Every successful startup needs a concrete strategy for attracting customers efficiently and effectively - if you don't have customers you don't have a business! Come learn about what makes a good customer acquisition strategy and discover which tactics are right for your business.
Stern NYU Innovation : Business Model Canvas Introduction
NYU Startup School: Acquiring Customers
1. Startup School:
Acquiring Customers
(aka Get/Keep/Grow)
Andy Moss
Entrepreneur-in-Residence, NYU Entrepreneurial Institute
Director, Blackstone LaunchPad at NYU
Adjunct Faculty, Tandon School of Engineering
October 11th, 2016
4. Paid Demand Creation Activities
u Public Relations
u Advertising
u Trade Shows
u Webinars
u Email marketing
u On-line SEM
u Biz Dev
5. Free Demand Creation Activities
“Earned” Media
u Publications in journals
u Conference speeches/papers
u Educational seminars
u Public relations
u Blogging / Sharable content
u Social Media
u Communities
10. What you should be looking for
(and investors will too)…
Monetization
(LTV)
Cost to
Acquire a
Customer
(CAC)
A well balanced business model
Source: David Skok Matrix Partners
11. Customer Acquisition
GET: How does your customer find out about products like yours?
Activity Cost ($) Yield (# ppl) CAC ($)
KEEP: How do you keep your
customers using your product?
Activity
GROW: How do you increase the $ your
customer spends with you?
Activity
Total CAC:
Total LTV:
15. Question 2:
How will I distribute my product?
Physical
Channel
ü
Virtual
Channel
ü
16. Question 3:
Who will distribute my product?
Direct (yourself)ü
Indirect (through others)ü
17. Direct Sales
VARs
Retail
Web, Telesales
Systems Integrators
Mainframes
Minis
LANs
PC Servers
Desktop PCs
Printers
Keyboards
Toner
WANs
Global Systems
Solution Complexity
MarketingComplexity
Distribution Channels
19. Channel Economics: “Direct” Sales
Profit + SG&A + R&D
EndConsumer
EU
Discounts
Your Revenue
List
Price
Source: Mark Leslie, Stanford GSB
Cost of Goods
(Supply Chain)
20. Cost of Goods
(Supply Chain)
Profit + SG&A + R&D
EndConsumer
EU
Discounts
Reseller
Your Revenue
List
Price
Source: Mark Leslie, Stanford GSB
Channel Economics: Resellers
21. Profit + SG&A +
R&D
EndConsumer
EU
Discounts
Reseller
Distributor
Your Revenue
List
Price
Source: Mark Leslie, Stanford GSB
Cost of Goods
(Supply Chain)
Channel Economics: Distributors / Resellers
22. Your product becomes your
customer’s Cost of Goods
Source: Mark Leslie, Stanford GSB
EndConsumer
Reseller
Profit + SG&A
+ R&D
Cost of
Goods
(Supply
Chain)
EU
Discounts
Reseller
Distributor
Master
Distributor
Profit + SG&A +
R&D
Cost of
Goods
(Supply
Chain)
Your Revenue
List
Price
Channel Economics: OEM
23. Channel Economics
What kind of product? Physical Virtual
How do your customers buy products
like yours today?
Who will distribute?
Who are the players that touch your product before it gets to the customer?
YOU CUSTOMER
Estimated
cost (%)
How will I distribute? Physical Channel Virtual Channel
YOU CUSTOMER