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

View from Seed

We started with a general webinar about how to turn your website into a marketing machine, then we went on to SEO, then blogging, then social media. We would give things a few different tries, whether it was trying a topic (like social, SEO, etc.) EM: My rule of thumb is to look at the length of the sales cycle.

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Marketing Automation: Solving Problems At The Push Of A Button

YoungUpstarts

Moreover, those tracking online progress (search rank, social engagement, website visits coming from other channels), are overloaded with duties, multitasking and allocating time. The increased difficulty and added opportunity is ironic and problematic for business-to-business companies as well as B2C (business to consumer) advertisers.

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Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition | For Entrepreneurs

www.forentrepreneurs.com

A quick look around all the B2C startups shows that, although viral growth is often hoped for, in reality it is extremely rare. 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.

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

VC Cafe

To begin with, let’s illustrate the sales process with a simple graphic of the funnel that comes from an excellent post on Stratechery about marketing channels. In a B2C context, you definitely want to give the chat option to customers who got something in their cart but have yet to complete the purchase. Online chat.

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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.