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Don’t Sleep on Consumer Tech: AI is Changing Everything

VC Cafe

B2C founders are surely no strangers to the adage ‘Consumer is hard’ – it’s not just the scarcity of funding that is challenging: consumer taste is fickle and competition includes most of the tech giants. But change seems to be brewing in the B2C space, powered by the fast advancements in AI and generative AI.

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Startup Benchmarks

VC Cafe

In this post I’ll focus on benchmarking resources for seed and series A in the following three categories: SaaS B2C / Consumer apps Deep tech. The main B2C benchmarks have to do with traction: growth in user acquisition, user retention/churn, monetisation, as well as the effectiveness of consumer marketing + virality.

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B2B Ecommerce Sites: What Works for B2B Buyers?

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But if your B2B ecommerce site differs on any of those elements—high prices, large quantities, or a need to serve B2C and B2B buyers—things change. What works with the average B2C consumer won’t always work with B2B ecommerce buyers. That makes some B2C marketing tactics less useful. So what changes? And what works best?

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7 Trends That Will Define the Future of eCommerce in 2021

Up and Running

Other social channels also made inroads as 2020 ended. Companies will want to observe which channels their audience use but should expect to shift some of their more traditional ad spending to social shopping and new integrations between sales channels and social apps. Customers want you to get out of the way.

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How to Calculate & Maintain a Healthy Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC)

ConversionXL

It’s a sign that you need to review CAC of your prominent channels and look at the growth marketing funnel to understand where the fault lines are. Segmenting CAC to prioritize channels. Similarly, you can also calculate CAC for different marketing channels such as Search Ads, Social, Content Marketing, etc. Fixing the Leaks.

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How to Generate More Sales From Your Email Marketing Campaigns

ConversionXL

Compared to social media and content marketing, email is a mature channel for engaging online consumers. Regardless of whether your business is in the B2B or B2C space, your email marketing effectiveness can be optimized. Here we see a B2C example of segmentation by need: Example of landing page segmentation for B2C.

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How to Create a Marketing Funnel by Responding to Customer Behavior

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However, with every new technology, channel, and distraction served up by the internet, that journey becomes less linear, and the traditional funnel becomes less relevant. Social media, on the other hand, are browsing channels. Conversion rate per channel. Measure the success of the channel (e.g., Image source.

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