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You Shouldn’t Have to Pay to Talk To Your Own Customers

Austin Startup

And as marketers and businesspeople alike become more and more data-driven, linking care data with sales data with PR data with ad data becomes a core competence for any organization. That data, by the way, might include everything from bug submissions to new product ideas to sentiment scores and voting history.

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

I previously posted a detailed presentation with sales technology tools useful for B2B sales. HOF Capital has experimented with using services for targeting institutional LPs ( e.g., CEPRES , Drooms Dealflow , Harvest Exchange , Palico , Trusted Insight ). is an AI bot which helps companies refine their sales pitch to VCs.

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How to Master PPC Targeting and Choose the Right Ad Platform

ConversionXL

Sometimes your product or offer is so new that there’s no search demand out there for you to easily harvest. This means you have to generate awareness and demand yourself, before you get that sale. LinkedIn (not great for B2C). Track Sales Wisely. AdWords Display (sheer publisher size). Corporate Ladder.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

I previously posted a detailed presentation with sales technology tools useful for B2B sales. I’ve also experimented with using services which are marketplaces between LPs and GPs: CEPRES , DiligenceVault , FundVeil , Harvest Exchange , and Palico. We can use technology to make sales far more efficient. .

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B2B Websites: 10 Best Practices for UX and Design

ConversionXL

This post applies Jakob Nielson’s 10 Usability Heuristics to B2B websites that focus on lead generation (as well as “high consideration” B2C sites that lack any transactional functionality). Massey Ferguson’s website, a leader in tractors and global harvesting, exemplifies consistency. Websites are not puzzles.

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CXL Live 2017 Recap: Optimization & Growth Insights from 20+ Experts

ConversionXL

Long copy” doesn’t mean “long form sales page”. There’s a time and place for long form sales pages. Test functionality before you try to harvest fruits. Bill Leake: Optimizing for the “Considered Purchase”: What Changes if You’re B2B or Expensive / Long Sales Cycle B2C? Marketing/Sales optimization funnel.