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7 Key Factors Obscure Your Customer Acquisition Costs

Startup Professionals Musings

As I recently watched an episode of “ Shark Tank ,” I realized that the shark investors focus on your responses to these questions is also a credibility test on your business savvy, as it leads to other relevant questions on margins, channels, and your understanding of key customer forces. Outside partners and channel impacts are complex.

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6 Metrics On How Well Your Business Is Driving Demand

Startup Professionals Musings

In the classic book, “ Driving Demand: Transforming B2B Marketing to Meet the Needs of the Modern Buyer ,” top marketing consultant Carlos Hidalgo updates the old guidelines on how to set up demand generation processes, keep them current, and measure results. Understanding culture is paramount, but measuring results is even better.

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3 Effective Tips for B2B Entrepreneurs to Accelerate Their Pipeline

The Startup Magazine

It is a quantified metric that focuses on the speed of turning prospects into customers. Accelerating your B2B pipeline is about turning up its velocity so that it zips through stages and transforms prospects into paying customers briskly. Over to You A successful B2B entrepreneur will need to master the pipeline velocity.

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Unlocking the Power of Data: Transforming Metrics into Actionable Insights

Duct Tape Marketing

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

ConversionXL

B2B buyers aren’t all-rational, and they will often follow and recommend tools they’ve heard of even if they’ve never used them. This defines how to connect problem themes to a metric strategy, building a metric-driven action system. Product should be your main channel for customer acquisition, retention and expansion.

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LinkedIn Video Ads: Relevance, Specs, and Use Cases

ConversionXL

LinkedIn ads offer the benefits of video content and the granular targeting of a B2B-centric platform. The same video content likely works well in other channels. The growth of B2B video marketing. But LinkedIn owns the lucrative B2B audience. LinkedIn video ads: tech specs, targeting, metrics, and cost.

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A Complete Guide to YouTube Analytics

ConversionXL

As with most platforms, there are metrics that matter, and vanity metrics. With YouTube, for organic, average view duration (AVD) and click-through rate (CTR) should be prioritized over YouTube search optimization, descriptions, tags, and other vanity metrics. Both metrics represent high engagement.

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