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Acquire New Users by Adding Growth Hacking to your Marketing Strategy

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Neither would have achieved virality had customers not received something tangible for their efforts. Don’t cast your net too far and wide. Use qualitative customer surveys and gather Net Promoter Score feedback to understand user intent and friction. Use this information to optimize for retention with: Transactional messaging.

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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. I have a high fear of failure that acts as my safety net. I use tools to invoke my creative self. One example is driving, which has an actual physiological reason it makes you creative.

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How Well Versed Are You In Startup Investor Jargon?

Startup Professionals Musings

People are even talking about “decacorns" -- investable companies with net worth now exceeding $10 billion -- like Dropbox and Pinterest. This term is used to describe non-traditional ways to incent growth such as social-media and viral marketing. These deals usually come with retention packages -- so be careful.

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CXL Live 2018 Recap: Top 5 Lessons from Each Speaker

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Tara Robertson – How to 10x Growth by Optimizing Customer Marketing & Retention. Retention is the most important thing – if that’s poor, nothing else matters. Retention is the most important thing – if that’s poor, nothing else matters. Start with retention. Make it about the CUSTOMER.

Retention 106
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5 Strategies For Balancing Revenue Versus User Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

Most modern investors still look for a business model that embodies a gross margin over 50%, and a net margin in the 20% range. Startup productivity is embodied in key ratios, including low cost of customer acquisition, high retention, and high revenue per employee. High customer loyalty and high team passion.

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The unprofitable SaaS business model trap

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Even with a great retention rate (e.g. time to earn back the revenue to cover all your customer acquisition expenses) 75% annual retention. Taking “rate of cancellations” minus “rate of upgrades” is called “net churn.” Use viral growth to offset cancellations. ” It’s worse.

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

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NPS (Net Promoter Score) and CSAT (Customer Satisfaction Score) are both methods of quantifying customer sentiment and satisfaction. And complement this data with ongoing research such as in-app surveys, social media listening, and customer retention metrics. NPS & CSAT. Establish your goals and baseline metrics.

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