Steve Blank

AUGUST 15, 2016

Andela selects and trains world-class tech talent from Africa and matches them with U.S. This is a perfect example of why it’s important to talk to customers. Somewhere along the line, however, Michael and his co-founder stopped listening to customers. Here’s what happened: We got the product out; we got paying customers.

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Cofounder Entrepreneur Africa Sales Cycle 145

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Validated learning about customers Would you rather have $30,000 or $1 million in revenues for your startup? This may sound crazy, coming as it does from an advocate of c harging customers for your product from day one. For a startup, having great sales DNA is a wonderful asset.

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Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167

Steve Blank

AUGUST 15, 2016

Andela selects and trains world-class tech talent from Africa and matches them with U.S. This is a perfect example of why it’s important to talk to customers. Somewhere along the line, however, Michael and his co-founder stopped listening to customers. Here’s what happened: We got the product out; we got paying customers.

Cofounder 120

Cofounder Entrepreneur Africa Sales Cycle 120

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2011

Be passionate about what you are selling, and decide to be of service, by providing your customers with something of value in exchange for deserved payment. Make it real for you and your customers. Generate leads using social media, but don’t rely on it alone to make sales. Claim your sweet spot. Craft your irresistible pitch.

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Sales Entrepreneur Sales Cycle Matching 234

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Customers today are not only informed, they are actively engaged with brands at multiple levels; making it critical that companies manage highly engaged consumers effectively. One of the most important factors is timing of marketing and sales outreach. Stay quiet too long and a customer will forget. Organize sales collateral.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 4, 2009

Most start-up entrepreneurs have little or no sales experience. But through nearly a decade of startups I learned that sales comes down to three essential elements: 1. Even businesses that attempt to sign up customers directly on a website need to answer this question for people albeit programmatically and through good website copy.

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Sales Sales Cycle Startup Reputation 319

Up and Running

MARCH 8, 2017

By providing a free or limited version of your product or service, your customer can get a hands-on feel for how and why your offering can improve their business. See Also: 8 Ways to Create Real Customer Loyalty. One great way to do this is by staying in touch with B2B customers even after you’ve made the sale.

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B2B Sales Sales Cycle Social Media 109

ConversionXL

MARCH 6, 2019

On Facebook, an ideal customer may log on to see photos of a new nephew, not to check out a 30-second demo of your SaaS product. Several versions of a video, for example, might target a segment of your customer base or be part of an account-based marketing strategy. The sales cycle may last for months, or more than a year.

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Video B2B Technical Review Campaign 129

Brandanew

DECEMBER 21, 2015

ECommerce sales during Christmas tend to see a big surge as customers prefer the quietness of at home shopping compared to the hassles of finding parking and a store full of people. To make sure you aren’t losing out on valuable sales, advanced planning and a good strategy is vital. You’ve got this! Start here.

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eCommerce Sales Social Media Campaign 100

ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

Some see it as a sales tactic, while others view it as a content marketing strategy. Account-based marketing is an approach where marketing and sales work together to nurture target accounts and convert or retain customers. It needs perfect alignment from sales, marketing, and executive leaders across the organization.

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Customer Marketing Channel Acquisition 98

The Startup Magazine

MARCH 4, 2020

Inventory management is the challenge of matching the company’s supply volume appropriately to customer demand. It aims to much more closely match inventory levels to customer demand. This can be done by studying last year’s sales cycles. It is important to keep an accurate forecast of your expected demand.

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Management Stock Demand Sales Cycle 114

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 13, 2017

Steelman does a good job of outlining the key selling steps that separate great sales people from the rest of us. Make it real for your customers with professionally finished collateral and proposals. Generate leads using social media, but don’t rely on it alone to make sales. Craft your irresistible pitch. Engage graciously.

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Sales Cycle Social Media Matching Differentiation 120

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2012

Be passionate about what you are selling, and decide to be of service, by providing your customers with something of value in exchange for deserved payment. Make it real for you and your customers. Generate leads using social media, but don’t rely on it alone to make sales. Claim your sweet spot. Craft your irresistible pitch.

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Product Sales Cycle Matching Social Media 227

Austin Startup

APRIL 17, 2017

Internship Title: Business Development Intern Compensation: Paid — $10/hr Description: The Business Development Intern will assist the Sales Team in Prospecting, Outreach and Qualifying leads, and work directly with the Business Development Manager. This position will provide sales, negotiation, CRM and inbound/outbound outreach experience.

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Semantic Social Media Database Artificial Inteligence 48

Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

If outward facing, they will attend important sales calls and speak to the technology strategy and vision. They shorten the sales cycle, mitigate risks, and provide assurance in the context of technical due diligence. I have also included quotes from Austin CTOs to give you additional perspective.

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Fractional CTO CTO Hire CTO Technical Review 54

Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 12, 2017

A frequent metaphor I use in customer acquisition, fundraising, or any kind of deal making is that you as the founder and promoter should present the finished meal on the dining table and not drag your counterparts into the kitchen. The decision is yours as to how you package up your offering in a way that matches your goals.

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Term Sheet Technical Review Due Diligence Merger 48

Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Recently, however, we have seen the rapid emergence of hyper-growth businesses in the PaaS and IaaS markets demonstrating that these will soon be independent, multi-billion dollar segments in their own rights with the potential for massive sales volume and attractive cash flow characteristics. sales and marketing. (10). Mind the GAAP!

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Software Review Cloud Technical Review Sales Cycle 48

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 11, 2022

Running a business is hard But with a good referral program it doesn't have to be As a small business owner you are probably thinking about helping your current customer or trying to figure out how to increase sales. As a business owner myself, I know you just want your customers to be happy with their purchases.

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Programming Small Business Advisory Board B2B 86

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. What's the one year value of the typical customer? It was phenomenal. How do you ba I mean are you on the side of you need both?

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Advertising Analytics San Diego Networking 82

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

There usually is some other operational metric more readily available out there where you can back into a sales range (square footage of their building, number of employees, sales figures from a key customer, import trade data, etc.). Share a sentence or two of your go-to-market strategy.

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Business Plan Elevator Pitch Equity Private Equity 124

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Think back to a sales situation with a friend of a friend, one where you started with a huge trust advantage: how much smoother and faster was the process? He will track down emails, verify them to avoid bounces, and log custom fields in your spreadsheet. What if you could replicate that dynamic on a much larger digital scale?

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Curation Lead Generation Technical Review Email 44

K9 Ventures

AUGUST 13, 2010

In fact, at the time (1996-1997) we offered both a downloadable product, that our customers could install on their own servers, and a “hosted-offering”, which came to be known as “On-Demand”, then the “ASP” (Application Service Provider) model, and today we call it “SaaS” (Software as a Service). We were desperate to get a marquee customer.

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Revenue Developer Java Customer Development 72

ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2019

Client education is central to marketing messaging, too, especially for sellers with long sales cycles. The real work: Matching learning to tasks, not individuals. Learning styles should try to “match the unit of content to the best way to create meaning for most students,” or, in a marketer’s case, the most prospects.

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Marketing Sales Cycle Retention Differentiation 124

ConversionXL

APRIL 7, 2021

The book dedicates quite a few pages to the ‘customer-centric stack’ and argues that because you’re now able to know when someone is in the market for a solution like yours [via IP lookup or 1st or 3rd party intent data], you don’t need to “spam” them. In those days we just called it sales.

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IP Marketing Technical Review Software Review 98

Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 21, 2014

You began your AdWords campaign for your small business with high hopes and launched it, excited to fulfill orders from your new customers. Mistake One: Keywords In Broad Match. AdWords is set by default to have your keywords in broad match, and this causes your keywords to match for a huge variety of searches you never intended.

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Philadelphia Cost Matching PPC 67

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 7, 2016

This means you have to generate awareness and demand yourself, before you get that sale. If your B2B/B2C product or service doesn’t have search demand already and you want to use demographic targeting to your advantage, then these are the prioritized networks we’ve found work best across our 75+ clients: Facebook (custom audiences).

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PPC B2C B2B Sales Cycle 48

ConversionXL

MARCH 20, 2019

Deliver tailored marketing and sales messaging to those people. Pilot programs refine the process—and your target list—while (hopefully) demonstrating enough ROI to earn buy-in from marketing, sales, and executives. The high price tag self-selects Demandbase customers. Sales enablement. Measure how they respond.

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Software Review Software Marketing IP 117

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

I put together a one-page website, a list of 100 people to reach out to, and a cold email script that would make seasoned sales professionals cringe. I know this language sounds formal and stuffy, but high-ticket service sales cycles are long. Interviewing your customers can reveal the priorities they’re aware of.

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PR B2B Lean Audience 120

ConversionXL

MAY 19, 2016

Linear funnels are conducive to the traditional customer lifecycle you’re used to hearing about. All of these questions lead to pages like this… Josh suggests that actual customer journeys are much more complex than a linear funnel would indicate. Tweet It!]. Linear Funnels vs. Tornadoes: What’s the Difference?

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Analytics Metrics Channel Software Review 78

ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2018

Amazon built its growth on top of these 4 pillars: Customer Centricity. The most important single thing is to focus obsessively on the customer” – Jeff Bezos. They may believe “the customer is always right” but how do they act? Aligning customers & business objectives. The power is in how customer data is used.

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Retention Artificial Inteligence Channel Email 106

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 22, 2018

As marketing moved online, we got decent at tracking link clicks and website behavior, but we still struggle to connect the dots between someone visiting a website, taking an action, and becoming a customer. The prospect-to-customer journey is not a linear series of events; it’s hard to predict and measure every engagement.

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B2B Marketing Analytics Campaign 131

ConversionXL

APRIL 10, 2019

ABM campaigns dedicate resources and time toward only a few prospects, and enterprise-level leads often have long sales cycles. The key is to customize content for specific targets and channels (e.g. Customer Match In Google Ads. Create or update your new custom ABM ad campaign. Image source ).

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PPC Campaign Marketing Sales Cycle 131

ConversionXL

MAY 14, 2019

You should also customize your channel to showcase your brand to visitors and subscribers. You can also select from six campaign subtypes: Custom. This option gives you the freedom to customize every aspect of your ad to suit your goals. Custom intent audiences. Non-skippable in-stream. Which should you use?

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Campaign Audience Channel Metrics 133

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 8, 2015

In a simple example, if you were to test a checkout path and wanted to test the button color in the car, you would change the buttons on all pages in the checkout to match. Alternatively, testing individual pages would produce inconsistency throughout the path that could decrease sales and outweigh any improvement from the change.”.

Conversion 48

Conversion Analytics Matching Cost 48

ConversionXL

APRIL 10, 2020

It varies by company, says Arnoux: It depends on the industry, the maturity of the product, the regulatory framework, the culture of the organization (including branding, compliance, legal), the business model, the metric they’re focusing on, the length of the sales cycles, and the resources available. The solution? Conclusion.

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Hockey Stick Analytics Channel Sales Cycle 68

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 19, 2012

Understanding what your ideal customer wants is essential and goes without saying. The bigger the positive impact of your lead magnet, the better push you have given the prospect down your sales funnel. Turning leads into customers. And eventually you will ask for the sale. When should you ask for the sale?

Email 131

Email Sales Cycle Minnesota Sales 131

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

We got a great reference, so the sales cycle was extremely short, maybe one call and one email. We kicked off as quickly as we could, and they became a marquee customer of ours and one of our biggest success stories.” You do good work, and you start getting customers through your professional network and word of mouth.

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SEO Hiring PPC Leadership 110