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7 High-Performing Ecommerce Marketing Strategies for 2022

ConversionXL

It’s critical to nurture the brand-buyer relationship to increase customer retention. Brands that focus on retention and nurturing customer relationships win in the long term. Every improvement that you make to retention also improves all of these other things — virality, LTV, payback period. Brian Balfour , Reforge.

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How I Use Visualization to Drive Creativity

Both Sides of the Table

The key is channeling what you learn when you drive onto paper for retention purposes so you have to write it down soon afterward. Were they vertically integrated ? I use tools to invoke my creative self. One example is driving, which has an actual physiological reason it makes you creative. If so, why? How did they come to do so?

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The #1 thing successful founders think about for their next startups

Hippoland

As always, there are exceptions: if you build a viral consumer product (such as an Instagram) where people are just coming to your site / app in droves at no cost to you, then you’ve got a great business. You will use your fridge for a decade or more so the retention here is high. But, the retention is terrible / non-existent.

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The #1 thing successful founders think about for their next startups

Hippoland

As always, there are exceptions: if you build a viral consumer product (such as an Instagram) where people are just coming to your site / app in droves at no cost to you, then you’ve got a great business. You will use your fridge for a decade or more so the retention here is high. But, the retention is terrible / non-existent.

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How do seed investors benchmark startups?

Hippoland

Companies in this category include companies like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Snapchat, etc… These are all companies that need a TON of users, great retention and engagement and continued-fast-growth of user adoption in order to later make money off ad revenue. Do you have virality built into the product?

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Measuring Market Penetration with Brand Tracking (+ Metrics & Examples)

ConversionXL

This partnership would leverage both audiences and the rapidly growing awareness of the vertical. And complement this data with ongoing research such as in-app surveys, social media listening, and customer retention metrics. Or are you concerned more with customer retention and cross-sell opportunities? Brand consideration.

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How to create a profitable Freemium startup (spreadsheet model included!)

andrewchenblog.com

For freemium businesses, particularly ones that are social apps, there’s often a word of mouth or viral component, which we’ll cover in a second. Funnel Once you get your users registered onto the site, then there’s the question of how convert to paying customers, and whether there are any viral effects.

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