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Common B2B Challenges and How To Solve Them

ConversionXL

From long sales cycles to trying to stand out from the sea of sameness, B2B companies face an uphill battle from the start. While thousands of B2B organizations struggle, plenty are able to develop long-term success. Common B2B marketing challenges. Sales cycle length increased. So what does it take?

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A Quick Primer on B2B Conversion Optimization

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Conversion optimization is a little different if you’re in B2B. Some of the same underlying principles apply, but because of the inherent differences in buying decisions and sales cycles, pulling B2C optimization practices straight from the book might be a bad idea. It’s called Optimizing for B2B.

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

View from Seed

Ellie Mirman: When I came in, Mike [Volpe, HubSpot’s CMO] had a to-do list of the things he wanted us to do, the top one being to start a webinar series. NVV: That’s not in any book about growing a startup — “Build an interactive app to start your marketing, then host a webinar for its users.”

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LinkedIn Video Ads: Relevance, Specs, and Use Cases

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LinkedIn ads offer the benefits of video content and the granular targeting of a B2B-centric platform. The growth of B2B video marketing. But LinkedIn owns the lucrative B2B audience. As AJ Wilcox notes in his course on LinkedIn ads , 72% of the Fortune 1000 are B2B companies. digital ad spend went to video.

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5 Research-Backed Tips for Increasing B2B Sales

Up and Running

According to The Alternative Board’s (TAB) September 2014 Small Business Pulse Survey , only six percent of business owners consider themselves “very trusting” of the information they receive from B2B vendors. With that in mind, B2B vendors must take extra steps to maximize relationships with existing customers to foster positive referrals.

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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. Instead, buyers are self-directed, gathering information from social media, websites, webinars, and online events. DGMs see that demand is maintained throughout the sales cycle.

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The ROI of Lead Scoring

Duct Tape Marketing

But the unintended consequence of our collective lead generation obsession is that the task of actually determining which of the leads generated are sales-ready is relegated to the back-burner. That ultimately results in sales teams being sent troves of contacts who are either unable or not ready to buy. Lead quantity vs. lead quality.