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Conversion, retention and churn benchmarks

VC Cafe

Understanding the benchmarks on conversion, retention, and churn for your business is therefore critical. Let’s get the definitions straight: Conversion : The percentage of potential customers who complete a desired action, such as signing up for a trial, making a purchase, or subscribing to a service.

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Startup Benchmarks

VC Cafe

When you start with an honest and diligent effort to determine the truth of your situation, the right decisions often become self-evident.” — Jim Collins , author of Good to Great. In this post I’ll focus on benchmarking resources for seed and series A in the following three categories: SaaS B2C / Consumer apps Deep tech.

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Ecommerce Trendwatching: How To Find, Follow, and Set Trends

ReadWriteStart

In contrast, it left several e-trends: augmented reality, zero coding, the marketplace boom, and product subscriptions are just a few of them. So let’s reveal the e-commerce trends of 2022 and predict the trends for 2023, or, as we may say, crack the Da Vinci code. People love reviews, and everyone reads them before making a purchase.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. They read reviews of the products of target investments.

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How to Create a Marketing Funnel by Responding to Customer Behavior

ConversionXL

This can be simplified further into a three-stage model: Top of the funnel (TOFU): Awareness Middle of the funnel (MOFU): Consideration Bottom of the funnel (BOFU): Conversion. These linear marketing/conversion funnel models are based on the traditional customer lifecycle. . The conversion at this stage is them attending that webinar.

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What Data From 62,000 Payment Forms Says About Boosting Online Sales

YoungUpstarts

At the same time, you’re probably not sure how many fields are too many, or how your conversion rates stack up against other e-commerce companies. In April 2017, we reviewed 62,000 random form submissions from 97 different industries to see how form length, device choice, and prices affected conversion rates. of the time.

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Clubhouse put a big bullseye on social audio

VC Cafe

Perhaps it’s boredom, or Zoom fatigue, but there’s something quite appealing these days about having social conversations without turning on a camera. While Clubhouse is the most popular of this lot, several new startups are vying to be the place where the conversation happens. VC funding, if any, is still undisclosed.

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