Women Entrepreneurs Can

APRIL 22, 2022

Before we get into the specifics of sure-fire new business initiatives, keep in mind that you will need to test, trial, and deploy several sorts of campaigns on a consistent basis. Well, customers’ needs and wants are ever-changing, and your business needs to be in front of what’s causing the change. Be Ready to Accept Change.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2016

Contrary to popular opinion, viral marketing has not eliminated the need for old-fashioned lead generation to bring customers to a startup. For new product startups, search engine marketing (SEM) is still one of the most cost-effective and scalable lead-generation approaches. Social-media advertising. Display advertising.

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 4, 2012

Custom reports on the other hand are, well, hand crafted by you for a specific purpose with a set of guiding principles (" Acquisition, Behavior, Outcomes! ") In this post I want to share with you three insightful custom reports for effective paid search (PPC) analysis. So what can we learn from those landing pages?

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Analytics Campaign Search Customer 127

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, November 7, 2008 Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online service, step-by-step If you want to build an online service, and you dont test it with a fake AdWords campaign ahead of time, youre crazy. If youre worried about disappointing some potential customers - dont be.

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Demand San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 167

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2018

Contrary to popular opinion, viral marketing has not eliminated the need for old-fashioned lead generation to bring customers to a startup. For new product startups, search engine marketing (SEM) is still one of the most cost-effective and scalable lead-generation approaches. Social-media advertising. Display advertising.

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Lead Generation SEM Viral Social Media 137

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 18, 2020

In case you do not know what digital marketing is, it is a broad term that encompasses all the marketing channels and methods used to promote a company with the aim of getting more traffic and, implicitly, more customers. Marketing a Product or Service through Custom, Memorable Experiences. Cost per conversion. Email marketing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2014

Contrary to popular opinion, viral marketing has not eliminated the need for old-fashioned lead generation to bring customers to a startup. For new product startups, search engine marketing (SEM) is still one of the most cost-effective and scalable lead-generation approaches. Social-media advertising. Display advertising.

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Lead Generation SEM Social Media Startup 248

Up and Running

JULY 26, 2016

The chicken-egg issue of getting customers to your platform while you don’t have any money to spare is a puzzle that many companies are unable to figure out at all. Then, in 2015, this is who we added to the team: Jan-15: Head of Customer Success (growth team). 1x hacker in charge of product/development.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 2, 2018

Marketing is the bridge between your business and your customers. Almost any form of communication with your customers falls under its umbrella. Without marketing, your business may as well exist in an unlit locked vault – no customers are coming in and no sales are going out. Customers will beg to differ.

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Small Business Software Review Social Media Marketing 73

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2010

Probably every one of you who has a business and a website have been approached through email or personal contact, and asked to spend money on Search Engine Marketing (SEM). SEM is sometimes called “buying your way into search results.” Cost per click (CPC). Cost per action (CPA). Popular keywords have higher costs.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2011

Last week the teams were testing their hypotheses about their Customers (who are the users, payers, buyers, etc.) This week they were testing one of the most confusing sections of a company’s business model – Customer Relationships - the activities used to “Get, Keep and Grow” customers in a physical or virtual (web or mobile) channel.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Why This Is Important: If you don’t establish specific goals, you will not be able to evaluate the opportunity costs of your SEO efforts or you might give up too quickly. If your revenue model is the sale of a service or product, your goal could be to get your cost per conversion below a certain amount after 90 days.

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SEO Search Engineer Small Business 48

ConversionXL

AUGUST 27, 2015

Another scenario: you’ve been optimizing for 12 months and your revenue per customer has increased by 2%. How can you tell what caused that – optimization, SEM, seasonality, word-of-mouth, or something else? He continues: “You can be costing your company millions and think that everything is better by relying on pre/post.

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PPC SEM Technical Review Conversion 48

This is going to be BIG.

JULY 26, 2010

The only concern was that they didn’t know what their cost of customer acquisition was, nor did they which channels would be most effective, or how much they could acquire out of each channel. The good thing is that customer acquisition is a pretty easily testable thing. Same thing with direct mail.

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 6, 2010

To share with you three custom reports that I find to be super valuable when I am doing web data analysis. I love custom reports. With that motivational speech, :), below are three custom reports that are of incredible value. Fifth , this is very important: What did it cost you to get this traffic to your site?

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Analytics Web Customer SEM 125

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

WordStream confirmed that seven days was plenty of trial time, and they didn’t need to waste resources chasing customers down a longer funnel. No changes were made to the customer journey, and it had nothing to do with revenue lift. Yet, this was a successful growth marketing campaign.

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Framework Marketing Acquisition Retention 102

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2010

There are few courses which teach aspiring entrepreneurs the skills (business models, customer and agile development, design thinking, etc.) If you’ve read any of my previous posts, you know I believe that: 1) a product is just a part of a startup, but understanding customers, channel, pricing, etc. to optimize this search.

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Wiki Lean Management Business Model 312

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 31, 2011

I was totally product focused for the last year and now it’s live, so I need to start thinking about finding some customers. ” So instead finding out who and where those potential customers are , which is hard, he just made a product, which is easy (for him). So I think the ideal customer is: SaaS, ISV, Web Products.

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Customer Software Review SEM Technical Review 279

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 23, 2013

In this context, there are many parameters and concepts you need to understand before you buy advertising: Cost per impression (CPI). Cost per click (CPC). Cost per action (CPA). It pays only if a customer clicks through AND takes a further action (conversion), such as buying a product or filling out a web form.

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Search PPC Widget SEO 226

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

By now we all know that the largest part of the online spend has been SEM (search engine marketing) where people buy CPC (cost per click) links to display alongside the “organic&# search results in the search engine. We have run very successful campaigns by brands such as Sony, NBC, Microsoft, Universal, Clicker and others.

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Advertising Las Vegas Affiliate RSS 284

A Crowded Space

JULY 25, 2011

Your first customers are usually your hardest. I thought getting my first 25 customers for QwikTalk would be pretty easy - just launch a few PPC campaigns on Google Adwords and everything should be fine, right? My prior experience managing Adwords campaigns was for oDesk. Or so the saying goes. Well, yes and no.

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Customer PPC Campaign SEM 60

A Crowded Space

JULY 25, 2011

Your first customers are usually your hardest. I thought getting my first 25 customers for QwikTalk would be pretty easy - just launch a few PPC campaigns on Google Adwords and everything should be fine, right? My prior experience managing Adwords campaigns was for oDesk. Or so the saying goes. Well, yes and no.

Customer 60

Customer PPC Campaign SEM 60

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, September 13, 2008 SEM on five dollars a day How do you build a new product with constant customer feedback while simultaneously staying under the radar? SEM is a simple idea. My first AdWords campaign was limited to five dollars a day, and we were buying clicks at five cents a click.

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SEM San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 164

crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2013

Finally your customers. Lots of ways great and small and the ideas are endless: for companies with a relatively smaller customer base, you might shoot them a card, send them a small gift, or even invite them down to your company party. An added advantage of using email campaigns to say thanks is the data you’ll receive in return.

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Small Business Startup Campaign SEM 85

Up and Running

MARCH 3, 2021

47% of small business owners execute marketing campaigns entirely on their own. Especially when the world, and your customers, are shifting to digital channels for entertainment, shopping, and communication with brands. It is often used interchangeably with SEM, or “Search Engine Marketing.” Let’s get started. What is PPC?

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PPC Small Business Management Advertising 81

ConversionXL

JULY 19, 2016

Pipedrive has been growing fast (we recently reached 30,000 paying customers) and the same goes for our newsletter list. These points are especially true for sales leads (prospects) – the majority of which, in our case, were people who signed up for Pipedrive, but never became paying customers. The Goals of Our Reactivation Campaign.

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Email Campaign Metrics SEM 48

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 15, 2014

We have access to so many online tools that can reduce startup costs and help the company to grow at a much faster rate than it could in the past. Sometimes it is smarter to spend some cash on tools that cost money but help you to get more done in a shorter period of time than using a free tool that does not aid you to gain any time.

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Software Review Software SEM Startup 214

Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Over the last 13 years he’s worked with companies like Target, Jeeter and Shopify to implement performance marketing campaigns. Over the last 13 years, he's worked with companies like Target, Jeter and Shopify to implement performance marketing campaigns. Like everything is custom here, this is fractional CMO work.

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Channel Acquisition Framework B2B 66

Venture Chronicles

APRIL 20, 2014

When you combine inbound marketing with account-based scoring, you get a very potent combination of predictable opportunity funnel that also benefits from lower customer acquisition costs.

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B2B Marketing SEM Bandwidth 45

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 24, 2018

Ahrefs is one of the best Search Engine Optimization ( SEO ) and Search Engine Marketing ( SEM ) tools available for anyone who prefers to make data-based decisions in their marketing strategies. Cost: Pricing ranges from $99/month up to $999/month for Ahrefs’ “agency” package. Cost: Free for the tool but ads are paid.

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Social Media Marketing Analytics Audience 51

Austin Startup

MARCH 26, 2019

25 questions that DTC entrepreneurs should ask themselves before scaling customer acquisition So you run a direct-to-consumer (DTC) brand. You just spent a few thousand dollars on advertising and your paid customer acquisition cost (CAC) numbers tested well relative to your best guess for customer lifetime value (LTV).

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Technical Review Software Review China Acquisition 49

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 24, 2018

Ahrefs is one of the best Search Engine Optimization ( SEO ) and Search Engine Marketing ( SEM ) tools available for anyone who prefers to make data-based decisions in their marketing strategies. Cost: Pricing ranges from $99/month up to $999/month for Ahrefs’ “agency” package. Cost: Free for the tool but ads are paid.

Social Media 48

Social Media Marketing Analytics Audience 48

crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Advertising with AdWords allows you to reach new customers at the precise moment when they are searching for your type of products and services. This often happens because many small business owners don’t fully understand the many ways they can customize and leverage their AdWords marketing programs. Google Analytics.

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Small Business Analytics Social Media Search 102

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Customer personas are often talked about in marketing and product design, but they’re almost never done well. A research-based archetypal representative of your customer based on various attributes, attitudes, and characteristics. They can be utilized across teams— UX , CRO, social media, SEM, SEO , etc.,

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Software Review Design Agile Analytics 115

Occam's Razor

JULY 1, 2008

There is perhaps no challenge greater than tracking offline impact of your online presence (campaigns or other activity). Or there are people who will get their tech support question answered and as a result not call you on the phone (saving you $50 it costs you to answer the phone). Because it is hard. Not impossible.

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Analytics Conversion Campaign Redemption 116

ConversionXL

MARCH 7, 2017

A research-based archetypal representative of your customer based on various attributes, attitudes, and characteristics. They’re also known as buyer personas, customer personas, customer profiles, or just personas depending who is selling the idea to you. can all benefit from a better idea of the customer.

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Software Review Design Agile Analytics 102

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 28, 2006

It measures the customer interaction in a very small number of web pages, probably one for cart and two to three for checkout. Hence at its highest level the metric helps you understand how much money is left on the table by your customers. You can test these to prove if they move the right levers for your customers.

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Metrics Analytics SEM Campaign 98