Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 18, 2012

“Traction is the new IP ” sums up perfectly how the technology space has evolved over the past decade due to the nature of the web. In today’s web landscape, word of mouth drives adoption and can lead to “winner takes all” (or almost all) in both B2C and B2B markets.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 17, 2020

Accelerating environmental problems and the urgent need to find solutions will spur innovation and investment in diverse sectors from manufacturing, consumer products, energy production, medicine, agriculture, and consulting. Thanks to Noufal Bava, Epixel MLM Software ! #5- 5- Software, app, and web development.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 4, 2016

We often talk about online conversion optimization without mentioning that many businesses, especially B2B, rely on offline sales to produce revenue. There’s a lot we can do online to help our sales teams close deals. It starts with sales enablement. What Is Sales Enablement and Why Should You Care? Image Source.

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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. Hard-code subtitles to get your message across without the audio.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 23, 2022

Jenny has been creating, executing, and reviewing strategies for online communities for more than 10 years. 3:59] Who needs to be thinking about community — B2B brands or B2C brands? [5:58] 14:13] How do you approach someone giving their honest opinion in a group or community that isn’t so flattering of your product? [15:00]

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Overall acquisition costs for both B2C and B2B have gone up by 50% in the past five years. This post gives you a data-backed approach to win more repeat sales. Also, cohort behavior often reflects the use of the product over time. The most telling cohort, perhaps, is which promotion locked in the sale. By traffic source.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

I previously posted a detailed presentation with sales technology tools useful for B2B sales. is an AI bot which helps companies refine their sales pitch to VCs. Sebastian Soler recently launched Knowledge.vc , which uses software and machine learning to enhance deal sourcing and diligence for VC firms.

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Mucker Lab

APRIL 6, 2023

Hila Qu joined Mucker’s Tony Yang for an Ask-Me-Anything (AMA) conversation about Product-Led Growth (PLG) for Startups to kickoff the 2023 Mucker Growth Series. The other dimension you need to think about is the product complexity. As an individual user, I have absolutely no interest in using this product myself or testing it out.

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Seeing Both Sides

JULY 11, 2013

I''ve been thinking a lot lately about scaling sales. . In every start-up, finding initial product-market fit is a magical moment. Before this occurs, the sales process is a craft or an art - custom-made by the founder or evangelist sales VP. 1) Enterprise Sales. I''ll discuss each one below.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 7, 2023

Tiffani emphasizes the need for a balanced approach to company strategy that involves all stakeholders, including IT, Marketing, Sales, Operations, and HR. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! Every year inbound brings together leaders across business, sales, marketing, customer success, operations, and more.

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Up and Running

APRIL 17, 2018

In fact, according to Shopify , global retail ecommerce sales are on track to reach $4.5 And, these trends don’t just apply to businesses selling directly to consumers (B2C). B2B ecommerce sales , (businesses selling directly to other businesses) generate three times as much revenue as B2C, at $7.7 trillion in 2014.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 15, 2017

Will his digital presence measurably affect sales of his newest book What Unites Us ? If you deliver exactly the same results at the same net cost to the customer via a SaaS product, you may get a tech multiple 10X higher. When the ultimate consumers of a product are not the ones paying for it, chaos eventually reigns.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

APRIL 5, 2019

For example, if you are looking to bring more awareness to your advanced technologies, host an unveiling of your new product or service. Choose The Best Event To Highlight Your Product or Service. Small B2B or B2C conferences. Product or Service Unveilings. This is where you can really generate sales.

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Up and Running

JULY 10, 2017

It’s not easy to choose the right pricing strategy for a SaaS product. Your product improves with time, your business team grows, and so your pricing can’t stay outdated. Even if you are just starting to consider building a SaaS startup , you’ve probably used products with either freemium pricing or a free trial. Choose wisely.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 24, 2015

How to get the most out of your Christmas sale on a budget on Adwords written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. It’s no news that the holidays increases sales, however, one of the drawbacks of the holiday season is the increases of competition and marketers. photo credit: Wikimedia.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 27, 2019

Who says Austin can’t do B2C now ? The market for the product simply wasn’t a good one. voice of their customers and talk them off the ledge that negative reviews wouldn’t tank their overall sales. There were only around three retailers in the US that offered customer reviews on their websites. It is worth $3.4

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ConversionXL

JUNE 8, 2017

According to a recent academic study, “a typical Netflix member loses interest after perhaps 60 to 90 seconds of choosing, having reviewed 10 to 20 titles (perhaps 3 in detail) on one or two screens.” Typically, the banking and insurance industries do have specific products for the elderly and the young. Image Source.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

He also has a new book: Brand Naming: The Complete Guide to Creating a Name for Your Company, Product, or Service. Key Takeaway: A name is one of the first, longest-lasting, and most important decisions in defining the identity of your company, your product, or your service. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please!

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ConversionXL

JUNE 25, 2021

An effective product launch strategy helps you generate awareness, build intrigue, and validate your product positioning. The best product launches take into account the product lifecycle—understanding where it fits into the bigger picture, and how to transition through each phase. But it’s not a linear journey.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

2:06] Another aspect in your bio too is the internal creative studio – is that a product or a part of your own marketing? [2:48] Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! Is that a product or is that just part of your own marketing? And it's built into the actual design of the product. Like this show?

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 29, 2017

That goes for any industry, location or product; from enterprise SaaS in my home town of Austin, to live music ticket sales in Virginia, to B2C services in Seattle. Or maybe you recently launched a product and made an educated (or not so educated) guess on price. So let’s talk about price in a way you can actually use.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 28, 2015

They not only expect to find businesses that can meet their needs, they also expect to find educational content, reviews and other signals that help them make quick decisions about what to buy and who to buy it from. Creating content, however, does not mean writing more about your products and services. Get serious about reviews.

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Austin Startup

JULY 12, 2010

GetSatisfaction still hosts u nofficial customer communities , and links to them prominently on their website with designations like “37Signals is not yet committed to open coversation about its products and services. Camtasia doesn’t own the screencasts I use their software to create. Forest for the Trees. Getting (Really) Real.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

When you start with an honest and diligent effort to determine the truth of your situation, the right decisions often become self-evident.” — Jim Collins , author of Good to Great. In this post I’ll focus on benchmarking resources for seed and series A in the following three categories: SaaS B2C / Consumer apps Deep tech.

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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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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

There's a thriving geek culture in Paris, and no lack of software development expertise, thanks to superior universities that produce superior engineers. The startup scene is relatively young, however, which is partly due to some pretty fundamental cultural barriers. But these barriers are showing some wear and tear. and Amazon.fr).

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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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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 14, 2010

And after talking about this subject at length, I found myself again evangelizing it last week at the Business of Software conference. 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.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

My bachelor’s degree is in IT, my first job out of college was a programmer, then I did sales and marketing for many years, run an SEO company and a SaaS business. Why are people doing what they’re doing on the product page? So when you hire one, you have to be able to review and critique the outcome.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 22, 2019

You’d go look at a website and you’d look at the source code and you’d go what is all this stuff? So for example, a B2B national company that sells say like software as opposed to a B2C local company that does I don’t know, basement waterproofing. John Jantsch: That was always my favorite.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 18, 2021

eCommerce marketing tends to follow broader sales and social trends, prioritizing ease of access for its innovation. Companies will want to observe which channels their audience use but should expect to shift some of their more traditional ad spending to social shopping and new integrations between sales channels and social apps.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 25, 2021

Eventually, your first set of products will reach a sales peak, which means you may start to notice a plateau in profits and customer engagement. When you decide to create a product, it’s easier to frame a solution if you have a firm understanding of the problem. Finally, not every idea is worth pursuing.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

For example, if your goal is to boost sales by 20% over the next quarter, you might set multiple KPIs to get the full picture of how your team is progressing (e.g., For example, if you want to see how a landing page contributes to your goal of increasing sales, conversion rate is a good metric to track.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 28, 2020

We had built the world’s largest open-data community but—like so many startups—didn’t have a clear product-market fit. . 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. Image source ).

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Email generates as much as $42 for every dollar spent , and is a top-three marketing channel for 87% of B2B and 76% of B2C marketers. Instead, Talu Tales is delivering a valuable experience that can be nurtured towards a sale. The follow-up and additional reviews speak to the consumer’s subconscious mind. The reviews prove it.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 8, 2021

In most cases, it includes: Salaries of sales and marketing teams Advertising spend on acquiring new customers (Search/Display Ads, Social Ads, Sponsorship, etc.) Cost of software/hardware used in sales and marketing Agency, PR, or any third-party costs involved in sales and marketing.

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