View from Seed

MARCH 3, 2015

It’s so important to line up the type of marketer and leadership that fits the business model, the product, or even the founder’s philosophy or early attempts at marketing. EM: My rule of thumb is to look at the length of the sales cycle. Some startups have really long sales cycles. Should you do that at all?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 31, 2010

In each sales situation your goal as the leadership of the company is listening to feedback, calculating the customer ROI, testing what prices people are willing to pay, learning where budgets will come from, etc. They might have other initiatives, budget constraints or just need more time to evaluate your space.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Some of the same underlying principles apply, but because of the inherent differences in buying decisions and sales cycles, pulling B2C optimization practices straight from the book might be a bad idea. There are a few things that make optimizing for B2B a different beast: The sales cycle is usually longer. Image Source.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 17, 2020

All your assumptions about customers, sales cycle and most importantly, revenue, burn rate and runway are no longer true. If you are selling to businesses (a B-to-B market) have your customers’ sales dropped? If so, whatever revenue forecast and sales cycle estimates you had are no longer valid. Laying off people?

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Burn Rate Startup Valuation Sales Cycle 436

View from Seed

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

The perks of being early in the marketplace are obvious: shorter sales cycles due to lack of competition, less competition for top talent, and so on. Don’t skimp on thought leadership. Your company has to be able to capitalize on its lead in the metaphorical horse race, and that’s often easier said than done.

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Startup Cofounder Software Review Sales Cycle 120

Austin Startup

JANUARY 20, 2021

From Amazon’s leadership principles : Speed matters in business. Use speed as an advantage in your sales cycles and messaging When your sales team first connects with a prospect, chances are they know little about your company and product. This slows down sales cycles. This week instead of next week.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

as I only improve by addressing my deficiencies.” —  Robert Reeves , CTO, Daticle Robert Reeves They collaborate with your executive leadership team to identify how technology can be used strategically to accomplish all company goals while mitigating risk. They seek the 80/20 economical solution, present options, and discuss tradeoffs.

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Fractional CTO CTO Hire CTO Technical Review 54

Up and Running

OCTOBER 7, 2019

For example, leadership can use high-level KPIs to measure the overall performance of the company, and managers can use granular KPIs to gauge the effectiveness of processes, such as sales, marketing, or procurement. Use current analytics to identify which business processes should be measured and who the stakeholders are.

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Founder Retention Metrics Technical Review 71

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 9, 2012

From Lean Startup Machine , Lean LA and San Diego Tech Founders , to countless speeches and workshops, I have seen the impact that their leadership has had first hand. Or will you need to staff and finance a whaling ship to be out at sea for months at a time to catch two or three whales (enterprise sales model)?

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Entrepreneur Lean Southern California San Diego 167

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 24, 2017

This information may not be revealed through an official Discovery session, but it will likely come out during the sales process and should be documented and fully communicated with the CS team. As sales teams move through the sales cycle, they learn a lot about their future customers that CS teams want/need to know.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

As you go through the sales cycle with your customer, there comes a point when it’s natural for the transaction to conclude. Asking the customer for their decision demonstrates leadership on your part, shows you have confidence in your offering, and prompts them to make a final decision. Perfect your natural ask.

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Sales Entrepreneur Sales Cycle Matching 263

The Startup Magazine

APRIL 23, 2020

With a 30-year history of leadership and innovation in marketing, entrepreneurship and technology, Michel’s vision is to solve problems and increase clients’ business success with the use of augmented reality. AR shortens the sales cycle and simplifies the act of buying. Quality control?

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South Africa Las Vegas Founder South Carolina 123

Women Entrepreneurs Can

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Improved Sales Efficiency – A well-defined leads generation and prospecting strategy streamline the sales process, enabling sales teams to work more efficiently. Additionally, use social selling tools to share valuable content, establish thought leadership, and build relationships with prospects over time.

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Sales Artificial Inteligence Technology Lead Generation 40

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 12, 2014

The most effective way is to find a trigger  such as new industry regulations, a change in leadership, or a merger  to fuel a companys appetite for change. Large companies have very long sales cycles. Before you can make a deal, you need to understand what would motivate a brand to change. Get your finances in order.

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Merger Cofounder Startup Sales Cycle 265

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2012

As you go through the sales cycle with your customer, there comes a point when it’s natural for the transaction to conclude. Asking the customer for their decision demonstrates leadership on your part, shows you have confidence in your offering, and prompts them to make a final decision. Perfect your natural ask.

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Product Sales Cycle Matching Social Media 227

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 13, 2017

As you go through the sales cycle with your customer, there comes a point when it’s natural for the transaction to conclude. Asking the customer for their decision demonstrates leadership on your part, shows you have confidence in your offering, and prompts them to make a final decision. Perfect your natural ask.

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Sales Cycle Social Media Matching Differentiation 120

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2011

As you go through the sales cycle with your customer, there comes a point when it’s natural for the transaction to conclude. Asking the customer for their decision demonstrates leadership on your part, shows you have confidence in your offering, and prompts them to make a final decision. Perfect your natural ask.

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Sales Entrepreneur Sales Cycle Matching 234

Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Behavior Scoring = evaluating a lead based on the observed activities and behaviors of the individual across multiple channels (attending a webinar, viewing an RFP, downloading a thought leadership piece, scheduling a call with Sales, etc.). How long is the sales cycle for an ideal customer (week, month, year, etc.)?

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Lead Generation Baltimore Programming Framework 28

Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

At it, some of the world''s best Internet thinkers and researchers presented on key trends in business-to-business (B2B) online marketing, sales, and client engagement. My three takeaways: 1. Mobile, Mobile, Mobile. From personalization of message follows multiplication of medium.

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B2B Mobile Sales Cycle Viral 91

www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

For example: Create demo videos that answer every likely sales question. List the common sales objections that come up in the sales cycle, and provide answers to these on the web site. SolidWorks 2: The best VAR management program in the world? Consider every possible way to minimize this.

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Acquisition Cost Customer Entrepreneur 103

ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

It aims to fuel your sales pipeline , shorten the sales cycle, and generate revenue. Focus on thought leadership over hard selling. Trust is earned through thought leadership. Thought leadership shows off your expertise to progress potential customers through the sales funnel naturally.

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Demand Lead Generation PPC Leadership 91

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 28, 2013

Baker has shown that this method can be successfully used to penetrate difficult accounts, close difficult sales calls, shorten a sales cycle, protect price margins, reduce meeting time, speed up Powerpoint presentations, structure personnel reviews, sales letters, company communications with suppliers, corporate memos and even email messages.

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Sales Cycle Sales Social Media Email 133

This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Slow sales cycles. The company sells to local governments, real estate management companies, educational institutions--anyone responsible for public or private infrastructure. That alone is enough to make a lot of VCs throw up a little in their mouths. Ugh, right? Except that its working.

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Sales Cycle Government Revenue Sales 121

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Here are the four types of objections salespeople must field, along with a few tactics to help you get in the door, shorten the sales cycle, increase pipeline velocity, avoid stalled deals, and, of course, close the sale. TYPE 1: Prospecting Objections. Of all objections, these are the most severe.

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Framework Sales Conversion Sales Cycle 100

Lightspeed Venture Partners

MAY 3, 2016

This vaulted EverString into a leadership position early on. With this breakthrough capability, EverString will be able to expand its markets, increase customer value, expand price points, sell higher and broader in customer accounts, and accelerate sales cycles. A number of months ago I got together with Vincent over breakfast.

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Architecture China B2B Sales Cycle 60

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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Demand Affiliate Audience Leadership 115

Up and Running

AUGUST 19, 2014

Though that level of restraint may mean living quite “lean” in your personal life for a while, doing so provides an opportunity to establish solid footing for your business as early as possible, so that you have at least one year to learn from the trends and sales cycles that will emerge once you’re past “break even.”

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Salary Sweat Equity Silicon Valley Sales Cycle 119

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 23, 2014

Now, don’t take the word authority to mean fame or notoriety – it’s really more about possessing person power – the kind that can attract new business, create more opportunities and drastically shorten sales cycles. Develop Your Point of View and Methodology.

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Sales Cycle Social Network Aggregator Campaign 73

ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

Marketers raise brand awareness to capture leads that are handed to sales teams to convert into customers. DGMs see that demand is maintained throughout the sales cycle. 70% of buyers are already clued up on a product before they talk to sales, if they talk to sales at all.

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Demand Management B2B Campaign 95

ConversionXL

AUGUST 18, 2021

Turning employees into advocates can shorten the sales cycle, boost growth, and help your team differentiate from the crowd. . Having set leadership to keep your team excited about this program is key. Businesses looking to expand their reach online should consider setting up an employee advocacy program.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! How to Shorten Your Sales Cycle and Avoid Wasting Time – crowdspring.co/18DA191. How to Shorten Your Sales Cycle and Avoid Wasting Time – crowdspring.co/18DA191.

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 93

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

I know this language sounds formal and stuffy, but high-ticket service sales cycles are long. This way, you can focus on business development, communications, and awareness to build a sales pipeline and “validate” early demand. Generating backlinks and establishing thought leadership are two common content marketing objectives.

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PR B2B Lean Audience 120

ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

This shift in focus results in more efficient use of your marketing budget, shorter sales cycles, and a better customer experience. Sales shouldn’t feel like they’re helping out marketing, and marketing shouldn’t feel that they’re passing leads on for sales to take the glory. Both departments co-own ABM.

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Customer Marketing Channel Acquisition 98

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 19, 2016

When Chris Cancialosi , founder and partner at gothamCulture, first began hiring for his team, he took into consideration the fact that professional firms often have long or uncertain sales cycles.

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Startup Burn Rate Cofounder Salary 100

Up and Running

JANUARY 16, 2018

93 percent of viewers say that when a brand’s thought leadership content was high-quality, it improved their overall opinion of the business. There’s no denying the emphasis placed on educating viewers in the modern sales cycle. Personalize everything.

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Video Small Business Sales Cycle Audience 111

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

We got a great reference, so the sales cycle was extremely short, maybe one call and one email. ” The long-term value of inbound marketing was a common refrain: “The most effective thing for us has been content creation at the edge of thought leadership for our space and public speaking. Critchlow) “Leadership.

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SEO Hiring PPC Leadership 110

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

We got a great reference, so the sales cycle was extremely short, maybe one call and one email. ” The long-term value of inbound marketing was a common refrain: “The most effective thing for us has been content creation at the edge of thought leadership for our space and public speaking. Critchlow) “Leadership.

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