Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

As always, there are exceptions: if you build a viral consumer product (such as an Instagram) where people are just coming to your site / app in droves at no cost to you, then you’ve got a great business. You will use your fridge for a decade or more so the retention here is high. Sales cycles matter though.

Founder 48

Founder Sales Cycle Affiliate Retention 48

Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

As always, there are exceptions: if you build a viral consumer product (such as an Instagram) where people are just coming to your site / app in droves at no cost to you, then you’ve got a great business. You will use your fridge for a decade or more so the retention here is high. Sales cycles matter though.

Founder 48

Founder Sales Cycle Affiliate Retention 48

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

This is an incredible skill, one that most engineers overlook. Products can find sources of validation with impressive stats along a number of dimensions, such as high engagement, viral coefficient, or long-term retention. Then we could focus on standardizing a product that could have an automated sales cycle online.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2018

Ed Fry – Customer Data Operations: Unleashing your hidden growth engine. Tara Robertson – How to 10x Growth by Optimizing Customer Marketing & Retention. Retention is the most important thing – if that’s poor, nothing else matters. Start with retention. Optimize for retention, not just acquisition.

Retention 106

Retention Artificial Inteligence Channel Email 106

ConversionXL

MAY 19, 2016

The biggest shortcoming being that it considers the sales cycle to be a linear process where a customer passes sequentially through sales steps and where he/she is the only one involved in the decision making process. One of my favorite examples of this is the design of viral loops. And I think this is really the point.

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