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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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Getting A VC Job

Rob Go

Some of the firms that have analyst sourcing programs include places like Summit Partners, Insight Venture Partners, Bessemer, OpenView, and Volition. Timing is pretty unpredictable, and it’s a long sales cycle. It seems like a real grind at first blush, but it’s actually a pretty amazing training ground.

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Cracking The Code: Impact of the recession on SaaS.

Cracking the Code

However, if the SaaS & Cloud computing industry is doing relatively well in this downturn, the recession has severely impacted the sales&marketing productivity of these companies, with longer sales cycle, smaller deal size and limited upsells opportunity. Philippe Botteri Accel Partners London, UK My Bio.

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The Proof was not in the Pudding: Pudding Media is Shutting Down

VC Cafe

Pudding managed to raise $10 million from BRM and Opus Capital, as well as investments from known Israeli angels including Eyal Waldman, Udi Weinstein, Yariv Gilat and Ariel Maislos himself, who previously sold Passave to PMC for $305 million in stock in 2006. According to Ariel, Pudding Media’s CEO, the company was ahead of its time.

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What Does a Demand Generation Manager Do? (And How to Become One)

ConversionXL

Marketers raise brand awareness to capture leads that are handed to sales teams to convert into customers. DGMs see that demand is maintained throughout the sales cycle. 70% of buyers are already clued up on a product before they talk to sales, if they talk to sales at all. And they put a lot of stock in them.

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Beware The Consultant

infochachkie.com

If a consultant claims they can enhance your marketing efforts, pay them based on their direct impact on your incremental sales. Basing a consultant’s compensation on the incremental revenue they generate is a great example of a deal that is on The Fringe (for other creative approaches to partnering, see Agreements on The Fringe).

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Sell More By Being Human and Building Relationships

ConversionXL

Once you have finished with what you believe is good, show it to people (your spouse, parents, siblings, partners, friends) and ask what they think this site is about and who’s it for. Or is there a difference between, say, a stock photo and photo of an actual person who works in the company? If they get it – success.

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