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7 Key Factors Obscure Your Customer Acquisition Costs

Startup Professionals Musings

As a business consultant and angel investor, I often ask for your own assessment of marketing ROI , or customer acquisition cost (CAC). Leaders and investors need to know if you have and are tapping into your key sources of relevant data, including web analytics, sales management data, and customer relationship management (CRM) software.

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Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Startup Marketing Ideas - Eric David Greenspan

SoCal CTO

I frequently work on networking through the social web and building new relationships that will foster knowledge gathering or business growth. Some days I respond to questions asked by folks like yourself, the press, or an entity doing a case study, i.e. Citrix, RIM, USC. A negative customer acquisition cost!

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Interview with Chuka Ikokwu, Divercity.io

socalTECH

We have not just engineers, but designers, UI, UX, analytics, product managers, user acquisition, marketing managers, and others. My co-founder and I both had this vision of leveraging mobile and web technology, to make it easier for people to connect to each other in their demographic. Those communities already exist.

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Interview with Ryan Disraeli And Stacy Stubblefield, Telesign

socalTECH

Stacy Stubblefield: We do two factor authentication, which basically means we send text messages with the codes you get when you log into a web site or even when you're just registering for a website. Ryan Disraeli: I was studying business with an emphasis on entrepreneurship. We were really focused on customer acquisition.

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Decoding The Science Behind The Laughs, With Daniel Altman of Laffster

socalTECH

From research and working with IAC, was saw that more than fifty percent of the videos online are web humor and comedy. Before, no one was teaching you how to look at comedic content, how to study it, and how to replicate it. Daniel Altman: For us, it's about user acquisition, and working on the technology.

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Interview with Zach James and Rich Raddon, MOVIECLIPS.COM

socalTECH

We said to the studios--you have this amazing content, why not let us clip it all up, find the best moments in film, and allow users to post those to their blogs and Facebook pages, and let us create curated channels on the web? How is this different than the movie clips floating around the web now? Rich Raddon: There are two things.

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Creating the 21st-Century Fashion Brand, with Brett Markinson, Sole Society

socalTECH

One of the fastest growing startups in Southern California in recent years was Hautelook, which went from just an ideas to a huge, $270M acquisition by Nordstrom only X years later. I went to school at Babson, back East, and majored in finance and entrepreneurial studies. I moved out to California to build businesses.