B2C Metrics Sales Cycle 
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. Our next step was to adapt the funnel to fit our marketing automation platform and sales processes. Lesson 2: Make your funnel airtight. Conclusion.
ConversionXL
MARCH 6, 2019
LinkedIn video ads: tech specs, targeting, metrics, and cost. Nielsen data on a B2C campaign found that native ads are more effective in driving “brand consideration”: ( Image source ). LinkedIn video ad metrics. Compared to the B2C world, B2B attribution faces two challenges: Sales often take place offline.
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ConversionXL
NOVEMBER 3, 2016
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. There are a few things that make optimizing for B2B a different beast: The sales cycle is usually longer.
ConversionXL
MAY 1, 2019
Trend lines aren’t impressive if they track metrics that appear distant from business goals. Client education is central to marketing messaging, too, especially for sellers with long sales cycles. The same is true in marketing, especially for companies with long sales cycles. Most consideration takes place offline.
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. Metric Unremarkable Good Excellent Outlier ARR <$500k $500k-$1.5m $1.5m-$2.5m >$2.5m
View from Seed
MARCH 3, 2015
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. EM: My rule of thumb is to look at the length of the sales cycle. Some startups have really long sales cycles. Some have short, more transactional cycles. Where do you start?
www.forentrepreneurs.com
FEBRUARY 2, 2010
Business model viability, in the majority of startups, will come down to balancing two variables: Cost to Acquire Customers (CAC) The ability to monetize those customers, or LTV (which stands for Lifetime Value of a Customer) Successful web businesses have long understood these metrics as they have such an easy way to measure them.
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