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Account-Based Marketing vs. Lead Generation: Which is Right for You?

ConversionXL

Where lead generation casts a wide net, ABM uses a spear to target and catch the best fish. It flips the traditional sales funnel on its head, ditching the one-size-fits-all approach to marketing in favor of a land-and-expand approach. To return to our earlier analogy, it’s using a net to catch large schools of fish.

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Gain Freedom With The Hands Off CEO Blueprint

Duct Tape Marketing

As a former business exit advisor, she crafts exit strategies, adding up to five figures to clients’ net profit monthly so they can focus on growth. I could reverse my engineer back into it because I'm pretty good at that. (03:59): We need to go make more sales. 03:59): So I knew I'd be able to figure that out.

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A Complete Guide to Account-Based Marketing: Win Over Your Ideal Customer

ConversionXL

ABM takes you from fishing with nets to fishing with a spear. This shift in focus results in more efficient use of your marketing budget, shorter sales cycles, and a better customer experience. You’re identifying the accounts you want to engage, then strategically marketing to each contact in the account.”.

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SXSW Startups: UbiGro

Austin Startup

You can read more about our window technology in the latest issue of Chemical Engineering Progress. There are other soft factors like sales cycle speed, marketing potential, competition, defensibility, and technology readiness level. Achieving net-zero is a lot harder than most people think. Great question.

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CXL Live 2018 Recap: Top 5 Lessons from Each Speaker

ConversionXL

Ed Fry – Customer Data Operations: Unleashing your hidden growth engine. Understand growth accounting – new, resurrected vs churned = net growth (can also look at this at feature level, not only product). Offline sale – typically. Long sales cycle – 18 months or more. Start with retention.

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Cracking The Code: The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008.

Cracking the Code

In my case (LucidEra -- a SaaS analytics provider focusing on sales, marketing, and financial analytics), weve found that success requires not only building some best practices for analytics into our solution, but also coming up with a repeatable and scalable way to show the customer how to use the analytics and how to interpret the results.

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What 15 CEOs Learned Building Top Agencies

ConversionXL

Professional networks are the starting point (and growth engine). Maybe that’s gotten me into trouble in some cases, where I’ve had to reinvent things that had already been figured out, but I think it netted out to be a benefit for our innovation.” Spoiler alert: It all comes down to people.

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