Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 30, 2017

Corporate success is often hampered by conflicting goals—marketing wants more leads while sales want better leads. This may sound simple enough, but the process of analyzing marketing data can be a daunting task for those who don’t have a grasp on the data collection, maintenance, and aggregation processes. Sound familiar?

Marketing 54

Marketing B2B Database Campaign 54

ConversionXL

MARCH 20, 2019

Deliver tailored marketing and sales messaging to those people. Pilot programs refine the process—and your target list—while (hopefully) demonstrating enough ROI to earn buy-in from marketing, sales, and executives. The analytics portal syncs with independent CRMs to wed engagement and sales data. Sales enablement.

Software Review 117

Software Review Software Marketing IP 117

Scalable Startup

JANUARY 12, 2015

RI primarily needs to accelerate revenue growth and market share in order to build new products, increase salaries to market rate and defend their position against a large number of competitors. For B2B, online reviews and testimonials and becoming a requirement in healthcare, automotive, government and other industries.

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Aggregator Management Los Angeles Angel Investor 20

Cracking the Code

JANUARY 28, 2008

Eloqua is bringing this revolution to the B2B marketers by providing on-demand applications and best-practice expertise for B2B marketers to execute, automate and measure effective marketing programs that drive revenue. sales and marketing. (10). Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing pr. anecdotes. (13).

Software Review 48

Software Review Technical Review Los Angeles Europe 48

Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

Outcomes: Revenue | Ideas Funded Behavior: Path Length | Cart Abandonment Rate Acquisition: Assisted Conversions | Share of Search. Every ecommerce site has to obsess about Revenue. Remember: All data in aggregate is crap, segment or suck. B2B / Enterprise Sales: Salesforce. And, we can do so much for them!

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Metrics Acquisition eCommerce Analytics 141

Agile VC

MARCH 8, 2012

The secondary wave of VC-backed IPOs has also come to fruition… both consumer facing (Yelp, Demand Media, Pandora, Carbonite, HomeAway, Angie’s List, et al) and B2B (Jive Software, Brightcove, Imperva, Responsys, etc). As of this week, here’s a sample of multiples: LinkedIn – 16x+ trailing revenue.

IPO 100

IPO Silicon Valley Revenue Seed Stage 100

Ben's Blog

JUNE 3, 2024

(This is one of the reasons why many of the first B2B GenAI use cases were for marketing!) And unlike sales, marketing is not dependent on painstakingly building a person-to-person relationship with the customer (although maybe this will become easier in a world of AI-powered sales development representatives).

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Software Sales Marketing Vertical 89

Venture Chronicles

JANUARY 5, 2014

An open question that in unanswerable right now is the degree to which the infrastructure, service providers, and various data intermediaries serving b2b and b2c markets treat the government as a hostile actor. 3) Big data takes a breather. big data with just your stuff is rarely big data.

Silicon Valley 62

Silicon Valley Cloud B2C Mobile 62

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors. I previously posted a detailed presentation with sales technology tools useful for B2B sales. Many VC funds rely on general-purpose CRM and sales funnel solutions like Copper , Pipedrive, Salesforce , Streak , and ZenDesk.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

77% of users believe social login is a good registration solution… …and should be offered by any website, according to the aggregated research published by WebHostingBuzz. The number of visitors directly correlates to revenue—whatever business you are in. Impressive, but since only 3.4%

Social Network 73

Social Network Viral Social Media B2C 73

Occam's Razor

MAY 20, 2013

As is common in these types of educational companies, aggregators rule the roost. The above image only illustrates three segments and their conversions – search, referrals, and aggregators – purely for the sake for simplicity. The answer is simple: Aggregators. They do everything. Which fire should we add more fuel to?

Analytics 139

Analytics Aggregator Channel B2B 139

ConversionXL

JUNE 13, 2016

In test 2 you change the Recommendation engine algorithm, such that you primarily show sale articles here. It is possible, for example, to test the placement of the recommendations at 50% traffic, while the other 50% is used for the sale articles in the recommendations. Shopping Cart Values / Revenue Per Visitor.

Distribution 48

Distribution Conversion Non-Compete Revenue 48

ConversionXL

JUNE 24, 2014

77% of Users Believe Social Login Is A Good Registration Solution… … and should be offered by any website, according to the same aggregated research published by WebHostingBuzz. The number of visitors directly correlates to revenue – whatever business you are in. Impressive, but given only 3.4%

Social Network 130

Social Network Viral Social Media B2C 130

Occam's Razor

APRIL 21, 2014

If you can fix that, more revenue will immediately flow into your client's bottom-line. How do you come up with compelling analytics KPIs if there isn't a simple relationship between online activity and profit, for example when you sell online content via a traditional offline annual subscription sales process?? Josh Thomas.

Analytics 131

Analytics Marketing Campaign Metrics 131

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 28, 2013

There is a lot any business — B2C, B2B, A2Z — can learn from Songza. "Let's just get people on the phone and our sales reps will convert!" by creating a great experience, reassuring me with clear pricing, and they won't even have to pay a bounty to their aggregators!

Web 164

Web Design Marketing Security 164

The Next Web

DECEMBER 8, 2013

By the end, 99 percent of the B2B marketplaces had cratered and only B2C eBay was left standing and thriving. The prevailing consensus at the time was that B2B marketplaces were too hard (e.g. Start with aggregating scarce and in-demand inventory. Investment stopped, and entrepreneurs focused on other categories.

B2C 136

B2C B2B Demand Vertical 136

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Many B2B companies run into the same problem, particularly those that are: Complex, with products that require deep expertise to understand and use. Copper’s Relationship Era does the same for the sales industry, and Dialpad’s Anywhere Worker paints a picture of simple, streamlined communication for SMBs.

B2B 133

B2B Marketing SEO Search 133

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Only after reaching $1M in CMRR should you consider hiring European sales and services execs behind customer demand. Be prepared to cross the desert - SaaS requires R&D and sales expense up front for a multi-year stream of revenue, so it demands enough investment capital to fund 4+ years of runway. at 11:09 AM. Great list!

Software Review 48

Software Review North America Europe Metrics 48

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

endeve – Issue invoices, manage clients and check revenues all in one place. Bootstrap – Online bookkeeping software that lets you track sales and expenses, organize your records for tax time, and more. NetBooks – Marketing, sales, inventory and financial control in one place.

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Software Review Social Media Social Network Software 78

Up and Running

MAY 21, 2014

” So since we’ve used the terms marketing and sales in the first sentence, I think it’s helpful to actually maybe get a baseline on really how I define each of those, because I think it’s probably, to some degree, there’s some confusion about what each of those terms mean in some circles. How do I close a lead?”

Marketing 72

Marketing Social Media Sales Media 72

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

For example, Mr. Green’s total user revenue is $100 + $62 + $25 = $187. This very simple setup can help answer the age-old question of, ‘does my blog content help drive more sales and revenue?'” If the answer is no and you’re a B2B SaaS company, that might be a problem.

Analytics 70

Analytics eCommerce Software Review Technical Review 70

ConversionXL

JANUARY 8, 2016

As Avinash Kaushik famously wrote, “All data in aggregate is crap.” For example, Mr. Green’s total user revenue is $100 + $62 + $25 = $187. This very simple setup can help answer the age-old question of, ‘does my blog content help drive more sales and revenue?'” ” [Tweet It!].

Analytics 48

Analytics eCommerce Software Review Technical Review 48

VC Cafe

JUNE 22, 2010

CDI Systems ’ NetIS is the first electronic publishing platform that integrates Digital Rights Management, Web Content Management, information retrieval, SEO and e-commerce tools into a single, seamless platform for the secure delivery and sale of digital content (textual, images, rich media etc’).

Media 145

Media Social Network Flash 145

VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

Established location-based services to enable the CSP offer B2B and B2C services based on mobile positioning, tracking & locating, turn-by-turn navigation and mobile local search. Logia offers Mobile Operators a range of solution for their Apps Stores starting from Content Aggregation, Billing aggregation to full white labeled Apps Store.

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Mobile Securities and Exchange Commission Flash IP 103

abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

Also, take a look at this critically important data point , also aggregated by Professor Jay Ritter. forward 2022 sales which compares favorably with its top comparable $VEEV (which trades at 18X 2022 sales). The others are all B2B companies. This data set looks at 8,610 IPOS over 39 years from 1980-2019.

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IPO Customer Matching Silicon Valley 82