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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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Selling to the enterprise: “Sell to few” vs. “sell to many”?

Version One Ventures

Selling into this market requires the traditional enterprise sales approach, comprised of a large ‘boots on the ground’ field sales team that works with key decision makers (e.g. These are long sales cycles, often with multiple departments and stakeholders involved. CTO, VP of HR) in the customer organization.

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Critical Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for Founders

Up and Running

Customer lifetime value to customer acquisition cost ratio (CLV: CAC): an important metric that indicates the profitability of the subscription model, it measures the relationship between the lifetime value of a customer and the cost of acquiring that customer. .

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Discovery: How Sales Sets Customer Success Up To Succeed

YoungUpstarts

This includes knowledge of the industry/vertical (inclusive of specific problems your solution typically helps solve), historical context of the customer themselves, and intel about competitor inroads (when possible). As sales teams move through the sales cycle, they learn a lot about their future customers that CS teams want/need to know.

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Microsoft Ads 101: Get Up and Running in Minutes

ConversionXL

This is a subheading for your ad, separated from the first title by a vertical bar. Nick Supapol from SearchEnginePeople recommends using a time lag report to match the membership duration to your sales cycle (e.g., People usually notice your title first to decide if your ad is relevant. Title part 2. Title part 3.

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The #1 thing successful founders think about for their next startups

Hippoland

One thing I’ve noticed is that almost every repeat, previously-successful-founder focuses on the same thing for their respective startups: customer acquisition. But, if they are not, it’s very hard to use paid acquisition to generate that type of traffic for under $5. Sales cycles matter though.

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The #1 thing successful founders think about for their next startups

Hippoland

One thing I’ve noticed is that almost every repeat, previously-successful-founder focuses on the same thing for their respective startups: customer acquisition. But, if they are not, it’s very hard to use paid acquisition to generate that type of traffic for under $5. Sales cycles matter though.

Founder 48