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The 50 Best Marketing Strategies For Small Business

Mike Michalowicz

If you want to get people’s attention and have them call you, there’s nothing like writing an article for a trade magazine (for B2B) or local magazine (for B2C) to gain credibility and get the exposure you want. Write a 150-175 page business book and self publish it with on-demand printing. Then write a white paper.

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Scaling Sales: From Craft to Machine

Seeing Both Sides

Across our portfolio and in my own entrepreneurial experience, I have seen three main sales models work successfully in scaling B2B sales: 1) Enterprise; 2) Telephone; and 3) Developer-driven. I''ll discuss each one below. 1) Enterprise Sales. It is all about (highly qualified) leads, leads, leads.

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

Cracking the Code

Only after reaching $1M in CMRR should you consider hiring European sales and services execs behind customer demand. Be prepared to cross the desert - SaaS requires R&D and sales expense up front for a multi-year stream of revenue, so it demands enough investment capital to fund 4+ years of runway. Posted by Philippe Botteri.

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Think Like A Marketer, Sell Like a Superstar [WEBINAR]

Up and Running

And I’ve been using this comment, or this statement, and I think the future of marketing is less about demand creation and more about organizing those seven behaviors that I just listed. Example, Facebook has traditionally is much more B2C, it is very casual, it’s about entertainment, it’s about sharing personal information.

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Why Free Plans Don't Work

Software By Rob

If not, getting a lot of users who are not willing to pay and still expect free support as well, is very demanding and may affect the service you’re able to provide to your *real* users (who are paying). Business software is different and shouldn’t be treated in the same way as B2C. #6 Atle Iversen on 08.18.10