Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 18, 2024

With her expertise, she’s boosted hundreds of agencies to millions in revenue, attracting premium clients willing to pay 50-600% fees. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! You start hiring freelancers and then maybe employees. Does that sound too technical? It's time to transform your approach.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 12, 2017

Is third-year revenue of $10M good or bad? If, however, you bring them a technology deal that is outside their comfort zone, they literally need it handed to them on a platter. You’ll need to be prepared for much more thorough due diligence than with angels, up to and including a colonoscopy.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

While big ticket products might carry longer and more complex sales cycles, high-end buyers are just as lazy as the rest of us, so they use the same methods: Google, social media, and yes, their inboxes. Step 2: Determine your targets’ revenue floor and ceiling. How can you estimate total yearly revenues if they’re not public?

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Study the Sales Learning Curve and Only Invest behind Success (more.) The internet is your new channel and Technology Enabled Service providers are among the few partners that actually care if you succeed (more.) Build Employee Software. Employees are now powerful customers, not just their managers! Mind the GAAP!

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

For instance, if a consultant proposes to help you with public relations, pay them a commission equivalent to the greater of a flat fee per story placed or a percentage of revenue generated from the PR coverage. If a consultant claims they can enhance your marketing efforts, pay them based on their direct impact on your incremental sales.

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

Sales intelligence platform Cognism cut their lead generation efforts by 90% in 2021. Then they increased their revenue from $2M to $6M in six months. In this article, you’ll learn how to build a demand generation funnel that fuels the pipeline, shortens the sale cycle, and generates revenue.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 7, 2021

While reading a book called “ No Forms, No Cold Calls & No Spam ” by Latané Conant, I came to the realization that many vendors try to position ABM as a $40,000 technology stack problem. So what’s the difference between sales and account-based marketing? Dave says it best (who ran ABM at Marketo & Bizible).

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

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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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

I know this language sounds formal and stuffy, but high-ticket service sales cycles are long. However, as an agency, clients expect you to be knowledgeable about shifts in the market, new technologies, approaches, tactics, and methodologies. For UX agencies, one example is offering technical or UX writing services.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! And we are not a tremendously innovative and technology savvy industry. And the length of the sales cycle, especially with the assisted living, has increased their sales cycle by about 36%. But we double in size every year in terms of revenue.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 20, 2019

While it doesn’t publish prices publicly, an interview with the Demandbase CEO in 2017 claimed that the average revenue per customer per month was $20,000. Even then, the value of those clicks depends on whether marketing materials or sales staff are persuasive. Use analytics from ad campaigns to prompt sales staff to take action.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2018

mobile is ~50% of revenue, shorter form works better. Flip your funnel – only 5% of revenue comes from optimisation but 92% of revenue from retention. Offline sale – typically. Long sales cycle – 18 months or more. Result: -45% revenue per visit. Tech helping us monitor behavior.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

endeve – Issue invoices, manage clients and check revenues all in one place. Bootstrap – Online bookkeeping software that lets you track sales and expenses, organize your records for tax time, and more. GroupSwim – Social collaboration and community tools to bring your employees, customers, and partners together.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. It helps with sales cycles because customers know that they can switch away if they so choose. 15 minutes. 29:45 minutes.

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