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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. Assessing value is not as simple as you think, and many B2B companies get this wrong. Due to the free-flow of information, buyers have become fiercely independent.

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Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition | For Entrepreneurs

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Some of the early B2B pioneers in this space were companies like JBoss ( story here ), SolarWinds, ConstantContact, HubSpot, etc. For example: Create demo videos that answer every likely sales question. List the common sales objections that come up in the sales cycle, and provide answers to these on the web site.

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Cracking The Code: The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008.

Cracking the Code

In my case (LucidEra -- a SaaS analytics provider focusing on sales, marketing, and financial analytics), weve found that success requires not only building some best practices for analytics into our solution, but also coming up with a repeatable and scalable way to show the customer how to use the analytics and how to interpret the results.