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30 Entrepreneurs Share Their One Prediction for Business in 2022

Hearpreneur

To overcome these challenges, leaders will need to keep people at the center of our conversations, and organizations will need to help their employees build emotional intelligence and expert people skills. Many B2B buyers now prefer digital meetings, digital conference calls, and negotiations. 5- Historical data will be irrelevant.

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Why Video Marketing is Underrated (and How to Use it to Your Advantage)

Duct Tape Marketing

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%). You can harvest recorded testimonials at a tradeshow, and it’s best to get as many as you can – aim for at least three, maybe as many as 12. Happy customers are gold.

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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. Jakob Nielsen.

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You Shouldn’t Have to Pay to Talk To Your Own Customers

Austin Startup

At a micro level, the customer is always right, and winning passionate users is most often a matter of enabling authentic conversations and giving people at those endpoints enough power to make a difference. Forest for the Trees. Get smart about how your data is used, and demand fair means by which to contribute.

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How to Master PPC Targeting and Choose the Right Ad Platform

ConversionXL

Sometimes your product or offer is so new that there’s no search demand out there for you to easily harvest. Companies like Essio Shower or TYME both sell products that people don’t know are available, so a great deal of education around their product needs to happen before a conversion can be expected. Political affinity.

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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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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors. I previously posted a detailed presentation with sales technology tools useful for B2B sales. I’ve also experimented with using services which are marketplaces between LPs and GPs: CEPRES , DiligenceVault , FundVeil , Harvest Exchange , and Palico.