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Account-Based Marketing vs. Lead Generation: Which is Right for You?

ConversionXL

This required complete alignment across marketing and sales teams to engage, then close the deal. Alignment can make all the difference to a business. It’s proven to drive more revenue , improve customer experience , and power growth. Account-based sales cycles are more complex than a sales cycle targeting one person.

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Pricing determines your business

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Price is not an exercise in maximizing some micro-economic supply/demand curve, slapped post-facto onto the product. Rather, it fundamentally determines the nature of the product and the structure of the business that produces it. Even bootstrapped businesses can make this work (e.g. Again, like shared hosting companies.)

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Revenue Development

K9 Ventures

In fact, at the time (1996-1997) we offered both a downloadable product, that our customers could install on their own servers, and a “hosted-offering”, which came to be known as “On-Demand”, then the “ASP” (Application Service Provider) model, and today we call it “SaaS” (Software as a Service). This time we’d gotten it right.

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Gain Freedom With The Hands Off CEO Blueprint

Duct Tape Marketing

With her expertise, she’s boosted hundreds of agencies to millions in revenue, attracting premium clients willing to pay 50-600% fees. As a former business exit advisor, she crafts exit strategies, adding up to five figures to clients’ net profit monthly so they can focus on growth. We need to go make more sales.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Exciting Companies Lined Up For Microsoft Startup Grant Finals

ReadWriteStart

Freshdesk First, Girish Mathrubootham from Chennai, India, pitched Freshdesk , a SaaS company that provides small and medium businesses with on-demand customer support software that offers multi-channel social support. The company already has paying customers and a validated business model.

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A new field guide for entrepreneurs of all stripes

Startup Lessons Learned

There continues to be an incredible demand out there for actionable, practical lessons in how to apply this emerging set of ideas. In this excerpt from The Lean Entrepreneur , by using fishing as an analogy, Brant and Patrick reveal how market segmentation influences your business model and why “For Whom” is as important as “What” to build.

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Is Your SaaS Go-to-Market Strategy Tsunami-Proof?

ConversionXL

Consumers (like us) demand it. A big downside of the high-touch sales model is that the CAC is out of control, and the sales cycles are extremely long. As you can see in the graph below, high-touch sales is a leading indicator of CAC. A high-touch sales process can balloon customer acquisition costs.

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