YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 7, 2017

With that number in mind, think strategically about the costs for website and campaign development, PR, digital marketing and all aspects of product costs, even the “hidden” ones. If the goal of your PR effort is to drive sales, you want to look at outlets that are more likely to convert.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Thanks to Danielle Sabrina, Society22 PR ! #3- 21- Pay attention to important metrics Photo Credit: Todd Saunders It's always a good idea to pay attention to important metrics like cart abandonment rates or the lifetime value of a customer. Another critical attribute for a CEO is an acute sense of self-awareness.

eCommerce 126

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Tech IPO prices exploded and subsequent trading prices rose to dizzying heights as the stock prices became disconnected from the traditional metrics of revenue and profits. Startups with huge burn rates – building leases, staff, PR and advertising – ran out of money. Some have labeled this period as irrational exuberance.

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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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Up and Running

MAY 12, 2020

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. Build an active online presence (be your own PR person!). Track your key metrics and know your numbers. Box address. Invest in printed marketing materials.

Software Review 153

Software Review Exit Strategy Technical Review Business Plan 153

Brandanew

MAY 29, 2015

Startups need PR, publicity and proof of visibility for investors and while you may have a PR agency, many struggle with producing enough or high quality content. The all encompassing Internet does provide opportunities but not when we create a content stealing epidemic.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 7, 2021

Real-time updates – After all, pr ompt push notifications should be sent to the devices of customers related to booking status, location of the courier delivery personnel, and promotional offers. Particularly, monitor core metrics like average time taken for delivering a courier, daily active users, and monthly active users.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Great post on the most important internet metric of them all – CONVERSION – crowdspring.co/18u6N8Y. Great post on the most important internet metric of them all – CONVERSION – crowdspring.co/18u6N8Y. Great post on the most important internet metric of them all – CONVERSION – crowdspring.co/18u6N8Y.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Benchmarking SaaS Startup Efficiency with Revenue per Employee Metrics | by @ttunguz – crowdspring.co/1sRVdjm. Design Is Changing How We Innovate | Co.Design – crowdspring.co/1sChJN5. How to Ruin Your Company with One Bad Process | by @bhorowitz – crowdspring.co/11FYS9R. What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?

Social Media 95

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 8, 2010

Granularity and Consistency of Startup Metrics - SoCal CTO , March 11, 2010 Tim Berry has a great post on Why I Hate Those Huge Market Numbers tells us that he doesn’t like to see business plans with multi-billion market numbers used as the basis for projections. Great advice based on the scheduling meetings around AngelList.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 25, 2011

Get your PR pitches out. Walk into September knowing all your funnels and key metrics after a good two weeks of getting serious about your numbers. It's important to get all the parts of your company talking to the public--to get feedback on strategy, to increase awareness for hiring, and to help promote the company's message.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

Metrics – Mine is Bigger Than Yours The first thing SuperMac needed to do was to change how our potential color desktop publishing customers viewed our products versus our competitors’ products. As hokey as it is, when confronted with uncertainty or unknowns, human beings like to be reassured by comparative metrics.

Silicon Valley 124

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

The Metrics Required for Raising a Series A Round | EquityZen – crowdspring.co/ZEAcxq. How to get your employees into fitness | Fortune – crowdspring.co/1saKodQ. Some very interesting stats on VC success rates/returns | Quora crowdspring.co/1vlN6vc. A Long, Ugly Year of Depression That’s Finally Fading – crowdspring.co/1uOvesG.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 20, 2014

Why Lead Velocity Rate (LVR) Is The Most Important Metric in SaaS | saastr – crowdspring.co/U3ZbaM. Start-Ups Need a Minimum Viable Brand | Denise Lee Yohn, Harvard Business Review – crowdspring.co/1qkFicI. After Failure, What’s Next? | by Brad Feld – crowdspring.co/1iMMtTI.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

This can take the form of customer quotes, NPS scores, usage and engagement metrics, negative churn, and referral metrics. You can also emphasize rapidly improving metrics in addition to just the absolute levels, especially since young companies should be rapidly iterating on and improving the product experience.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Here’s a question – is your PR working? As small business owners or marketers, we all know full well how important it is to put time aside for PR. If you’re an astute CEO you’ll feel it in your water when PR is working. It’s also a way to see that your PR is working. written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 8, 2017

Writing –>PR–>Customers–>Passion. PR gave me leads. Cutting out the friction, look toward our future… The Metrics. I started writing. I got to write over 20 articles about immigration. Three of them have been published on GeekTime (the Israeli version of TechCrunch).

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Good whitepaper on advertising measurement metrics | by Ben Kunz – crowdspring.co/HsVIMR. Good whitepaper on advertising measurement metrics | by Ben Kunz – crowdspring.co/HsVIMR. Good whitepaper on advertising measurement metrics – crowdspring.co/HsVIMR. Commuting’s Hidden Cost | NYT - crowdspring.co/1aR15fY.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 25, 2011

No BS, no vanity metrics, no launches, no PR. Votizen’s David Binetti will show you a real pivot story, including the actual metrics that helped him realize it was time to change. If you’re still kicking yourself for missing him last year, do yourself a favor and don’t make the same mistake again.

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OnlyOnce

JANUARY 24, 2024

The metrics for understanding whether or not your CBDO is scaling differs from other functions like Sales, People Ops, Customer Service, and Finance because throughout the scaling process the CBDO team is likely to be small.

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PR Channel Metrics Restful 71

Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

We will accomplish this through demand-creation activities (advertising, PR, tradeshows, seminars, web sites, etc.), The same was true for PR. And the results weren’t the traditional PR metrics of number of articles or inches of ink. It wasn’t measured by how busy you were, it was measured by results.

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Silicon Valley Technical Review RSS PR 259

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, February 8, 2010 Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Review) The next article in my series on entrepreneurship for Harvard Business Review is live today. Once again, we revisit the topic of Actionable metrics and their nemesis: Vanity metrics. Remember "metrics are people, too."

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Metrics San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 121

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Master of 500 Hats: Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp 2008, London) This presentation should be required reading for anyone creating a startup with an online service component. He also has a discussion of how your choice of business model determines which of these metric areas you want to focus on. Choose one.

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View from Seed

MARCH 3, 2015

NVV: Lots of marketers are under pressure to come in and generate demand right away, whether because sales is asking for leads or founders are demanding PR or user growth. I know this answer is about lead-gen and sales-based conversions, but I think this applies to branding and PR and other types of broad marketing too.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 10, 2011

But creating better visibility for investors of the profitability of each unit and accountability for bosses of each to perform well according to differnet metrics is a good & important idea. Given how badly the announcement of the splitting went and their inability to control the PR cycle (or their stock price!) No, probably not.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 5, 2013

Measuring What Matters: How To Pick A Good Metric – [link]. Measuring What Matters: How To Pick A Good Metric – [link]. Measuring What Matters: How To Pick A Good Metric – [link]. Small Business Marketing Tip: Send Email Campaigns At Night To Increase Revenue | crowdSPRING Blog – [link].

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 30, 2013

Wrong metric. The problem is with the metrics used – direct sales are a very bad metric to use for social. You can’t just go and blast your PR all over the place, no one will listen to you, and if no one listens then no one buys. Both found direct conversions to be under 5%. And that’s not good.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 11, 2017

While I would like to say there was a very expensive marketing and PR campaign for our company that really was not the case. PR gets a bad rap for spinning stories, but I believe that telling great, authentic stories is the real heart and soul of communications and public relations. 12- Symbolise bridge between marketing & PR.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

The metrics were good but we wondered how much better they would be when we expanded our product. That marketing can be PR or SEO or influencer distribution or other forms of “unpaid” marketing. PR requires time and effort from your team that isn’t spent elsewhere and thus is a real cost.

Startup 150

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Designing startup metrics to drive successful behavior – [link]. Arming & Aiming: How to handle sales objections at a startup – [link]. The Importance of Customer Experience to your Startup – [link]. 5 lessons on leadership from @RichardBranson – [link].

Social Media 94

Social Media Small Business Design Media 94

crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 22, 2016

The Metric that Matters for Startups in 2016 | by @ ttunguz – [link] buff.ly/1T3827r. Role and Influence of Social Media on the Modern PR Industry | PR Mention Blog – [link] crowdspring.co/1n9PllS. Freelancers Will Dominate the Workforce by 2020 – [link] crowdspring.co/1K86y4y. 23ho8yD.

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Mucker Lab

AUGUST 9, 2023

These strategies lay the groundwork for an effective backlink foundation and extend beyond mere SEO; they can also serve a valuable PR purpose. Vetting the Shows: Ensure the podcasts have good metrics and are worth the investment of time. Reaching Out: Compile a vetted list and reach out to hosts or managers, showcasing your expertise.

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SEO PR Reputation Engineer 78

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 21, 2014

Create company measures for success that go beyond financial metrics. You manage what you measure so be careful about having too narrowly defined of performance metrics. Perhaps having renewal rates with a good bonus spiff, have a component of MBO tied to usage performance metrics or spiff certain milestones like business plans.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Incorporate milestones and metrics into your Lean Plan. Build an active online presence (be your own PR person!). Track your key metrics and know your numbers. If you don’t have a business plan event, start with a One-Page Pitch. Once you’ve built out your Pitch, continue working on creating your Lean Plan. Box address.

Software Review 60

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

Laura Blue of LaunchLink PR corroborates Gerhardt’s message : It is during these times that brands need to be especially considerate about what and how they are communicating to customers, partners and stakeholders. But you can do better than slightly editing the copy your lawyers would write.

Marketing 121

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Basic metrics like deals completed and revenue generated don’t measure customer acquisition success. Outlier converts may spend money but are unlikely to become brand advocates or repeat customers. You’ll need to replace one-time buyers with a number of new customers by restarting the acquisition process.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Marketing initiatives include campaigns, content, PR, and interactions with your target audience or customer. Marketers must adjust their expectations and metrics with expanded brand tracking. This requires a shift from marketing designed for short-term gratification to marketing that takes a long-term view.

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