, that was a great learning experience with a very talented team of folks. It was also beneficial because I got some good experience with both B2B and B2C business models. After BITSource was successfully acquired, I moved to L.A. How did you do that?

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 7, 2023

How Employee Experience Shapes Brand Perception written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with Tiffani Bova In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Tiffani Bova. 01:03): Hello and welcome to another episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast. Like this show?

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ConversionXL

MARCH 4, 2016

There are broadly 5 types of sales enablement tools in the market today: 1. Say, which industries generate the maximum LTV to cost of sales, what is the typical time to close a deal in a specific market or what messaging performs the best with a certain user profile, can be well understood. Why Is This Useful To Marketers?

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Content marketing has become one of the most popular strategies adopted by businesses everywhere. Whether a business operates in a B2B or a B2C environment, it can benefit from a strong content marketing strategy. There are a number of reasons for the growth of content marketing. Know Your Audience. Consider Outsourcing.

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OnlyOnce

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

(This is the second post in the series… the first one When to Hire your first Chief Marketing Officer is here). A great CMO understands that the marketing budget starts with drivers and business results and works backwards in a modular way to spend, not the other way around.

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

It is not just a business book, though every dna strand in this book is more about online marketing than online analytics. Chapter 3 The Awesome World of Clickstream Analysis: Metrics. The best WA report, segmentation, site search, SEO & PPC analysis, email, rich media, cookies, data sampling. A good thing. Non-Ecommerce.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 23, 2016

written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Whether you are a B2B or a B2C organization, one thing you already know is that you need to provide quality customer service in order to be successful. They’re also talking through social media, online reviews and to their family and friends. No, really. Are you listening?

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ConversionXL

JUNE 8, 2017

I will also discuss common traps to avoid, available tools in the market and additional resources you could use to strengthen your skills and improve your success rate. You can check the Web Marketing and Measurement Model by Avinash Kaushik (who is an analytics legend): Image Source. Marketing campaigns. Measure and iterate.

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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. 1) Market fund. .” Historically, investing was a manual, artisan process.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Here's a graph that shows how US adults consume media, it shows time in hours. If you look at the mobile marketing strategies, you will see they don't reflect this shift to mobile. Media-Mix Modeling/Experimentation. Mobile content consumption, behavior along key metrics (time, bounces etc.) Amazing, right?

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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.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2021

If you want to build a successful business, a strong email marketing strategy is one of the best ways to do it. Over a third of email marketers struggle with acquisition and close to a half say increasing engagement is their number one challenge. via B2B Marketing Alliance ]. However, it’s not without challenges.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 13, 2014

Brian Honigman is a marketing consultant, a freelance writer and a social media enthusiast. The app’s growth presents an ongoing opportunity for both B2B and B2C businesses looking to increase visibility among existing and potential customers. Yes, an increase in followers is important but not the golden metric of success.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 23, 2022

” No one questions the importance of revenue, but asking the question enabled us to start thinking on what would be the right metric. Did you know that companies like Airbnb, Spotify and Netflix purposely avoid setting revenue as their North Star Metric? Why is revenue not a good ‘North Star’ Metric?

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Occam's Razor

JULY 6, 2016

Yes, I worry that Analysts, and Marketers, are spending too much time with their head buried in custom reports and advance segments and smart calculated metrics and strategic or tactical dashboards. It does not matter if you are are B2B or B2C. You can sign up here: The Marketing-Analytics Intersect. Thanks. [ /sidebar ].

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View from Seed

AUGUST 30, 2016

Let me start with a few addresses: 1355 Market Street. These companies are all over the map: B2B, B2C, SaaS, ecommerce, healthcare, SMB-focused, enterprise-focused, etc. Incepted in 2012, Alignable’s platform hit the market in 2014, and since then, we’ve seen hundreds of thousands of business owners in North America join.

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Progress in digital marketing and analytics in either scenario becomes painful (the organization / systems / thinking is simply not in the optimal position). In this post I want to arm you with the evolution you should undertake in your companies when it comes to marketing and analytics. Owning audiences, instead of just renting them.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 22, 2013

For example AIDA is from the siloed lens of Marketing (and full disclosure, I humbly believe serves company's own selfish perspective). Most of the frameworks we have also don't optimally capture the complexity of digital marketing and measurement. We don't think about our marketing expansively enough.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Take a look: This full-day Master Class focuses on how to build a startup from the ground up to focus on customers, markets, and speed of iteration. Twitter about it or post it to a social media site? We attempted to use Waterfall and market ourselves as B2C. What will be covered in the full-day program?

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

These 6 KRIs are The CHICAGO MetricsR and are the result of an aggregation algorithm based on any number of tactical metrics. Since basis of the company was to create, track, and report out on metrics it fit with the theme and the name, hence, CHICAGO MetricsR. Thanks to EdwardMarchewka, CHICAGO MetricsR ! #3- 3- Name description.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 5, 2013

3 Simple Tips to Increase Your Following on Pinterest written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing Thursday is guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing and today’s guest is Brian Jensen – Enjoy! Integrate Pinterest With Your Other Social Media Channels.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! A Discussion with Jon Bischke of Entelo: On Successfully Switching from B2C to B2B (SaaS) | saastr – crowdspring.co/1tKArlK.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 18, 2021

eCommerce marketing tends to follow broader sales and social trends, prioritizing ease of access for its innovation. We expect this trend to continue as users remain home through 2021, and many social media increases of the past year solidify into more permanent habits. Niche markets become a bigger play.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 16, 2017

How to Use Events for Evergreen Content Creation written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Many marketers treat them as a one-and-done affair – but what if you could make them work harder for you? The challenge many marketers come across is finding ideas for video content in the first place.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

In liquid markets, most of the calories expended on technology and analytics are focused on trade selection, or “ origination ”. I use another live Google doc to maintain my database of companies I’m marketing to other VCs. 2) Market . Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors.

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