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7 Key Factors Obscure Your Customer Acquisition Costs

Startup Professionals Musings

As a business consultant and angel investor, I often ask for your own assessment of marketing ROI , or customer acquisition cost (CAC). Everhart distills his leadership insights from many decades in one of the largest business-to-business marketing agencies, working with companies across the country. Don’t forget it.

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B2B Ecommerce Sites: What Works for B2B Buyers?

ConversionXL

Many are familiar with the digital darlings that market directly to consumers—Warby Parker, Away, Allbirds, etc. But the B2B ecommerce market is growing exponentially , estimated to reach $1.2 B2B ecommerce: 2 key differences of B2B buyers. A more complex sales cycle. trillion in transactions by 2021.

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Confronting A Radically New B2B Marketplace: The Storytelling Secret That Will Rock Your Result

YoungUpstarts

A recent survey by CEB reported that 57 percent of the typical business-to-business sales cycle is complete before the buyer’s first contact with vendors. They get data from traditional sources, such as analysts and industry publications, but they’re also connected with social media, peer networks and review sites.

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

ConversionXL

The biggest challenge for marketers is getting them. Account-based marketing (ABM) and lead generation both offer a way to do this. Account-based marketing is a team sport. It flips the traditional sales funnel on its head, ditching the one-size-fits-all approach to marketing in favor of a land-and-expand approach.

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5 Ways AI’s Role In Sales Might Surprise You

YoungUpstarts

Sales isn’t exempt from this recent growth, either. AI tools are currently transforming the world of B2B sales, and some of the unique ways AI can streamline your sales process might surprise you. Shortening the sales cycle. Shrink the sales cycle with Absolutdata.

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

View from Seed

Ellie Mirman was the first marketer hired by the CMO of HubSpot, the Boston-based marketing software startup that IPOed in 2014. Below, she shares lessons learned from the earliest days of marketing the company and how this has translated to her second startup role as VP of Marketing at Toast. EM: We had waves of topics.

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LinkedIn Video Ads: Relevance, Specs, and Use Cases

ConversionXL

LinkedIn ads offer the benefits of video content and the granular targeting of a B2B-centric platform. The growth of B2B video marketing. Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat have thus far dominated the market in video ad spend on social media. But LinkedIn owns the lucrative B2B audience.

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