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How to Track and Improve Ecommerce Customer Acquisition Effectiveness

ConversionXL

Measuring customer acquisition for peak effectiveness How to calculate ecommerce customer acquisition cost Calculate much your customers are worth: LTV MRR, churn rates, and other factors that affect your LTV/CAC ratios Find and fix customer acquisition funnel leaks 5 customer acquisition strategies to increase sales and loyalty (with examples) 1.

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Why Misunderstanding Startup Metrics Can Cost You Your Business

Both Sides of the Table

In product business it is often measured over multiple purchases and assumptions are made about the repeat rates and in the enterprise or services world LTV can be based on churn rates, which are notoriously hard to predict in an early-stage business. Poorly calculated LTVs can become BVs (bankruptcy values).

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Twitter Link Roundup #199 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

Chicago’s startup engine roars | Chicago Tribune - crowdspring.co/16aYZLL. 6 Ideas to Reduce Your Product’s Churn Rate We Found to Work - crowdspring.co/1grCDHI. 6 Ideas to Reduce Your Product’s Churn Rate We Found to Work - crowdspring.co/1grCDHI. After Twitter and Square, What is Jack Dorsey’s Next Move?

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The Superbowl ad test

Startup Lessons Learned

Even worse, entrepreneurs are faced with a constant barrage of vanity metrics from competitors and other companies engaged in PR. But notice what’s not listed: messages sent per person, churn rates of active users, or activation rate of new user. The PR firm helpfully left out that context.)

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Why Metrics Get Worse With Scale

Seeing Both Sides

Conventional wisdom suggests that the most important metrics for a startup - such as unit economics, cost of acquisition, lifetime value, churn rates - typically get better with time. For example, PR doesn’t scale. Churn rates are another metric that can get harder with scale.

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Cracking The Code: The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008.

Cracking the Code

This is misleading because in a recurring revenue model, Customer A is much more valuable to the business (assuming typical churn rates) as they will likely generate $360,000 of revenue for the business with renewals over that same three year period. Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing pr. Laughing Out (c)Loud.