Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2022

Leaders and investors need to know if you have and are tapping into your key sources of relevant data, including web analytics, sales management data, and customer relationship management (CRM) software. You must have a strong Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) with a clear strategy for spending, and metrics to gauge results.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 6, 2024

It’s not a surprise, given that entrepreneurs are obsessed with data and metrics, but in the conservative VC market of 2024, it feels even more important for founders to know what ‘good’ looks like and what investors expect.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 21, 2019

Most B2B leads don’t become customers. Additionally, most B2B marketers aren’t nurturing lead-magnet downloaders properly. I downloaded 25+ B2B lead magnets and discovered an array of shortcomings: Sending one or no follow-up emails, even when I opted-in to learn more. Schedule a call with sales. Or at all.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 4, 2016

We often talk about online conversion optimization without mentioning that many businesses, especially B2B, rely on offline sales to produce revenue. There’s a lot we can do online to help our sales teams close deals. It starts with sales enablement. What Is Sales Enablement and Why Should You Care? Image Source.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 31, 2023

In the classic book, “ Driving Demand: Transforming B2B Marketing to Meet the Needs of the Modern Buyer ,” top marketing consultant Carlos Hidalgo updates the old guidelines on how to set up demand generation processes, keep them current, and measure results. Understanding culture is paramount, but measuring results is even better.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

There is no golden metric for everyone, we are all unique snowflakes! :). and tell you what are the best key performance indicators (metrics) for them. In the past I’ve shared a cluster of metrics that small, medium and large businesses can use as a springboard…. If you want to play along. Don’t read what I’ve chosen.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 19, 2022

Your B2B sales effort is based on your ability to attract and retain prospects. But since a majority of businesses receive dozens of sales presentations per day, gaining customer loyalty is more difficult than it sounds. If you want to boost your conversion rates, you need to create a great B2B sales plan.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Talk to any B2B marketer about attribution and they’ll either roll their eyes or rant about how it’s important but hard to get right—long lead cycles, multiple contacts from a single organization, etc. As a group, we’ve gotten a firmer grasp on top-of-the-funnel metrics. Some might stare blankly and ask what you mean.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 24, 2024

Pipeline velocity measures the pace at which your sales pipeline moves. It is a quantified metric that focuses on the speed of turning prospects into customers. Accelerating your B2B pipeline is about turning up its velocity so that it zips through stages and transforms prospects into paying customers briskly.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Are there use cases for voice search in B2B? Notably, Dean continued, “the growth in voice isn’t coming 100% from smart speakers like Google Home, which aren’t super relevant for B2B companies anyway. Instead, a good chunk of all searches are becoming voice searches on mobile phones and—important for B2B—desktops.”.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Conversion optimization is a little different if you’re in B2B. 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. It’s called Optimizing for B2B.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Here, we’ll show you 6 tips on how to turn your website into a booming source of leads, enquiries and red hot sales. Let’s say your company is in the B2B Software as a Service (SaaS) space. The most important metric should be the number of targeted website clicks an ad is sending to your website. Well, there’s no need to worry.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

B2B buyers aren’t all-rational, and they will often follow and recommend tools they’ve heard of even if they’ve never used them. This defines how to connect problem themes to a metric strategy, building a metric-driven action system. A marketing strategy should include a go-to-market plan that is sales-led and product assisted.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Having a carefully-developed sales strategy is crucial if you want to grow your business. Whether you’re setting up your sales strategy for the very first time, or updating your current document, here’s our top pointers for developing a clear and well-rounded plan that will help drive your business’ growth.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

We found several patterns that could help improve your e-commerce strategy and boost sales. These metrics don’t mean you should advertise on desktop rather than mobile. Something in the payment form or checkout process might be hindering sales. He has 25+ years of international B2B and B2C marketing experience.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 23, 2022

” No one questions the importance of revenue, but asking the question enabled us to start thinking on what would be the right metric. Did you know that companies like Airbnb, Spotify and Netflix purposely avoid setting revenue as their North Star Metric? Why is revenue not a good ‘North Star’ Metric?

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ConversionXL

MARCH 6, 2019

LinkedIn ads offer the benefits of video content and the granular targeting of a B2B-centric platform. The growth of B2B video marketing. But LinkedIn owns the lucrative B2B audience. As AJ Wilcox notes in his course on LinkedIn ads , 72% of the Fortune 1000 are B2B companies. LinkedIn video ad metrics.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 4, 2016

Yes, there’s a lot of insight to be gained from web analytics for eCommerce sites , you can also learn a lot about B2B lead generation if you’re using analytics correctly. More on this as we get deeper into measurable web analytics for B2B marketing sites. Measuring the Performance of Informational Sites. Absolutely.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 18, 2021

eCommerce marketing tends to follow broader sales and social trends, prioritizing ease of access for its innovation. Companies will want to observe which channels their audience use but should expect to shift some of their more traditional ad spending to social shopping and new integrations between sales channels and social apps.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 8, 2021

That’s why Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) is such a critical metric. In most cases, it includes: Salaries of sales and marketing teams Advertising spend on acquiring new customers (Search/Display Ads, Social Ads, Sponsorship, etc.) LTV/CAC – Understanding the golden metric. Segmenting CAC to prioritize channels.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 16, 2015

I review a lot of board decks with a beautifully hand-crafted page with metrics for the company. Good metrics are comparable across industries; comparative ; readily understandable; and help drive decisions. Comparative means that you can compare a metric across time periods, groups of users, or competitors. Sales Pipeline.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 28, 2020

To have the future we wanted, we needed to shift away from monetizing our open-data community and toward enterprise sales. It wasn’t quite a flip from B2C to B2B, but it was close. While they knew that—and that might seem weird—I did start my career as a sales development representative (SDR) selling demand generation SaaS products.

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For Entrepreneurs

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

The Bridge Group have recently published a report titled: Inside Sales for SaaS Metrics and Compensation Report for B2B technology companies The report is based on a survey of 197 B2B technology companies, and covers topics such as: Ramp and Retention Compensation and Quota Activity and Infrastructure Inside Sales Management Management’s top challenges (..)

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2018

In the classic book, “ Driving Demand: Transforming B2B Marketing to Meet the Needs of the Modern Buyer ,” top marketing consultant Carlos Hidalgo updates the old guidelines on how to set up demand generation processes, keep them current, and measure results. Understanding culture is paramount, but measuring results is even better.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

As with most platforms, there are metrics that matter, and vanity metrics. With YouTube, for organic, average view duration (AVD) and click-through rate (CTR) should be prioritized over YouTube search optimization, descriptions, tags, and other vanity metrics. Both metrics represent high engagement.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

Electric Vehicles – Lower battery costs powering adoption mean EV sales could reach 74 million in 2030. A lightweight “agent” with access to logs and metrics can, to start, retrieve relevant information (e.g. Robotaxis – Robotaxi platforms could create $28 trillion in enterprise value in 2030.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2020

In the classic book, “ Driving Demand: Transforming B2B Marketing to Meet the Needs of the Modern Buyer ,” top marketing consultant Carlos Hidalgo updates the old guidelines on how to set up demand generation processes, keep them current, and measure results. Understanding culture is paramount, but measuring results is even better.

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

Without awareness and leads, you’re missing out on opportunities to close sales and grow your business. This has changed how buyers interact with sales. 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. The metrics.

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ConversionXL

JULY 8, 2021

But a good conversion rate doesn’t always mean more sales. The method for calculating conversion rate varies by channel, sales cycle, and stage of the marketing funnel. If audience building is a priority, email subscribers should be an important metric. Conversions are crucial to your business. How to calculate conversion rate.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 1, 2022

95% of B2B buyers are not ready to buy your product right now. When B2B buyers are considering a purchase, they spend only 17% of their time meeting with potential suppliers. According to Walker: “B2B buyers are discovering, researching, and evaluating products in places companies can’t track.”.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Align better with your sales team to define what a qualified lead looks like. It will also help you to identify any potential issues or new opportunities to help expand your efforts and see even better metrics. . Build automated workflows to move customers through the sales funnel . It’s our sales pipeline.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 8, 2023

Keeping up with trends is the reality show of the e-commerce world, which is constantly developing, gaining a significant market share, and driving online sales. According to the Adjust and Sensor Tower report, in 2021, m-commerce accumulated 54% of all e-commerce sales worldwide, whose market exceeds $3.5 Only in 2021, 72.9%

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 18, 2020

In this article, I walk you through a framework—the SEO pyramid—and how to think about keyword research for B2B SaaS businesses. The SEO Pyramid categorizes search term types for B2B SaaS businesses. point of sale software”); however, that usually isn’t where the most opportunity is. What is the SEO pyramid?

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Where campaigns to build brand awareness and generate top-of-funnel sales drive traditional marketing, data across the entire customer lifecycle drives growth hacking in marketing. How to create a growth hacking strategy using the pirate metrics model. Activation. Convincing users to stick around is crucial for growth.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 7, 2021

Here’s the irony though— even though potential customers may be in the market for a solution like yours, you still need to deploy the traditional sales/marketing strategies to convince them to make a purchase. When sales made a list of logos they wanted to sell, or the list of ‘dream customers’ to close.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 3, 2024

(This is one of the reasons why many of the first B2B GenAI use cases were for marketing!) And unlike sales, marketing is not dependent on painstakingly building a person-to-person relationship with the customer (although maybe this will become easier in a world of AI-powered sales development representatives). via Captions ).

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ConversionXL

JULY 21, 2022

Its study of B2B buyers shows an even split in how decision-makers interact with sales reps traditionally, remotely, and self-served digitally: Of the B2B leaders that use omnichannel marketing, 83% say it’s a more successful way to prospect and secure new business than traditional “face-to-face only” selling.

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