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Marketing Your Startup: A Billion-Dollar Company’s First Marketer Reflects Back

View from Seed

We started with a general webinar about how to turn your website into a marketing machine, then we went on to SEO, then blogging, then social media. We would give things a few different tries, whether it was trying a topic (like social, SEO, etc.) EM: My rule of thumb is to look at the length of the sales cycle.

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10 Reasons Why Your Marketing Plans Don’t Work

Up and Running

Is it increasing sales by 20 percent per quarter? Strategies for various stages in the sales cycle. Remember that each tactic needs to meet your target prospects at each stage of your sales cycle (from prospecting, to qualifying prospects, to addressing their objections, to closing the sale).

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Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition | For Entrepreneurs

www.forentrepreneurs.com

Far more common is a need to acquire customers through a series of steps like SEO, SEM, PR, Social Marketing, direct sales, channel sales, etc. Using low cost inside sales when the touchless conversion is not possible. These techniques are frequently referred to as the Low Cost Sales model, or as Sales 2.0.

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How to Craft (Or Pivot) Your Agency Value Proposition

ConversionXL

And so, the concept for a digital PR service was born. Using my existing skills and resources (including an old domain name), I tested a productized digital PR offer. I put together a one-page website, a list of 100 people to reach out to, and a cold email script that would make seasoned sales professionals cringe.

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Short guide to sales and marketing for start-ups [Guest Post]

VC Cafe

Another way for you to get customers is to go after a certain group of prospects by cold calling and mass email, this is called Outbound Sales. Inside sales is heavily driven by marketing activities, such as SEO, paid search, paid social or PR campaigns. And by that I mean get used to it ”.

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Cracking The Code: The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008.

Cracking the Code

In my case (LucidEra -- a SaaS analytics provider focusing on sales, marketing, and financial analytics), weve found that success requires not only building some best practices for analytics into our solution, but also coming up with a repeatable and scalable way to show the customer how to use the analytics and how to interpret the results.