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7 Key Factors Obscure Your Customer Acquisition Costs

Startup Professionals Musings

As a business consultant and angel investor, I often ask for your own assessment of marketing ROI , or customer acquisition cost (CAC). Outside partners and channel impacts are complex. Of course, you need work with partners and channel to quantity their costs and contributions and normalize total results.

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B2B Ecommerce Sites: What Works for B2B Buyers?

ConversionXL

B2B buyers have two key differences that impact marketing and website design choices: A more complex sales cycle; Niche targeting. A more complex sales cycle. B2B sales cycles can last for months, even more than a year. Now, however, more new business flows through search and other channels.

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LinkedIn Video Ads: Relevance, Specs, and Use Cases

ConversionXL

The same video content likely works well in other channels. Those ad-specific stats pair with the ongoing shift toward video as the primary medium on the Internet. Cisco’s VNI forecast estimates that 82% of all Internet traffic will be video in 2022. The sales cycle may last for months, or more than a year.

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What Does a Demand Generation Manager Do? (And How to Become One)

ConversionXL

Marketers raise brand awareness to capture leads that are handed to sales teams to convert into customers. DGMs see that demand is maintained throughout the sales cycle. It wouldn’t exist were it not for the internet empowering buyers to do their own research and make informed decisions.

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A dumb American’s perspective on investing in Southeast Asia

Hippoland

People in the US can pay for things electronically and can get most services and goods today from the internet – things in the US generally work, so improvements in these areas are all incremental. But it’s arguably even harder in a place where there aren’t ready distribution channels. And that sales cycle can be long.

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A dumb American’s perspective on investing in Southeast Asia

Hippoland

People in the US can pay for things electronically and can get most services and goods today from the internet – things in the US generally work, so improvements in these areas are all incremental. But it’s arguably even harder in a place where there aren’t ready distribution channels. And that sales cycle can be long.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

Because they have no presence in the market, they have to find distribution channels to bring in customers. Do you have any thoughts on scalable customer acquisition in cases where a decent bit of knowledge work has to be invested into each customer? They can only afford those (like Google AdWords) that support buying in small volume.

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