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Top Hat Raises $22.5M Series C in a Tough Vertical: What Can We Learn from their Success

Version One Ventures

Generally speaking, Ed Tech has proven to be a tough vertical, primarily due to the fact that it’s hard to charge consumers (students) directly. And selling to institutions requires a long sales cycle. So Top Hat decided to flip their sales strategy and market/sell directly to university students and teachers.

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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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How to Craft (Or Pivot) Your Agency Value Proposition

ConversionXL

I know this language sounds formal and stuffy, but high-ticket service sales cycles are long. Choose to expand vertically or horizontally. For ambitious agencies, taking an MVP approach can unlock incredibly lucrative revenue streams. For us, that priority was the sales pipeline. Most B2B buyers know this.

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The Modern Approach To Account Based Marketing

ConversionXL

That’s a high level view, now let’s walk through an example scenario for each: Most B2B sales cycles are account-based and not end-user-based. Borrowing from the example above—with SMB buying cycles, the customer worth is lower & the complexity & requirements aren’t sophisticated. ABM Technologies Landscape.

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Finding new Market Opportunities in Food Business: A Case Study of GOPA Pakistan

Where to Play

Most of their business growth was vertical by focusing on food, tentage, and decoration for marrying couples and their families. Time to revenue is low due to short transactional volume and the short sale cycle. This opportunity has a short sale cycle with quick payments. The sale cycle with Govt.

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Effective Ways To Differentiate And Scale Your Business

Duct Tape Marketing

And the length of the sales cycle, especially with the assisted living, has increased their sales cycle by about 36%. Then I want to talk to you about adding a new revenue stream to your business that will completely change how you work with clients. But we double in size every year in terms of revenue.

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Critical Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for Founders

Up and Running

Revenue growth rate: measures the month-over-month percentage increase in revenue and is the most common and important metric for startups. Monthly recurring revenue (MRR): an indicator of the health of the company, it shows how successful your business is at growing its customer base and retaining customers.

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