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Marketing Your Startup: A Billion-Dollar Company’s First Marketer Reflects Back

View from Seed

Ellie Mirman was the first marketer hired by the CMO of HubSpot, the Boston-based marketing software startup that IPOed in 2014. Even identifying as a demand-gen marketer or branding or B2B or B2C leaves a lot of decisions still on the table to actually execute. EM: My rule of thumb is to look at the length of the sales cycle.

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What Does a Demand Generation Manager Do? (And How to Become One)

ConversionXL

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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Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition | For Entrepreneurs

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Business model viability, in the majority of startups, will come down to balancing two variables: Cost to Acquire Customers (CAC) The ability to monetize those customers, or LTV (which stands for Lifetime Value of a Customer) Successful web businesses have long understood these metrics as they have such an easy way to measure them.

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How to Create a Demand Funnel (for 44X Revenue)

ConversionXL

I got one of those in 2018, mere months after I started at data.world as their first growth marketing and demand generation hire. To have the future we wanted, we needed to shift away from monetizing our open-data community and toward enterprise sales. It wasn’t quite a flip from B2C to B2B, but it was close. Conclusion.

Demand 101
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CXL Live 2018 Recap: Top 5 Lessons from Each Speaker

ConversionXL

Amazon has hired more people for their Alexa division than Google has for the entire company – it’s not hunch, this is going to be the focus. Hire & fire – tools to do a job. Work hard to define meaningful product metrics – enabler of team success. Renee Thompson – How to Win at B2B Optimization.

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Short guide to sales and marketing for start-ups [Guest Post]

VC Cafe

A data sample from Redpoint Ventures shows, that most high growth SaaS start-ups hire their first VP of Sales in their third year since founding. That is because good sales people are very expensive and means that you have to maximise the use of your sales team’s time, making everyone a productivity ninja. Online chat.

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A Complete Guide to Account-Based Marketing: Win Over Your Ideal Customer

ConversionXL

Sales and marketing collaborate until a deal is closed and beyond to secure long-term customer retention. Individuals don’t make B2B buying decisions; groups do. ABM must target the entire buying committee, not just one or two individuals who may never be involved in sales conversations.