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7 Key Factors Obscure Your Customer Acquisition Costs

Startup Professionals Musings

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. Rarely is there alignment between sales and marketing. Long sales cycles obscure beginning and end of costs.

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How One Startup Combines Boston’s B2B Sense with the Valley’s Social Media Style

View from Seed

These companies are all over the map: B2B, B2C, SaaS, ecommerce, healthcare, SMB-focused, enterprise-focused, etc. SMBs account for 54% of all US sales. What customer retention strategies are working best for other florists? SMBs represent 55% of jobs and 66% of all net new jobs since the 1970s.

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The 5 Sales Tools Every Company Will Use in 2019

ReadWriteStart

For sales processes, machine learning is a dream come true. Not all sales tools are created equal, though. The successful sales teams of the future will lean on these to win more deals: Personalized mobile apps. Node, an AI-powered discovery engine , is going all-in on sales enablement.

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9 Steps Proven To Build A Successful Sales Team From Scratch

YoungUpstarts

by Eliot Burdett, co-founder and CEO of Peak Sales Recruiting. Building a sales team from scratch is one of the most difficult and important tasks of a CEO. Generating revenue through sales, especially as start-up capital diminishes, can make or break a company’s success. Define sales team structure. Assign territories.

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Are You Putting Your Rock Star Customers To Work?

YoungUpstarts

SAS Canada “customer champions” helped the firm restore declining customer retention rates—which had fallen as low as the mid-80s percent — back to the firm’s traditional high retention rates of 97-98 percent. This has resulted in dramatic increases in sales. Rock Stars want professional growth benefits, not bribes.

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Learning Styles: The Impact on Marketing Messaging

ConversionXL

Client education is central to marketing messaging, too, especially for sellers with long sales cycles. Using someone’s preferred learning style increases knowledge retention. Myth 1: Using someone’s preferred learning style increases knowledge retention. Their sales page speaks directly to practitioners.

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Acquire New Users by Adding Growth Hacking to your Marketing Strategy

ConversionXL

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. Use this information to optimize for retention with: Transactional messaging. LinkedIn, for example, uses endorsements to encourage retention loops.

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