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Common B2B Challenges and How To Solve Them

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

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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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LinkedIn Video Ads: Relevance, Specs, and Use Cases

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The growth of B2B video marketing. Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat have thus far dominated the market in video ad spend on social media. For YouTube pre-roll ads, Google recommends segmenting video ad campaigns into three phases: Tease. Fundamentally, there’s nothing unique about a video for a LinkedIn ad. Image source ).

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A Quick Primer on B2B Conversion Optimization

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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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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. The data-related challenges of long sales cycles are well known: Between a form fill and a sale, there may be dozens of touchpoints spanning weeks or months.

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

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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. This behavior has marketers pledging to up their demand generation budgets. But isn’t that the role of any marketer?

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A Complete Guide to Account-Based Marketing: Win Over Your Ideal Customer

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Ask 10 people what account-based marketing (ABM) is and you’ll get 10 different answers. Some see it as a sales tactic, while others view it as a content marketing strategy. What is account-based marketing? In his account-based marketing course , Watt goes on to unpack each of the adjectives in his definition: Sustained.