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5 Key Growth Metrics Every Enterprise Startup Should Track

YoungUpstarts

Because of these nuances, startups selling to enterprise customers must be even more diligent in tracking the right growth metrics. Here are a few metrics your startup should be watching: 1. Revenue Growth. Enterprise startups must have processes in place to monitor revenue growth. Follow the company on Twitter.

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Bootstrapping Relevance: Making Web Conversions Meaningful for Long Sales Cycles

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Often, little more than a form fill tells you about the potential for a five-figure sale months down the road. Google Analytics insights frequently end with raw counts of goal completions, leaving a yawning gap between on-site behavior and sales for companies with long sales cycles. Analyze and act on that data.

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7 Key Factors Obscure Your Customer Acquisition Costs

Startup Professionals Musings

You must have a strong Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) with a clear strategy for spending, and metrics to gauge results. In addition, research shows that companies that fail to align their marketing and sales departments have less ROI, and lose 10% or more of their revenues per year.

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Improving the worst experience

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

We did learn from the experience — we did a post-mortem and decided what evidence should have stopped us from accepting the account, and now we build that into our sales cycle. Hubspot has this down to a science, more so than almost any other company. Even the one you turn away could become a fan.

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How to Create a Demand Funnel (for 44X Revenue)

ConversionXL

To do that, we built a demand funnel that took us from nothing to 44X revenue growth in a single year. That difference cascades down the funnel, allowing you to track the ROI of your lead sources between inbound and outbound campaigns—all the way through to revenue. Here are the three lessons we learned along the way. Image source ).

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Validated learning about customers Would you rather have $30,000 or $1 million in revenues for your startup? All things being equal, of course, you’d rather have more revenue rather than less. And yet revenue alone is not a sufficient goal. More on that in a moment.

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Conversion Rate Formulas to Accurately Calculate Growth

ConversionXL

The method for calculating conversion rate varies by channel, sales cycle, and stage of the marketing funnel. Not all conversions are directly tied to revenue. If audience building is a priority, email subscribers should be an important metric. But which of these metrics makes a real impact?