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7 Key Factors Obscure Your Customer Acquisition Costs

Startup Professionals Musings

You must have a strong Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) with a clear strategy for spending, and metrics to gauge results. In addition, research shows that companies that fail to align their marketing and sales departments have less ROI, and lose 10% or more of their revenues per year.

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How to Create a Demand Funnel (for 44X Revenue)

ConversionXL

To have the future we wanted, we needed to shift away from monetizing our open-data community and toward enterprise sales. It wasn’t quite a flip from B2C to B2B, but it was close. To do that, we built a demand funnel that took us from nothing to 44X revenue growth in a single year. Honorable mention: The DemandGen Framework.

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B2B Marketing Attribution: Models, Tools, and Processes

ConversionXL

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. As a group, we’ve gotten a firmer grasp on top-of-the-funnel metrics. What is attribution? Conversions (e.g.

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CXL Live 2022 Recap: Main Takeaways From 6 World-Class Marketers

ConversionXL

Salesforce, for example, increased its revenue market share to 18.4% B2B buyers aren’t all-rational, and they will often follow and recommend tools they’ve heard of even if they’ve never used them. This defines how to connect problem themes to a metric strategy, building a metric-driven action system. How will you act?

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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. 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.

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Conversion Rate Formulas to Accurately Calculate Growth

ConversionXL

The method for calculating conversion rate varies by channel, sales cycle, and stage of the marketing funnel. Not all conversions are directly tied to revenue. If audience building is a priority, email subscribers should be an important metric. But which of these metrics makes a real impact?

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The Modern Approach To Account Based Marketing

ConversionXL

If you’re selling B2B, you know it’s a wide and competitive market. Sorry, but ABM is not B2B, nor is it right for all markets, business models, or companies (just like every company should not be running freemium aka PLG for acquisition.) They won’t magically show up at your doorstep and sign a $100K cheque.

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