ConversionXL

MARCH 6, 2019

LinkedIn ads offer the benefits of video content and the granular targeting of a B2B-centric platform. The growth of B2B video marketing. But LinkedIn owns the lucrative B2B audience. As AJ Wilcox notes in his course on LinkedIn ads , 72% of the Fortune 1000 are B2B companies. digital ad spend went to video. Plan it out.

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Video B2B Technical Review Campaign 129

ConversionXL

APRIL 4, 2017

Paid Acquisition. You’re undoubtedly familiar with paid acquisition, as it’s the digital equivalent of traditional advertising. Here are some resources to learn more about paid acquisition: Customer Acquisition Master Course (includes SEO). When Does Paid Acquisition Work for SaaS Startups?

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Channel Marketing Viral SEO 118

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Neither would have achieved virality had customers not received something tangible for their efforts. Acquisition. For each potential channel, look at: Customer acquisition cost How many customers you can reach Whether the channel reaches the right audience. Instead, they could simply click a link and enter an email address.

Retention 113

Retention Marketing Acquisition Channel 113

Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

#tearsofpain One way of removing silos and focusing on the entire business is to leverage Acquisition, Behavior and Outcome metrics. A small change I’ll make in this post is that when I recommend the metrics, I’ll follow the Outcomes | Behavior | Acquisition structure throughout this post. B2B / Enterprise Sales: Salesforce.

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Metrics Acquisition eCommerce Analytics 143

The Next Web

AUGUST 19, 2013

It just so happened that I became the CEO of a B2B tech startup. Customer Acquisition Cost or CAC is how much money you can spend to get someone to become a customer. Direct sales are common with B2B startups. Well, then you’ve got to go viral. Well, then you’ve got to go viral. LTV ­ CAC = ROI.

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Belarus Viral Channel Startup 137

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Nichole Elizabeth DeMeré , a B2B SaaS consultant, lamented that. While those acquisition efforts worked well, not all do. Cheap acquisition is (too) cheap. Growth does require large-scale acquisition, but a product launch may not be the best time to do it. But cheap acquisition meant cheap leads.

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Product Campaign Acquisition Social Media 110

ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2018

Optimize for retention, not just acquisition. To understand acquisition you must understand lifetime value. Virality: # of users that refer your product for you: exponential growth if your K factor is greater than 1. Dropbox: first achieved growth through virality. Renee Thompson – How to Win at B2B Optimization.

Retention 106

Retention Artificial Inteligence Channel Email 106

Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 18, 2012

In today’s web landscape, word of mouth drives adoption and can lead to “winner takes all” (or almost all) in both B2C and B2B markets. Three of those have since been acquired and patents did not play a significant role in the acquisition process. To my knowledge, only 4 out of my 35 portfolio companies have filed for patents.

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IP Technical Review B2C Social Network 163

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2019

For B2B environments, consider who makes the buy decisions. Viral videos, personal anecdotes, and informal surveys would likely be counterproductive. Always gauge progress by business indicators, like customer acquisition cost and customer satisfaction. Approach influencers and key stakeholders appropriately.

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Social Media Media Reputation Viral 247

ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Studies show only 5% of B2B buyers are ready to buy right now. 50% of B2B decision-makers use YouTube to research purchases, and 70% of viewers bought from a brand after seeing it on YouTube. Viral marketing is hard to replicate. It’s a masterclass in B2B storytelling. billion users interact in Groups every month.

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Audience Technical Review Social Media Campaign 122

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

In my daily work with ecommerce brands, I see two types of companies: The first type focuses on acquisition and conversion. Overall acquisition costs for both B2C and B2B have gone up by 50% in the past five years. The second relies on retention. The second type is winning. Cohort metrics can help drive more repeat customers.

Retention 126

Retention Analytics Campaign eCommerce 126

The Equity Kicker

JULY 9, 2014

He lists the four (paid, viral, SEO, sales – for B2B) and then ‘other’ in which he says: There’s the odd partnership, like Yahoo/Google, that can help make or break a startup – but these are rare and situational. Andrew Chen has a great post up detailing the ways to scale user growth. But sometimes it happens!

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Viral B2B Early Stage SEO 122

Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

12:29] Where do you stand on your messaging for client acquisition? [15:49] If you're moving out of brick and mortar into online, more and more businesses, whether you're B2B or you're b2c, are realizing that digital is a primary channel or at least equal. ” Do you ever fight the urge to say we have to be different again? [12:29]

Marketing 87

Marketing Differentiation B2C PR 87

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 23, 2013

time to earn back the revenue to cover all your customer acquisition expenses) 75% annual retention. Use viral growth to offset cancellations. Few B2B companies can truly claim “viral growth” characteristics. Drastically reduce the cost of customer acquisition. year pay-back period.

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Business Model .Net Revenue IPO 335

Hippoland

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

V4: Helping directors of marketing at series B B2B SaaS companies who have previously bought ads in email lists get customers profitably. When you’re talking with an investor, I’d say in general, he/she has biases towards the customer acquisition methods that has made him/her money before. I know nothing about viral marketing.

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Seed Stage Business Model B2B Email 48

Hippoland

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

V4: Helping directors of marketing at series B B2B SaaS companies who have previously bought ads in email lists get customers profitably. When you’re talking with an investor, I’d say in general, he/she has biases towards the customer acquisition methods that has made him/her money before. I know nothing about viral marketing.

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Seed Stage Business Model B2B Email 48

Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

One thing I’ve noticed is that almost every repeat, previously-successful-founder focuses on the same thing for their respective startups: customer acquisition. But, if they are not, it’s very hard to use paid acquisition to generate that type of traffic for under $5. 2) B2B startups have high margins.

Founder 48

Founder Sales Cycle Affiliate Retention 48

Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

One thing I’ve noticed is that almost every repeat, previously-successful-founder focuses on the same thing for their respective startups: customer acquisition. But, if they are not, it’s very hard to use paid acquisition to generate that type of traffic for under $5. 2) B2B startups have high margins.

Founder 48

Founder Sales Cycle Affiliate Retention 48

ConversionXL

MAY 19, 2016

One of my favorite examples of this is the design of viral loops. Andrew Chen has said that some of the best growth people don’t think in terms of funnels, they think in terms of viral loops. Most funnels treat referrals as another step in a funnel, but of course we know they don’t work that way. Identify User Behavior.

Analytics 78

Analytics Metrics Channel Software Review 78

The Startup Toolkit

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Vision for B2B, sales-driven technology. Vision for B2C, virality-driven community. The former means your friends won’t hear about your company until the acquisition. . $250k now, plus 2 tranches for another $1mm based on performance goals. 40% dilution for full round (roughly $2mm pre-money). Requires team relocation.

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Term Sheet Dilution Participating Preferred B2C 31

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors. I previously posted a detailed presentation with sales technology tools useful for B2B sales. The self-assessment methodology, pioneered by Village Capital, is called VIRAL, for “Venture Investment Readiness and Awareness Levels.” .

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

The Startup Toolkit

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Vision for B2B, sales-driven technology. Vision for B2C, virality-driven community. The former means your friends won’t hear about your company until the acquisition. . $250k now, plus 2 tranches for another $1mm based on performance goals. 40% dilution for full round (roughly $2mm pre-money). Requires team relocation.

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Term Sheet Dilution Participating Preferred B2C 20

The Next Web

OCTOBER 17, 2013

A lot of entrepreneurs talk about optimizing their products so they run faster, look better, go viral – but it’s important to remember that none of this can happen unless you are constantly getting feedback from your most valuable asset: Your customers. Seedcamp invests in approximately 20 companies annually. During Seedcamp’s recent U.S.

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Customer B2C Startup Early Stage 128

Rob Go

JULY 11, 2013

In the B2B world, this could take the form of founders who have such strong market relationships that they can get things done on the sales and partnership side that create huge credibility for the company well in advance of what others could accomplish in the same time period. This tends to be pretty hit-or-miss, I find.

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Distribution Vertical Viral B2B 66

Ben's Blog

MAY 15, 2020

And if step one or two of the growth model start hitting a lot of friction, then of course it’s just going to get harder and harder, because each group of users is going to produce fewer and fewer users from an acquisition standpoint. And so, we’ve seen a product-led growth motion certainly in the B2B space happening slowly.

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Founder Conversion Technical Review Cash Position 36

This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 13, 2012

When I asked him to come share his sales and company culture expertise at GA, he was on it--right in the middle of acquisition negotiations. It was tough to get the market excited if you weren't doing viral photosharing. He'll take any meeting with a student looking to find their way in their career. Powering Foursquare's menu data?

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Syndicate Syndication Viral B2B 131

ConversionXL

AUGUST 10, 2021

One B2B brand that does this well is social media scheduling platform Later. Cabot Cheese teamed up with a winery to give away a wine and cheese box to two winners in exchange for participating in this Instagram giveaway: They kept the barrier to entry low without sacrificing virality.

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Metrics Audience Curation Algorithm 152

Hippoland

OCTOBER 16, 2016

Do you have virality built into the product? These are products that can and should generate revenue right out of the gates in both B2B and consumer ideas. Obviously within this category there are a LOT of verticals that are looked at very different — everything from e-commerce to B2B SaaS to marketplaces. I mean REALLY HARD.

Startup 48

Startup Vertical Early Stage Bootstrapping 48

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

The top performing SaaS companies typically achieve annual customer renewal rates above 90% - with most of the churn due to death (bankruptcies) or marriage (acquisitions) - and over 100% renewals on a dollar value basis due to up-sells into this installed base. upfront acquisition cost, making the CLTV equal to $2.5-$0.7= means a $0.7

Software Review 48

Software Review North America Europe Metrics 48

ConversionXL

JULY 21, 2020

According to the Content Marketing Institute, only 9% of B2B marketers believe that their content strategy is effective. In the “tweet heard around the world,” Oreo was able to quickly create a piece of content in real time that went viral and won numerous awards during the Super Bowl a few years ago. No problem.

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Customer Audience Campaign Social Media 92

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 10, 2011

They share very specific guidance for businesses of different types (B2B, B2C, A2K) about how to identify the macro and micro conversions and then compute economic value. Once you have your highest level segmented view of the acquisition strategy, above, you can in two seconds segment down to individual channels you participate in.

Social Media 166

Social Media Metrics Conversion Media 166

www.foliomag.com

JULY 31, 2012

B2B: Business Media. Curalate allows us to see how the content we pin to our boards is performing, as well as the content people are organically pinning from our sites, and more importantly how viral those actions are, since it’s reported that 80 percent of Pinterest activity comes from repins.” B2B Publishing. Featured Jobs.

Social Media 40

Social Media Rhode Island Media South Dakota 40

abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

Paypal famously offered customers $5 to invite a friend, who would then also get $5 as part of a highly successful viral marketing campaign (they actually started at $20, and then reduced it to $10 and then ended at $5). The others are all B2B companies. You guessed it — straight up free money. As a group they have done quite well.

IPO 82

IPO Customer Matching Silicon Valley 82