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Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition | For Entrepreneurs

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Far more common is a need to acquire customers through a series of steps like SEO, SEM, PR, Social Marketing, direct sales, channel sales, etc. Using low cost inside sales when the touchless conversion is not possible. These techniques are frequently referred to as the Low Cost Sales model, or as Sales 2.0.

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B2B Marketing Attribution: Models, Tools, and Processes

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Talk to any B2B marketer about attribution and they’ll either roll their eyes or rant about how it’s important but hard to get right—long lead cycles, multiple contacts from a single organization, etc. The Model Comparison Tool compares three potential models to see how each affects the valuation of marketing channels.

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Cracking The Code: The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008.

Cracking the Code

In my case (LucidEra -- a SaaS analytics provider focusing on sales, marketing, and financial analytics), weve found that success requires not only building some best practices for analytics into our solution, but also coming up with a repeatable and scalable way to show the customer how to use the analytics and how to interpret the results.

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CXL Live 2017 Recap: Optimization & Growth Insights from 20+ Experts

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The CEO doesn’t care about his website, he cares about his valuation (i.e. Sell CRO by calculating the valuation increase. Valuation increase? Bill Leake: Optimizing for the “Considered Purchase”: What Changes if You’re B2B or Expensive / Long Sales Cycle B2C? Longer decision cycle. Image Credit. ROI on CRO?