This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Knewton's Online Marketing Director is the key partner to the VP, Online Marketing and is responsible for helping the team drive customer acquisition and revenue growth through SEM (paid search), SEO, Affiliate Marketing, and Email. This person is also creative, curious and always looking for new ways to engage our customers.

San Francisco 92

San Francisco CTO Hire Developer EC2 92

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

After a year in the market, MakeSpace was growing rapidly and our biggest issue was CAC (customer acquisition costs) relative to payback period (when we get our marketing investment back) and relative to LTV (lifetime value). The metrics were good but we wondered how much better they would be when we expanded our product.

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Startup Seed Money DC Software Review 150

Seeing Both Sides

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

The Growth Manager function typically lives at the intersection of marketing and product development, and is focused on customer and user acquisition, activation, retention, and upsell. For instance, should resources go to user acquisition or to combatting churn? Paid: Ads (Mobile, Web, Video, TV, Radio, SEM, Affiliate), Sponsorships.

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Management Analytics Technical Review Framework 20

Seeing Both Sides

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

The Growth Manager function typically lives at the intersection of marketing and product development, and is focused on customer and user acquisition, activation, retention, and upsell. For instance, should resources go to user acquisition or to combatting churn? Paid: Ads (Mobile, Web, Video, TV, Radio, SEM, Affiliate), Sponsorships.

Management 20

Management Analytics Technical Review Framework 20

Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

The 5 Types of Metrics Every Small Business Must Track written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. I guess I should add you can grow a business without metrics a lot like you can win at roulette from time to time. Below are the five types of metrics every small business must rely on to navigate growth and profit.

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Metrics Small Business Analytics SEM 28

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

In a subscription business, maybe your attrition starts matching your acquisition, balancing like magic. Or your cost of customer acquisition just magically floats up to match your customer lifetime value. Nothing seems to matter. In an eyeballs business, you just cant seem to acquire or activate that next step-up of customers.

San Francisco 60

San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean DC 60

Seeing Both Sides

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Conventional wisdom suggests that the most important metrics for a startup - such as unit economics, cost of acquisition, lifetime value, churn rates - typically get better with time. One of the themes I explore in the class is the tough reality that many metrics can actually get worse over time for a startup.

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Metrics Churn Rate Acquisition SEM 20

Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 6, 2010

In a world where we are overwhelmed with data and metrics and key performance indicators and reports and dashboards and. I must forewarn you that my hidden agenda is also to expose to you metrics you might not be using, views of data that you might be ignoring, best practices that are of value and teach you how to fish.

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Analytics Web Customer SEM 126

Occam's Razor

JUNE 4, 2012

Custom reports on the other hand are, well, hand crafted by you for a specific purpose with a set of guiding principles (" Acquisition, Behavior, Outcomes! ") Never create a custom report without Acquisition, Behavior, Outcome metrics. Be insanely relevant (pick the critical few metrics ). In this case.

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Analytics Campaign Search Customer 128

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

The App Store is a channel for customer acquisition. I think its helpful to think about two kinds of competition for distribution: acquisition competition and retention competition. On the web, we have many of these channels: SEM, SEO, world of mouth, PR and viral. So what can you do? My advice: dont launch big.

San Francisco 68

San Francisco Lean Retention SEM 68

Austin Startup

MARCH 26, 2019

25 questions that DTC entrepreneurs should ask themselves before scaling customer acquisition So you run a direct-to-consumer (DTC) brand. You just spent a few thousand dollars on advertising and your paid customer acquisition cost (CAC) numbers tested well relative to your best guess for customer lifetime value (LTV).

Technical Review 49

Technical Review Software Review China Acquisition 49

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 24, 2018

Ahrefs is one of the best Search Engine Optimization ( SEO ) and Search Engine Marketing ( SEM ) tools available for anyone who prefers to make data-based decisions in their marketing strategies. Email marketing. Email may seem a little old-hat compared to newer, more innovative marketing options, but it’s still very useful.

Social Media 51

Social Media Marketing Analytics Audience 51

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 24, 2018

Ahrefs is one of the best Search Engine Optimization ( SEO ) and Search Engine Marketing ( SEM ) tools available for anyone who prefers to make data-based decisions in their marketing strategies. Email marketing. Email may seem a little old-hat compared to newer, more innovative marketing options, but it’s still very useful.

Social Media 48

Social Media Marketing Analytics Audience 48

The Next Web

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Intercom then sends us an email with the lifetime value, location, etc., It is as much a tool for tracking and gaining insights from data as it is a tool for tasks such as reengaging users, email marketing, customer support and so much more. We use Customer.io for our business and writer engagement emails. RJ Metrics.

Management 123

Management Customer Product Retention 123

Occam's Razor

JULY 1, 2008

Now segment the Unique Visitors (or Visits) that display offline intent by referring urls or by email campaigns you are running or by search keywords or affiliates traffic or … the list is nearly endless (a very good thing). Nice ain't it? Check out: Offline Phone Call Tracking With Web Analytics Integration. Not too shabby.

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Analytics Conversion Campaign Redemption 116

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Effectively measuring and understanding your CAC and CLTV metrics are key to future success. Bessemer SaaS Law #1: Your key monthly business metrics are: CMRR (Committed Monthly Recurring Revenue), Churn, and Cash flow - “Bookings” is for suckers. Brian, Paglo www.paglo.com. Great list! Great list! Philippe Botteri.

Software Review 48

Software Review North America Europe Metrics 48