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Your B2B Demand Generation Funnel: How to Create One and Mistakes to Avoid

ConversionXL

However, due to B2B market saturation, customer acquisition costs are rising ; this digital marketing strategy of giving a little and getting a lot no longer works. While they’re helpful for sales reps, they can be dangerous for B2B marketers because they can make you think you’re doing research when you’re not.

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Startup CTO Speaking

SoCal CTO

Many of the factors are not obvious and include building mystery to drive margin, why boring B2B companies often win but are challenging in other ways, how bootstrapping wins, integrating metrics from the start and many other similar lessons. What is our viral spread coefficient? What does it cost to acquire a new customer?

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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? These acts can often be start of a viral growth curve in the enterprise. Enterprise products that present a high-value daily utility for the people involved can have a high virality potential. Sell to few”: Traditional enterprise sales.

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

VC Cafe

Commoditisation of AI Features: this is frankly also a challenge for B2B startups. At Remagine Ventures , about half of our investments are in B2C startups and even when we invest in B2B it’s largely in consumer areas like gaming, commerce, search, creator economy etc. 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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Pricing determines your business

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

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 Also this is almost exclusively B2B unless it’s something “luxury.” simple enough to be self-service). Think: GoDaddy).

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What did they do before you came along?

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Pet owners who like the cards will look on the back to see how to order some of their own, and suddenly you have a viral marketing campaign that cost you lots of initial legwork calling vets but not a lot of money. Working the pain in B2B.