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How to Shorten Your Sales Cycle and Avoid Wasting Time

Both Sides of the Table

I’ve also written extensively on sales and on which sales execs to hire and how to think about the different kinds of sales leaders. One of the questions I used to ask in any recruiting meeting for a senior hire or even a junior sales rep is as follows: “When you run sales campaigns do you prefer to .

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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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The Biggest Reason Most Sales Campaigns Don’t Close

Both Sides of the Table

Or simply if you’re earlier in the sales cycle and you don’t want to get bogged down in too much detail until you have customer buy-in to your high-level value statement. For example, if by using your analytics product you believe customers will convert 8% higher prospects to sales then you’ll make that case.

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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. Image Source.

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The Incredibly Logical Way to Manage Customer Relationships

Duct Tape Marketing

The hourglass is far more effective in terms of customer relationship management than the marketing funnel approach because there is so much emphasis on the customer experience before and after the sale. The seven stages of the hourglass are: Know, Like, Trust, Try, Buy, Repeat and Refer.

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Looking for your summer internship? Look no further.

Austin Startup

Internship Title: Marketing Intern Compensation: Unpaid Description: As the Marketing Intern at Thrillbox, you’ll be helping run all internal marketing campaigns for 30,000 users in 115 countries of their mobile app 360 video player. To Apply: Email jobs@Thrillbox.com and reference the Capital Factory intern program. SocialMatters.ai

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Timing Is Everything: Tips For Improving Customer Communications

YoungUpstarts

Analyze current sales outreach timing. Is there a strategy behind emails and flyers going out or is a shotgun approached used each time more sales are needed? Look back at old campaigns and rank which campaigns were the most effective. Organize sales collateral. Put events and past sales wins on parallel timelines.

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