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Conversion, retention and churn benchmarks

VC Cafe

Understanding the benchmarks on conversion, retention, and churn for your business is therefore critical. Retention : The percentage of customers who continue to use a product or service after a certain period of time, typically measured over weeks, months, or years. The benchmarks are based on the US market.

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How One Startup Combines Boston’s B2B Sense with the Valley’s Social Media Style

View from Seed

These companies are all over the map: B2B, B2C, SaaS, ecommerce, healthcare, SMB-focused, enterprise-focused, etc. What customer retention strategies are working best for other florists? The post How One Startup Combines Boston’s B2B Sense with the Valley’s Social Media Style appeared first on NextView Ventures.

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7 Key Factors Obscure Your Customer Acquisition Costs

Startup Professionals Musings

In general, I have found that channel partnerships with value-added resellers are a great way to reduce CAC, as well as boost retention, and improve return on investment. With the internet at our fingertips, even B2B customers research and compare solutions, completing 50-90% of the work before a sales rep is contacted.

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Which Fundraising Round Should You Skip?

View from Seed

Experienced founders: B2B. For an experienced founder building in B2B, the round to skip is the pre-seed. The reason is that b2b fundraising is largely driven by data and metrics, and pre-seed dollars usually don’t get you to many meaningful data points.

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Are You Putting Your Rock Star Customers To Work?

YoungUpstarts

SAS Canada “customer champions” helped the firm restore declining customer retention rates—which had fallen as low as the mid-80s percent — back to the firm’s traditional high retention rates of 97-98 percent. It’s a little like hawking a ‘get rich quick in real estate’ scheme at a TED conference. Wrong message, wrong audience.

Customer 154
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The State of Marketing Training in 2019 [Original Research]

ConversionXL

SaaS, B2B, and ecommerce organizations had the highest perceived marketing skills: Government and non-profit sectors trailed for-profit businesses. CMOs and VPs of marketing also struggled to measure whether training knowledge translated into more profitable marketing strategies—or to test retention months down the road.

Marketing 128
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Learning Styles: The Impact on Marketing Messaging

ConversionXL

Using someone’s preferred learning style increases knowledge retention. Myth 1: Using someone’s preferred learning style increases knowledge retention. As a marketer, your job isn’t to maximize information retention among potential customers. .” The neuromyth of learning styles has two components: Myth 1.

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