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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

We started with a general webinar about how to turn your website into a marketing machine, then we went on to SEO, then blogging, then social media. We would give things a few different tries, whether it was trying a topic (like social, SEO, etc.) EM: My rule of thumb is to look at the length of the sales cycle.

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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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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. 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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Cracking The Code: The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008.

Cracking the Code

Effectively measuring and understanding your CAC and CLTV metrics are key to future success. Bessemer SaaS Law #1: Your key monthly business metrics are: CMRR (Committed Monthly Recurring Revenue), Churn, and Cash flow - “Bookings” is for suckers. Brian, Paglo www.paglo.com. Great list! Great list! Philippe Botteri.

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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.