Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 21, 2011

5 Stages of the New Sales Cycle This content from: Duct Tape Marketing Generating and converting leads is mostly what marketing is about. Creating happy customers is mostly what generates long-term profit. Some have cycles that are triggered by events, such as the birth of a child or start of a business.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 20, 2021

I had to throw out my desire to build a perfect strategy and forecast for the business. When contacting references, ask for five minutes later that day vs. scheduling the call for days out. Early on, sales messaging should live and breathe, not exist as a static script. This slows down sales cycles.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 5, 2023

Additionally, measuring the lifetime value of new customers is vital to determine the ROI of online advertising, and investing in CRO as an ad spend, could make significant improvements in performance. And then we can start, once the data is right, then we can start to forecast and predict better.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

3:59] Why people don’t refer businesses they love. [5:23] 6:54] How getting referrals affects the lifetime value of that newly acquired customer. [8:53] 8:53] Introduce the idea of referrals in the sales process. [9:58] 9:58] Figuring out your customer success quotient. [12:42] You can trust them. I'm all in.

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Tim Keane

APRIL 14, 2008

As one example, think about forecasting sales based on market potential and competition, rather than simply on historical results by salesperson. If that leads us to needing additional sales people, can we forecast the benchmark for productivity based on past results? Build our internal capacity to grow?

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 5, 2016

My guess is that the reason for this is that while it’s one of the most important elements, it’s also one of the hardest to set up and analyze for someone that’s typically answering the phones, going on sales calls, fixing broken links and doing the work for which customers pay you. Lifetime value of a customer. New customers.

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