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Conversion, retention and churn benchmarks

VC Cafe

Understanding the benchmarks on conversion, retention, and churn for your business is therefore critical. Retention : The percentage of customers who continue to use a product or service after a certain period of time, typically measured over weeks, months, or years. Retention over 50% is considered top quartile.

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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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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 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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Developing a Social Media Marketing Strategy that Builds Loyalty and Awareness

ConversionXL

Because of this, it spans two objectives: Turning customers into advocates Improving customer retention. Combining these goals and objectives will give you meaningful metrics to track. Objective Goal Metrics Grow the business Increase awareness and perceived value Followers, fans, shares, retweets, etc.

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How to Track and Improve Ecommerce Customer Acquisition Effectiveness

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By meeting buyers’ post-purchase needs , you’ll improve customer retention. Basic metrics like deals completed and revenue generated don’t measure customer acquisition success. There are several ways to calculate it, but here’s a basic formula: Average order value x Number of repeat transactions x Average retention time.

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Increase Repeat Purchases with Cohort Analysis

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The second relies on retention. 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. Cohort metrics can help drive more repeat customers. The second type is winning.

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