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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. While thousands of B2B organizations struggle, plenty are able to develop long-term success. Sales cycle length increased. So what does it take? MQL cost significantly increased.

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

ConversionXL

DocuSign combines both to fuel its sales funnel. It flips the traditional sales funnel on its head, ditching the one-size-fits-all approach to marketing in favor of a land-and-expand approach. This required complete alignment across marketing and sales teams to engage, then close the deal. The result?

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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. Why bother? The limits of attribution.

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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. Filed under: Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad , Teaching. Customer Development Lean LaunchPad Teaching'

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Revenue Development

K9 Ventures

It worked like a charm since we could create a more interactive experience on the Web. What started out as a generic web-based chat solution morphed into a full-fledged product for a distance education that we called iClass. (We We were a tiny web-conferencing startup in Pittsburgh called iMeet. This time we’d gotten it right.

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Improving the worst experience

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

The visual bug tracker for web developers & designers. We did learn from the experience — we did a post-mortem and decided what evidence should have stopped us from accepting the account, and now we build that into our sales cycle. If you liked that, you'll probably like these too: Tech Support *is* sales.

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A Quick Primer on B2B Conversion Optimization

ConversionXL

Some of the same underlying principles apply, but because of the inherent differences in buying decisions and sales cycles, pulling B2C optimization practices straight from the book might be a bad idea. There are a few things that make optimizing for B2B a different beast: The sales cycle is usually longer.

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