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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. NVV: That’s not in any book about growing a startup — “Build an interactive app to start your marketing, then host a webinar for its users.”

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LinkedIn Video Ads: Relevance, Specs, and Use Cases

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The same video content likely works well in other channels. Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat have thus far dominated the market in video ad spend on social media. Compared to the B2C world, B2B attribution faces two challenges: Sales often take place offline. The sales cycle may last for months, or more than a year.

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Employee Advocacy: Empowering Your Teams on Social Media

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Turning employees into advocates can shorten the sales cycle, boost growth, and help your team differentiate from the crowd. . When your employees share your company content and updates on their own social media accounts, it in turn augments your brand. Take a look at creative SEO agency Rise at Seven’s Twitter feed.

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How to Measure Ecommerce Customer Acquisition Cost (+ Tips to Reduce it)

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Understanding CAC by each channel helps you identify areas of opportunity and streamline operations for better ROI. This is due to factors such as maturity, sales cycle, product value, purchase frequency, and customer lifespan. Total marketing spend in Q1 + total sales spend in Q1 / Number of new customers in Q1 = CAC in Q1.

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Demand Generation: 7 Tactics to Fuel Your Funnel

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More than two-thirds of buyers have researched your solution (and others’) before talking to sales. Plus, 60% prefer not to interact with sales reps at all. To fuel your pipeline and shorten the sales cycle , you have to create demand naturally. Sales are less likely to be forced with outbound methods.

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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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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 2 Really Cool Companies

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Vrushali is moderator of a forum for technical documentation professionals and gets a lot of her clients through that channel. Then Taariq Lewis from San Francisco, California, presented Stanzr, a lightweight online events platform specifically focused on moving qualified leads generated through webinars towards a close.