ConversionXL

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Understanding CAC by each channel helps you identify areas of opportunity and streamline operations for better ROI. This is due to factors such as maturity, sales cycle, product value, purchase frequency, and customer lifespan. Total marketing spend in Q1 + total sales spend in Q1 / Number of new customers in Q1 = CAC in Q1.

Acquisition 22

Acquisition eCommerce Cost Customer 22

www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Far more common is a need to acquire customers through a series of steps like SEO, SEM, PR, Social Marketing, direct sales, channel sales, etc. For example: Create demo videos that answer every likely sales question. Consider converting to a channel sales model at some stage in the lifecycle of the business.

Acquisition 103

Acquisition Cost Customer Entrepreneur 103

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Many prospects need a great deal of time and information before they decide to entrust others with managing their social media channels. If you create quality content consistently and share it through your blog, social media channels, and email, over time you will see sustainable results.

Social Media 113

Social Media Sales Cycle Audience Media 113

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 28, 2016

Optimizing to quota worked fine when I was an individual contributor, but as I moved into management and got further removed from the nuts and bolts of the sales cycle and engaging with customers every day, I had to figure out a way to influence the members of my team to make their number. Optimizing to quota.

Sales 100

Sales Social Media Sales Cycle Japan 100

NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

A much better analysis would be ‘if we do not secure this distribution agreement, the market share we can achieve by this date will be halved.’. Founders are typically ambitious when projecting sales volumes. To identify sensitivities here, you need to comprehensively challenge your assumptions about demand, sales cycles, etc.

Startup 69

Startup Sales Cycle Down Round Revenue 69

Hippoland

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

But it’s arguably even harder in a place where there aren’t ready distribution channels. Here’s my take on B2B – if you look at the US ecosystem, most of the high flying B2B companies got to their level of growth because of fast sales cycles. These fast sales cycles tend to come from selling to other startups.

Asia 48

Asia Indonesia B2B Singapore 48

Hippoland

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

But it’s arguably even harder in a place where there aren’t ready distribution channels. Here’s my take on B2B – if you look at the US ecosystem, most of the high flying B2B companies got to their level of growth because of fast sales cycles. These fast sales cycles tend to come from selling to other startups.

Asia 48

Asia Indonesia B2B Singapore 48

VC Cafe

MARCH 15, 2016

Building on my experience of being part of a team that did exactly that for Dropbox in Europe, I will attempt to demystify the process and hopefully give a starting point, from which any founder can start building a distribution engine that creates happy customers. Jason Lemkin’s best advice on dealing with long sales cycles is to “ Chill.

Sales 60

Sales Marketing Sales Cycle B2C 60

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Because they have no presence in the market, they have to find distribution channels to bring in customers. Then we could focus on standardizing a product that could have an automated sales cycle online. Instead, each potential customer has to go through a self-serve process of signing up and paying money. Fantastic post.

Customer 167

Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167

ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2018

Assign content & channels for each experience. Identify your channels. Email & ads are the 2 big communication channels. Messenger will become the biggest channel over the near years. more activity and engagement than any marketing channel, better than email, paid, physical mail. Use data enrichment.

Retention 106

Retention Artificial Inteligence Channel Email 106

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Too often, in my in-house and now consulting days, I talk to clients and executives who want to know how much each dollar spent brings back in revenue and which channels and activities generate the largest return. It was a significant chunk of the marketing budget and came at the expense of other channels. Why do I say that?

B2B 131

B2B Marketing Analytics Campaign 131

ConversionXL

MAY 8, 2019

Because blog content typically takes advantage of organic search—it’s a free distribution channel that can help get awareness efforts off the ground. Interviews deliver original content and can kick off distribution. Blog posts. Some 55% of marketers claim that blogging is their top inbound marketing priority. Interviews.

eCommerce 131

eCommerce Marketing Audience Non-Compete 131

Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 3, 2017

Similarly, if both the pageviews and bounce rate are low, it means your content is doing the job of hooking the readers; you now need to work on your distribution strategy to get more people to see the content. How to Track It – We recommend you to do a channel-wise audit to understand the real picture painted by these social metrics.

Marketing 28

Marketing Metrics Clickthrough Analytics 28