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Tripwire Marketing: From Bankruptcy to Over 1 Million Dollars in Profits in One Year

ConversionXL

In 2015, 9-figure apparel retailer Karmaloop.com filed for bankruptcy. That latter term is used to describe an initial offer that generates enough revenue to offset the cost of acquiring a customer. Say you have 1000 customers and $1000 to spend on customer retention and loyalty. They brought me in as CMO. Whales rock.

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Why Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Is A Thing Of The Past And What You Should Do About It

YoungUpstarts

In fact, since 2000, more than 10 million Americans have filed personal bankruptcy due to their employers’ failed health insurance plan. Making this switch will allow companies and employees to save up to $12,000 per employee per year, while offering a better employee health benefit program for recruiting and retention purposes.

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“I think CEOs that are interested in a future acquisition need to be building relationships or at least awareness with potential buyers at least 2-3 years in advance, especially with strategics. If you’re not on the list, it’s rare for a deal to happen.” Joe Hyrkin on Selling Issuu to Bending Spoons, and More….

Hunter Walker

By early 2024, we were sustainably profitable for a second time, on track to generate over $30 million in revenue and starting to get some PEs and strategics showing interest in Issuu. In many ways, we fit their model, a primarily product led growth self service platform with good retention and a large global footprint of users.

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Email Marketing: Campaign Analysis, Metrics, Best Practices

Occam's Razor

Finally let’s not forget a very, very important signal of our email marketing effectiveness: Subscriber retention rate = # subscribers – bounce backs – unsubscribes / # subscribers. It might seem logical that you’ll also measure the second most overused web metric: Average Revenue per Email Sent = total revenue / # of emails sent.

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In 2017, GE Will Buy More Tech Startups Than Google

Hunter Walker

The total value of these deals might look higher than when a tech company makes an acquihire but the premium tends to go to retention rather than the cap table (especially since (a) the acquirer might not be seen as an ‘attractive’ place to work and (b) there’s assumption of less equity upside post-acquisition).

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What founders often get wrong!

Berkonomics

Net revenue retention 5. They were scaling themselves into bankruptcy. There are only 5 metrics that truly matter in your first 18 months: Everything else is a distraction. Cash runway (in months) 2. Customer acquisition cost 3. Monthly burn rate 4. Gross margin An example not to follow! Impressive, right? Track them weekly.

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Can Subscription Billing Programs Save Retail Stores?

YoungUpstarts

2017 was capped by the announced bankruptcy of Toys “R” Us, a once formidable retail giant. In all, there were 662 bankruptcy filings in retail last year, according to data cited by CNNMoney. The rise of Amazon and other online sites has significantly disrupted traditional retailing operations across the nation.