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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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

DocuSign combines both to fuel its sales funnel. It flips the traditional sales funnel on its head, ditching the one-size-fits-all approach to marketing in favor of a land-and-expand approach. This required complete alignment across marketing and sales teams to engage, then close the deal. The result?

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

70% of buyers have done their research before they talk to sales, and 60% of buyers prefer not to talk to sales teams at all. In this article, you’ll learn how to use demand to fuel your sales funnel, build relationships, and grow your business. It aims to fuel your sales pipeline , shorten the sales cycle, and generate revenue.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

We grew up in the senior living industry, and we both started at the single community location. I was in sales and marketing, and Andrea was in operations and dementia care. And before starting Senior Living Smart, I was a national VP of sales and marketing for Five Star, which was the fifth largest senior living company.

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

Without awareness and leads, you’re missing out on opportunities to close sales and grow your business. The information needed to make decisions is all around them: in their communities, at events, and at the end of a Google search. This has changed how buyers interact with sales. The impact of this?

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 30, 2022

Face-to-face engagement is important, especially at vital points in the sales cycle or while creating relationships. Business leaders are rethinking how frequently they plan face-to-face meetings and when they can successfully use technology to communicate with customers. . #21- 21- Make more money from sales.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 7, 2022

This is due to factors such as maturity, sales cycle, product value, purchase frequency, and customer lifespan. Total marketing spend in Q1 + total sales spend in Q1 / Number of new customers in Q1 = CAC in Q1. 7,000) Total marketing spend + total sales spend / (500) new customers = $14 per customer. .

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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. I know this language sounds formal and stuffy, but high-ticket service sales cycles are long. Bonus points if you can create a community that brings them together.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Earlier this year, I was on a panel with Guy Podjarny, Snyk’s founder, at SaaStock Remote to discuss how the team’s community-driven freemium approach led to the company’s stellar growth. With COVID, we’re getting into a world with tighter budgets and likely longer sales cycles. How did you define this threshold for Snyk?

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 23, 2019

From tips on international expansion strategies to using XR as a musical instrument, these sessions at Capital Factory showcased some amazing innovation in Austin’s startup community. Whether you’re an experienced entrepreneur or just recently entered the tech community, keep up with our events throughout the year at Capital Factory!

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 14, 2010

You have some sales waiting for you once you push the bits to your server. This first group of prospects is a critical source of early sales. You email everyone you know, flex your networking muscles, issue a press release, and end the day with three sales at $20 each. Suddenly things don’t look so bleak. 7 DH on 10.14.10

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 29, 2014

Vimeo serves a similar purpose as YouTube, but since it has less traffic and has a smaller, more loyal community, companies are able to target a higher quality audience. Getting that personal connection with an interested customer is key in moving them along in the sales cycle.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Think back to a sales situation with a friend of a friend, one where you started with a huge trust advantage: how much smoother and faster was the process? In which verticals do you experience smooth, seamless sales processes, instead of arduous uphill battles? What if you could replicate that dynamic on a much larger digital scale?

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Austin Startup

APRIL 17, 2017

Internship Title: Business Development Intern Compensation: Paid — $10/hr Description: The Business Development Intern will assist the Sales Team in Prospecting, Outreach and Qualifying leads, and work directly with the Business Development Manager. This position will provide sales, negotiation, CRM and inbound/outbound outreach experience.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 5, 2014

This helps eliminate long sales cycles and unwieldy onboarding processes at a time when you need immediate results. You need to make sure you’re part of the community.”. Share with the community and potential customers! Find the customers who need you now. Identify your barriers. Share your success and be proactive.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Selling has always required dexterity, and successful sales professionals have always practiced this, but today’s sales environment demands that a sales professional also develop and practice disciplines more closely aligned with traditional marketing and customer service practices in addition to becoming an educator in the sales process.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

A finalist in Hyper-Connected Communities , which will pitch at 5 pm Saturday, March 9, UbiGro is a nanotech-enabled greenhouse film by UbiQD, Inc. I truly believe this is the year where quantum dots make a name for themselves in agriculture, and so its about marketing, sales, manufacturing, and generally about traction in the market.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Readers of this blog are aware of my research in this space, which centres on the ability of creators (experts, hobbyists, influencers, etc) who create various formats of content (courses, videos, streams, newsletters, etc) and build an engaged community around their areas of passion and monetise them.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

One of the most important factors is timing of marketing and sales outreach. At OptifiNow we have created the following tips businesses can use to improve the timing of sales outreach to boost results: 1. Analyze current sales outreach timing. Organize sales collateral. Begin building the master sales calendar.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 28, 2024

This rational buying process can lead to more predictable sales cycles and less whimsical decision-making from your clientele. These ongoing relationships not only provide consistent revenue but also reduce marketing and sales costs over time. B2B customers, however, are a different breed.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 13, 2012

That's why Sherbrooke and Benchmark just put $8mm into Farmingo , to support these food communities via social software. Even if you're not a part of a food community, you could be buying a lot more local than you think. A Brightfarms investor is counting on economics and sales cycles that will look enterprisey.

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Rob Go

JANUARY 10, 2017

The most obvious candidates of this sort are the folks who started or led community organizations focused on startups and their respective tech communities. Timing is pretty unpredictable, and it’s a long sales cycle.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 4, 2015

We often hear from business owners that the user experience of their website comes secondary to their bottom line, which is to simply have a digital presence so that they can increase online sales. They don’t know how to justify the ROI of an experience.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 24, 2011

They'll usually speak for free if it means helping out their local developer community with best practices. You can do the same with tips on selling from your VP of Sales, or a bold statement on a blog post like "All sales will be virtual by 2015" in order to bring the community out of the woodwork.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 15, 2016

You have to invest time and money into building a sales and marketing team to acquire customers beyond early adopters. To begin with, let’s illustrate the sales process with a simple graphic of the funnel that comes from an excellent post on Stratechery about marketing channels. sales or support). Use the right tools.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

Account-based marketing (ABM) accounted for 79% of all sales opportunities in 2020. How iRidium used audience targeting, networking, and activation to land 34 new sales opportunities. Qualitative-first: Aligning sales and marketing for a comprehensive audience profile. Results of iRidium’s ABM efforts.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 8, 2014

Today networking is building stakeholder maps as a way to shorten sales cycles. As he shares in our interview this book and his Cadre community were born out of frustration with having spent thousands of fruitless hours attending traditional networking events.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 29, 2024

There’s simply no better way to attract your ideal clients, shorten your sales process, command premium fees, and dramatically increase customer lifetime value. Building in a referral ask during your sales process is also extremely effective. Invite a mix of your clients, partners and prospects.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 8, 2022

If we tap into those preferences and adapt our communication to suit their needs, we can form better. connections and benefit from quicker sales cycles and more opportunities. And it is for this reason that we have spent most of our time creating value in the local communities that we serve. Photo Credit: Sammy Shayne.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 25, 2013

There are a lot of niche communities where you might find a plethora of people interested in your specific product or service. And when the timing is right, you can later join in the conversation or carry out a marketing campaign in that specific community. Find Your Audience. You have to take the time to listen first though.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 11, 2022

Running a business is hard But with a good referral program it doesn't have to be As a small business owner you are probably thinking about helping your current customer or trying to figure out how to increase sales. Shorten the sales cycle A strong referral program can significantly shorten the sales cycle.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 11, 2012

I believe that one of the master skills of any marketer, manager, or educator is the ability to listen perceptively to what our prospects, customers, staff and community members are saying. Somewhere along the line we get so consciously competent at hearing that we no longer feel the need to listen. So, what is perceptive listening?

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 19, 2023

Asking for reviews and feedback is a powerful way to enhance your offerings and pivot where required in order to serve your business community on a deeper level. You want them to feel welcome and create a sale, correct? Client satisfaction occurs during and after the sale. Everyone likes to be seen.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 30, 2025

It gives people, I don't want to say a safety net, but you're working with a community of other people around you that are also building their businesses with you, and then a corporate parent that John Jantsch (03:06.285) Yeah, yeah. That is opposed to 76 % for the two year success rate for just an independent business. That's 60 to 90 days.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The larger the company, the more they’ll separate out business development and sales, with business development focused primarily on lead generation and sales focused on sealing the actual sale of the product or service. Sales roles : The sales cycle is similar to the recruitment cycle of a source.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2019

A lot of high-level trends are being incorporated in builder communities, which isn’t a new occurrence. Visualization technology is destined to dramatically change and streamline new construction builds by eliminating hours upon hours in the sales cycle and time spent in design centers.

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