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Kindling Early B2C Growth: Getting to 1,000 Users

VC Cafe

.” Rahul Vohra, founder of Superhuman Getting your first 1,000 users is an important early milestone for any B2C startup. What are the most effective strategies for early B2C growth? This post is about how to get to your first 1,000 users, and how to get to know your users better, in particular for B2C startups.

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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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Increase Repeat Purchases with Cohort Analysis

ConversionXL

The second relies on retention. Overall acquisition costs for both B2C and B2B have gone up by 50% in the past five years. Cohort analysis can be done for revenue, churn, viral word of mouth, support costs, or any other metric you care about. A retention analysis of coupon codes reveals a lot about your customers.

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How to get your mobile app discovered in 2021

VC Cafe

As a VC that invests in B2C, I often try to put myself in shoes of a founder looking to grow the audience for their new app to consumers. Build virality into the product – it might be counter intuitive to launch your product as “invite only” – after all, the goal is to grow the audience, not to restrict it.

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B2B Influencer Marketing: 4 Strategies that Move the Needle

ConversionXL

Yet, according to another study , only 11% of B2B companies have ongoing influencer marketing programs, compared to 48% of B2C brands. We add the project to Viral Content Bee and include the influencers’ usernames in the project name. B2B brands shouldn’t feel left out, even if they lag behind. Closed groups. Conclusion.

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The 50 Best Marketing Strategies For Small Business

Mike Michalowicz

Surprises always work to instill loyalty and retention. If you want to get people’s attention and have them call you, there’s nothing like writing an article for a trade magazine (for B2B) or local magazine (for B2C) to gain credibility and get the exposure you want. Customers come to expect rewards when they are members of a program.

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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? Most people shy away from answering or deflect when their boss acts, “Why can’t we create a video like Dollar Shave Club and go viral?”