B2B Engineer Sales Cycle Viral 
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
NOVEMBER 5, 2014
Marketing and sales spend is nil, so there has to be a reason it spreads by word of mouth, ideally virally as a natural result of using the product itself. $10/mo Also this is almost exclusively B2B unless it’s something “luxury.” simple enough to be self-service). Think: GoDaddy).
ConversionXL
MARCH 6, 2019
LinkedIn ads offer the benefits of video content and the granular targeting of a B2B-centric platform. The growth of B2B video marketing. But LinkedIn owns the lucrative B2B audience. As AJ Wilcox notes in his course on LinkedIn ads , 72% of the Fortune 1000 are B2B companies. digital ad spend went to video. Plan it out.
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www.forentrepreneurs.com
FEBRUARY 2, 2010
As I ask questions to understand the thinking, what usually comes out is something vague along the lines of web marketing, and/or viral growth with no numbers attached. A quick look around all the B2C startups shows that, although viral growth is often hoped for, in reality it is extremely rare.
Hippoland
AUGUST 8, 2018
As always, there are exceptions: if you build a viral consumer product (such as an Instagram) where people are just coming to your site / app in droves at no cost to you, then you’ve got a great business. 2) B2B startups have high margins. Sales cycles matter though. B2B companies can have great unit economics.
Hippoland
AUGUST 8, 2018
As always, there are exceptions: if you build a viral consumer product (such as an Instagram) where people are just coming to your site / app in droves at no cost to you, then you’ve got a great business. 2) B2B startups have high margins. Sales cycles matter though. B2B companies can have great unit economics.
ConversionXL
APRIL 3, 2018
Ed Fry – Customer Data Operations: Unleashing your hidden growth engine. Virality: # of users that refer your product for you: exponential growth if your K factor is greater than 1. Dropbox: first achieved growth through virality. Renee Thompson – How to Win at B2B Optimization. What makes B2B different?
ConversionXL
MAY 19, 2016
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. One of my favorite examples of this is the design of viral loops. And I think this is really the point.
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