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How do you find B2B customers?  1/2

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Leverage your network. This is particularly valuable for founders who are building a product based on their own past experience.

Cold calling (or showing up in person). Knock on doors, make phone calls. You have to get used to hearing “no”, but you’d be surprised how often you can get people to try your product once you have a personal connection. A big advantage of paid digital is that you get results immediately.

Paid digital. Facebook and Google make up 90%+ of all new online ad spend these 2 channels are generally the best place to start testing online advertising

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When do you use which channels?

For Incubation…

In this stage, you’ll be doing a lot of manual outreach to get your first paying customers, and improving the product based on feedback. The channels above most often used in this stage are leveraging your network, cold calling, cold email/LinkedIn outreach,...

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For Scaling…

Paid digital, paid physical and content/SEO are the three channels that offer the greatest scale for B2B companies. If you build a strong sales team, cold email and cold calling can both scale, but this involves building out a serious sales organization.

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What kind of marketing messaging should you use?

What kind of marketing messaging should you use?

Generally, if you’re targeting companies with 10 or fewer employees, use ad messaging that directly promotes your product.

For any kind of ad you build, use the SUCCESS framework.

If you’re targeting companies with 10-10,000+ employees, use marketing messaging that promotes resources...

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How do you build your sales funnel?

How do you build your sales funnel?

  • Create an automated sales nurture flow that comes from a sales account.
  • Create a marketing nurture funnel – usually with email – for p...

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How should you calculate and use the ROI of your marketing budget?

How should you calculate and use the ROI of your marketing budget?

  • Lifetime value – Most people do this by calculating out monthly churn (how many customers leave every month) and using that to determine how long customers will keep paying for your product.
  • Cost of your sales team – Some B2B products require extensive human engagement. In such cases...

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Success is rooted in growing lifetime value through retention and margin, maximizing funnel conversion to efficiently convert leads to customers, and finding repeatable tactics

TYLER ELLISTON, KEVIN BARRY

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What growth stage is your B2B startup?

What growth stage is your B2B startup?

Incubation: build your minimum viable product (MVP) in close partnership with potential customers to ensure you are solving a real problem with a credible solution.

Iteration: have customers using your MVP and are rapidly improving the product. Success at this stage is roo...

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B2B customer acquisition tactics 2/2

B2B customer acquisition tactics 2/2

Paid physical. It’s more expensive to get in front of each person, but you can choose exactly who gets your mail so you only show up in front of people who qualify for and want your product.

Events. For almost any industry, there are events and trade shows ...

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For Iteration…

In this stage, you want to get more strangers outside of your network and social circles to try your product.

This means an expanded focus on cold calling, email, and outreach. It also means you can start paid digital ads on Facebook and Google. This will help you learn more about what mess...

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