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Pricing determines your business

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Consider the consequences of these monthly pricing possibilities: $0/mo means your goal is to maximize growth (trust and usage) instead of revenue. This is often B2C because the value is in quantity of customers, and there’s 100x more consumers than businesses. $1/mo simple enough to be self-service). This is a hard slog.

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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. To do that, we built a demand funnel that took us from nothing to 44X revenue growth in a single year. Honorable mention: The DemandGen Framework.

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LinkedIn Video Ads: Relevance, Specs, and Use Cases

ConversionXL

The strategy, according to Google, improves ad recall (and, undoubtedly, YouTube revenues). Nielsen data on a B2C campaign found that native ads are more effective in driving “brand consideration”: ( Image source ). Compared to the B2C world, B2B attribution faces two challenges: Sales often take place offline.

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How These Brothers Went from Hip-Hop Duo to Transforming the World of B2B Sales

ReadWriteStart

There are thousands of sales tools that focus on making life easier for the sales team—yet none built with the buying experience in mind. This is the perfect example of how sales aren’t truly focused on the most important person in the sales cycle: the buyer! Q: How will B2B sales evolve in the future? .

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Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition | For Entrepreneurs

www.forentrepreneurs.com

A quick look around all the B2C startups shows that, although viral growth is often hoped for, in reality it is extremely rare. It appears that LTV should be about 3 x CAC for a viable SaaS or other form of recurring revenue model. These techniques are frequently referred to as the Low Cost Sales model, or as Sales 2.0.

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The Benefits of Starting a B2B Company Right Now

The Startup Magazine

This ongoing demand can mean smoother sailing for your B2B startup revenue stream—it’s like having a stability ball in the rocky gym of business! So, while you might have fewer clients than a B2C business , each client can potentially contribute a much larger chunk to your bottom line. B2B customers, however, are a different breed.

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Cracking The Code: The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008.

Cracking the Code

Be prepared to cross the desert - SaaS requires R&D and sales expense up front for a multi-year stream of revenue, so it demands enough investment capital to fund 4+ years of runway. Farming is also often overlooked, but can help grow customer accounts and revenues from 30% upwards (if successful). Great list!