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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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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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Why Real Learning is Outside the Building, Not Demo Day

Steve Blank

While our teams have mentors, socialize a lot and give great demos, the goal of our class final presentations is “ Lessons Learned ” – about product/market fit, pricing, acquisition/activation costs, pricing, partners, etc.

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

ConversionXL

Customer acquisition cost (CAC) is an important metric for any ecommerce business. Put simply, you need a healthy customer acquisition cost for your business to succeed. In this article, you’ll learn what ecommerce CAC is, how to calculate it, and how to keep costs down to maintain profit health. Your business is unique.

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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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LinkedIn Video Ads: Relevance, Specs, and Use Cases

ConversionXL

They also come with higher costs and LinkedIn-specific platform limitations. That means that there’s plenty of business to be won—even if LinkedIn views come at a higher cost (more later). LinkedIn video ads: tech specs, targeting, metrics, and cost. The sales cycle may last for months, or more than a year.

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The ROI of Lead Scoring

Duct Tape Marketing

Behavior Scoring = evaluating a lead based on the observed activities and behaviors of the individual across multiple channels (attending a webinar, viewing an RFP, downloading a thought leadership piece, scheduling a call with Sales, etc.). How long is the sales cycle for an ideal customer (week, month, year, etc.)?