Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2022

If your business is industrial B2B products, social media should be low on your list. For some customers and many investors, a heavy focus on social networks and viral marketing may be a negative, rather than a positive. Assess social media relevance to your product or service. Spend your time and money on other platforms.

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Social Media Media Startup Analytics 315

ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

However, due to B2B market saturation, customer acquisition costs are rising ; this digital marketing strategy of giving a little and getting a lot no longer works. While they’re helpful for sales reps, they can be dangerous for B2B marketers because they can make you think you’re doing research when you’re not.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 15, 2022

I think B2B companies in particular have probably been slower to come to this idea. B2B companies I think are probably the greatest untapped opportunity right now. And I think it's coming around, I think the problem that B2B is gonna have is actually executing it. Whereas b2c, I mean m and MS has had a, has a community, right?

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 8, 2023

TikTok and Influencers One viral video on TikTok can reach 1.5 In 2023, personalization will remain a critical aspect of e-commerce trends, whether you are B2B or B2C. In 2023, customers will have high expectations, and the availability of customer support robots will only improve their shopping experience.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Marketing and sales spend is nil, so there has to be a reason it spreads by word of mouth, ideally virally as a natural result of using the product itself. $10/mo Also this is almost exclusively B2B unless it’s something “luxury.” simple enough to be self-service). Think: GoDaddy).

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Bootstrapping Technical Review B2C Sales Cycle 294

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2021

Word-of-mouth and cheap viral marketing won’t build critical masses of users, curated content, and direct sales forces. Barkulis and I agree that your hyperlocal startup has a far better chance if you position it as a B2B and B2B2C startup, like Yext , DoorDash , and ShadowFax.

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Finder Startup Curation Seattle 361

Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 17, 2023

How To Scale Your B2B Marketing Strategy written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with Louis Gudema In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Louis Gudema. Louis is a fractional CMO for B2B companies, and mentors startups at MIT. And I, that's really my expertise.

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B2B Marketing B2C ChatGPT 82

Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

At it, some of the world''s best Internet thinkers and researchers presented on key trends in business-to-business (B2B) online marketing, sales, and client engagement. tweeting and texting Millennials), but on B2B markets and interactions as well. These are the new rules of the B2B marketing game. My three takeaways: 1.

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B2B Mobile Sales Cycle Viral 91

ConversionXL

APRIL 4, 2017

Virality and Referral. Virality is the key lever of many of the most famous growth examples: Dropbox, Uber, Facebook, Hotmail. If, for every customer you acquire, you can acquire 1-10 more with viral loops , you can spend a lot more on acquiring that first customer, right? If you sell shoes, would virality work for you?

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Channel Marketing Viral SEO 118

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Should you be buying key words from search engines, building fabulous web content, blasting out e-mail campaigns, or putting all your efforts into viral videos or social media? For young consumers today, it may be Instagram or Snapchat, while B2B offerings should take a hard look at LinkedIn and other business forums.

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Marketing Viral Channel Metrics 240

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2019

For B2B environments, consider who makes the buy decisions. Viral videos, personal anecdotes, and informal surveys would likely be counterproductive. Snapchat is almost exclusively a young person’s hangout, but you will likely find consumers of all ages on Facebook and Twitter. Approach influencers and key stakeholders appropriately.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 13, 2019

If your business is industrial B2B products, social media should be low on your list. For some customers and many investors, a heavy focus on social networks and viral marketing may be a negative, rather than a positive. Assess social media relevance to your product or service. Spend your time and money on other platforms.

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Social Media Media Analytics Viral 199

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 10, 2011

Pet owners who like the cards will look on the back to see how to order some of their own, and suddenly you have a viral marketing campaign that cost you lots of initial legwork calling vets but not a lot of money. Working the pain in B2B.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 17, 2014

The result: Plenty of organic, viral interaction about the videos that boosted traffic for these YouTube users’ Let’s Play video as well as sales for Galactic Café. 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%).

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View from Seed

AUGUST 30, 2016

These companies are all over the map: B2B, B2C, SaaS, ecommerce, healthcare, SMB-focused, enterprise-focused, etc. Most people shy away from answering or deflect when their boss acts, “Why can’t we create a video like Dollar Shave Club and go viral?” How do you create an infinite loop?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 8, 2017

If your business is industrial B2B products, social media may be low on your list. For some customers and many investors, a heavy focus on social networks and viral marketing may be a negative, rather than a positive. If you are selling a B2B printing platform from Xerox, posting on LinkedIn would likely be the best choice.

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Social Media Media B2B Analytics 147

ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

However, depending on the product you’re offering, the freemium model can work well for business-to-business (B2B) companies, and especially well for B2VSB (business-to-very-small-business) companies. The post 6 Ways To Make Freemium Work For B2B Products appeared first on ReadWrite. Image courtesy of Shutterstock.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 18, 2012

In today’s web landscape, word of mouth drives adoption and can lead to “winner takes all” (or almost all) in both B2C and B2B markets. Barriers to entry are no longer created by patents or by tech differentiation alone, but by superior traction in the marketplace.

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IP Technical Review B2C Social Network 163

Hearpreneur

JULY 5, 2023

Entrepreneurs can employ popular trends, challenges, and collaborations with influencers to reach a wider audience and gain viral attention. It is used to showcase products or services, generate brand awareness, and increase customer engagement through creative videos. Thanks to Roman Milyushkevich, Scrape It ! #7-

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 9, 2017

If your business is industrial B2B products, social media should be low on your list. For some customers and many investors, a heavy focus on social networks and viral marketing may be a negative, rather than a positive. Assess social media relevance to your product or service. Spend your time and money on other platforms.

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Social Media Media Cost Analytics 166

The Equity Kicker

JULY 9, 2014

He lists the four (paid, viral, SEO, sales – for B2B) and then ‘other’ in which he says: There’s the odd partnership, like Yahoo/Google, that can help make or break a startup – but these are rare and situational. Andrew Chen has a great post up detailing the ways to scale user growth. But sometimes it happens!

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2013

If your business is industrial B2B products, social media should be low on your list. For some customers and many investors, a heavy focus on social networks and viral marketing may be a negative, rather than a positive. Assess social media relevance to your product or service. Spend your time and money on other platforms.

Social Media 252

Social Media Media Entrepreneur Metrics 252

Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

While viral growth and network effects exist in certain enterprise settings (for example, communication and file-sharing products and in industries like legal), network effects are typically more limited in a B2B environment compared with B2C. Free isn’t necessarily sustainable with B2B.

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Rob Go

JANUARY 12, 2015

Traction for Consumer, Team for B2B. A more sophisticated answer to this question is that broadly speaking, you want to pay up for traction over team in consumer, and overpay for team with less traction in B2B. In B2B, more of the distribution challenges for certain types of products are in the team’s control.

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B2B Early Stage Distribution Software Review 28

View from Seed

JANUARY 13, 2015

Traction for Consumer, Team for B2B. A more sophisticated answer to this question is that, broadly speaking, you want to pay up for traction over team in consumer and overpay for team with less traction in B2B. In B2B, more of the distribution challenges for certain types of products are in the team’s control.

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Seed Stage B2B Distribution Early Stage 120

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Neither would have achieved virality had customers not received something tangible for their efforts. Recommendations from family and friends are the most trusted source of information , and B2B companies that use them experience higher than average conversion rates. Instead, they could simply click a link and enter an email address.

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Retention Marketing Acquisition Channel 113

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2012

If your business is industrial B2B products, social media should be low on your list. For some customers and many investors, a heavy focus on social networks and viral marketing may be a negative, rather than a positive. Assess social media relevance to your product or service. Spend your time and money on other platforms.

Social Media 238

Social Media Media Cost Startup 238

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Its free-to-use Request Engine helps connects businesses and corporations to the people, services or equipment needed to finish the job, whether it is to produce a traditional corporate video, viral webisode, commercial, or cover a live event. They have helped me connect with and hire great videographers for the last three years.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

As I ask questions to understand the thinking, what usually comes out is something vague along the lines of web marketing, and/or viral growth with no numbers attached. A quick look around all the B2C startups shows that, although viral growth is often hoped for, in reality it is extremely rare.

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Acquisition Cost Customer Entrepreneur 103

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 23, 2013

Use viral growth to offset cancellations. Few B2B companies can truly claim “viral growth” characteristics. It’s not just pure software companies that achieve this — hardware/server SaaS company Rackspace also has negative net churn, which enables them to grow revenues 30% year-over-year with $1.5

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 18, 2013

Particularly helpful in B2B communications , LinkedIn is helpful in promoting your business professionally. If your video goes viral, YouTube can help you get huge brand recognition. Following other businesses or prominent people in the field can help you build a network with a targeted audience.

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Social Media Small Business Media Marketing 269

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

It was also beneficial because I got some good experience with both B2B and B2C business models. You mention social / viral aspects at both Google Photos and United Online. I was in charge of all product management and marketing for the first year-and-a-half, that was a great learning experience with a very talented team of folks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2011

If your business is industrial B2B products, social media should be low on your list. For some customers and many investors, a heavy focus on social networks and viral marketing may be a negative, rather than a positive. Assess social media relevance to your product or service. Spend your time and money on other platforms.

Social Media 232

Social Media Media Entrepreneur Analytics 232

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Nichole Elizabeth DeMeré , a B2B SaaS consultant, lamented that. Unless you have the most viral, sticky product ever,” Woodhead noted, “there’s a bit of ‘coming over the hill’ with analytics, and you hope for a soft landing. For products with more than one kind of user, we write more than one user manual.

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Product Campaign Acquisition Social Media 110

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Overall acquisition costs for both B2C and B2B have gone up by 50% in the past five years. Cohort analysis can be done for revenue, churn, viral word of mouth, support costs, or any other metric you care about. In my daily work with ecommerce brands, I see two types of companies: The first type focuses on acquisition and conversion.

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Retention Analytics Campaign eCommerce 126

The Startup Magazine

JUNE 5, 2018

This is especially true for B2B companies, for which LinkedIn is a vital clearinghouse of information. You’ll never go viral if you stick to safe, hidebound content. Failing to Dress Up Your Company Profile. Know it or not, your company’s LinkedIn description is one of the sharpest arrows in your marketing quiver. What’s yours?

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Marketing Social Media Metrics Viral 84

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Word-of-mouth and cheap viral marketing won’t build critical masses of users, curated content, and direct sales forces. Barkulis and I agree that your hyperlocal startup has a far better chance if you position it as a B2B and B2B2C startup, like Yext , Locu , and Yodle.

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