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

ConversionXL

The average B2B buyer has 27 brand interactions before deciding. Only around 10–15% of B2B leads turn into paying customers, and it’s because tactics optimizing for the early stages of the funnel only cater to early-stage goals. Very few, if any, of these interactions are with a sales rep. via Technology Advice ].

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Accidental VC: When Should Startups Announce Seed Funding?

View from Seed

This particular company, as a B2B SaaS business, would definitely benefit from driving traffic to convert into subscribers or leads on their email list. Across the NextView portfolio and in discussing this topic more broadly, we’ve found that funding announcements are rarely good customer acquisition channels.

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How to Navigate & Attract New Leads in The Dark Funnel

ConversionXL

95% of B2B buyers are not ready to buy your product right now. When B2B buyers are considering a purchase, they spend only 17% of their time meeting with potential suppliers. According to Walker: “B2B buyers are discovering, researching, and evaluating products in places companies can’t track.”. Word-of-mouth interactions (e.g.,

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7 Examples of Effective Cross-selling (and Why They Work)

ConversionXL

This will improve customer lifetime value (CLTV), making customer acquisition costs (CAC) healthier. For example, a fast-food restaurant employee asking if you’d like fries with your order or a phone retailer asking if you’d like to bundle your handset with a cover. That B2B sales are built on relationships.

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When good things happen to good people: SinglePlatform acquired by Constant Contact

This is going to be BIG.

When I asked him to come share his sales and company culture expertise at GA, he was on it--right in the middle of acquisition negotiations. The cool thing was that I felt so good about SinglePlatform as a place to work that I felt like I wasn't just helping the company--I was helping the employee find a great home.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

Point Nine Capital uses 15Five for continuous employee feedback. Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors. I previously posted a detailed presentation with sales technology tools useful for B2B sales. It sounds simple; however, very few asset managers actually do it.”

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Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That's Never - AgileVC

Agile VC

In fact my first job as an early employee of PayPal was as Product Manager responsible for our mobile products (WAP-enabled cell phones and our legacy Palm Pilot IR port product) and the first international version of PayPal. They picked online, because signing up online B2B partnerships is quick, easy and capital light. Enough said.

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