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

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Acquisition Cost Customer Sales Cycle 250

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Consider the consequences of these monthly pricing possibilities: $0/mo means your goal is to maximize growth (trust and usage) instead of revenue. Marketing and sales spend is nil, so there has to be a reason it spreads by word of mouth, ideally virally as a natural result of using the product itself. $10/mo This is a hard slog.

Bootstrapping 294

Bootstrapping Technical Review B2C Sales Cycle 294

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

LinkedIn is among the most trusted social media platforms in the US, making it one of the best platforms for B2B marketers hoping to find great leads. Showing your audience an opportunity to choose their rewards from your selection helps make the customer feel special and more than just a revenue source. Offer Help to Your Audience.

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B2B Audience Social Media Technical Review 158

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. Some might stare blankly and ask what you mean. As a group, we’ve gotten a firmer grasp on top-of-the-funnel metrics.

B2B 131

B2B Marketing Analytics Campaign 131

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.

B2B 131

B2B Technical Review Email Sales 131

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 28, 2009

Reporters were no longer interested in talking about B2B eCommerce. Our sales forecasts were revised downward – many times. I know that we haven’t brought in revenue as quickly as we had hoped. They haven’t hit their revenue targets. Our business development discussions took longer than planned.

PR 331

PR Software Review Ireland Germany 331

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. Another way to help increase online leads and sales conversion for your website, is to integrate it with a marketing automation platform.

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Sales Technical Review SEO B2B 100

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 3, 2015

by Eliot Burdett, co-founder and CEO of Peak Sales Recruiting. A new report from Forrester Research called “Death of a B2B Salesman,” predicts that one million U.S. B2B salespeople will lose their jobs to self-service e-commerce by 2020. This is a significantly increase from even last year when sales also ranked number one.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 9, 2021

It’s a shared workspace so buyers and sellers can work together throughout the laborious B2B sales process—making it a lot more collaborative and a lot less painful. . As part of the founding sales teams at Stripe (Ross) and Google Cloud (Ryan) saw how little innovation there was around the buyer <> seller relationship.

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B2B Sales Technical Review B2C 87

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 1, 2017

The end of the year is approaching but many businesses have yet to meet their end-of-year revenue goals. If you’re like many business owners or sales leaders, you may be sweating. In sales and marketing, words matter. If you’re needing a sales boost to end the year strong, the key is to work harder and smarter.

Revenue 127

Revenue San Diego Technical Review Dividend 127

ReadWriteStart

MAY 16, 2018

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.

Sales 90

Sales Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Software Review 90

Rembrandt Communications

MARCH 8, 2019

As a Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) at a B2B company, you want to use your resources as effectively as possible for the best results. What messages do they want to get across relative to your organization’s overall sales goals? With the high level of B2B competition, it’s essential to try new things and be creative.

PR 100

PR B2B Public Relations Technical Review 100

Rembrandt Communications

MARCH 8, 2019

As a Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) at a B2B company, you want to use your resources as effectively as possible for the best results. What messages do they want to get across relative to your organization’s overall sales goals? With the high level of B2B competition, it’s essential to try new things and be creative.

PR 100

PR B2B Public Relations Technical Review 100

ConversionXL

APRIL 4, 2014

Marketing doesn’t end after you’ve made the sale. If you’re interested in increasing customer lifetime value , know the real journey begins after that first sale is made. 5mimitos.com did this and increased their revenue by 13.5% Marketing doesn’t end after you’ve attracted new users to your website.

eCommerce 112

eCommerce Sales Marketing Software Review 112

Steve Blank

APRIL 1, 2020

Your revenue plans are no longer valid. What’s your monthly cash burn at your new low revenue level? Sales pipeline/forecast. The CEO should dial through as many of the largest existing customers to get a firsthand understanding of the magnitude of any revenue shortfall. The ripple effects won’t be obvious at first.

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South Korea Salary Business Model China 334

ConversionXL

JULY 22, 2020

Sales and marketing misalignment reduces revenue, lowers the quality of customer service, and can even dampen company culture. According to The B2B Lead , sales reps spend about 50% of their time prospecting unproductive deals—while missing 80% of the most qualified leads. So how do you get aligned? Image source ).

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Sales Cost Marketing Audience 90

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.

eCommerce 150

eCommerce B2B Forecast Demand 150

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Enterprise SaaS/B2B software – account executives (AEs) and sales developement reps (SDRs). The point here is not to do a granular forecast of revenue or number of users/customers, but to put a stake in the ground so investors understand what you believe is achievable with X amount of resources given Y timeframe.

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Part-Time VPE Seed Stage CTO Hire Forecast 195

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

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.

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Sales Cofounder Sales Cycle Revenue 100

Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Shattering The Mold: Unleashing the Creator Economy in B2B Marketing written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with Christie Horsman In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interviewed Christie Horsman, who brings a decade of expertise in both B2B and B2C marketing within the SaaS arena.

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B2B Marketing B2C Community 92

NZ Entrepreneur

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Who: Magnify Consulting What: Sales strategy, CRM, outsourced, tradeshows NZ HQ: Wellington Who do you work with and what key challenges do you help them solve? At Magnify, we help founders of SMEs to grow a healthy sales pipeline without the risk of hiring. Sales strategy + sales process Get set up for sales success.

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Technical Review Sales Cycle B2B Sales 52

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. digital ad spend went to video.

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Video B2B Technical Review Campaign 129

VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

Generalizable robotics represent a $24 trillion-plus global revenue opportunity. Electric Vehicles – Lower battery costs powering adoption mean EV sales could reach 74 million in 2030. Reusable Rockets – Satellite connectivity revenues could exceed $130bn per year in 2030. trillion by 2030.

Artificial Inteligence 176

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Software Review Generative AI 176

The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

She realised the revenue operations market was booming, especially within the tech industry, and therefore wanted to explore what is largely an untapped market within the UK and Europe. RevOps, or “Revenue Operations”, is a B2B function that uses automation to help teams make the right decisions to grow their business.

Congo 158

Congo Technical Review Africa Netherlands 158

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 22, 2014

A total of 30 per cent of business-to-business (B2B) invoices issued to foreign companies were paid late and 6.5 credit terms), a rise in daily sales outstanding, or DSO, affects the cash flows of local businesses. credit terms), a rise in daily sales outstanding, or DSO, affects the cash flows of local businesses.

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Singapore Asia Management China 191

ConversionXL

JUNE 8, 2017

If you are in B2B, you’ve certainly heard of account-based marketing by now. It is about focusing your marketing efforts on a few select companies that could represent huge revenue streams. These three guidelines are recency, frequency and unit of sale. […]. Firmographics. New visitor vs returning visitor. Image Source.

Programming 97

Programming Revenue Analytics Software Review 97

Mucker Lab

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Sales development is a nuanced blend of art and science, requiring a delicate balance for its effective implementation within a company. Drawing from substantial experience, Sally Duby from The Bridge Group provides valuable insights into the intricate realm of sales development. Sally's wisdom sheds light on this dilemma.

Early Stage 78

Early Stage Sales Developer Development Team Review 78

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Align better with your sales team to define what a qualified lead looks like. Build automated workflows to move customers through the sales funnel . Lead scoring, win probability, and automation will make landing sales easier than ever. It’s our sales pipeline. Improve conversion rates and ROI . It’s our CRM system.

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Marketing SMS Campaign Channel 179

ConversionXL

MARCH 20, 2019

Deliver tailored marketing and sales messaging to those people. Pilot programs refine the process—and your target list—while (hopefully) demonstrating enough ROI to earn buy-in from marketing, sales, and executives. The analytics portal syncs with independent CRMs to wed engagement and sales data. Sales enablement.

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Software Review Software Marketing IP 117

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Your goal was to preserve your cash while you turned these guesses into facts and searched for a repeatable and scalable sales model. A Progress Graph on the right visually shows how far you’ve come (in whatever units of goodness you’re tracking – revenue, units, users, etc.) Get back up and running.

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Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 270

David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

So you’re interested in raising capital from a Revenue-Based Investor VC. A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors (“RBI”) are emerging. For background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control. Investment Criteria: B2B SaaS or tech-enabled services with proven, recurring contracts.

Revenue 60

Revenue Technical Review Software Review Equity 60

Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 19, 2025

How to Outrank Big Competitors in Search written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with Sam Dunning In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interviewed Sam Dunning, founder of Breaking B2B, an SEO firm specializing in SEO for revenuenot vanity metrics. So Sam, welcome to the show.

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Search SEO Technical Review ChatGPT 44

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

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. Today, Grizzle is a full-service content marketing and SEO agency that provides B2B and SaaS companies end-to-end services. Most B2B buyers know this. Image source ).

PR 120

PR B2B Lean Audience 120

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 16, 2024

It’s particularly interesting to think about voice AI in terms of the tech stack needed to build the voice engines, but note that the application layer (for both B2B and B2C apps) sits on top of the tech stack doesn’t require to build the full infrastructure. Virtual employees for hire.

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Vertical Generative AI B2C CTO Hire 170

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

This is a logical thing to do… when we started LinkedIn, my mentor Reid Hoffman instilled a mantra of Growth –> Usage –> Revenue which still holds for many consumer companies. But B2B startups need to take a different tack. Arguably revenue is the best signal of product-market fit for B2B startups.

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Revenue Product B2B Marketing 234

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 8, 2021

In most cases, it includes: Salaries of sales and marketing teams Advertising spend on acquiring new customers (Search/Display Ads, Social Ads, Sponsorship, etc.) Cost of software/hardware used in sales and marketing Agency, PR, or any third-party costs involved in sales and marketing. LTV explains how much a customer is worth.

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Acquisition Churn Rate Cost Customer 135

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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eCommerce Technical Review Software Review Analytics 185