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7 Key Factors Obscure Your Customer Acquisition Costs

Startup Professionals Musings

As a business consultant and angel investor, I often ask for your own assessment of marketing ROI , or customer acquisition cost (CAC). Leaders and investors need to know if you have and are tapping into your key sources of relevant data, including web analytics, sales management data, and customer relationship management (CRM) software.

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LinkedIn Video Ads: Relevance, Specs, and Use Cases

ConversionXL

On YouTube, a keyword-targeted pre-roll ad might show the same video to a CEO and an intern. 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. LinkedIn ads offer the benefits of video content and the granular targeting of a B2B-centric platform.

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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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Why Real Learning is Outside the Building, Not Demo Day

Steve Blank

We think teaching teams a formal methodology around the Lean Framework (Business Model design, Customer Development and Agile Engineering) is a natural evolution of how successful incubators/accelerators will build startups. From the first 10 interviews, we learned that video is a big problem for researchers who use that medium.

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

ConversionXL

Done right, both can help attract the kind of high-quality leads that become long-term customers and advocates. DocuSign combines both to fuel its sales funnel. You’ll also learn how to approach ABM and lead generation to engage your ideal customer. ABM is built on a list of target companies that should be your customers.

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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. This means that before they’ve even met you, your customers are more than halfway through their decision process! This presents your unique value. Experience.

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B2B Ecommerce Sites: What Works for B2B Buyers?

ConversionXL

B2B buyers have two key differences that impact marketing and website design choices: A more complex sales cycle; Niche targeting. A more complex sales cycle. B2B sales cycles can last for months, even more than a year. B2B customers usually go after small market segments. Niche targeting.

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