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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. While they knew that—and that might seem weird—I did start my career as a sales development representative (SDR) selling demand generation SaaS products.

Demand 101
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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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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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Marketing Your Startup: A Billion-Dollar Company’s First Marketer Reflects Back

View from Seed

But even with that webinar’s success, we still had a lot of education to do in order to get people to understand what we did and even how we saw marketing in general, which we needed to do to generate demand and sales. But marketing should always be ahead of sales to alleviate pressure. We got 300. Where do you start?

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Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition | For Entrepreneurs

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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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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.