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7 Key Factors Obscure Your Customer Acquisition Costs

Startup Professionals Musings

Mr. Everhart distills his leadership insights from many decades in one of the largest business-to-business marketing agencies, working with companies across the country. In general, I have found that channel partnerships with value-added resellers are a great way to reduce CAC, as well as boost retention, and improve return on investment.

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Are You Putting Your Rock Star Customers To Work?

YoungUpstarts

SAS Canada “customer champions” helped the firm restore declining customer retention rates—which had fallen as low as the mid-80s percent — back to the firm’s traditional high retention rates of 97-98 percent. It’s a little like hawking a ‘get rich quick in real estate’ scheme at a TED conference. Wrong message, wrong audience.

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How CareerPlug Saved 25 Days of Work with Chargify Business Intelligence

Austin Startup

Chargify, the leading billing platform for B2B SaaS, announced today the massive productivity improvements and decrease in operating costs that CareerPlug has achieved using its new Chargify Business Intelligence product. CareerPlug is just barely scraping the surface of what this tool is capable of, but I am a raving fan already!”

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How Gamification Of Business Process Yields Successful Results

YoungUpstarts

In the case of B2B business, the ideal way is to come up with a robust symbiotic gamification model for business progression. It is possible to apply gamification in multiple areas like health and wellness, sales performance, training, and retention. In case of health and wellness, the organization must come to a customized solution.

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Bridge Group 2015 SaaS Inside Sales Survey Report

For Entrepreneurs

Survey results from 342 B2B SaaS companies on key inside sales metrics including group structure, ramp and retention, quota and compensation, activity & technology and leadership. Intro The SaaS model has become mainstream, and is everywhere.

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Demand Generation: 7 Tactics to Fuel Your Funnel

ConversionXL

B2B demand generation focuses on ROI. Become a trusted brand with thought leadership. Thought leadership is what growth marketer Ramli John says turns your target audience into “superheroes” by helping them hone their “superpowers.”. To win at thought leadership, be different. Which channels have the best engagement?

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a16z Podcast: Growth in Turbulent Times

Ben's Blog

People saying, “This is what’s happening to B2B SaaS or this is what’s happening to this category.” And so, we’ve seen a product-led growth motion certainly in the B2B space happening slowly. It’s not a great look, from the leadership standpoint. That’s one end of the spectrum.

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