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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. I recently surveyed and interviewed over 200+ B2B executives, marketing & sales leaders to find out exactly what challenges they currently face and what they are doing to overcome them.

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Streamline Your Sales Process With These Five Proven Techniques

YoungUpstarts

A lot of startups fail within the first few months due to some commonly acknowledged culprits – picking a bad time to scale, running out of operating capital, lack of a steady customer base, high customer acquisition cost, and low to nonexistent repeat business. Find people who are experienced and passionate about the market.

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

View from Seed

Ellie Mirman was the first marketer hired by the CMO of HubSpot, the Boston-based marketing software startup that IPOed in 2014. Below, she shares lessons learned from the earliest days of marketing the company and how this has translated to her second startup role as VP of Marketing at Toast. How did you address that?

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5 Ways to Advertise and Promote Your SaaS Business

The Startup Magazine

With an increasing number of new companies entering this market, there is greater competition, requiring SaaS companies to become more proactive when it comes to advertising and promoting their business. In this article, we try and help those who want to promote and boost their SaaS operations by sharing some clever ways to go about it.

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Microsoft Ads 101: Get Up and Running in Minutes

ConversionXL

I’ll walk through the step-by-step process to set up Microsoft Ads as well as best practices for running campaigns. . When first creating your Microsoft Advertising account, you have the option of importing campaigns from Google. You can create an ad campaign during the account creation process, but I recommend skipping for now.

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How can a powerful CRM boost sales in your business?

The Startup Magazine

If this scenario sounds uncomfortably familiar, then you need to take a closer look at your sales approach and examine whether a CRM software application can help. Marketing is more effective. Marketing is expensive, but utilising a CRM tool ensures you’re making the most of your advertising budget and you’ll see a bigger ROI.

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My Life as a CEO (and VC): Chief Psychologist

Both Sides of the Table

My first company was founded in Ireland, headquartered in England and had country operations in the UK, France & Germany. Due to the language and culture issues in Europe we opted for a country structure with an MD in each country and local sales, marketing & customers support staff. It doesn’t seem fair.

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