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Learning Styles: The Impact on Marketing Messaging

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Trend lines aren’t impressive if they track metrics that appear distant from business goals. Client education is central to marketing messaging, too, especially for sellers with long sales cycles. How prospects discuss their options depends on the way you present information. Preference for ‘heard’ information.”

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How to Create a Demand Funnel (for 44X Revenue)

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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. Choose the model that aligns best with your business: How complex is your marketing and sales operation? How long is your sales process?

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A Quick Primer on B2B Conversion Optimization

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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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LinkedIn Video Ads: Relevance, Specs, and Use Cases

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LinkedIn video ads: tech specs, targeting, metrics, and cost. Nielsen data on a B2C campaign found that native ads are more effective in driving “brand consideration”: ( Image source ). LinkedIn video ad metrics. Compared to the B2C world, B2B attribution faces two challenges: Sales often take place offline.

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CXL Live 2017 Recap: Optimization & Growth Insights from 20+ Experts

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Jared Spool: Is Design Metrically Opposed? Useless measures and silly metrics. Metric: A measure we track (usually over time). A metric should tell you what you will do differently. Combine qualitative usability research and quantitative custom metrics (not metrics that come out of the box). Image Credit.

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Email Subject Lines: 8 Principles for Improved Open Rates

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Test your subject lines and measure the right metric. Of course, you’ll also want to be sure you’re focused on the right metric. Including purchase or activity information in the subject line. The study covered various sectors, including B2B, B2C, nonprofit, retail and e-commerce. Segment based on activity.

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Short guide to sales and marketing for start-ups [Guest Post]

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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.

Sales 60