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CXL Live 2022 Recap: Main Takeaways From 6 World-Class Marketers

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A marketing strategy should include a go-to-market plan that is sales-led and product assisted. The marketing team should create its own momentum through feature launches, content campaigns, product launches, and announcements. Product should be your main channel for customer acquisition, retention and expansion.

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A Quick Primer on B2B Conversion Optimization

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Some of the same underlying principles apply, but because of the inherent differences in buying decisions and sales cycles, pulling B2C optimization practices straight from the book might be a bad idea. There are a few things that make optimizing for B2B a different beast: The sales cycle is usually longer.

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Bootstrap Mentality: Key Ingredient For Startup Success

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Some even spend on creating apps and elaborate marketing campaigns. Another pro-tip – Keep everything short – small up-front capital requirement, short sales cycles, short payment terms and recurring revenue cycles. This is the sure shot way of burn out before you start making any money. Barters and Associations.

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Using Cohort Analysis for Conversion Optimization

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So by segmenting your data, you can learn things you couldn’t from the aggregate data. Some things cohorts can answer: How did customers who came in from the Christmas campaign behave differently than those at other times of the year? Customers that converted in the last year that had a sales cycle of less than x weeks.

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Account-Based Marketing Software & Tools

ConversionXL

Ultimately, a successful ABM campaign needs to solve three problems. Deliver tailored marketing and sales messaging to those people. Aggregate that data at an account level to know which accounts to target. Use analytics from ad campaigns to prompt sales staff to take action. Deliver custom ads programmatically.

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Designing startup metrics to drive successful behavior | For Entrepreneurs

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Peeling back one more level, they may tell you that they ran three major campaigns to drive visitors to the site, as well as relying on the normal levels of word of mouth traffic. So the other variable that we can try to increase is the conversion rate for each campaign, and the conversion rate to trials.

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How to Systematically Build Personal Brand Authority

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Now, don’t take the word authority to mean fame or notoriety – it’s really more about possessing person power – the kind that can attract new business, create more opportunities and drastically shorten sales cycles. You must get very, very good at sharing, networking and aggregating content.