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 100,000/mo means Global 2000 only, large-scale projects that require multiple departments for decision and approval, long sales cycles (9-18 months) which requires massive cash spend to bide your time.

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Bootstrapping Technical Review B2C Sales Cycle 294

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

This isn’t limited to the B2C space. Three out of every four B2B buyers would rather self-educate than learn about a product from a sales representative, according to Forrester. A big downside of the high-touch sales model is that the CAC is out of control, and the sales cycles are extremely long. Image source ).

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Marketing Sales Cycle Acquisition Sales 289

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

There are a few reasons as to why entrepreneurs should venture into “B2B” (“Business to Business”) service based companies as opposed to any form of “B2C” (“Business to Consumer”) company, “B2B” product-oriented company or strictly a web-based B2B firm. What Is “B2C&# ?

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B2C B2B Business Model Sales Cycle 91

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

In my case (LucidEra -- a SaaS analytics provider focusing on sales, marketing, and financial analytics), weve found that success requires not only building some best practices for analytics into our solution, but also coming up with a repeatable and scalable way to show the customer how to use the analytics and how to interpret the results.

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