B2C Engineer Sales Cycle Viral 
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
NOVEMBER 5, 2014
This is often B2C because the value is in quantity of customers, and there’s 100x more consumers than businesses. $1/mo Marketing and sales spend is nil, so there has to be a reason it spreads by word of mouth, ideally virally as a natural result of using the product itself. $10/mo simple enough to be self-service). . $1/mo
ConversionXL
MARCH 6, 2019
Don’t copy the style of a popular video (especially a “viral” one) if you’re trying to drive home your unique value proposition or establish your brand. Nielsen data on a B2C campaign found that native ads are more effective in driving “brand consideration”: ( Image source ). The sales cycle may last for months, or more than a year.
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www.forentrepreneurs.com
FEBRUARY 2, 2010
As I ask questions to understand the thinking, what usually comes out is something vague along the lines of web marketing, and/or viral growth with no numbers attached. A quick look around all the B2C startups shows that, although viral growth is often hoped for, in reality it is extremely rare.
Cracking the Code
OCTOBER 10, 2008
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.
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