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Marketing Your Startup: A Billion-Dollar Company’s First Marketer Reflects Back

View from Seed

Ellie Mirman: When I came in, Mike [Volpe, HubSpot’s CMO] had a to-do list of the things he wanted us to do, the top one being to start a webinar series. NVV: That’s not in any book about growing a startup — “Build an interactive app to start your marketing, then host a webinar for its users.”

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How to Build a Beloved Product Without Email Marketing

ConversionXL

In many cases, customers are more willing to give out their info when rewards are at stake, like discounts or sales. Gamification isn’t the domain of B2C or gaming sites alone. Before I go any further, it’s important to note that this strategy probably isn’t right for all businesses.

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Scaling Sales: From Craft to Machine

Seeing Both Sides

I''ve been thinking a lot lately about scaling sales. . Before this occurs, the sales process is a craft or an art - custom-made by the founder or evangelist sales VP. How do I build a repeatable, scalable sales process that is like an industrial machine - not a crafts project? 1) Enterprise Sales.

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LinkedIn Video Ads: Relevance, Specs, and Use Cases

ConversionXL

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. The sales cycle may last for months, or more than a year. LinkedIn video ad metrics.

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The ROI of Lead Scoring

Duct Tape Marketing

But the unintended consequence of our collective lead generation obsession is that the task of actually determining which of the leads generated are sales-ready is relegated to the back-burner. That ultimately results in sales teams being sent troves of contacts who are either unable or not ready to buy. Lead quantity vs. lead quality.

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Short guide to sales and marketing for start-ups [Guest Post]

VC Cafe

You have to invest time and money into building a sales and marketing team to acquire customers beyond early adopters. To begin with, let’s illustrate the sales process with a simple graphic of the funnel that comes from an excellent post on Stratechery about marketing channels. sales or support). Use the right tools.

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How to Build a Product Launch Strategy

ConversionXL

Growth: A sharp increase in users and sales. Here, your focus should be to earn new sales from fence-sitters and consider new revenue streams. There are several documents you can create in pre-launch to encourage buy-in (no matter the size of your startup or organization): Sales messaging guide.

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