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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. Sales cycle length increased. So what does it take?

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Why Hire a Fractional CMO in the Early Days of Your B2B Startup

The Startup Magazine

When it comes to B2B startups, effective marketing can make or break a company’s early growth trajectory. Here are a few more compelling reasons why a fractional CMO can be a game-changer for your B2B startup. Early-stage startups often operate with tight budgets, making it impractical to hire a full-time CMO.

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Selling to the enterprise: “Sell to few” vs. “sell to many”?

Version One Ventures

How do we differentiate between B2B start-ups that sell to many vs. sell to a few? Sell to few”: Traditional enterprise sales. Selling into this market requires the traditional enterprise sales approach, comprised of a large ‘boots on the ground’ field sales team that works with key decision makers (e.g.

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A Quick Primer on B2B Conversion Optimization

ConversionXL

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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How to Create a Demand Funnel (for 44X Revenue)

ConversionXL

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. Choose the model that aligns best with your business: How complex is your marketing and sales operation? How long is your sales process?

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How to Craft (Or Pivot) Your Agency Value Proposition

ConversionXL

Today, Grizzle is a full-service content marketing and SEO agency that provides B2B and SaaS companies end-to-end services. These days, many agencies start as a lean operation. I know this language sounds formal and stuffy, but high-ticket service sales cycles are long. Most B2B buyers know this. Image source ).

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

View from Seed

Even identifying as a demand-gen marketer or branding or B2B or B2C leaves a lot of decisions still on the table to actually execute. When do you start to double-down or evolve the playbook into a way of operating? EM: My rule of thumb is to look at the length of the sales cycle. Where do you start?

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