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

View from Seed

Ellie Mirman: When I came in, Mike [Volpe, HubSpot’s CMO] had a to-do list of the things he wanted us to do, the top one being to start a webinar series. NVV: That’s not in any book about growing a startup — “Build an interactive app to start your marketing, then host a webinar for its users.”

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LinkedIn Video Ads: Relevance, Specs, and Use Cases

ConversionXL

On Facebook, an ideal customer may log on to see photos of a new nephew, not to check out a 30-second demo of your SaaS product. The same video content likely works well in other channels. Several versions of a video, for example, might target a segment of your customer base or be part of an account-based marketing strategy.

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How to Measure Ecommerce Customer Acquisition Cost (+ Tips to Reduce it)

ConversionXL

Customer acquisition cost (CAC) is an important metric for any ecommerce business. It tells you how much you need to earn per customer to run a profitable company. Put simply, you need a healthy customer acquisition cost for your business to succeed. Table of contents What is ecommerce customer acquisition cost?

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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. Integrate data into goal completions.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Validated learning about customers Would you rather have $30,000 or $1 million in revenues for your startup? This may sound crazy, coming as it does from an advocate of c harging customers for your product from day one. But here’s where a truly great sales artist comes in.

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A Complete Guide to Account-Based Marketing: Win Over Your Ideal Customer

ConversionXL

Account-based marketing is an approach where marketing and sales work together to nurture target accounts and convert or retain customers. It’s not a channel, campaign, or tactic. Sales finds aligned accounts and works with marketing to create customized journeys. What is account-based marketing?

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The ROI of Lead Scoring

Duct Tape Marketing

Regardless of your company’s size or industry, focusing on lead quantity over quality is almost always a mistake for the simple reason that the intermediate result (increased lead generation) isn’t properly aligned with the ultimate business goal (gaining new customers). Where are our ideal customers located?