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Common B2B Challenges and How To Solve Them

ConversionXL

From long sales cycles to trying to stand out from the sea of sameness, B2B companies face an uphill battle from the start. While thousands of B2B organizations struggle, plenty are able to develop long-term success. Sales cycle length increased. So what does it take?

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

View from Seed

Ellie Mirman: When I came in, Mike [Volpe, HubSpot’s CMO] had a to-do list of the things he wanted us to do, the top one being to start a webinar series. 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.

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A Quick Primer on B2B Conversion Optimization

ConversionXL

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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Bootstrapping Relevance: Making Web Conversions Meaningful for Long Sales Cycles

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Often, little more than a form fill tells you about the potential for a five-figure sale months down the road. Google Analytics insights frequently end with raw counts of goal completions, leaving a yawning gap between on-site behavior and sales for companies with long sales cycles. Analyze and act on that data.

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What Does a Demand Generation Manager Do? (And How to Become One)

ConversionXL

Very few, if any, of these interactions are with a sales rep. Instead, buyers are self-directed, gathering information from social media, websites, webinars, and online events. Because if people are making up their own minds, without coercion from sales, creating demand is the best way to get them to choose you.

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The One-Week Social Selling Action Plan

Duct Tape Marketing

Overall, the bar is extremely low when it comes to cold email – most practitioners dip the scale way too far toward quantity over quality, and their campaigns rarely produce results. I used to think that until our cold campaigns started landing meetings and closed business with Fortune 500s for mid-five figure deals.

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Demand Generation: Turn Ideal Buyers Into Superheroes

ConversionXL

It aims to fuel your sales pipeline , shorten the sales cycle, and generate revenue. Buyers] looked for one-to-many forums like webinars and online events to learn about the category, what other people are doing in the industry, and who the top contenders are. This includes self-guided interactions (e.g.,

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