Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

As a reminder, the Dot Com bubble was a five-year period from August 1995 (the Netscape IPO ) when there was a massive wave of experiments on the then-new internet, in commerce, entertainment, nascent social media, and search. Companies struggle to compete while reconfiguring legacy distribution channels, pricing models and supply chains.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 6, 2019

The same video content likely works well in other channels. The growth also outpaced their forecast from the prior year, which suggested that video would reach 17% of digital ad spend by 2021.). The growth also outpaced their forecast from the prior year, which suggested that video would reach 17% of digital ad spend by 2021.).

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2013

The power and influence of paid media advertising, including print ads, TV commercials, radio, and even online digital campaigns is waning, in favor of unpaid earned and owned messaging from your website, social media, key market influencers, and existing customer word-of-mouth. Earned media. Owned media. Real customers.

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Transformify

JANUARY 31, 2024

Predictive Analytics: AI is able to forecast future events, including candidate behaviour, performance, retention, and turnover, by using data and algorithms. Supports employer branding, career pages, and social media sharing. Pros: Supports multi-channel sourcing and social media integration.

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Up and Running

MAY 12, 2020

With fill in the blank templates, powerful financial forecasting tools, and lender approved pitch designs you’ll go from template to a full business plan in no time. . Establish milestones and metrics for your business plan. To make your business plan work for you, you’ll want to incorporate milestones and metrics from the start.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 14, 2021

In this article, we’ll share key brand tracking metrics and methods for how to measure and optimize your success. Key brand tracking metrics. Supplement brand loyalty metrics with qualitative measures such as brand associations and perceived quality, as these can give you insight into why customers intend to repurchase.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2017

The power and influence of paid media advertising, including print ads, TV commercials, radio, and even online digital campaigns is waning, in favor of unpaid earned and owned messaging from your website, social media, key market influencers, and existing customer word-of-mouth. Earned media. Owned media. Real customers.

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Brandanew

JUNE 24, 2016

Social media marketing is a must for every business today. But the question is, are you spending your social media marketing dollars wisely? This means you have to make sure your client acquisition costs and value forecasts are accurate. How Social Media Marketing Can Ruin Your Budget. You produce random content.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Does that muddy up the forecasting, the models, or the accounting? [12:31] I think it used to be the social media would odd. You can spend on as a risk without putting you outside of the metric. [8:16] Are there things that you find that are just unique to the creative businesses from an accounting standpoint? [11:02]

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Up and Running

JULY 26, 2016

See Also: A Complete Guide to Forecasting Sales for Your Monthly Subscription (SaaS) Business. This is when metrics come into play. Cost of Acquisition (CAC): The total cost of acquiring a user through a given channel. If the CAC is above the LTV, but not too much—there’s some potential in this channel. Lean marketing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 23, 2015

The power and influence of paid media advertising, including print ads, TV commercials, radio, and even online digital campaigns is waning, in favor of unpaid earned and owned messaging from your website, social media, key market influencers, and existing customer word-of-mouth. Earned media. Owned media. Real customers.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 18, 2011

If you like this kind of advice, check out my coverage of a talk by Paul Palmieri, Co-Founder and CEO of mobile advertising service Millennial Media, titled " Investing in Your Influencers. ". Every company has a forecast for how it will get to an arbitrary $100 million in revenue and they all hit it on year five.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 3, 2018

Of course, plucking numbers from nowhere may seem more specific but is no more helpful unless the goals you choose are relevant to your current business performance and forecasts. Metric: Monthly views. So there we have a specific goal and a pretty obvious metric. How about monthly traffic by channel?

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Up and Running

MAY 31, 2016

It could be as simple as what kind of work you sell, to whom, through what channels. Tactics are decisions you make about pricing, channels, websites, social media, managers, agents, stores, overhead, allies, and so forth. See Also: Use Milestones and Metrics to Turn Planning into Business GPS. Milestones and metrics.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 25, 2017

In order to achieve 20x growth, Snap needs grow both of those metrics 4–5x. Snap has introduced a panoply of well-regarded features over the years: stories, face and location filters, memories, discovery channels, etc. To be clear, I can’t forecast the details of how an augmented reality OS should work.

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Up and Running

MAY 1, 2014

Milestones and Metrics. Your business plan isn’t complete without a financial forecast. Or perhaps in traditional media? Getting the media to cover you can be a great way to reach your customers. Social Media. See Also 8 Tips For Getting Your Product Into Retail Channels. Read more ». Read more ».

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

In the tactics section, list your sales channels and describe how you will be selling your products. While it’s useful to be able to have a sales forecast and expense budget early on, it’s not something you need until you’ve validated your idea. Circle back and create a more detailed forecast.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

If you want to learn about how to do simple forecasting and trend analysis, please see the official forecast function in Excel post on the Microsoft website, and this handy tutorial on trend lines and forecasting in excel. In my case I'm looking at Social Media (boss LOVES social!), Direct Traffic (I get a lot of it!)

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 2, 2013

Kat Simpson, a multi-channel merchant, author and e-commerce educator, notes that Fulfillment by Amazon sellers’ merchandise-return rates average just 1.5 Auctiva marketing manager Alessandra Colaci has been involved in digital media and e-commerce marketing for more than 10 years. Return costs can be similarly managed.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 18, 2021

The first thing most eCommerce companies did in February of 2020 was to smash their crystal balls and toss out demand forecasts because the world was shaping up to be like nothing we’ve seen before. Other social channels also made inroads as 2020 ended. Customers want you to get out of the way.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 8, 2018

One of the biggest channels to do that is through organic search traffic. Usually the others are related to other marketing channels (paid/referrals) or one of the other parts of the funnel (retention/lifecycle). Are your current links clean, what opportunities for content and media mentions are there?

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Second, skip everything else you’ve heard people talk about and jump right into your sales forecast. I just finished an initial sales forecast for our new product Outpost , and am going to share the process I went through to put it together. A quick caveat: The process for creating this sales forecast was for just one product.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 5, 2016

Analytics or metrics or whatever you choose to call how a business performs can not lie – as long as you ask the right questions and track the right things. Now, no one can tell you what that handful of metrics should be, but when you discover them and focus on them – you’ll have access to the truth about your business. Social Media.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 25, 2018

It’s hard to do, which is why most demand generation advice merely advocates adding another channel or tool to the heap. At a bare minimum, correct goal tracking in Google Analytics identifies the most valuable on-site user behaviors and attributes them to a marketing channel. A social media specialist shares the content.

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Up and Running

MAY 8, 2015

Tactics include marketing tactics such as pricing, channels, messages, media, social media, promotion, and so forth. Sales forecast, spending budget, and cash flow projections. It’s an easy way to get your strategy, tactics, milestones, and forecasts documented in a simple format. Essential business numbers.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 8, 2018

As Rhea Drysdale, CEO of Outspoken Media , explained: Companies want to train their team so they can handle more internally, and that makes sense. Media outlets dubbed the heist “The Great Train Robbery.”. Sales and marketing tend to have the same metrics,” explained Phillips. Modeling/forecasting. Trend analysis.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 23, 2019

As for ecommerce, projections forecast mobile sales to reach 54% by the year 2021. Teams are often built around channels instead of journeys. Organizations often obsess over NPS, but it’s a metric that sits at the top of the pyramid. You can also retarget non-purchasers on social media in the first 24 hours following a visit.

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Up and Running

APRIL 20, 2016

The business plan for strategic growth is one of my favorites because it’s about core business decisions, steps, metrics, and making things happen. Milestones and metrics. Pricing, products, promotion, messaging, channels, social media, support, lead generation—it’s all tactics. Milestones and metrics.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

But each keyword gets "credit" for other metrics. Landin Gee: Besides compete.com, where else can I access free competitive intelligence (excluding social media tools)? The best option is to hire a statistician with experience in data modeling and forecasting. Please see the advice above. and finally 3.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

That way you can get right on to your social media strategy! You can also compare your forecasted marketing and advertising budget against the competition. Social media tools. Hootsuite : Hootsuite is perfect for people who are really active on social media and managing multiple accounts. Didn’t find a satisfactory name?

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

After some searching, TripAdvisor found a magical business model, representing social media and user-generated content at its best. Advertisers are brought to the site and driven mainly through self-service channels, so there is no need for a large sales force or account management team. and EBITDA margins are 47%. Think about that.

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

No company in the Milky Way has succeeded without having a balanced portfolio of acquisition channels (fancy word for source of traffic). It is email campaigns, display / banner ad campaigns, Facebook display campaigns, social media campaigns etc. Index Value Metric. How's yours? Search, Referring Sites, Direct, Campaigns.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2019

What to do with AI: Predict churn ; Identify which offers to send to an individual; Accelerate innovation; Personalize content; Account-based marketing ; Algorithmic attribution; Forecast future lift; Predict blame. Media continues to stretch claims; bloggers make the problem worse. Overestimating the size of effects. Overgeneralizing.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

That’s @MeganBerry to you, blogger and social media expert, marketing manager of Klout.com. Listening to first-time entrepreneurs talk about their competitive advantages is as predictably invalid as the local weatherman's 10-day forecast. Metrics availability. Here’s an example in a direct sales channel. Silly, right?

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2018

which marketing campaigns, channels, touches, behaviors, and demographics are contributing to a business outcome, a form of “machine learning–based attribution.”. For most clients, Futurety starts by identifying the key business question—not a specific metric or visualization. which leads will convert—however you define conversion.

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