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Learning Styles: The Impact on Marketing Messaging

ConversionXL

Client education is central to marketing messaging, too, especially for sellers with long sales cycles. Focus offline conversations on high-value points of differentiation. The same is true in marketing, especially for companies with long sales cycles. Their sales page speaks directly to practitioners.

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Ecommerce Content Marketing: Attract, Engage, Close, and Delight Buyers

ConversionXL

Further, you’ll never develop a brand that differentiates your products—your site will be just one more faceless ecommerce seller. Census data , data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , IMDB , Baseball Reference , and dozens of other publicly available sources provide millions of free data points. Image source ).

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Demand Generation: 7 Tactics to Fuel Your Funnel

ConversionXL

More than two-thirds of buyers have researched your solution (and others’) before talking to sales. Plus, 60% prefer not to interact with sales reps at all. To fuel your pipeline and shorten the sales cycle , you have to create demand naturally. Sales are less likely to be forced with outbound methods.

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Account-Based Marketing Software & Tools

ConversionXL

Demandbase cross-references its database to find companies that are a good fit. target account marketing in B2B segment,” wrote one user ), MRP has tried to differentiate based on how it selects and delivers ad content. Image source ). ABM software like Demandbase goes beyond demographic, firmographic, or psychographic data.

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Why an investor rejection isn't a knock on you

Hippoland

Unless you have a differentiated angle / approach to the problem AND/OR significant traction, an investor won’t be able to understand why you stand out and why to back your horse instead of someone else’s. Note: by differentiation, I’m not talking about product or feature differentiation but outcome differentiation.

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Thoughts from a recent CIO dinner

BeyondVC

On the other hand if you deliver on your promises and have a great base of early reference customers, it will pay huge dividends. So lesson #1 is while it is always hard to land your first financial services customer, remember not to screw it up because if you do everyone will know. This takes time but can be doable.

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How to Systematically Build Personal Brand Authority

Duct Tape Marketing

Now, don’t take the word authority to mean fame or notoriety – it’s really more about possessing person power – the kind that can attract new business, create more opportunities and drastically shorten sales cycles. You must be willing to turn your way into THE way! Build Your Authority Journey.