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Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition | For Entrepreneurs

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Blog About Log in Register Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition In the many thousands of articles advising entrepreneurs on what they have to focus on to build successful startups, much has been written about three key factors: team, product and market, with particular focus on the importance of product/market fit.

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Is Your SaaS Go-to-Market Strategy Tsunami-Proof?

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This isn’t limited to the B2C space. Three out of every four B2B buyers would rather self-educate than learn about a product from a sales representative, according to Forrester. customer acquisition process and channels). The sales-led GtM strategy. Tidal Wave 2 – Rising Acquisition Costs. ?. ideal customer).

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LinkedIn Video Ads: Relevance, Specs, and Use Cases

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The strategy, according to Google, improves ad recall (and, undoubtedly, YouTube revenues). Nielsen data on a B2C campaign found that native ads are more effective in driving “brand consideration”: ( Image source ). Compared to the B2C world, B2B attribution faces two challenges: Sales often take place offline.

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How to Create a Demand Funnel (for 44X Revenue)

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To have the future we wanted, we needed to shift away from monetizing our open-data community and toward enterprise sales. It wasn’t quite a flip from B2C to B2B, but it was close. To do that, we built a demand funnel that took us from nothing to 44X revenue growth in a single year. Honorable mention: The DemandGen Framework.

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The ROI of Lead Scoring

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When used appropriately, it will help your organization increase revenue, cut unnecessary expenditures and deliver better customer experiences by: enabling you to see what content, tactics, and channels are driving qualified leads; ensuring that you are appropriately “segmenting” leads generated based on their sales readiness.

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

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Be prepared to cross the desert - SaaS requires R&D and sales expense up front for a multi-year stream of revenue, so it demands enough investment capital to fund 4+ years of runway. Farming is also often overlooked, but can help grow customer accounts and revenues from 30% upwards (if successful). Great list!

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Marketing Metrics 101 for B2B Startups

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I’ve seen online B2C startups use Dave McClure’s Startup Metrics for Pirates as a starting point for measuring what marketing is doing. A good set of metrics will allow me to predict that if I spend $1 on a certain marketing tactic, I’m likely to get $X of revenue in Y days.

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