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B2B Websites: 10 Best Practices for UX and Design

ConversionXL

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.

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EverString’s Vincent Yang: X-man at Work

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Gaurav and Diaz had anticipated this move and built the right architecture in their data marts right from the start. Then while at Stanford Graduate School of Business, Vincent took this basic idea and thought why not apply this to any B2B company — use data science to help any B2B company identify its best customer prospects.

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4 Rockstar Tips to Grow Your Business

ReadWriteStart

According to a report from the Content Marketing Institute (CMI), 91% of B2B marketers and 86% of B2C marketers say content marketing is vital to their marketing strategy. CMI reports that 77% of B2B marketers and 78% of B2C marketers rate content marketing as moderately, very, or extremely successful for their business.

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10 Best Practices for Better B2B Website Experience

ConversionXL

Here are some ideas about of how you can apply 10 Jakob Nielsen Usability Heuristics to lead generation websites in the B2B or high consideration B2C realm, where there isn’t necessarily any transactional functionality, e.g. e-commerce, user registrations, etc. That’s an important distinction. Image Credit.

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Raw Data & Google Analytics: A Game Changer

ConversionXL

What’s more annoying than realizing that a campaign that generated a bunch of leads generated a bunch of irrelevant leads? This is a challenge for most B2B sites. As long as you can export your CRM data with a unique lead ID (e.g., client ID, SHA-256 hashed email, generated ID, etc.),

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Cracking The Code: The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008.

Cracking the Code

This is a clear example where business-to-business (B2B) marketers need to learn from their business-to-consumer (B2C) counterparts. Yet many B2B companies don’t have a clue. This is a guiding architectural principle for best-of-breed SaaS companies. “Just say no” to on-premise deployments.

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How to Name Your Startup

www.rocketwatcher.com

Most startups start out with only 1 or 2 offerings and often aren’t thinking about how things might fit into a naming architecture. About Rocket Watcher Rocket Watcher is my personal blog covering marketing for startups including messaging, market strategy, lead generation and metrics. b2b marketing. advisory board.

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