The Startup Magazine

APRIL 22, 2024

When it comes to startups, the focus often gravitates toward acquiring new customers, expanding market reach, and chasing growth metrics. However, amidst the frenzy of attracting fresh clientele, many startups overlook a critical aspect of sustainable success – client retention.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Google Analytics switched its default metric from “sessions” to “users” in 2018, mirroring Mixpanel’s emphasis on users over pageviews. have the highest conversion rate and identify the content that earns the most interest from your target audience. Real-time analytics help streaming video services shift resources based on demand.

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Analytics Technical Review Acquisition Retention 119

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Meaning: T = Traffic CR = Conversion Rate AOV = Average Order Value G = Growth. Creating lifetime customers demands that companies keep pace. Meaning: C = Customers (traffic x conversion rate) CLV = Customer revenue – (CAC + cost of serving that customer) CAC = Customer Acquisition Cost G = Growth. Not many are doing it.

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Customer SMS Retention Acquisition 132

ConversionXL

JANUARY 24, 2017

Similarly, conversion optimization moves quickly. Everyone has railed against these practices ( including us , many times), but it still seems that much of the industry is focused on short term metrics and surface level changes. Conversion is expanding beyond just the core user experience. Digital marketing moves at a fast pace.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

On the flip side, if sales productivity begins to fall or customer retention dips, they feel the impact before it hits the company’s financial statements. They understand the key metrics and how they interact. 3) It’s likely your outbound sales and/or demand gen efforts have been focused on the highest converting new customer segments.

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Revenue Retention Forecast Sales 72

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Marketing metrics are a competitive advantage. You have to track metrics you can act on. In this article, you’ll learn which metrics to measure to understand and improve marketing performance. In this article, you’ll learn which metrics to measure to understand and improve marketing performance. – Seth Godin.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 19, 2022

Demand for e-commerce and social media participation is increasing. Especially during challenging times, retention is significantly more crucial than acquisition. 11- Paying attention to metrics. Metrics do not lie, and metrics over a longer time period are much more useful to study. 3- Caring for the team.

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Entrepreneur Metrics Technical Review North America 119

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 2, 2023

A SaaS UX design that is intuitive, efficient, and enjoyable can significantly impact user satisfaction, retention, and overall success. The brand name and logo are simple and memorable, and the brand voice and tone are conversational and engaging. You’re getting more users, more traffic, and more demand.

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Design Product Churn Rate Architecture 105

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 4, 2019

In addition to quantifying the positives of the customer lifetime value metric, they address the mistakes that I see regularly in my business advisory service relative to assessing the value of customers and value, including the following: Failing to account for current customer status and stage.

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Customer Product Retention Azure 213

Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

They may also target ads to specific audiences and track real-time metrics like views, clicks and demographics. Websites that are highly optimized for maximum conversions as well as AI-assisted personalization will increase the customer experience ten-fold. Automated, hyper-personalized marketing will help customer retention as well.

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Artificial Inteligence Software Review Technical Review Entrepreneur 109

ConversionXL

AUGUST 19, 2016

To find what barriers your mobile website may face , let’s look at the limitations of mobile, how to compensate for them, and what improvements you can implement to ensure the best user experience, increase conversions, better retarget potential customers, and more. But conversion rate alone is not a success metric.

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Mobile Technical Review Software Review Metrics 48

ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

Done right, demand generation can supercharge growth. Demand generation tactics address two of the biggest marketing challenges: raising brand awareness and generating leads. That’s why you need a demand generation strategy. The state of demand generation in 2022. Demand generation’s approach was born out of necessity.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

The demands of the role often add up to a full schedule that can drive even the best product managers to lose sight of their market and their customers. These managers have a tendency to steamroll conversations. Other key questions he looks to answer: What metrics did they track to define success? Literally and figuratively.

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Management Product Technical Review Software Review 85

Ben's Blog

MAY 15, 2020

What are those metrics? Andrew : If you are a travel company right now, I think you’re seeing very specific metrics dropping. ” And then all the way to the demands question, of how many people are in that activity. As a result of that, all of those metrics go up. I’m Lauren Murrow.

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Founder Conversion Technical Review Cash Position 36

Up and Running

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Having an excellent product and demand for that product is one thing. We’ll cover the following strategies: Retargeting and remarketing Partner programs A/B testing Customer retention Automated processes. For these queries, you have to choose your data source and date range as well as what metrics and dimensions you want to include.

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Acquisition Cost Affiliate Customer 127

ConversionXL

MARCH 1, 2016

In regards to conversion optimization, we’re of the belief that UX is a big part of our process and that great UX leads to more conversions. But how do UX people view conversion optimization? I learned that their perceptions of conversion optimization were close, but not always aligned, with how we believe it to be.

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Conversion Metrics Analytics Design 48

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

So I generally feel right at home in these conversations. The other revels in the world as we all know it will be someday: limitless distribution enabled by new technologies, the importance of collaborative filters, and on-demand availability of all content for end-users. Gatekeepers are overloaded. Is that a lot?

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San Francisco Lean Technical Review Distribution 113

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Prescriptive analytics The digital analytics metrics you need to know How to use analytics to improve marketing campaigns Define your mission, goals, and KPIs Set key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure marketing performance What to look for in a digital analytics product 9 tools for your digital analytics stack 1.

Analytics 106

Analytics Metrics Channel Campaign 106

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 22, 2011

" ~ Web Metrics: "What is a KPI? " + Standard Metrics Revisited Series. Six Tips For Improving High Bounce / Low Conversion Web Pages. Multichannel Analytics: Tracking Offline Conversions. "Engagement" Is Not A Metric, It's An Excuse. Is Conversion Rate Enough? How to focus?"

Analytics 124

Analytics Metrics SEM Web 124

ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

Sales and marketing collaborate until a deal is closed and beyond to secure long-term customer retention. ABM must target the entire buying committee, not just one or two individuals who may never be involved in sales conversations. It’s not a campaign you can run for a short-time to drive demand and show results in 30 to 60 days.

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Customer Marketing Channel Acquisition 98

andrewchenblog.com

MARCH 10, 2010

For entrepreneurs out there who are building metrics-driven products but also committed to a great user experience, I would love to hear when and how you pay down the product design debt. Also we have found that if you target correctly you will see improvements in acquisition numbers and retention, so paying down debt can be ROI positive.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 27, 2021

If it's fallen out the back end in service or in sales or whatever the metric is for what an actual growth is. And then once people are talking about you positively, you gotta be part of the conversation. Dan Gingiss (13:20): And so we often get stuck on metrics like NPS net promoter score. So I'm pretty familiar with this.

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Customer Technical Review Social Media Green 100

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Build a strong team – this sounds obvious, but is especially important at the early stage, where there are less metrics or revenue to assess the attractiveness of your company to investors. Do you have the skills in house to do UA/ retention? Be able to articulate your vision in a concise and compelling way. Demonstrate traction.

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Founder Generative AI Early Stage Venture Capital 78

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Today’s best SMB-focused CRMs capture metrics more effectively than ever before. And as the demand for customer intelligence increases, you can take the next best step to make a sale based on your history in the sales cycle. Grow through retention: As a small business, you want to move seamlessly from conversion to retention.

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Artificial Inteligence Sales Cycle Colorado Retention 127

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Written By Dan Martell on February 2nd, 2012 | Category: Hiring LeanStartup Marketing Metrics Startup Life | 6 Comments. Building Metrics / Usage Reports / KPI 3. Product/Metrics (70%/30% time) * Get your product activation (sign-up + meaningful action) to 60% * then, Get your product retention to 20% weekly. 10) Metrics.

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Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44

Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

RETENTION RATES OVER TIME BY COHORT Since the beginning of 2017, we started putting money into paid search while doing cohort analysis to check its performance. WEEKLY CONVERSION RATE Full Fridge was seeing both growth and progress. While far from perfect, this idea created and operated by 4 people was hitting the metrics we had set.

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Technical Review Startup America Due Diligence 48

YoungUpstarts

MAY 30, 2020

Times of crisis demand a thorough communication plan and strong leadership (and to be clear, the pandemic will be an ongoing crisis spanning the next several years). Create a routine by starting each workday with a check-in conversation that engages everyone. In times like these, communication will make or break companies.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 10, 2015

We use a hybrid approach of using data analytics and expert human recommendations to pick flavors, and through this approach, we’ve had great success in member retention. At Zeeto we’ve created a reporting platform to track our key metrics and daily financial progress and give all employees viewing access. 2) Facebook Ads.

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Entrepreneur Software Review Technical Review Small Business 48

Reid Hoffman

MARCH 2, 2021

You can listen to the conversation on the Greymatter podcast here. I have discussions, I have reviews with my teams, quarterly, on diversity and inclusion, just like I do on customer acquisition, just like I do on retention. Our chief diversity officer is as metric-driven as you would see. EPISODE TRANSCRIPT. She’s great.

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Iran Technical Review Non-Compete Lean 39

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

As Databox notes, “for self-service SaaS companies, signups is probably the most important metric,” but as your trial efforts mature, working to improve your LTV and customer retention numbers will ultimately help you get the most from your trials.”. Requiring a credit card upfront may increase conversions but often reduces sign-ups.

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Customer Sales Cycle Email Missouri 121

Occam's Razor

APRIL 23, 2012

While there is a great deal of appreciation for the power of metrics/data, I've come to realize that Sr. Leaders don't quite appreciate the deep, and often corrosive, consequences of choosing metric x over metric y as a key performance indicator (KPI). It is a standard metric. Don't believe me?

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Metrics Analytics Search Channel 152

ConversionXL

AUGUST 27, 2021

We’ll explore their retention statistics soon. Together, the USP and UI makeup a value proposition that is optimized for conversions. Implement user testing to ensure your UX has minimal barriers to conversion. With this shift has come an increased demand for “streaming originals,” which Netflix has dominated since 2012.

Design 138

Design Algorithm Retention United Kingdom 138

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 19, 2017

I’ve seen conversion teams nestled under marketing that resulted in product teams making their own testing tools, running unscientific tests, and making changes that didn’t align with marketing changes. I’ve seen conversion teams organized by ‘outcome;’ a team optimizing for new customer acquisition, another for new product adoptions, etc.

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Chad Analytics Technical Review Framework 90

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Conversely, plenty of folks who write code in more “acceptable” languages/platforms are lazy bastards who have no concept of the underlying complexities of their chosen tools. It was just the command shell that demanded backward slashes. And that the coders in most demand now are Java coders. It was a choice.

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Java PHP Software Review Coder 107

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

signup, upgrade, trial pricing Zuora – online subscription management FeeFighters – find the cheapest credit card processors HealPay – Collections made easy Customer Support Tender – support, knowledgebase tool for your site GetSatisfaction - conversations between companies / customers.

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Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics 110

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Startup Metrics for Pirates â?? SaaS Metrics Tutorial â?? customer retention, churn reduction, lifetime value. on demand billing and fraud management. GetSatisfaction - conversations between companies / customers. Startup Foundry tools list. Small Business tools list. Lean Startup Circle â?? worth reading as well.

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