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Remind Me Why I Love You? (Why “In Person” is Everything)

Both Sides of the Table

especially about churn rates and your high CACs last quarter relative to the previous year. I always tell people that fund raising is a sales process. I asked you to send over some cohort data and I did get 30 minutes to go through it the other night. I developed a list of questions to ask you next time we speak?—?especially

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

ConversionXL

In most cases, it includes: Salaries of sales and marketing teams Advertising spend on acquiring new customers (Search/Display Ads, Social Ads, Sponsorship, etc.) Cost of software/hardware used in sales and marketing Agency, PR, or any third-party costs involved in sales and marketing. LTV explains how much a customer is worth.

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Getting Back Your Series A Mojo

Both Sides of the Table

Your churn rates are too high. Confidence is THE single most important attribute in being able to attract money, hire staff, stave off creditors, get press, do biz dev deals, close big sales and one day sell your company. And finally … Since I have this conversation private all the time … No. Nearly every one.

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Why Misunderstanding Startup Metrics Can Cost You Your Business

Both Sides of the Table

profitable and companies like Amazon who chose to focus on growth > profitability were not losing money on each book sale (ie they were gross margin positive). So it might actually be more productive for you to improve your conversion than to improve your ad buying, for example. Gross margin positive !=

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How to Track and Improve Ecommerce Customer Acquisition Effectiveness

ConversionXL

There’s more to ecommerce customer acquisition than increasing checkout conversion rates. Where marketing drives brand awareness, customer acquisition drives conversions and sales to generate revenue. The email achieves a 20% open rate, drives brand awareness , and results in 800 new customers. Google ads).

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Startup Benchmarks

VC Cafe

One question that keeps coming up when speaking with early stage entrepreneurs when it comes to funding, is what metrics the company needs to hit to raise seed/series A/B etc: What’s a good conversion rate? Is my churn rate below the category average? What should our MRR growth be?

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The Essential SaaS Metrics for Growth

ConversionXL

SaaS sales and marketing teams can get overwhelmed by metrics. If growth is the best way to get out alive, marketing metrics do little unless they correlate with sales. Successful SaaS growth means marketing and sales teams work in harmony. But an emphasis on MQLs may hand over too many underqualified leads to sales teams.

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