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

View from Seed

Webinars have a whole other cost in terms of time, effort, headaches, etc. It’s also important to match the marketer to the company. EM: My rule of thumb is to look at the length of the sales cycle. Some startups have really long sales cycles. Some have short, more transactional cycles.

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LinkedIn Video Ads: Relevance, Specs, and Use Cases

ConversionXL

They also come with higher costs and LinkedIn-specific platform limitations. That means that there’s plenty of business to be won—even if LinkedIn views come at a higher cost (more later). LinkedIn video ads: tech specs, targeting, metrics, and cost. The sales cycle may last for months, or more than a year.

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What is a CTO?

Austin Startup

Ideally, they will help you understand technology ROI, innovation accounting, and also help you understand where you can cut costs and where you need to invest. They shorten the sales cycle, mitigate risks, and provide assurance in the context of technical due diligence. Not all CTOs perform all of these duties but some do.

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How To Avoid the 3 Most Costly Mistakes When Using Google AdWords

Duct Tape Marketing

Mistake One: Keywords In Broad Match. AdWords is set by default to have your keywords in broad match, and this causes your keywords to match for a huge variety of searches you never intended. However, that is not the case and it costs you money! When beginning your account change the match type of your keywords.

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Cracking The Code: Unveilling of the Bessemer's 10 laws of Cloud.

Cracking the Code

Cloud accounting is all about matching revenue and costs to consumption…well, except for professional services! In regards to calculatimg the "Magic Number" - should the amount included as sales and marketing costs match the length of the sales cycle? Support, support, support!

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How to Make Your Business Plan Standout for Investors

Up and Running

There usually is some other operational metric more readily available out there where you can back into a sales range (square footage of their building, number of employees, sales figures from a key customer, import trade data, etc.). Regarding cost, what assumptions have you made in terms of scaling?

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3 Sales Tips for Startups – Creating a Burning Platform

Both Sides of the Table

Not only do I need to understand a customer pain point that my solution solves but I also need to convince them that my product does it better or most cost effectively than others on the market. The real test of sales and the topic of my post is “why buy now.” It’s what kills most sales cycles including raising venture capital.

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