Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

While big ticket products might carry longer and more complex sales cycles, high-end buyers are just as lazy as the rest of us, so they use the same methods: Google, social media, and yes, their inboxes. Step 2: Determine your targets’ revenue floor and ceiling. How can you estimate total yearly revenues if they’re not public?

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 20, 2021

In 2006, I joined Yelp as employee #20 when the company had $1M in annual revenue. It can also rapidly iterate your sales motion, build your sales team, help you win deals, and grow revenue more quickly. When contacting references, ask for five minutes later that day vs. scheduling the call for days out.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 10, 2017

Including a location reference in the subject line. Segment based on stage of the sales cycle. The improvements in Segment #2 might have brought you more sales and increased your revenue too. Personalization comes in many forms… Including a first name in the subject line. Segment based on activity.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 12, 2017

The more mature and visual your product, and the better your customer reference base, the less need there is to propose a baby step. Is third-year revenue of $10M good or bad? That may be a pilot project, a discovery phase of consulting, a geographically constrained roll-out, or some other easily digestible starting point.

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Term Sheet Technical Review Due Diligence Merger 48

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

endeve – Issue invoices, manage clients and check revenues all in one place. Bootstrap – Online bookkeeping software that lets you track sales and expenses, organize your records for tax time, and more. It also allows you to track who referred which client and why. Track leads and manage your sales pipeline.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 13, 2015

Average Revenue Per Customer. Customers that converted in the last year that had a sales cycle of less than x weeks. Customers that converted in the last year that have been a reference for us at least twice” Cohort Analysis for CRO. Total Customers. You can’t learn much from the above table. Acquisition Efficiency.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

It’s an old maxim we’ve heard repeated since time immemorial—in reference to, it seems, just about every business under the sun. But at the end of the day, do better relationships actually translate into revenues? “Relationships matter in this business.”.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 8, 2015

This is referred to as a split-path test or alternative path test. A very large customer I worked with had a very strong inverse correlation between the pages a user viewed and the revenue they spent (more pages meant more money). In addition, mind your sales cycles and your churn later on down the line with either path.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 5, 2023

You know, is there a place for what people might refer to as brand advertising or you know, long sale cycle trust building type of advertising as opposed to, you know, how do I get today's dollars? What, how much are you spending on ads in total as a percentage of total top line revenue?

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Being enterprise scale means that your representatives have regular dialogue at CXO or at least VP level with Global 2000 accounts are they are bringing in millions of revenue from those accounts every year. You have to do this; addressing real customer needs releases revenue dollars that you need to survive.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 11, 2022

Frankly, most of the people that get referred to me are much closer to my ideal customer because my ideal customer is the one referring them. Shorten the sales cycle A strong referral program can significantly shorten the sales cycle. Referrals are invaluable to any business.

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NZ Entrepreneur

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

It’s a fresh new year but you’ll need to take decisive action to grow your revenue. Here are three key things you can do at the beginning of each year to get your sales rolling. One – Analyse your sales data. Length of sales cycle? Average cost of sale? Were they referred to you? If so, who by?

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 16, 2012

Before you launch a business or product test your assumptions – test your packaging, pricing, bundling, message, products, services, branding, revenue streams and business model with some segment of your market and pay attention. Build a sales action process. Test and evolve.

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Tim Keane

APRIL 14, 2008

Now, as their revenue grows substantially, its time to make the shift toward a more quantitative management environment. Can we, in short, develop knowledge that other competitors do not have to reduce our sales cycle and increase results? Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Are You Ready to be Quantitative?

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Hippoland

AUGUST 16, 2018

But outcome-differentiation is probably lacking – people who use Mailchimp use it to increase revenue by selling more products / services via their emails. 3) Your business model seems flawed OR is not the right fit I talked a lot about unit economics and sales cycles in my last post. That’s a feature difference.

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Hippoland

AUGUST 16, 2018

But outcome-differentiation is probably lacking – people who use Mailchimp use it to increase revenue by selling more products / services via their emails. 3) Your business model seems flawed OR is not the right fit I talked a lot about unit economics and sales cycles in my last post. That’s a feature difference.

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Sales Cycle Differentiation Early Stage Bootstrapping 48

ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

Marketers raise brand awareness to capture leads that are handed to sales teams to convert into customers. DGMs see that demand is maintained throughout the sales cycle. 70% of buyers are already clued up on a product before they talk to sales, if they talk to sales at all. Use screenshots and numbers (e.g.,

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

For more on the topic of Viral Growth, refer to my blog post on that topic here.) Far more common is a need to acquire customers through a series of steps like SEO, SEM, PR, Social Marketing, direct sales, channel sales, etc. It appears that LTV should be about 3 x CAC for a viable SaaS or other form of recurring revenue model.

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 18, 2023

Forget ABC ( always being closed , for all of those who aren’t familiar with The Boiler Room reference.) Sales are not the end of your interaction. We all love the bottom line, but if you want to build a sustainable small business, we can’t simply process customers through a sales cycle. Know your customer.

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www.rocketwatcher.com

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

A good set of metrics will allow me to predict that if I spend $1 on a certain marketing tactic, I’m likely to get $X of revenue in Y days. A good set of metrics will also give you a feel for inside and outside sales effectiveness and overall sales pipeline velocity as well.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2018

mobile is ~50% of revenue, shorter form works better. Flip your funnel – only 5% of revenue comes from optimisation but 92% of revenue from retention. Virality: # of users that refer your product for you: exponential growth if your K factor is greater than 1. Friends referring friends. sub-headline with CTA.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 5, 2016

Most businesses rely on referrals, but few track, analyze or even amplify that fact that they are quite referable. Sales – Your sales dashboard is how you keep track of your sales pipeline elements of the marketing hourglass. Typical sales dashboard metrics include: Leads. Sales cycle. New customers.

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ConversionXL

MAY 8, 2019

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. Designed to collect email addresses, downloadable content is more common in B2B, which has longer sales cycles and a more complex buying process.

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ConversionXL

MAY 30, 2017

When they complete the payment, they are referred back to your website. Ideally, you’ll wait for a month to get at least one well-rounded sales cycle to use as a baseline. With an average order value per customer of $224 USD, this could increase revenue by $74,000 a month. The result? The solution to this issue is simple.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Out of that result, we created a client with more than €5 million in revenue.” That person referred us to a former employee there who had just returned to big company life. We got a great reference, so the sales cycle was extremely short, maybe one call and one email. Some are still online today.)

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BeyondVC

DECEMBER 15, 2005

On the other hand if you deliver on your promises and have a great base of early reference customers, it will pay huge dividends. Lesson #3, if you sell into a large financial services player, either be well networked, come in through a partner, enter from the bottom up, or go to revenue generating groups with money and buying power.

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BeyondVC

DECEMBER 15, 2005

On the other hand if you deliver on your promises and have a great base of early reference customers, it will pay huge dividends. Lesson #3, if you sell into a large financial services player, either be well networked, come in through a partner, enter from the bottom up, or go to revenue generating groups with money and buying power.

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Advisory Board New York Dividend Sales Cycle 60

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 9, 2013

On the other hand, if you sold something like gifts for geeks, the sales cycle would be shorter, and the bulk of your emotion and “personality” could be communicated visually through bold images and nifty font choices. Emotional Design Influences Sales. Overall, the campaign would involve a lot of text. image source.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Out of that result, we created a client with more than €5 million in revenue.” That person referred us to a former employee there who had just returned to big company life. We got a great reference, so the sales cycle was extremely short, maybe one call and one email. Some are still online today.)

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