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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. Retention over 50% is considered top quartile.

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Startup Benchmarks

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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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Developing a Social Media Marketing Strategy that Builds Loyalty and Awareness

ConversionXL

Because of this, it spans two objectives: Turning customers into advocates Improving customer retention. Improve retention Improve consumer perception Sentiment, testimonials, reviews, customer support and service response time, etc. On Twitter , it’s laid back to suit the B2C, creative audience segment.

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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 point is, I firmly believe there’s nothing that Boston can’t do, but there are some things Boston hasn’t decided to do … yet.

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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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How to Track and Improve Ecommerce Customer Acquisition Effectiveness

ConversionXL

By meeting buyers’ post-purchase needs , you’ll improve customer retention. There are several ways to calculate it, but here’s a basic formula: Average order value x Number of repeat transactions x Average retention time. To get a realistic picture of how your business is doing, you need to also account for customer retention.

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10 Rosh Hashanah Resolutions for Startup Founders

VC Cafe

It doesn’t matter if your company is B2B or B2C, as Y Combinator puts it, you need to build stuff people want, and obsess about making it as user friendly, friction free and smooth as possible. “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” Bill Gates , founder of Microsoft.

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