Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Generally speaking, there are two ways (and only two ways) to scale a business to hit that $100 million threshold: Your business has a high Life Time Value (LTV) per user, giving you the freedom to spend a significant amount of money in customer acquisition. High LTV can usually be found in transactional or subscription businesses.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Identify the audience. On social media, you can pinpoint an audience in real-time. Locate your core customers, and prioritize your efforts to reach them where they are. Initially, your staff (even if that’s just you and a co-founder) will be your greatest asset in locating and connecting with your audience.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 10, 2020

Video marketing helps you to build rapport with your audience quickly. Engage Your Audience With Visual Representation. In this day and age of social media sharing, it’s possible to reach millions of viewers if your video goes viral. Utilizing videos can help businesses reach more audiences, generate more leads, and build trust.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 24, 2012

Right now there are opportunities for companies that want to make their presence visible, to reach customers in a different way and for customers who expect better service for their money. It’s far more complicated right now to keep a bad experience from hurting your business, viral marketing can fire back.

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

This value-based model bringing all the right customers to their yard is called demand generation. In today’s market ( 8,000 martech products alone ), it’s easier to attract the right customer with material they value than it is to chase down and convert a prospect who isn’t ready to buy. Like SEO, demand generation is a long game.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Facebook has an incredible audience, 950 million strong and counting. This audience is immensely attractive to Brands and Marketers around the world. We've seen explosive growth in brand pages, types of advertising and other fun ways to monetize this audience. You are not rushing the audience to your digital existence.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

I think about how the audience might react and whether if I were in the audience I would be intrigued. It’s why before every speech I call the organizer and drill them about who will be in the audience. In order to visualize how an audience will receive my presentation I have to be able to imagine the whole situation.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2018

Consumer value Once Jamie realized that he could not only sell tens of millions of dollars of home security cameras he also realized that he could get customers to sign up for a monthly subscription to keep the videos in storage in the cloud and review them after the fact. so he went on.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 6, 2021

Although the wallet apps are deployed in every medium, ones deployed as a web app provide a much larger audience to developers with minimal effort. There are increasing efforts in the industry to create MVPs to validate your app, make it go viral, and collect customer feedback with minimal investments. Wallet App Tools.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

TikTok’s audience uses the app with an exploratory mindset and a willingness to engage with branded content. While the majority of TikTok’s global audience are younger users, it’s a platform that’s aging up. And the type of products this audience is into is equally as diverse. Ads are a natural part of the experience.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 17, 2020

However, few channels can match video content as the best medium to display a company’s competence and expertise that will let you in to your customer’s hearts. It has become both a key piece of every marketing strategy and the most preferred way in which audiences consume content online. and customer testimonials.

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Genuine VC

MARCH 14, 2012

While Microsoft is touting that over 350 companies are working with Microsoft on custom Kinect applications ranging from in the medical field to manufacturing, I suspect that the real first killer-app outside gaming for the Kinect won’t far too far afield from its current install base. Mash-up of many other technology platforms.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 26, 2024

With this strategy, financial institutions can better communicate with their target audience, manage their online reputation, and negotiate the intricacies of the digital financial market. It involves telling stories that engage, educate, and encourage continued interaction with audience members.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 19, 2013

Step 1: Figure out the LTV (customer lifetime value). LTV is how much money you can make from an average customer during his or her purchasing lifetime with you. LTV is how much money you can make from an average customer during his or her purchasing lifetime with you. LTV ­ CAC = ROI. CAC is tricky.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 8, 2023

Customers will be even more comfortable with the introduction of voice commerce, another unicorn of the online shopping experience. Sustainability is the Queen In 2023, customers have become even more environmentally conscious, as recent statistics prove. TikTok and Influencers One viral video on TikTok can reach 1.5

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The expansion of e-commerce should also bring about seeing returns as a strategic lever, similar to how companies used faster delivery to drive customer experience and revenue. Think of it from the customer's perspective – Why should this customer shop from your store instead of the other stores selling this product?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 20, 2020

Contrary to popular opinion, viral marketing has not eliminated the need for old-fashioned lead generation to bring customers to a startup. Here is my summary of the seven most successful lead-generation vehicles he and I still recommend today, despite the popularity of viral marketing: Search-engine marketing. Email marketing.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

So, lots of content combined with an engaged audience (contributing and participating in consumption), driving great branding and real world revenue. Some have experimented with virality ( Pepsi Test Drive or Dove Beauty , etc.), Audiences, Relationships, and You(Tube). When I have a choice, I now buy Prudential.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Different websites will use varying techniques to win over an audience. Quite frankly, if a website isn’t optimised to suit the smaller screens, it is essentially shutting its doors to an audience of millions. A successful website targets the widest audience possible; mobile optimisation is key. Social Media Interaction.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 4, 2017

You have traffic, and I pay for placement in front of your audience. Though, increasingly, you can target with great granularity (especially on social) and set up custom audiences to create a holistic full-funnel paid strategy. In addition, display allows you to target niche audiences based on interests. Image Source.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 14, 2021

You work tirelessly to understand your customer, market, and competition so you can differentiate. Voice-of-customer (VoC) research, user research, competitor research, and insights on jobs-to-be-done (JTBD) can inform your marketing strategy. . Does your messaging at each touchpoint match customer intent? NPS & CSAT.

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Up and Running

JULY 10, 2017

To determine whether freemium is right for you, do the simple math: Figure out how many paying customers you need to run the company. If you charge every user $50 and spend $10K to pay the business bills, you need at least 200 customers to break even. In our example, it’s 20K non-paying customers.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 12, 2025

Photo by Andrea Piacquadio Do Know Your Audience Before you do anything else, youve got to work out who youre talking to , and a common startup mistake is trying to appeal to everyone – in the end, that usually means you dont appeal to anyone. If you can build relationships, youll be building your business at the same time.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Oftentimes, the biggest costs with a product like Shopify come down to the decision-making process involved with the customer and product development expenditure,” explains Mathews. The issue with building a product like Shopify is that it required seven years of iteration and feature roll-outs based on customer feedback and experimentation.

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Mike Michalowicz

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Social media is about connecting with the people in your niche: customers, potential customers, people who are interested in what you do, or who share similar interests and circles or hubs with you. Business owners with a brick and mortar store need to reach out to a bigger audience online. Inspire Customers To Call You.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

OK, so testing your product with an initial audience is always going to be a nerve-wracking time. We do this because we want our product to the best it can be and, most of all, used by the customers we built it for. It is important to discuss this feedback in detail with both your customer and your team.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2018

Amazon built its growth on top of these 4 pillars: Customer Centricity. The most important single thing is to focus obsessively on the customer” – Jeff Bezos. They may believe “the customer is always right” but how do they act? Aligning customers & business objectives. The power is in how customer data is used.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2022

In this article, you’ll learn how to build a powerful ecommerce marketing strategy using customer research and messaging development, and how to use it to determine which marketing tactics will best reach your target audience. Choose influencers based on influence, not audience size 5. Both are critical.

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eCommerce Marketing Social Media Retention 129

Women Entrepreneurs Can

SEPTEMBER 6, 2020

It can help connect the audience in ways other media cannot. It can help connect the audience in ways other media cannot. User-generated videos have enormous potential for sharing and to go viral. Using UGC videos is better than traditional advertising, as they can help you connect with your audience and show support.

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Software Review Social Media New Zealand Silicon Valley 94

ConversionXL

MARCH 6, 2019

On Facebook, an ideal customer may log on to see photos of a new nephew, not to check out a 30-second demo of your SaaS product. But LinkedIn owns the lucrative B2B audience. Don’t copy the style of a popular video (especially a “viral” one) if you’re trying to drive home your unique value proposition or establish your brand.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Because then you’d miss out on: Whether it’s better experience to build a complete, tiny startup or to do more in-depth customer development for a meatier problem. So that means stuff like thinking about what a business model might be, it does mean customer development. So I have a question for you, Jason. Patrick: Exactly.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

“The idea is that when you work backwards and start with the press release, it’s easier to put yourself in the customer’s shoes.”. Internal press releases are centered around the customer problem, how current solutions (internal or external) fail, and how the new product will blow away existing solutions. Image source ).

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Growth hacking is a practice that aims to acquire as many customers as possible while spending as little money as possible. Where campaigns to build brand awareness and generate top-of-funnel sales drive traditional marketing, data across the entire customer lifecycle drives growth hacking in marketing. What is growth hacking?

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 11, 2014

Zappos has great return conditions and very good customer service. That gets it xx million customers. But if they decided not have a Motel 6 experience, rather step up to a Hilton, or God forbid the Four Seasons, could they have xxx million customers (and improve margins while they are at it)? other stores/brands).

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Design Software Review Technical Review Mobile 151

The Next Web

AUGUST 26, 2012

The more your narrow down your target audience, the higher the chance is that you will be able to reach the crucial turning-point where you offer your customers enough added value to make them happy and returning. For many start-ups, the central focus is developing a product that offers value to a target audience.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 28, 2022

I intend to release one study every three months, which I'll send to journalists in the hopes of generating viral attention on social media. I believe that if I can have one piece of content go viral every three months, not only will I be able to develop more links but also raise my brand's recognition. 7- Improve customer experience.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

When people are finally ready to make a purchase, your goal should be one of two things: Customers recall your brand, or at least; They recognize you in a lineup of other brands. Your audience will flock to brands with a strong reputation because they don’t associate you with their need. Brand is how you win in crowded markets.

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