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LinkedIn Video Ads: Relevance, Specs, and Use Cases

ConversionXL

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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A Quick Primer on B2B Conversion Optimization

ConversionXL

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

View from Seed

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. Some have short, more transactional cycles. Where do you start?

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Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition | For Entrepreneurs

www.forentrepreneurs.com

Business model viability, in the majority of startups, will come down to balancing two variables: Cost to Acquire Customers (CAC) The ability to monetize those customers, or LTV (which stands for Lifetime Value of a Customer) Successful web businesses have long understood these metrics as they have such an easy way to measure them.

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

ConversionXL

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. Our next step was to adapt the funnel to fit our marketing automation platform and sales processes. Lesson 2: Make your funnel airtight. Conclusion.

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Learning Styles: The Impact on Marketing Messaging

ConversionXL

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. The same is true in marketing, especially for companies with long sales cycles. Most consideration takes place offline.

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

VC Cafe

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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