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Pricing determines your business

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Marketing and sales spend is nil, so there has to be a reason it spreads by word of mouth, ideally virally as a natural result of using the product itself. $10/mo simple enough to be self-service). 10/mo means people see you as a cheap version of something else, but still expect a phone number. Think: GoDaddy).

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Cracking The Code: Unveilling of the Bessemer's 10 laws of Cloud.

Cracking the Code

In regards to calculatimg the "Magic Number" - should the amount included as sales and marketing costs match the length of the sales cycle? That is, if a company had a sales cycle of 6 months, should they include the past 2 quarters' of costs and not just the last quarter? Global Warning!

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The easiest path to growth and profit is up: why startups should focus on the long-tail

Version One Ventures

Zendesk initially focused on tech startups and now has more than 30,000 clients including global giants like Disney and Vodafone. In addition, by focusing on selling to smaller companies in the long tail, you’ll benefit from shorter sales cycles. This will enable you to build a community of loyal, passionate customers.

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Cracking The Code: Impact of the recession on SaaS.

Cracking the Code

However, if the SaaS & Cloud computing industry is doing relatively well in this downturn, the recession has severely impacted the sales&marketing productivity of these companies, with longer sales cycle, smaller deal size and limited upsells opportunity. Global warming: a plague for humanity? Global Warning!

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Your B2B Demand Generation Funnel: How to Create One and Mistakes to Avoid

ConversionXL

In this article, you’ll learn how to build a demand generation funnel that fuels the pipeline, shortens the sale cycle, and generates revenue. Cognism’s Global Head of Demand Generation, Liam Bartholomew, shares the paid media strategy that helped lead to their 3X revenue increase: Stage 2: Identify buyer personas.

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10 Tips for Enterprise Software Startups

ReadWriteStart

Bernard is based in New York, was born in Berlin, has lived in and started companies in Asia and Europe as well as America; he is comfortable with globalization. The global economy is currently going through a " perfect storm" of change , so we can expect even more creative destruction than normal. So VCs will need to invest.

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270+ Tools for Running a Business Online

mashable.com

Xing XING – A global networking and contact management site for business professionals. CEOWorld.biz – Global networking for managers, entrepreneurs, and senior execs. Free CRM – This is a Web-based customer relationship management software that allows for sales force automation. What will you find here?