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Common B2B Challenges and How To Solve Them

ConversionXL

From long sales cycles to trying to stand out from the sea of sameness, B2B companies face an uphill battle from the start. While thousands of B2B organizations struggle, plenty are able to develop long-term success. Common B2B marketing challenges. So what does it take? Let’s dive in.

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B2B Ecommerce Sites: What Works for B2B Buyers?

ConversionXL

But the B2B ecommerce market is growing exponentially , estimated to reach $1.2 Ecommerce sales are growing for traditional B2B businesses as well as direct-to-consumer brands, which are opening wholesale sides to get a slice of the growing B2B ecommerce pie. B2B ecommerce: 2 key differences of B2B buyers.

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After the Lead Magnet: How to Nurture B2B Leads

ConversionXL

When a prospect downloads your lead magnet , their journey to paying customer has only just begun—it may never finish. Most B2B leads don’t become customers. Benchmarks for download-to-customer conversion rates are scarce. Additionally, most B2B marketers aren’t nurturing lead-magnet downloaders properly.

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7 Key Factors Obscure Your Customer Acquisition Costs

Startup Professionals Musings

What if someone sees an ad, visits a web page, watches a video, downloads a brochure, responds to an e-mail, and finally buys a product? With the internet at our fingertips, even B2B customers research and compare solutions, completing 50-90% of the work before a sales rep is contacted.

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Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out – The Startup Genome Project

Steve Blank

B2C vs. B2B is not a meaningful segmentation of Internet startups anymore because the Internet has changed the rules of business. Download the full Startup Genome report here. Startups that haven’t raised money over-estimate their market size by 100x and often misinterpret their market as new. And they’re just getting started.

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Don’t Sleep on Consumer Tech: AI is Changing Everything

VC Cafe

Apple lawsuit outcome means that users can use alternative ‘app stores’, the majority of downloads still take place of the iOS App store and Google Play. Commoditisation of AI Features: this is frankly also a challenge for B2B startups. What will it take for founders to win in consumer?

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Be Honest About Whether Your Product Really Makes a Difference

Both Sides of the Table

I have written about the deceiving nature of early successes before – in particular in the SaaS or B2B world leading to a phenomenon called “shelfware.” Or app companies that went viral due to spammy friend requests to download in an app store only to have a community backlash and subsequent crash.

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