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13 Essential Digital Marketing Metrics & KPIs to Measure Performance

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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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Startup Benchmarks

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One question that keeps coming up when speaking with early stage entrepreneurs when it comes to funding, is what metrics the company needs to hit to raise seed/series A/B etc: What’s a good conversion rate? Investors look beyond top line metrics to assess other important factors. What should our MRR growth be?

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Conversion, retention and churn benchmarks

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It’s not just the competition against the incumbents and the large tech platforms that founders has to worry about, but most importantly is the company’s performance and product market fit. A high retention rate indicates that customers find the product or service valuable and are likely to continue using it in the future.

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Why revenue shouldn’t be your North Star Metric

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” 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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The B2C SaaS Landscape and the Bundle Wars

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The tech industry is obsessed with the consumer subscription model, or B2C SaaS. This gives the consumer a chance to try the product before they decide to purchase. You also see it in DTC subscriptions like Hims , self care products for men, or in fitness with Freeletics , which offers personalised training plans.

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How to Calculate & Maintain a Healthy Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC)

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That’s why Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) is such a critical metric. 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. And what if your product is freemium (i.e. LTV/CAC – Understanding the golden metric.

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The State of Consumer Tech in Israel in 2023

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While Israeli startups successes are well known in the B2B space (cybersecurity, enterprise tech, devops…), B2C startups are unsung heroes… The landscape of B2C tech in Israel is blossoming, despite several challenges. Israeli B2C – Let’s start with the high level picture. Much has changed since then.

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