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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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Critical Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for Founders

Up and Running

Revenue growth rate: measures the month-over-month percentage increase in revenue and is the most common and important metric for startups. Monthly recurring revenue (MRR): an indicator of the health of the company, it shows how successful your business is at growing its customer base and retaining customers.

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The #1 thing successful founders think about for their next startups

Hippoland

One thing I’ve noticed is that almost every repeat, previously-successful-founder focuses on the same thing for their respective startups: customer acquisition. Diving in a bit more into some thoughts here: 1b) Ad-based revenue streams generally have terrible unit economics. This is obvious. Marketing first. Product second.

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The #1 thing successful founders think about for their next startups

Hippoland

One thing I’ve noticed is that almost every repeat, previously-successful-founder focuses on the same thing for their respective startups: customer acquisition. Diving in a bit more into some thoughts here: 1b) Ad-based revenue streams generally have terrible unit economics. This is obvious. Marketing first. Product second.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 2 Really Cool Companies

ReadWriteStart

She has, thus far, not done any other formal customer acquisition initiative. Today, he has over a thousand, and he has chosen to focus on the realtor vertical. The next two customer acquisition strategies we will be expanding on are more aggressive guerrilla p.r. He is seeing excellent results. Following a guerrilla p.r.

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The Modern Approach To Account Based Marketing

ConversionXL

Sorry, but ABM is not B2B, nor is it right for all markets, business models, or companies (just like every company should not be running freemium aka PLG for acquisition.) That’s a high level view, now let’s walk through an example scenario for each: Most B2B sales cycles are account-based and not end-user-based.

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How to Craft (Or Pivot) Your Agency Value Proposition

ConversionXL

I know this language sounds formal and stuffy, but high-ticket service sales cycles are long. Choose to expand vertically or horizontally. For ambitious agencies, taking an MVP approach can unlock incredibly lucrative revenue streams. For us, that priority was the sales pipeline. Most B2B buyers know this.

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