The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Generating leads used to be a taxing and time-intensive activity, yet one which was essential for building B2B relationships that paid dividends in the long run. Today, B2B lead generation tools are available to take advantage of platforms like LinkedIn which are geared towards bringing business people together. Image Source: Pixabay.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

OCTOBER 6, 2023

CPQ streamlines the sales process, reduces errors, and impresses customers with a professional-looking quote. Automation The software’s built-in rules automate pricing and quantity discounts, which gives your sales team more time to focus on building relationships with potential customers.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Understand that B2B buyers are still humans. Maya Shah-Ceccotti , senior product marketing manager at ScreenCloud, claims that marketers in the B2B space often neglect that end buyers are still humans who are only representing businesses. There is no reason why the same shouldn’t apply to B2B customers. Become customer-obsessed.

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Product Marketing B2B Technical Review 127

Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Unlocking the Power of Data: Transforming Metrics into Actionable Insights written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with John Janstch In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interviewed Peter Caputa, CEO of Databox, an innovative player in the realm of marketing analytics.

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Metrics Analytics Forecast Software Review 72

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2016

By Kurt Bilafer, Global Vice President Sales & Success at WePay. Or Software as a Service for the enterprise, such as Salesforce? Salesforce does the same thing in the B2B world. Is there other software that does this? What’s the hottest trend in business right now? Social networks such as Facebook and Twitter?

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

DocuSign combines both to fuel its sales funnel. It flips the traditional sales funnel on its head, ditching the one-size-fits-all approach to marketing in favor of a land-and-expand approach. This required complete alignment across marketing and sales teams to engage, then close the deal. The result? most commonly popped up.

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Lead Generation Marketing Sales Cycle Campaign 94

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Measuring customer acquisition for peak effectiveness How to calculate ecommerce customer acquisition cost Calculate much your customers are worth: LTV MRR, churn rates, and other factors that affect your LTV/CAC ratios Find and fix customer acquisition funnel leaks 5 customer acquisition strategies to increase sales and loyalty (with examples) 1.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 1, 2019

Say you work at a SaaS company selling AI software. It can also come up in face-to-face meetings—sales pitches, conferences talks, account reviews, etc. For marketers in B2B sales, the challenge increases. I’m a new user to their product, but they don’t assume I have prior knowledge about their software.

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Technical Review Marketing Software Review Audience 133

ConversionXL

AUGUST 18, 2020

email marketing software,” “accounting software”), but Google processes more than 40,000 searches per second. In this article, I walk you through a framework—the SEO pyramid—and how to think about keyword research for B2B SaaS businesses. The SEO Pyramid categorizes search term types for B2B SaaS businesses.

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Framework B2B SEO Search 123

ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2020

On these days, I would open up Google Analytics , look for pages with declining year-over-year traffic, and spend 30 minutes sprucing up each page. At Qualtrics, our mission is to create the Experience Management (XM) software category. Since we’re in B2B SaaS, ours are: Role pages; Products; Industries; Features and use cases.

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SEO Technical Review Software Review XML 121

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Everything they do is scrutinized by its potential impact on scalable growth… An effective growth hacker also needs to be disciplined to follow a growth hacking process of prioritizing ideas (their own and others in the company), testing the ideas, and being analytical enough to know which tested growth drivers to keep and which ones to cut.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

However, about 5% of the VCs in our database, mostly younger ones, are trying to build a competitive advantage by crawling large amounts of publicly available data and building analytical functions to flag companies with accelerating traction to them. Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

Up and Running

JULY 15, 2015

50% of B2B companies find it difficult to attribute marketing activity directly to revenue results. Creating a scorecard can be as easy as creating your own Excel spreadsheet, or as elaborate as using marketing dashboards provided through your CRM or conversion software. Others will use a percentage of the first sale.

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Marketing Social Media Campaign Acquisition 60

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

VP of Sales, Monetate - Philadelphia, PA A finger hovers above a mouse button. Using Monetate Real-time Marketer, companies are boosting sales while slashing costs and time-to-market. The company is not just looking for a VP of Sales, but for a champion for all things sales throughout the organization. It wants to click.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Engagement marketing practices tend to deal with both business-to-consumer (B2C) and business-to-business (B2B) audiences. However, various companies may prefer B2C engagements to B2B. For instance, you may download a software that tracks website or app activity from users. Brand loyalty may open new doors for sales growth.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 17, 2017

Thrillbox Thrillbox is an immersive media analytics platform that provides distribution tools for content generators, advertising agencies, vendors, and networks. This position will provide sales, negotiation, CRM and inbound/outbound outreach experience. Check out which Capital Factory startups are looking for you to join their team!

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Semantic Social Media Database Artificial Inteligence 48

bijoor.me

MARCH 26, 2014

Social Marketing and Sales. Sales Activity Management. B2B Sales Process. Business Analytics & Intelligence. Johan proposes a framework that describes the various layers of cloud platform services starting from virtualized hardware up to end-user software applications. Content Marketing. Technology.

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Framework Cloud Software Review Azure 42

ConversionXL

JUNE 8, 2017

Having worked as a consultant at an A/B testing and personalization software company, I’ve seen many personalization efforts getting stuck in the weeds. You can check the Web Marketing and Measurement Model by Avinash Kaushik (who is an analytics legend): Image Source. As often, it’s more of a people problem than a technology problem.

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Programming Revenue Analytics Software Review 97

David Teten

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Josh Gebhardt, CEO, MetricStory , observes that horizontal spread across and within an organization’s functional siloes is a good metric for B2B products. Sales Pipeline. Conversion to Sales %. From there, if there are issues, the team digs into the root cause: is the sales team just not booking enough sales?

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

APRIL 5, 2019

In case you are wondering, this is huge, and B2B marketers are investing 20-30% of their budgets on event marketing each year. Small B2B or B2C conferences. During: Use event management software to add names and contact information of every new subscriber. This is where you can really generate sales. Virtual Events.

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

The average B2B buyer has 27 brand interactions before deciding. Very few, if any, of these interactions are with a sales rep. Because if people are making up their own minds, without coercion from sales, creating demand is the best way to get them to choose you. DGMs see that demand is maintained throughout the sales cycle.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 20, 2019

Choosing the right account-based marketing software can be a messy process. Some ABM software is an add-on to an existing tool. Some companies sell relevant software but not explicitly for ABM. Software can help with each: Identify the right accounts and targets within them. Measure how they respond. Image source ).

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Software Review Software Marketing IP 117

ConversionXL

MAY 22, 2017

A Brief History of Marketing Technology Software. Though it wasn’t intended, the last two articles I wrote on the PlainFlow blog have formed a series: The Modern SaaS Stack and the Unexploited Amount of Data is a walkthrough that shows how companies use Modern SaaS Stack to cover their Marketing/Support/Sales activities from day-0.

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Customer Marketing Artificial Inteligence Clickthrough 92

Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 17, 2018

I actually did a study on this a few years ago, and I looked at 351 B2B companies with 50 to 1000 employees, and there was a huge difference between the software companies and the non software companies. They have a website, they probably have a sales team, is that kind of where it ends? John Jantsch: Yeah.

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Marketing Social Media Analytics Software 55

ConversionXL

JANUARY 31, 2014

These questions help you uncover trends within your market and tell you things analytics alone can not. How To Identify Your Target Market & Make More Sales. Step 1 – Set Up Actionable Analytics. Do This: Set up your conversion goals in Google Analytics. Building Your Marketing Funnel With Google Analytics.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

My longtime friend Marion Jenkins, CEO of IT consultant QSE Technologies wrote what I think is one of the most eloquent and well thought out rebuttals to the proposed Colorado “Software Tax” (HB 1192). I urge you to oppose HB 1192, the so-called “Software” Tax. CDs) – shouldn’t change whether the software should be taxed.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

In liquid markets, most of the calories expended on technology and analytics are focused on trade selection, or “ origination ”. I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations. Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 17, 2014

The result: Plenty of organic, viral interaction about the videos that boosted traffic for these YouTube users’ Let’s Play video as well as sales for Galactic Café. A recent B2B Benchmark Survey revealed more than 90% of marketing respondents used video on a site, second only to the learn more/contact us option (nearly 100%).

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Even PhD analytics eggheads. This has resulted in dramatic increases in sales. In the process, everyone understands that SAS Canada software was an important contributor. Traditional approaches to marketing and sales will only screw up customer advocacy. Brilliant ad agencies and clever marketing communications experts.

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Customer Fractional CTO Canada Technical Review 154

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 2, 2024

And that looks different for a B2C journey versus a B2B journey. So on the B2C side, that could be TikTok, Amazon, YouTube, and on B2B side, that could be maybe they're searching in LinkedIn or YouTube again, or software SaaS searching like Capterra or something like that. And they make it easy to switch.

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SEO Search Generative AI Engineer 69

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In consumer packaged goods, the benchmark for a “highly successful” product launch is no easy feat: $50 million in first-year sales. Successful demand generation campaigns break down silos between marketing and sales. Nichole Elizabeth DeMeré , a B2B SaaS consultant, lamented that. Seed your launch campaign with advance sales.

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ConversionXL

JULY 25, 2017

Software businesses have a conversion problem that’s both getting worse and going mostly unsolved. Though the topic of mobile conversion rates of ecommerce websites is often broaches, it’s rare we talk about SaaS or B2B. The Mobile Website Design Problem (B2B Saas Edition). And that problem is mobile. Image Source.

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ConversionXL

JULY 25, 2017

Software businesses have a conversion problem that’s both getting worse and going mostly unsolved. Though the topic of mobile conversion rates of ecommerce websites is often broaches, it’s rare we talk about SaaS or B2B. The Mobile Website Design Problem (B2B Saas Edition). And that problem is mobile. Image Source.

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B2B Mobile Analytics Deal Flow 77

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Top holiday offers and sales conversion days. Researchers found that the top three holiday offers were free express shipping, buy-more-save-more promotions and post-holiday sales. Professionalisms email marketing festive holidays festive shopping marketing Nikole Haiar sales strategy social media marketing' 28 and 30, Dec.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

But the unintended consequence of our collective lead generation obsession is that the task of actually determining which of the leads generated are sales-ready is relegated to the back-burner. That ultimately results in sales teams being sent troves of contacts who are either unable or not ready to buy. Lead quantity vs. lead quality.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2019

This post applies Jakob Nielson’s 10 Usability Heuristics to B2B websites that focus on lead generation (as well as “high consideration” B2C sites that lack any transactional functionality). B2B websites often have to explain a lot to get buyers to convert. That’s an important distinction. Jakob Nielsen.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

If you are yet to start using webinars to drive sales, you are missing out on a huge opportunity to boost your revenue and grow your business. According to the 2017 State of Digital Marketing report , webinars are one of the top drivers of revenue for B2B marketers, coming just second after white papers. Image source: ClickFunnels.

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