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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). It encompasses your marketing strategy used to attract, engage, and retain customers by creating and sharing relevant articles, videos, podcasts, and other media.

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LinkedIn Video Ads: Relevance, Specs, and Use Cases

ConversionXL

On YouTube, a keyword-targeted pre-roll ad might show the same video to a CEO and an intern. On Facebook, an ideal customer may log on to see photos of a new nephew, not to check out a 30-second demo of your SaaS product. LinkedIn ads offer the benefits of video content and the granular targeting of a B2B-centric platform.

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Common B2B Challenges and How To Solve Them

ConversionXL

From long sales cycles to trying to stand out from the sea of sameness, B2B companies face an uphill battle from the start. I recently surveyed and interviewed over 200+ B2B executives, marketing & sales leaders to find out exactly what challenges they currently face and what they are doing to overcome them.

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Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition | For Entrepreneurs

www.forentrepreneurs.com

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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Why Real Learning is Outside the Building, Not Demo Day

Steve Blank

While our teams have mentors, socialize a lot and give great demos, the goal of our class final presentations is “ Lessons Learned ” – about product/market fit, pricing, acquisition/activation costs, pricing, partners, etc. From the first 10 interviews, we learned that video is a big problem for researchers who use that medium.

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Account-Based Marketing vs. Lead Generation: Which is Right for You?

ConversionXL

Done right, both can help attract the kind of high-quality leads that become long-term customers and advocates. DocuSign combines both to fuel its sales funnel. You’ll also learn how to approach ABM and lead generation to engage your ideal customer. ABM is built on a list of target companies that should be your customers.

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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. B2B customers usually go after small market segments. Niche targeting.

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