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Why Real Learning is Outside the Building, Not Demo Day

Steve Blank

We came to the Lean LaunchPad class wanting to build a mobile/web research management system aimed at helping qualitative researchers better manage the media they captured in the field. Here’s how that happened. We were ready to learn, but pretty confident we would end the journey in the same market space in which we started.

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Demand Generation: 7 Tactics to Fuel Your Funnel

ConversionXL

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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New Tasks For Salespeople In The Social Era

Brandanew

Customers can quickly compile information about products and services via their mobile devices. They also expect the rest of the formerly extended sales cycle to shrink to a shorter, more compressed period of time. Perhaps the most significant change formed by the advent of social media is in customer expectations.

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9 Account-based Marketing Case Studies

ConversionXL

How iRidium used audience targeting, networking, and activation to land 34 new sales opportunities. In 2020, smart home and building automation platform iRidium mobile wanted to land bigger clients and announce new products. Post-summit, iRidium kept in touch with their top prospects and scheduled webinars. The result?

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What 15 CEOs Learned Building Top Agencies

ConversionXL

I remember it because I made that call from my mobile phone internationally to Spain, and I’m very glad it was successful because it cost a fortune.” So we created a range of services, ranging from free webinars and blog posts to consulting services costing millions. Let me give you an example.

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What 15 CEOs Learned Building Top Agencies

ConversionXL

I remember it because I made that call from my mobile phone internationally to Spain, and I’m very glad it was successful because it cost a fortune.” So we created a range of services, ranging from free webinars and blog posts to consulting services costing millions. Let me give you an example.

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