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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. We started with a general webinar about how to turn your website into a marketing machine, then we went on to SEO, then blogging, then social media. Some startups have really long sales cycles.

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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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5 Keys to Adopting Marketing Automation

Duct Tape Marketing

Reaching out to a cold list can come across as awkward and misdirected, especially at the beginning of a sales cycle. You might want to consider a position in the sales cycle, geography, interests, age, gender, industry, etc. If you do buy leads, make sure they’re qualified. Get your content right.

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Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition | For Entrepreneurs

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Far more common is a need to acquire customers through a series of steps like SEO, SEM, PR, Social Marketing, direct sales, channel sales, etc. Some of the early B2B pioneers in this space were companies like JBoss ( story here ), SolarWinds, ConstantContact, HubSpot, etc. Consider every possible way to minimize this.

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5 Keys to Adopting Marketing Automation

Duct Tape Marketing

Reaching out to a cold list can come across as awkward and misdirected, especially at the beginning of a sales cycle. You might want to consider a position in the sales cycle, geography, interests, age, gender, industry, etc. If you do buy leads, make sure they’re qualified. Get your content right.

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How to Craft (Or Pivot) Your Agency Value Proposition

ConversionXL

Today, Grizzle is a full-service content marketing and SEO agency that provides B2B and SaaS companies end-to-end services. In 30 minutes, Grizzle pivoted from a productized digital PR service to an SEO-focused content marketing agency. I know this language sounds formal and stuffy, but high-ticket service sales cycles are long.

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Demand Generation: Turn Ideal Buyers Into Superheroes

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It aims to fuel your sales pipeline , shorten the sales cycle, and generate revenue. Ahrefs, for example, provides a free SEO training course for beginners, educating them on the basics to help them rank higher. Find out which offers get a warm reception and use templates to test the length of the sales cycle.

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