VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

Commercial open source companies – being open source is a powerful way to gain developer adoption and sell to enterprises a lot sooner. Electric Vehicles – Lower battery costs powering adoption mean EV sales could reach 74 million in 2030. Looking for startups solving practical use cases that go beyond gaming.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 1, 2021

When it comes to e-commerce sites, most people think only of B2C relationships, but all of the same principles and advantages apply equally to the B2B sector where goods are involved. Like all ecommerce sites, B2B companies need a simple yet reliable B2B ecommerce platform to make it as easy as possible for their customers to order.

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ConversionXL

JULY 21, 2022

When researching a new product, buyers use 10 or more channels to interact with companies. Each channel presents a chance to make a good impression. Optimize each channel, and you’ll win new customers, enjoy higher order rates , and retain customers. Each channel is a piece of the same puzzle.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2016

By Kurt Bilafer, Global Vice President Sales & Success at WePay. Apple manufactures products, owns retail stores and also has an open platform for developers to build and sell apps that makes the products Apple sells even more desirable. Salesforce does the same thing in the B2B world. Customer intimacy.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Where campaigns to build brand awareness and generate top-of-funnel sales drive traditional marketing, data across the entire customer lifecycle drives growth hacking in marketing. Channel-level expertise: An understanding of how the channels work (e.g., John says to drive growth, growth marketers must develop a “ T formation.”.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 30, 2014

You don’t have to be a development expert to create a site that is optimized for viewing across all device types – your hosting provider can give you some pointers for getting a mobile-friendly site up and running quickly. Today, e-commerce platforms can give you the type of insights you’ll need to identify new trends and supercharge sales.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

It partners with sales to close more revenue, informs product teams to deliver better products, and in some cases, co-owns demand generation activities with marketing teams. of their time), marketing teams (84.2%), and sales teams (75.9%). Use product marketing to boost reach and sales. Image Source.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Measuring customer acquisition for peak effectiveness How to calculate ecommerce customer acquisition cost Calculate much your customers are worth: LTV MRR, churn rates, and other factors that affect your LTV/CAC ratios Find and fix customer acquisition funnel leaks 5 customer acquisition strategies to increase sales and loyalty (with examples) 1.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 21, 2012

Compared to social media and content marketing, email is a mature channel for engaging online consumers. Regardless of whether your business is in the B2B or B2C space, your email marketing effectiveness can be optimized. And here is a B2B example of segmentation by business size: Example of landing page segmentation for B2B.

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Seeing Both Sides

JULY 11, 2013

I''ve been thinking a lot lately about scaling sales. . Before this occurs, the sales process is a craft or an art - custom-made by the founder or evangelist sales VP. How do I build a repeatable, scalable sales process that is like an industrial machine - not a crafts project? 1) Enterprise Sales.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Studies show that only 5% of B2B buyers are ready to buy. If you spam the non-buyers with sales CTAs, you’ll only annoy them. What: Wynter helps marketers to improve their copy with a panel of engaged B2B professionals. There’s only so much you can say about B2B panels in a way that nobody else has.

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

Sales intelligence platform Cognism cut their lead generation efforts by 90% in 2021. In this article, you’ll learn how to build a demand generation funnel that fuels the pipeline, shortens the sale cycle, and generates revenue. an ebook); Then you blast them with sales messaging (e.g., email, ads, retargeting, etc.)

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 10, 2011

Here’s a simple question, often asked when designing software but more useful when you’re designing your marketing and sales pitch: How are people doing this today without you? They’re either developing their own film or they’re serial killers. Working the pain in B2B. World domination!

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 2, 2020

The first two are more familiar to B2B marketers; the last one often applies to B2C. That type of content ticks all the boxes that search engines—most companies’ dominant distribution channel—reward. Ask Kaleigh: “What’s the most underrated networking channel?”. The way someone thinks about something. Exceptions abound.).

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

VP of Sales, Monetate - Philadelphia, PA A finger hovers above a mouse button. Using Monetate Real-time Marketer, companies are boosting sales while slashing costs and time-to-market. The company is not just looking for a VP of Sales, but for a champion for all things sales throughout the organization. It wants to click.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Indeed’s German branch was struggling to close sales because they had no awareness in that market. After running a culturally relevant marketing campaign, Indeed rose to number one in traffic and sales in Germany. LEGO : “Inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow.” Brand strategy isn’t just for marketers and their campaigns.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In consumer packaged goods, the benchmark for a “highly successful” product launch is no easy feat: $50 million in first-year sales. Successful product launch campaigns have a strong value proposition, multi-channel distribution, supporting content, and other trappings common to every marketing campaign. Image source ). His solution?

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View from Seed

MARCH 3, 2015

Initially, we promoted it to a list that we’d already developed through Website Grader, the free app our CTO Dharmesh Shah had built before we even had a product. Then there were also certain social channels that worked for awhile but didn’t stick. But marketing should always be ahead of sales to alleviate pressure.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 24, 2017

Transcript of How to Get the Right Mindset for Prospecting and Sales written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. She’s the founder of Strategic Pipeline, a Fortune 1000 sales process improvement consulting group, but it also has a lot to say about small business. Back to Podcast. Transcript.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2020

There are two ways to grow the organic channel: Get more traffic ??from If you’re designing and developing “custom” pages all the time, you’re doing it wrong. Since we’re in B2B SaaS, ours are: Role pages; Products; Industries; Features and use cases. Marketers build pages; developers build systems. from new keywords.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 14, 2009

Cliff Allen is someone I've known for quite a few years and he's a go to person for me when I'm thinking about issues around marketing, sales, technology, startups and networking. Maybe that would make sense as a marketing channel. On a separate note, Cliff, should I add your blog.allen.com to the B2B Marketing Zone ?

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

APRIL 11, 2019

But what about B2B customers and having a B2B eCommerce site you’re selling goods and products to other businesses rather than to broad consumers on the market? The fact of the matter is that B2B customers are oftentimes more difficult to handle than general consumers. Every B2B customer is skeptical about new systems.

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

The average B2B buyer has 27 brand interactions before deciding. Very few, if any, of these interactions are with a sales rep. Because if people are making up their own minds, without coercion from sales, creating demand is the best way to get them to choose you. DGMs see that demand is maintained throughout the sales cycle.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 17, 2014

Galactic Café, developer of the recent narrative-driven game The Stanley Parable , got it right. The developers engaged these YouTube users directly through dialogue in the game. The developers engaged these YouTube users directly through dialogue in the game. Start a YouTube channel. Reach customers on a deeper level.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 17, 2023

How To Scale Your B2B Marketing Strategy written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with Louis Gudema In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Louis Gudema. Louis is a fractional CMO for B2B companies, and mentors startups at MIT. And I, that's really my expertise.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 9, 2012

TLDR: Brant Cooper and Patrick Vlaskovits , authors of The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development are back with a new book called The Lean Entrepreneur. It took the idea of Customer Development and made it accessible to a whole new audience. Illustrations by FAKEGRIMLOCK. You can pre-order it starting today.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 18, 2015

by Anthony Caliendo, author of “ The Sales Assassin: Master Your Black Belt in Sales “ Sales can be complicated! Whether you’re a career sales professional or just starting your first sales job, being a good salesperson can be frustrating and complex. developing effective lead generating techniques.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Are there use cases for voice search in B2B? Notably, Dean continued, “the growth in voice isn’t coming 100% from smart speakers like Google Home, which aren’t super relevant for B2B companies anyway. Instead, a good chunk of all searches are becoming voice searches on mobile phones and—important for B2B—desktops.”.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Or you may send out sales emails to increase revenue. There are tons of emails you can send your prospects and customers, but three critical emails relate to onboarding , sales, and transactions. They showcase how Canva will save time (and money) before sending sales emails to invite trial users to transition to paying customers.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Gather customer data across various channels and devices to have a more comprehensive profile. Align better with your sales team to define what a qualified lead looks like. All of these different scenarios can be a great way to integrate personalization into all of your marketing channels. Improve conversion rates and ROI .

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 2, 2012

When considering how to position a product in the market place or developing the ideal go-to-market strategy, a small business owner needs to examine a number of market factors. Even if you compete in the B2B arena, many product and service categories are saturated with competition. How large is their sales team. •

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Instead, the goal of content marketing is to encourage people to read and perhaps engage with the content, and to begin developing a relationship with the person or entity that created that content. That shouldn’t be surprising – many startups are effectively using content marketing as their inbound sales strategy.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Dan is the CEO and Founder of Sales Schema, a fractional new business team for marketing agencies, and he hosts The Digital Agency Growth Podcast. He’s the author of Mastering Account Management and The B2B Sales Blueprint. In his spare time, he enjoys developing new aches and pains via Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

This article argues that successful B2B marketing must be based on professional, personal, and interactive communication that is implemented throughout the business. Marketing has always been a difficult spend to legitimize with direct inferences of increased sales and revenue generation. Performance marketing. Internal marketing.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 22, 2020

Tone and topics, channels and character, messaging and media – everything has been in a state of flux as the world undergoes a dramatic transformation. Instead, we need to streamline and accelerate our processes by borrowing techniques from the world of lean and agile product development. What to Do With Your MVP.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Sales funnels (essential for websites offering demo calls or free trials to identify friction points). Let’s take a look at an example scenario: You’re trying to find users to review your B2B payroll solution. Cost: $40/non-B2B user, $80/B2B user + custom incentives (usually $20–40/user). UserZoom GO.

Technical Review 92

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 17, 2018

I actually did a study on this a few years ago, and I looked at 351 B2B companies with 50 to 1000 employees, and there was a huge difference between the software companies and the non software companies. They have a website, they probably have a sales team, is that kind of where it ends? Louis Gudema: Oh absolutely.

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