A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
NOVEMBER 5, 2014
This is often B2C because the value is in quantity of customers, and there’s 100x more consumers than businesses. $1/mo most shared hosting companies), but they only make interesting money at large scale (by definition, because it takes over 8000 customers to make only $1m/yr in revenue), which takes a long time to grow.
ConversionXL
NOVEMBER 3, 2016
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. There are a few things that make optimizing for B2B a different beast: The sales cycle is usually longer.
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View from Seed
MARCH 3, 2015
EM: It definitely helped us get off to a very fast start. 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. Some startups have really long sales cycles.
ConversionXL
APRIL 28, 2020
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. If the sales team already works marketing leads, ask them which leads are better than others (i.e. Here are our stage definitions: Lead.
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 17, 2014
The increased difficulty and added opportunity is ironic and problematic for business-to-business companies as well as B2C (business to consumer) advertisers. Varying in definition, blackhat methods dupe consumers or transgress Google guidelines. Make Automation Customized. Blackhat SEO.
Duct Tape Marketing
NOVEMBER 23, 2016
Behavior Scoring = evaluating a lead based on the observed activities and behaviors of the individual across multiple channels (attending a webinar, viewing an RFP, downloading a thought leadership piece, scheduling a call with Sales, etc.). How long is the sales cycle for an ideal customer (week, month, year, etc.)?
VC Cafe
MARCH 15, 2016
It works both in a B2B and B2C context, as some studies show that 44% of online consumers say that having questions answered by a live person while in the middle of an online purchase is one of the most important features a Web site can offer. The length of a sales cycle varies between products and some times can be excruciatingly long.
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