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Post-Purchase Emails: How to Boost Retention and LTV

ConversionXL

And that is where carefully crafted post-purchase emails come in. The ROI of Post-Purchase Emails. Of course, an incidental benefit from well-designed post-purchase emails is a boost to customer satisfaction and sales. And follow-up emails help facilitate positive brand sentiment which, in turn, leads to more sales.

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Too Many Small Businesses Still Ignore Social Media

Startup Professionals Musings

They don’t know if they should move to social networks for lead generation, branding, customer loyalty, or for direct marketing and e-commerce. Develop a marketing strategy specific to this media. Don’t use the same message on Twitter you developed for email blasts and postcard blitzes.

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Introduction to Growth Hacking for Startups

VC Cafe

The term “Growth Hacking”, invented by Sean Ellis , and made popular by Andrew Chen , a Silicon valley marketer and entrepreneur, is a combination of two disciplines – marketing and coding: Growth hackers are a hybrid of marketer and coder, one who looks at the traditional question of “How do I get customers for my product?”

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Standard Metrics Revisited: #3: Bounce Rate

Occam's Razor

So what is this mysterious metric? In Adobe's Site Catalyst bounce rate is not a standard metric, but you are able to create a special custom metric. If you don't fall into those two categories you need to pay very careful attention to this metric. It is almost instantly accessible in any web analytics tool.

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Demand Generation vs. Lead Generation: Integrating To Drive Growth

ConversionXL

Take Omnisend , an email marketing, SMS, and automation platform for ecommerce sellers. It dives into highly relevant topics, like reducing cart abandonment rates through automated email sequences. The podcast is just one part of their content marketing strategy. Lead vs. demand generation: Use both to drive growth.

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Learning is better than optimization (the local maximum problem)

Startup Lessons Learned

At least, not in the traditional sense of trying to squeeze every tenth of a point out of a conversion metric or landing page. Many optimizers are in favor of split-testing, too: direct marketers, landing page and SEO experts -- heck even the Google Website Optimizer team. For example, I’m a big believer in split-testing.

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How To Begin Using Social Media In Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

They don’t know if they should move to social networks for lead generation, branding, customer loyalty, or for direct marketing and e-commerce. Develop a marketing strategy specific to this media. Don’t use the same message on Twitter you developed for email blasts and postcard blitzes.