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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. So what does it take?

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5 Mistakes We Made While Growing A Startup In Southeast Asia

YoungUpstarts

In March 2016, Rosanne Hortensius left the Netherlands to launch online couponing platform Saleduck in Southeast Asia. For example, it’s very common in Europe to get everything done via email. Reminders, enquiries, even introductions! From experience here in Southeast Asia however, it’s the exact opposite.

Asia 100
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What To Know About Accepting International Payments

YoungUpstarts

Also, people who shop outside the borders of their country will lead to sales of $630 billion, according to a report from Forrester Research. For example, in the Netherlands, the majority of payments are done by direct debit, while in the Czech Republic, the standard is cash on delivery payment. billion people by 2025.

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Surprise Is One Of The Most Powerful Small Business Marketing Tools

crowdSPRING Blog

For example, when a buyer posts a project on crowdSPRING , I email them, thanking them for their business. The email also offers a few tips on how they can get the most out of their project. The email is automated, but I include my email address and direct phone number. Others call.

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Help! My marketing planning is a mess

The Startup Magazine

Training for Search Engine Optimization, social media and email marketing are very popular nowadays (provided by companies like Hubspot), but training for marketing organisation and planning remains untouched. Currently, Belgium and the Netherlands are our first goals. We meet their needs through inside sales and video training.’.

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The unimportance of product names

37signals.com

Sjoerd Interactive Studios The Netherlands. Doesn’t seem to have hurt sales though! Set email and mobile reminders. Enter your email below: Content copyright ©1999-2011 37signals, LLC. We made a project manager: Interactive Project Manager. Saves a lot of time, since the discussion is not even started.

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Why haven’t European investors fully accepted the ‘failure is good’ mentality yet?

The Next Web

Failure plagues those who believe in the traditional business plan; the long-term planning model; the belief that sales and marketing numbers are facts. Even the Netherlands is catching up, with FailCon NL taking place this week on March 4th, 2014 in Amsterdam. Steve Blank has had years to observe entrepreneurs and had this to say.

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