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Bootstrapping Relevance: Making Web Conversions Meaningful for Long Sales Cycles

ConversionXL

Often, little more than a form fill tells you about the potential for a five-figure sale months down the road. Google Analytics insights frequently end with raw counts of goal completions, leaving a yawning gap between on-site behavior and sales for companies with long sales cycles. Analyze and act on that data.

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How to Create a Demand Funnel (for 44X Revenue)

ConversionXL

To do that, we built a demand funnel that took us from nothing to 44X revenue growth in a single year. That difference cascades down the funnel, allowing you to track the ROI of your lead sources between inbound and outbound campaigns—all the way through to revenue. Here are the three lessons we learned along the way. Image source ).

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7 Key Factors Obscure Your Customer Acquisition Costs

Startup Professionals Musings

In addition, research shows that companies that fail to align their marketing and sales departments have less ROI, and lose 10% or more of their revenues per year. Long sales cycles obscure beginning and end of costs. More empowered buyers have resulted in longer sales cycles.

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Common B2B Challenges and How To Solve Them

ConversionXL

From long sales cycles to trying to stand out from the sea of sameness, B2B companies face an uphill battle from the start. I recently surveyed and interviewed over 200+ B2B executives, marketing & sales leaders to find out exactly what challenges they currently face and what they are doing to overcome them.

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Why Hire a Fractional CMO in the Early Days of Your B2B Startup

The Startup Magazine

Such a dual approach helps B2B startups generate new leads while building brand awareness and driving revenue growth right from the start. B2B companies often struggle with marketing due to complex buyer journeys, long sales cycles, and the need for highly targeted, personalized content. Why are CMOs paid so much salary?

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Confronting A Radically New B2B Marketplace: The Storytelling Secret That Will Rock Your Result

YoungUpstarts

A recent survey by CEB reported that 57 percent of the typical business-to-business sales cycle is complete before the buyer’s first contact with vendors. When FireEye became my client, their revenues were stalled in the low millions of dollars a year.

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Revenue Development

K9 Ventures

So the departments either didn’t have the capacity to pay or it would be an endless sales-cycle, where we would spend lots of time on the sales, but it still wouldn’t close. Over the course of that relationship that lasted several years, we did over $1M in revenue just from HP. This time we’d gotten it right.

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