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Common B2B Challenges and How To Solve Them

ConversionXL

From long sales cycles to trying to stand out from the sea of sameness, B2B companies face an uphill battle from the start. While thousands of B2B organizations struggle, plenty are able to develop long-term success. Common B2B marketing challenges. Sales cycle length increased. So what does it take? Let’s dive in.

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Traction is the new IP

Version One Ventures

“Traction is the new IP ” sums up perfectly how the technology space has evolved over the past decade due to the nature of the web. In today’s web landscape, word of mouth drives adoption and can lead to “winner takes all” (or almost all) in both B2C and B2B markets. The same logic holds true for most acquiring companies.

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A Quick Primer on B2B Conversion Optimization

ConversionXL

Conversion optimization is a little different if you’re in B2B. Some of the same underlying principles apply, but because of the inherent differences in buying decisions and sales cycles, pulling B2C optimization practices straight from the book might be a bad idea. It’s called Optimizing for B2B.

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14 Interesting Findings From The Startup Genome Project

YoungUpstarts

more likely to successfully scale with sales driven startups than with product centric startups. Founders overestimate the value of IP before product market fit by 255%. B2C vs. B2B is not a meaningful segmentation of Internet startups anymore because the Internet has changed the rules of business. Solo founders take 3.6x

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Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out – The Startup Genome Project

Steve Blank

more likely to successfully scale with sales driven startups than with product centric startups. Founders overestimate the value of IP before product market fit by 255%. . B2C vs. B2B is not a meaningful segmentation of Internet startups anymore because the Internet has changed the rules of business. Solo founders take 3.6x

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Retooling Marketing in a B2B Company

Venture Chronicles

A successful organization that fed impressive growth, reaching growth and revenue records year over year, the marketing organization relied on a proven B2B outbound marketing model that precisely measured lead capture rates. Marketing Uncategorized B2B inbound marketing Ping Identity'

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The Modern Approach To Account Based Marketing

ConversionXL

The book dedicates quite a few pages to the ‘customer-centric stack’ and argues that because you’re now able to know when someone is in the market for a solution like yours [via IP lookup or 1st or 3rd party intent data], you don’t need to “spam” them. In those days we just called it sales.

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