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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B2B Business Model B2C Agile 105

Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

How long is the sales cycle for an ideal customer (week, month, year, etc.)? Where in the buying cycle is this lead (timeline)? He’s successfully helped companies across the B2B, B2C & B2G spaces use their data to overcome their marketing and customer acquisition challenges – and is always willing to help.

Lead Generation 28

Lead Generation Baltimore Programming Framework 28

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. But if you have any desire to sell your software, consider marketing a fundamental building block of the process. This first group of prospects is a critical source of early sales.

Software Review 77

Software Review Marketing Technical Review Software 77

www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

A quick look around all the B2C startups shows that, although viral growth is often hoped for, in reality it is extremely rare. Examples of free products include Open Source software, services like HubSpot’s Website Grader , free versions of a SaaS service that have limited, but still valuable, feature sets, etc.

Acquisition 103

Acquisition Cost Customer Entrepreneur 103

ConversionXL

APRIL 28, 2020

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. Since we had a sales development team of our own, we needed to factor in their efforts, too. SiriusDecisions Rearchitected Demand Waterfall (2012).

Demand 101

Demand Revenue SQL B2B 101

VC Cafe

MARCH 15, 2016

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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Sales Marketing Sales Cycle B2C 60

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. “Just say no” to on-premise deployments The most important part of Software-as-a-Service isn’t “Software” it’s “Service”! Cracking The Code. at 11:09 AM.

Software Review 48

Software Review North America Europe Metrics 48

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 9, 2013

On the other hand, if you sold something like gifts for geeks, the sales cycle would be shorter, and the bulk of your emotion and “personality” could be communicated visually through bold images and nifty font choices. Emotional Design Influences Sales. Overall, the campaign would involve a lot of text.

Sales 126

Sales B2B Campaign Video 126

ConversionXL

APRIL 12, 2017

Analytic: A measure software can track. Bill Leake: Optimizing for the “Considered Purchase”: What Changes if You’re B2B or Expensive / Long Sales Cycle B2C? Longer decision cycle. “Research turns inferences into observations.”. Useless measures and silly metrics. Metric: A measure we track (usually over time).

San Antonio 86

San Antonio Metrics B2B Analytics 86