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Critical Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for Founders

Up and Running

Net Promoter Score (NPS): measures customer loyalty and satisfaction, which is essential for customer retention and referral marketing. Open opportunities by stage: monitor the number of leads you have at each stage of the sales cycle and how you can best allocate resources to pursue them. Employee KPIs.

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

ConversionXL

Sales and marketing collaborate until a deal is closed and beyond to secure long-term customer retention. ABM must target the entire buying committee, not just one or two individuals who may never be involved in sales conversations. ABM takes you from fishing with nets to fishing with a spear. Get executive buy-in.

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The Modern Approach To Account Based Marketing

ConversionXL

For example, Guestlogix sells to airlines, where there’s a finite # of customers & they are higher ACV ‘enterprise’ customers with higher retention. That’s a high level view, now let’s walk through an example scenario for each: Most B2B sales cycles are account-based and not end-user-based.

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CXL Live 2018 Recap: Top 5 Lessons from Each Speaker

ConversionXL

Tara Robertson – How to 10x Growth by Optimizing Customer Marketing & Retention. Retention is the most important thing – if that’s poor, nothing else matters. Retention is the most important thing – if that’s poor, nothing else matters. Start with retention. Offline sale – typically.

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SaaS Trials: Get More Users from Trial Start to Paying Customer

ConversionXL

In our experience, 99% of B2B SaaS products should limit the trial to 14 days, max […] “If you have salespeople, it’ll shorten your sales cycle. Shortening your sales cycle from, let’s say, six weeks to three weeks will reduce your CAC (customer acquisition cost) significantly. Use value-based pricing.

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What 15 CEOs Learned Building Top Agencies

ConversionXL

Client retention hinges on relationships—and the people who maintain them. 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.” The familiar name of an agency CEO is a proxy for trust.

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What 15 CEOs Learned Building Top Agencies

ConversionXL

Client retention hinges on relationships—and the people who maintain them. 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.” The familiar name of an agency CEO is a proxy for trust.

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