A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 23, 2013

Plus, there’s all the other costs — R&D to build the stuff, office space, executive salaries, billing, legal, finance, HR, tech support, account managers. Few B2B companies can truly claim “viral growth” characteristics. To actually be profitable, you need to cover those costs too.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 8, 2017

Quantitative research with digital analytics tools like Google Analytics , Mixpanel, Amplitude or RJ Metrics will inform you about where your users are coming from, what they are doing during their sessions and where they are dropping off from your conversion funnel or when they churn. Image Source. Which campaigns specifically?

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Programming Revenue Analytics Software Review 97

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

It’s also the reason why NPS is a board-level metric—happy customers stay with giffgaff even without the contractual obligation. Some members have reported making large sums of money, paying for weddings, or supporting themselves alongside a full- or part-time salary. The giffgaff payback scheme. Show you get it with little touches.

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Customer Community Revenue Software Review 85

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 7, 2022

So all the salaries and payroll that's allocated to the delivery function in your business, and then what we like to call, share delivery expenses, which would be some of the software or tools that you're paying for that aren't necessarily for one specific client, but you need to do the work. And generally that comes down to two things.

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Cofounder Hosting Networking Software Review 94

ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

The average B2B buyer has 27 brand interactions before deciding. Only around 10–15% of B2B leads turn into paying customers, and it’s because tactics optimizing for the early stages of the funnel only cater to early-stage goals. Because the best marketers have their own perspective on everything from metrics to channels to branding.

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Demand Management B2B Campaign 95

Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

In this post let's look at each Social Network, see what B2B and B2C brands are doing there today, from that draw lessons as to 1. Success Metrics. In my Oct 2011 post, Best Social Media Metrics , I'd created four metrics to quantify this value. It can be a brand metric, say Likelihood to Recommend.

Social Media 60

Social Media Media B2C B2B 60

Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 30, 2025

Key Takeaways: Franchising Is More Than Fast Food: Many people associate franchises with McDonald’s, but the industry extends to home services, fitness, B2B marketing solutions, and beyond. Data-Driven Decision Making: Leveraging customer insights and executive feedback can significantly improve success rates in franchising.

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Private Equity Bankruptcy Naming Equity 77

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

As a B2B business, we’ve struggled with this problem for a long time. You can test this via “model evaluation ,” which uses ROC/AUC metrics. The same happens when you use Google’s AMP viewer instead of a signed exchange. Most marketers don’t even know about the signed exchange.

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Artificial Inteligence Channel eCommerce Mobile 93

www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Business model viability, in the majority of startups, will come down to balancing two variables: Cost to Acquire Customers (CAC) The ability to monetize those customers, or LTV (which stands for Lifetime Value of a Customer) Successful web businesses have long understood these metrics as they have such an easy way to measure them.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 21, 2014

I believe these two posts with a collection of some of my favorite metrics will inspire you: 1. Best Metrics For Digital Marketing: Rock Your Own And Rent Strategies 2. Best Web Metrics / KPIs for a Small, Medium or Large Sized Business. Do you have any metrics to measure the effectiveness of offline campaigns (Print/TV/Radio)??

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Analytics Marketing Campaign Metrics 132

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 7, 2023

After their salary is having the necessary tools to do their job, right? [15:11] So if your frontline team doesn't have what they need, it shows itself in those experience metrics on the customer side. And like salary is below what you just mentioned. John Jantsch (06:25): So it would seem pretty logical. Is the paper bamboo?

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Employee Technical Review Advisory Board Sales 91

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

Occam's Razor

JUNE 7, 2017

The most imaginative B2B marketers could even figure out how to be a part of solving some of the deepest entrenched problems in the industry (STEM education, equal opportunity, + +) and in turn add an entire value-system to their brands. Here’s a B2B example, a company I think well of… Cisco. Almost nothing. Divided by 845,921.

Social Media 162

Social Media Media Artificial Inteligence Channel 162

Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 13, 2021

And the way that Entrepreneur First is finding founders, bringing them together, matching them together, and having that sponsor B2B business ideas. Of course people said they may be participating in this because what they really care about is how much they increase their salary and all the rest of that, and what is opportunity flow.

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