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

View from Seed

NVV: Lots of marketers are under pressure to come in and generate demand right away, whether because sales is asking for leads or founders are demanding PR or user growth. Even identifying as a demand-gen marketer or branding or B2B or B2C leaves a lot of decisions still on the table to actually execute. Where do you start?

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Get Ready To Announce Your New Product Launch

Rembrandt Communications

As a Chief Product Officer for a B2B, promotion may not be top-of-mind when you are in the conception and development stage. But, this is a good time to talk to your public relations’ (PR) team members. Members of your PR team are aware of what’s going on with industry trends, competitors, customer feedback, and more.

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How to Craft (Or Pivot) Your Agency Value Proposition

ConversionXL

And so, the concept for a digital PR service was born. Using my existing skills and resources (including an old domain name), I tested a productized digital PR offer. I put together a one-page website, a list of 100 people to reach out to, and a cold email script that would make seasoned sales professionals cringe.

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The ROI of Lead Scoring

Duct Tape Marketing

How long is the sales cycle for an ideal customer (week, month, year, etc.)? Where in the buying cycle is this lead (timeline)? Sam Ruchlewicz is the resident data expert and Senior Digital Strategist for Warschawski, a Baltimore-based Advertising, Marketing & PR Agency. Where are our ideal customers located?

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Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition | For Entrepreneurs

www.forentrepreneurs.com

Far more common is a need to acquire customers through a series of steps like SEO, SEM, PR, Social Marketing, direct sales, channel sales, etc. Some of the early B2B pioneers in this space were companies like JBoss ( story here ), SolarWinds, ConstantContact, HubSpot, etc. Consider every possible way to minimize this.

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Short guide to sales and marketing for start-ups [Guest Post]

VC Cafe

Expect some people still try to get hold of customer success, marketing or any other department through the sales line, because it will likely be the number that is the easiest to find on your website. . Inside sales is heavily driven by marketing activities, such as SEO, paid search, paid social or PR campaigns. Online chat.

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Marketing Metrics 101 for B2B Startups

www.rocketwatcher.com

Rocket Watcher Product Marketing for Startups Product Marketing for Startups About Speaking Contact Email Posts Startups Product Marketing Messaging Social Media Commentary Uncategorized Marketing Metrics 101 for B2B Startups 13. Rocket watcher b2b marketing metrics View more presentations from April Dunford.

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