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

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To pull this off, they wouldn’t run a hit-and-hope campaign to target a ton of brands like T-Mobile and pray they’d notice. According to Demand Gen Report, 56% of B2B buyers say that a web search is their first resource, and 79% say the winning vendor’s content significantly impacts their buying decision.

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

View from Seed

For awhile, that channel was a share option on all our blog posts, and we tried paying for stumbles for some campaigns. It’s so important to line up the type of marketer and leadership that fits the business model, the product, or even the founder’s philosophy or early attempts at marketing. Where do you start?

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A new field guide for entrepreneurs of all stripes

Startup Lessons Learned

In this excerpt from The Lean Entrepreneur , by using fishing as an analogy, Brant and Patrick reveal how market segmentation influences your business model and why “For Whom” is as important as “What” to build. Market segments drive your business model. Or perhaps you need to chum (freemium) the waters a bit?

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The Modern Approach To Account Based Marketing

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If you’re selling B2B, you know it’s a wide and competitive market. As a company selling to other businesses, you can be selling a relatively straightforward piece of technology “off the shelf” to small businesses to the end-user who is also paying for it. Is ABM right for your business? Who does ABM make sense for?

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A Complete Guide to Account-Based Marketing: Win Over Your Ideal Customer

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It’s not a channel, campaign, or tactic. Sales and marketing collaborate until a deal is closed and beyond to secure long-term customer retention. Individuals don’t make B2B buying decisions; groups do. ABM must target the entire buying committee, not just one or two individuals who may never be involved in sales conversations.

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Why Linear Funnels Are a Simplified Reality (and What to Do About It)

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Like any model it has its pros and cons. The biggest shortcoming being that it considers the sales cycle to be a linear process where a customer passes sequentially through sales steps and where he/she is the only one involved in the decision making process. sales page, cart, purchase, etc.)

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It’s Not a Conversion Problem, It’s a Customer Development Problem

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Startups rarely survive by guessing, and can only create products and business models based on facts about their target market. If you want to see startups in the Concierge phase, follow what happens after a Kickstarter campaigns get successfully funded. Facts about your customers don’t come from your friends and families.