Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 25, 2020

People tell me there may be over 8,000 dating sites with scientific matchmaking algorithms worldwide, but I couldn’t find one that focused on scientifically matching companies and people for business-to-business (B2B) relationships. There is still time for you to be the first eHarmony.com of the B2B crowd! Marty Zwilling.

B2B 388

B2B Matching Partner Algorithm 388

Brandanew

APRIL 22, 2016

The content is ready and now post-publishing you’re on to emailing your list, reaching out to influencers, and distributing on your social channels. Sometimes, paid advertising tools and platforms can be a great supplement to these more traditional means of distribution. Outbrain. . . Content.ad.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 20, 2020

In my specific case, it was a matter of building physical products for inventory , selling through channels, and waiting to get paid by distributors. . Profits are what’s leftover after you subtract costs and expenses from sales. Inventory is usually bought and paid for and then stored until it becomes cost of sales.

Technical Review 132

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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., Focus on the channels that offer the best ROI. The result?

Retention 113

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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.)

Demand 124

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Brandanew

MAY 14, 2015

Brandanew: In terms of content distribution, do you think social is the single biggest channel out there? Ken Herron : Social is by far the biggest channel for free/low-cost content distribution. That said, for B2B companies the proxy/leading indicator is often lead generation compared to B2C companies’ DTC/retail sales.

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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?”. Or sales-qualified leads. Exceptions abound.).

Analytics 161

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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.

Marketing 109

Marketing Social Media Non-Compete Audience 109

The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2022

. “We primarily use manufacturing and CRM automation tools in our industry to ensure flawless business growth,” say marketers at Front Signs, Los Angeles sign company of B2B projects. Sales pipeline reporting . Content Distribution . With a quicker way to distribute your content, you can focus on creating more of it.

Social Media 175

Social Media Marketing Los Angeles Campaign 175

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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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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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

People tell me there are over 5,000 online dating sites, but I couldn’t find one that focused on matchmaking business-to-business (B2B) relationships. If the value is channeled to one beneficiary, with more cost and effort to the other, the equation won’t work for either. Understand required changes to the current business model.

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B2B Partner Matching Distribution 217

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 ).

Product 110

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Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

Since email is so important as an acquisition channel (and since likely nothing else works for them), I choose one of my three favorite email marketing metrics , CTDR. B2B / Enterprise Sales: Salesforce. I absolutely hate how not data driven most B2B selling is. For a B2B company there are so many things we can measure.

Metrics 141

Metrics Acquisition eCommerce Analytics 141

crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

That shouldn’t be surprising – many startups are effectively using content marketing as their inbound sales strategy. create a strategy and implement tactics to distribute and promote your content. create a strategy and implement tactics to distribute and promote your content. ensure that the content is high quality.

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Brandanew

AUGUST 13, 2015

And with so many digital channels, platforms, and opportunities, this is indeed a recurring worry, especially for small businesses and startups. In a world driven by social media mentions, reviews, and a Google search before you buy anything, it’s not hard to believe that your customers (B2B or B2C/ Pens or Cars) are looking you up.

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Small Business Marketing Software Review B2C 100

David Teten

JANUARY 11, 2020

But for B2B sales, meeting people in person is often mandatory. In the venture capital/private equity business, investors are B2B microinfluencers. I’ve thought about using a tool to increase distribution/viewership of my past blog posts by drip marketing them, but haven’t signed up yet. Distributing content.

Social Media 60

Social Media Technical Review Media Private Equity 60

YoungUpstarts

MAY 17, 2017

Here’s an example of a B2B buyer persona for a customer who is looking for tools that offer marketing automation and assist him in analyzing the social media activities of his business: Get started with a blog. For promotional/sales related content, try producing content which resonates with the beliefs of your target customers.

Marketing 133

Marketing Social Media B2C B2B 133

Rob Go

JANUARY 12, 2015

Your product may have gotten traction due to some distribution hack or novelty factor, both of which may not lead to sustained usage and growth. It is hard to translate rapid end user adoption with actual business success (eg: monetizing a large audience, or moving from end-user SAAS to enterprise sales). The Case for Traction.

B2B 28

B2B Early Stage Distribution Software Review 28

View from Seed

JANUARY 13, 2015

monetizing a large audience or moving from end-user SaaS to enterprise sales). Great teams fail to build a product and get early distribution all the time. Traction for Consumer, Team for B2B. Generally speaking, this is because of what it takes to get early distribution in these markets. The Case for Traction.

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Seed Stage B2B Distribution Early Stage 120

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 9, 2012

Differences in how people are reached, their expectations of the buying process, how their trust is earned, the price point they’ll accept, what distribution methods are most efficient, the messaging that attracts them -- all these factors (and more) may represent different sub-segments.

Entrepreneur 167

Entrepreneur Lean Southern California San Diego 167

Up and Running

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Even if you compete in the B2B arena, many product and service categories are saturated with competition. How frequent do they post on Facebook and what types of content do they post, • Which channels of distribution do they utilize. • How large is their sales team. • Do they have a dedicated sales force.

Offshore 89

Offshore Social Media B2C United States 89

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

People tell me there are over 5,000 dating sites with scientific matchmaking algorithms, but I couldn’t find one that focused on scientifically matching companies or people for business-to-business (B2B) relationships. If the value is channeled to one beneficiary, with more cost and effort to the other, the equation won’t work for either.

B2B 208

B2B Matching Partner Algorithm 208

Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 9, 2018

How to Use LinkedIn to Generate Sales Conversations written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Combined with the text below you should have a pretty good feel for how to use LinkedIn to generate sales conversations. Everyone seems to be on it, but no one seems to know quite how to use it to generate sales conversations.

Conversion 75

Conversion Sales Audience Social Network 75

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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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Digital marketing is simply the move to the digital tools and technologies that most people depend on every day, including smartphones, search engines, tablets, video on demand, and the social media channels like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and YouTube.

Marketing 253

Marketing Startup Non-Compete B2C 253

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

While I can't know all the goals you should set (and the economic value you should use for each goal), let me share with you five goals that every business, B2B or B2C, should set up in their analytics practice (in Google Analytics, IBM Analytics, Adobe Analytics, or whatever it is that you are high on right now).

Analytics 60

Analytics eCommerce Metrics Acquisition 60

Austin Startup

OCTOBER 15, 2017

Will his digital presence measurably affect sales of his newest book What Unites Us ? We had to estimate hardware costs at various volume levels, distribution channel discounts, competitive pressures from Imsai and a few others, and then decide to go to market with a strong conviction in our pricing strategy.

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Technical Review Software Review Nevada Silicon Valley 48

Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 6, 2020

Every company is going to get more distributed, more flexible, more global, and more digital-first. I think another opportunity now is the huge channel shift underway. Take B2B companies. Before Covid, you had field sales, you had events, you had tours with resellers. And I’m not saying every company becomes GitLab.

Technical Review 69

Technical Review Seed Stage Software Review Early Stage 69

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 24, 2016

To illustrate this, in the space I had available on the slide I was projecting, I shared some sense of effort/skills/time that might be required to take one step up… You can see that the initial elements are pretty small, then things get complicated, but it is not an even distribution. Insanely hard is putting it mildly.

Analytics 60

Analytics Metrics Technical Review Channel 60

ConversionXL

MAY 22, 2017

Though it wasn’t intended, the last two articles I wrote on the PlainFlow blog have formed a series: The Modern SaaS Stack and the Unexploited Amount of Data is a walkthrough that shows how companies use Modern SaaS Stack to cover their Marketing/Support/Sales activities from day-0. All manual operations. It was 2003.

Customer 92

Customer Marketing Artificial Inteligence Clickthrough 92

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 6, 2013

eBay aggregated buyers and sellers of stuff, mostly stuff in the attic and garage, and took a fee on the sale. Today sellers can find viable marketplace distribution in places like Amazon, Buy.com, Newegg, Ariba as well as eBay. eBay was one of the first to crack the marketplace code online. Advantages of digital marketplaces.

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Channel Small Business Distribution B2C 61

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 2, 2014

We also know that content performs for your business when you pair it with marketing automation software; you can use content to build up email subscriptions, understand your audience’s interests, and nurture the leads in your sales funnel. A lot of marketers are doing well in terms of authoring and distributing their content.

Marketing 162

Marketing Curation B2C Audience 162

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 24, 2016

Jeff Ernst, CEO and President at Smync , has built, grown and managed sales and marketing organizations in businesses of all sizes, with over 20 years of marketing and management experience. A lifelong entrepreneur, Jeff has worked over 10 years in tech including B2B startups in webcasting and web conferencing.

Marketing 169

Marketing B2B Distribution Channel 169

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Talk to any B2B marketer about attribution and they’ll either roll their eyes or rant about how it’s important but hard to get right—long lead cycles, multiple contacts from a single organization, etc. It was a significant chunk of the marketing budget and came at the expense of other channels. The non-linear user journey.

B2B 131

B2B Marketing Analytics Campaign 131

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 1, 2022

95% of B2B buyers are not ready to buy your product right now. In this post, we’ll uncover the dark funnel and show you how to win customers on the channels companies often overlook. . When B2B buyers are considering a purchase, they spend only 17% of their time meeting with potential suppliers.

B2B 103

B2B Social Media Channel Audience 103

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors. A tool like Quuu identifies relevant, shareable content to keep your social media channels active. . I previously posted a detailed presentation with sales technology tools useful for B2B sales. She is a model for us all!

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78