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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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Critical Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for Founders

Up and Running

Depending on the nature of your business, it could be the number of clicks, time on the website, pages viewed, downloads, email/blog subscription, or trial signup. Open opportunities by stage: monitor the number of leads you have at each stage of the sales cycle and how you can best allocate resources to pursue them.

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Microsoft Ads 101: Get Up and Running in Minutes

ConversionXL

Pick this option if you want to track the actions people take on your website, such as purchasing a product or signing up for your email list. This is a subheading for your ad, separated from the first title by a vertical bar. Conversions. Phone calls. Use this option to drive more phone calls to your business. Dynamic Search Ads.

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The One-Week Social Selling Action Plan

Duct Tape Marketing

Distraction-heavy social media darlings come and go, but the email inbox is going strong after more than two decades. Twitter and Facebook can generate traffic, but when it comes to getting an immediate action, like a sales conversation, I’d rather hang out where business is being done, not where news articles and cat videos are consumed.

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The #1 thing successful founders think about for their next startups

Hippoland

Or second time founders focus on lucrative verticals that pay more per eyeball or focus on ad formats that pay more (such as email newsletter sponsorships). Sales cycles matter though. HOWEVER, the length of a sales cycle is a strong consideration for most repeat successful founders. Product second.

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The #1 thing successful founders think about for their next startups

Hippoland

Or second time founders focus on lucrative verticals that pay more per eyeball or focus on ad formats that pay more (such as email newsletter sponsorships). Sales cycles matter though. HOWEVER, the length of a sales cycle is a strong consideration for most repeat successful founders. Product second.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 2 Really Cool Companies

ReadWriteStart

Next, Dan Stewart from Safety Harbor, Florida, pitched Happy Grasshopper , an email-based referral marketing service. Today, he has over a thousand, and he has chosen to focus on the realtor vertical. Dan is a 1M/1M premium member and has, over the last few weeks, worked systematically, following our methodology.