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Understanding the Underbelly of Online Marketing & Why You’ll Lose if You Don’t

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If you’re a technology startup you need to excel at product, of course. SEO / SEM are promotional techniques for marketing through the Google distribution channel, which have yielded huge benefits to many companies – Yelp being a prime example. Of course reciprocity matters so they would all leap into action.

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How to Solve the Biggest Frustration Marketers Have With Social

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And of course you could add up impressions by counting your the followers of everybody who had retweeted plus your own. Of course it’s valuable to know how many clicks you drive. The other major pilot customer was. Clicks are also a simple measure that you can get from basic link tracking packages. Or Likes – LIKES!

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Pour And Stir II – Managing Your Cost Per Customer

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As noted in Pour and Stir Part I , the key to the successful execution of this strategy is managing the following equation: The cost to acquire a customer < lifetime value of a customer. Decreasing Your Customer Acquisition Costs. This is equivalent to being handed a free customer for every ten customers you acquire.

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Why Misunderstanding Startup Metrics Can Cost You Your Business

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Perhaps the most misused terms I see these days from entrepreneurs involve CAC (customer acquisition costs) and LTV (life time value) and a lack of understanding these critical components is driving many companies to premature failure. And even when calculated correctly often CAC’s are assumed to be constant but of course they’re not.

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How Startups Can Use Metrics to Drive Success

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4 times / 100 means if a customer uses your app frequently (say 10-20 times / day) then they are crashing nearly every day. You’ll have no idea when you’re off course. Customer Acquisition. How many through SEM? Do you have a customer referral program? How do the mobile customers break down by device type?

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Announcing a Deal I’ve Wanted to Talk About for a Year

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And because I wanted Ethan to be able to attract a great team, build & iterate a product, test it with initial customers and refine his strategy before having to take the wrappers off of his company. In industry this is known as “yield management” and of course it needs to exist. So there you have it.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

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If you look at the structure of the travel industry above – of course we know that the hotel industry is fragmented while the airline industry is reasonable consolidated. But I’m investing on the assumption you will be successful, of course. That is how great businesses are built.

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