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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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My Life as a CEO (and VC): Chief Psychologist

Both Sides of the Table

My first company was founded in Ireland, headquartered in England and had country operations in the UK, France & Germany. Due to the language and culture issues in Europe we opted for a country structure with an MD in each country and local sales, marketing & customers support staff. It doesn’t seem fair.

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Speed in Sales at Startups

Austin Startup

Over the following 463 days, the US, the UK, and France flew 277,000 flights with 300 aircraft to deliver the supplies required to support 2.2 Use speed as an advantage in your sales cycles and messaging When your sales team first connects with a prospect, chances are they know little about your company and product.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

Then we could focus on standardizing a product that could have an automated sales cycle online. Currently we are in that exact position; however, because we are a very early stage startup we decided to accept a temporary strategy of accepting customization requests from clients until we reach ramen profitability. Fantastic post.

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270+ Tools for Running a Business Online

mashable.com

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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

Both Sides of the Table

It helps with sales cycles because customers know that they can switch away if they so choose. None are in Silicon Valley, one is in New York City, they’re spread out across the world (France, Estonia, St. Lesson: You dn’t want your customers to feel locked into using your software.