View from Seed

MARCH 3, 2015

Initially, we promoted it to a list that we’d already developed through Website Grader, the free app our CTO Dharmesh Shah had built before we even had a product. NVV: Lots of companies have products with use cases, features, or general topics they could address in their marketing, so they struggle to pick just one and get initial momentum.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 6, 2019

On Facebook, an ideal customer may log on to see photos of a new nephew, not to check out a 30-second demo of your SaaS product. This post focuses on deployment rather than production, but here are high-level takeaways from those posts: Quality = attention span. The sales cycle may last for months, or more than a year.

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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. Let me ask you two questions: Would you like to see and use a software product before buying it? You wanted to see the damn product in action!

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Things such as social media, online vacation packages, online dating and video production are not a necessity for businesses or the consumer to purchase and often prove a lot harder to break into than the business plan formula claimed it to be. What Is “B2C&# ? The reason these companies fail is simplistic.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 17, 2017

Internship Title: Business Development Intern Compensation: Paid — $10/hr Description: The Business Development Intern will assist the Sales Team in Prospecting, Outreach and Qualifying leads, and work directly with the Business Development Manager. This position will provide sales, negotiation, CRM and inbound/outbound outreach experience.

Semantic 48

Semantic Social Media Database Artificial Inteligence 48

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 29, 2014

The Internet is a powerful channel that continuously develops the way people connect with brands, products, and services. Youtube serves as a strong pathway to visually reach people looking for information on your product or service. by Frank E. Paterno, VP of Marketing at Intelliverse.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 15, 2016

After spending months and maybe years looking for product-market fit, you now proudly got a product and are ready to go to market. You have to invest time and money into building a sales and marketing team to acquire customers beyond early adopters. The way you define the stages will be dictated by your product.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Blog About Log in Register Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition In the many thousands of articles advising entrepreneurs on what they have to focus on to build successful startups, much has been written about three key factors: team, product and market, with particular focus on the importance of product/market fit.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Employees got used to working with the best tools and expect them to be available Good UI/UX for B2B software is now table stakes Anyone can purchase the product with a credit card Freemium model used to onboard new users Mobile, remote access is key. Often, an early solution only serves a niche part of the market with limited requirements.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

But the unintended consequence of our collective lead generation obsession is that the task of actually determining which of the leads generated are sales-ready is relegated to the back-burner. That ultimately results in sales teams being sent troves of contacts who are either unable or not ready to buy. Lead quantity vs. lead quality.

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Lead Generation Baltimore Programming Framework 28

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 9, 2013

So the question is, does emotion play a role in making more sales online? Before we look how emotion affects sales, we have to ask if emotion plays a role further up the marketing funnel – specifically for driving awareness and getting more reach. Emotional Design Influences Sales. As it turns out, yes. image source.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 17, 2014

Marketers hope to disseminate information and inspire sales. Think of automation as the ‘industrial revolution’ of marketing; marketers use principles of assembly lines and mass production to scale projects and ad endeavors. Otherwise, a number of internal processes results in lower sales and poorer engagement.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Last week, in part one of the B2B versus B2C series, I explained there are several 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.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 12, 2017

Typically happens at the end of the product lifecycle. E.g. Someone is very interested in a particular product. E.g. current traffic, conversion to product pages, % that view images, current conversion rate, current conversion rate for image viewers. Long copy” doesn’t mean “long form sales page”. Longer decision cycle.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 10, 2017

Focus on open-ended questions that’ll give you insight into: who they are, what words and phrases they use, and how they really feel about your brand / product. Gender: using men vs. women in the subject line of a clothing store’s newsletter or highlighting specific product names for each group are some basic examples.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Sometimes your product or offer is so new that there’s no search demand out there for you to easily harvest. This means you have to generate awareness and demand yourself, before you get that sale. LinkedIn (not great for B2C). Track Sales Wisely. AdWords Display (sheer publisher size). Corporate Ladder.

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 14, 2010

So the intention of this post is to lay out the key details of why you should start marketing your startup (or product, or book, or anything else you will launch) months before launch day. Without marketing, your product is nothing more than a project (something you build for fun, not money). Skip it and you’re doomed.

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Software Review Marketing Technical Review Software 77

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Like SaaS products themselves, we now intend for these laws to be periodically refined through major releases to reflect the changing landscape of the SaaS world. Only after reaching $1M in CMRR should you consider hiring European sales and services execs behind customer demand. Labels: SaaS , sales and marketing , software.

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www.rocketwatcher.com

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Rocket Watcher Product Marketing for Startups Product Marketing for Startups About Speaking Contact Email Posts Startups Product Marketing Messaging Social Media Commentary Uncategorized Marketing Metrics 101 for B2B Startups 13. It can also show the effectiveness of your inside sales team.

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