A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

” How many times have you heard someone agree that “it would be great if someone did X,” but when show them someone did do X, but it costs $39.99, they don’t buy? This is often B2C because the value is in quantity of customers, and there’s 100x more consumers than businesses. $1/mo

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ConversionXL

MARCH 6, 2019

They also come with higher costs and LinkedIn-specific platform limitations. That means that there’s plenty of business to be won—even if LinkedIn views come at a higher cost (more later). LinkedIn video ads: tech specs, targeting, metrics, and cost. The sales cycle may last for months, or more than a year.

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View from Seed

MARCH 3, 2015

Ellie Mirman was the first marketer hired by the CMO of HubSpot, the Boston-based marketing software startup that IPOed in 2014. Webinars have a whole other cost in terms of time, effort, headaches, etc. Even identifying as a demand-gen marketer or branding or B2B or B2C leaves a lot of decisions still on the table to actually execute.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 17, 2017

Candidates will learn our culture and how to go through steps of sales cycle with Lead Generation, B2B and B2C sales and account management. OtterLogic OtterLogic is a marketplace for less than truckload freight shipments that increases profits for carriers while lowering costs for shippers.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 28, 2020

To have the future we wanted, we needed to shift away from monetizing our open-data community and toward enterprise sales. It wasn’t quite a flip from B2C to B2B, but it was close. Since we had a sales development team of our own, we needed to factor in their efforts, too. SiriusDecisions Rearchitected Demand Waterfall (2012).

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