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

View from Seed

Then there were also certain social channels that worked for awhile but didn’t stick. For awhile, that channel was a share option on all our blog posts, and we tried paying for stumbles for some campaigns. I don’t want to put all my trust just into one channel because that’s too risky.

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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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The ROI of Lead Scoring

Duct Tape Marketing

Behavior Scoring = evaluating a lead based on the observed activities and behaviors of the individual across multiple channels (attending a webinar, viewing an RFP, downloading a thought leadership piece, scheduling a call with Sales, etc.). focusing your sales team’s time and effort on those leads that are qualified.

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Beware The Consultant

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For instance, if a consultant proposes to help you with public relations, pay them a commission equivalent to the greater of a flat fee per story placed or a percentage of revenue generated from the PR coverage. If a consultant claims they can enhance your marketing efforts, pay them based on their direct impact on your incremental sales.

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

VC Cafe

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. At the end of the post, we’ll have a look at sales within the broader context of customer acquisition and customer success. My post focuses mostly on conversion.

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Marketing Metrics 101 for B2B Startups

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. # of Opportunities – An opportunity is a lead that is now being actively managed by a sales person and is moving along the pipeline toward either a closed sale or a loss. For long sales cycles, it is important to measure this to estimate marketing ROI for tactics in the short term. April Amrita Reply 13.

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