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7 Key Factors Obscure Your Customer Acquisition Costs

Startup Professionals Musings

As I recently watched an episode of “ Shark Tank ,” I realized that the shark investors focus on your responses to these questions is also a credibility test on your business savvy, as it leads to other relevant questions on margins, channels, and your understanding of key customer forces. Outside partners and channel impacts are complex.

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Speed up your slow sales cycle

NZ Entrepreneur

Has your sales cycle lengthened? Here are five simple ways to help speed up your slow sales cycle. You can research them for yourself using LinkedIn and the internet. Four Commit to disciplined follow up Follow up happens across all channels where you encounter your buyer. Youre not alone. No problem.

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A new field guide for entrepreneurs of all stripes

Startup Lessons Learned

What are the value propositions, benefits and the messaging (bait), the pricing structure and channels (tackle), and length of sales cycle (how likely a fish will snap your line)? Or will you need to staff and finance a whaling ship to be out at sea for months at a time to catch two or three whales (enterprise sales model)?

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B2B Ecommerce Sites: What Works for B2B Buyers?

ConversionXL

B2B buyers have two key differences that impact marketing and website design choices: A more complex sales cycle; Niche targeting. A more complex sales cycle. B2B sales cycles can last for months, even more than a year. Now, however, more new business flows through search and other channels.

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LinkedIn Video Ads: Relevance, Specs, and Use Cases

ConversionXL

The same video content likely works well in other channels. Those ad-specific stats pair with the ongoing shift toward video as the primary medium on the Internet. Cisco’s VNI forecast estimates that 82% of all Internet traffic will be video in 2022. The sales cycle may last for months, or more than a year.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

Because they have no presence in the market, they have to find distribution channels to bring in customers. Then we could focus on standardizing a product that could have an automated sales cycle online. Instead, each potential customer has to go through a self-serve process of signing up and paying money. Fantastic post.

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5 Lead Generation Avenues You May Never Have Thought Of

YoungUpstarts

The Internet is a powerful channel that continuously develops the way people connect with brands, products, and services. In the age where the Internet is in full swing and people’s attention spans are slim to none, it’s important to ensure that your brand sticks out from the pack. by Frank E.