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How to Shorten Your Sales Cycle and Avoid Wasting Time

Both Sides of the Table

I’ve also written extensively on sales and on which sales execs to hire and how to think about the different kinds of sales leaders. One of the questions I used to ask in any recruiting meeting for a senior hire or even a junior sales rep is as follows: “When you run sales campaigns do you prefer to .

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Bootstrapping Relevance: Making Web Conversions Meaningful for Long Sales Cycles

ConversionXL

Often, little more than a form fill tells you about the potential for a five-figure sale months down the road. Google Analytics insights frequently end with raw counts of goal completions, leaving a yawning gap between on-site behavior and sales for companies with long sales cycles. Analyze and act on that data.

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Common B2B Challenges and How To Solve Them

ConversionXL

From long sales cycles to trying to stand out from the sea of sameness, B2B companies face an uphill battle from the start. I recently surveyed and interviewed over 200+ B2B executives, marketing & sales leaders to find out exactly what challenges they currently face and what they are doing to overcome them.

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Account-Based Marketing vs. Lead Generation: Which is Right for You?

ConversionXL

To pull this off, they wouldn’t run a hit-and-hope campaign to target a ton of brands like T-Mobile and pray they’d notice. You can run lead generation campaigns while simultaneously using ABM to win or expand important deals. There are other factors involved in making your decision, such as: The complexity of the buying cycle.

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6 PPC Tactics for Account-Based Marketing Campaigns

ConversionXL

PPC campaigns continue to become increasingly well-targeted. While those tactics may have differentiated your campaigns in the past, they no longer do (or won’t soon). One way to stand out is to go beyond keyword targeting and create PPC campaigns for specific targets—an account-based marketing (ABM) strategy.

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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. By delivering a new story centered on the concept of “modern malware risk,” the company re-launched with an integrated campaign themed around “Modern Malware Exposed.”

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The Modern Approach To Account Based Marketing

ConversionXL

The higher ACV or value of a customer justified a more high touch & expensive campaign to convert a customer—like buying billboards around airline offices & conferences. You want to deploy low-touch campaigns to convert a higher volume of customers. The short answer is no.

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