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| b2b saas marketing budget: Modern B2B Marketing David Sweenor, Kalyan Ramanathan, 2023-05-21 There are untold resources on marketing and its different functions—brand marketing, content marketing, social media marketing, and more. However, throughout our combined fifty years in the field, we have failed to find a digestible book for business-to-business (B2B) marketing grounded in day-to-day realities that explains how various marketing functions fit together. This book provides practical explanations, advice, tips, and best practices on how B2B marketing actually works. Modern B2B Marketing: A Practitioner's Guide for Marketing Excellence is designed for anyone who leads, works, or engages with marketing. It’s for business leaders and chief marketing officers (CMOs) who want to learn how to sustain a high-performance marketing organization; for product managers and sales professionals who often work with marketing but don’t understand how it all fits together; and for marketers early in their careers who want to understand how B2B software marketing works outside of a classroom setting. This book is not about marketing technology or a rehash of the Pragmatic Marketing Framework. It is a practitioner's guidebook for effective, modern B2B marketing. Centered around a new model for modern marketing, Modern B2B Marketing is built around the customer. It provides an integrated framework and approach to marketing, including downloadable templates that will help you improve performance in portfolio and product marketing, content marketing, demand generation, marketing operations, customer advocacy, and more. If you want to gain a competitive advantage in today’s fast-paced digital world, this TinyTechGuide™ is for you! Remember, it’s not the tech that’s tiny, just the book!™ |
| b2b saas marketing budget: Post-Acquisition Marketing Shiv Narayanan, 2021-04-27 When you're acquired by Private Equity, the first one hundred days are critical. You need to grow revenue faster, be more profitable, and integrate additional companies, all while getting buy-in from investors. In this environment, ramping up your sales pipeline is a major component of meeting board expectations. In Post-Acquisition Marketing, Shiv Narayanan reveals how PE-backed companies can leverage marketing to scale faster and deliver on the investment thesis. With Shiv's proven framework, you'll learn exactly how to leverage data to secure a larger budget for marketing and drive more top-line revenue growth than ever before. |
| b2b saas marketing budget: T2D3 Stijn Hendrikse, 2021-10-19 A playbook for driving exponential growth after reaching Product-Market Fit. T2D3 is the playbook that B2B software companies use to get to $100 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR). Every investor wants to hit the next unicorn, but reaching that coveted $1B valuation in 5 years is challenging—and rare. Tripling your annual revenue for two years in a row only to double it three more years after that to reach $100M ARR doesn't happen by chance. Companies that follow this growth pattern share similar journeys that form the basis for this book. |
| b2b saas marketing budget: The Professional Marketer Tim Matthews, 2014-09-25 Distilled from a career in the marketing trenches, a complete guide to the essential skills every marketer needs to master. If you work as a marketer, or hope to become one, you have a lot to know. The Professional Marketer is your guide book. The Professional Marketer is organized into six sections, starting with marketing strategy, moving on to awareness, then to demand generation, working with direct sales and channel partners, and ending with concepts key to running a marketing department. Section 1 - Marketing Strategy and Science - Peter Drucker, The Four Ps, Ted Levitt, Crossing the Chasm; Positioning and the Brand; Market Segmentation; Marketing Planning Section 2 - Getting the Word Out - Public Relations; The Press Release; Social Media and WOM Marketing; Product Reviews, Case Studies, Awards, Studies/Surveys Section 3 - Building Demand - Direct Marketing; Marketing Lists and Databases; Leads Opportunities and the Funnel; Events; Advertising Section 4 - Arming Sales - The Website; Collateral and Other Assets; Speaking and Presentations; Sales Training and Enablement Section 5 - Marketing via Channels - Marketing and Selling through a Channel; Partner Programs Section 6 - Marketing Management - Test and Measure; Showing Results - ROMI, Dashboards and other Metrics; Marketing Budgets; The Marketing Department Each of the 23 chapters covers a key marketing discipline and is designed to be self-contained. Most include a case study. For the ambitious, it includes a reading list of the author's favorite works, and delves into marketing history to shed light on key ideas many marketers take for granted, like: * Who wrote the first press release? * Why do we call it 'boilerplate'? * Who held the first focus group? * Why are they called 'white papers'? * What's a 'tsotchke' and how do you pronounce it? Praise for The Professional Marketer No book I have ever read in 30 years as a marketer has so successfully woven the insights from masters - past and present - into such a readable, cohesive narrative. --Hugh Macfarlane, CEO of Math Marketing; Author The Leaky Funnel The Professional Marketer is a great tool for CMOs looking to equip their teams with the marketing strategies and techniques they need to win. Donovan Neale-May, Executive Director, CMO Council The Professional Marketer, which provides practical tools to help get things done, willbe an invaluable guide book for professionals who want to deliver under pressure. John Ellett, Author, The CMO Manifesto |
| b2b saas marketing budget: Startup CEO Matt Blumberg, 2020-08-04 You’re only a startup CEO once. Do it well with Startup CEO, a master class in building a business. —Dick Costolo, Former CEO, Twitter Being a startup CEO is a job like no other: it’s difficult, risky, stressful, lonely, and often learned through trial and error. As a startup CEO seeing things for the first time, you’re likely to make mistakes, fail, get things wrong, and feel like you don’t have any control over outcomes. Author Matt Blumberg has been there, and in Startup CEO he shares his experience, mistakes, and lessons learned as he guided Return Path from a handful of employees and no revenues to over $100 million in revenues and 500 employees. Startup CEO is not a memoir of Return Path's 20-year journey but a thoughtful CEO-focused book that provides first-time CEOs with advice, tools, and approaches for the situations that startup CEOs will face. You'll learn: How to tell your story to new hires, investors, and customers for greater alignment How to create a values-based culture for speed and engagement How to create business and personal operating systems so that you can balance your life and grow your company at the same time How to develop, lead, and leverage your board of directors for greater impact How to ensure that your company is bought, not sold, when you exit Startup CEO is the field guide every CEO needs throughout the growth of their company. |
| b2b saas marketing budget: The Complete Guide to B2B Marketing Kim Ann King, 2015-03-23 To succeed at B2B marketing today, you must excel across all areas: from getting your message out, to generating demand, to enabling sales teams. New technologies and new techniques make excellence possible. Now, top B2B marketer Kim Ann King brings together all the best practices and tools you need to make excellence real. In The Complete Guide to B2B Marketing, King helps you succeed by focusing on the three pillars of cutting-edge B2B marketing: automation, personalization, and experimentation. Drawing on her pioneering experience at companies like Akamai and Open Market, King shows how to: Systematically assess your context and customer, via personas, profiles, and other powerful techniques Choose among today's panoply of marketing options, tools, and techniques Build a more agile B2B marketing organization, and link its goals more tightly to strategy More accurately estimate marketing spend and ROI Systematically optimize demand generation and many other key functions Leverage higher-value approaches to web/mobile, SEO, and customer community-building Gain more value from corporate standards and your creative services vendors Discover what worked and what didn't, and use this knowledge to improve more quickly You'll find comprehensive, actionable resources, including best-practices checklists for every tactic, vendor checklists for evaluating new marketing technologies, a complete corporate marketing plan outline, and a start-to-finish marketing communications case study. If you're a B2B marketer, you'll find The Complete Guide to B2B Marketing invaluable – whatever your company's size, product, service, or industry. |
| b2b saas marketing budget: Crossing the Chasm Geoffrey A. Moore, 2009-03-17 Here is the bestselling guide that created a new game plan for marketing in high-tech industries. Crossing the Chasm has become the bible for bringing cutting-edge products to progressively larger markets. This edition provides new insights into the realities of high-tech marketing, with special emphasis on the Internet. It's essential reading for anyone with a stake in the world's most exciting marketplace. |
| b2b saas marketing budget: Traction Gabriel Weinberg, Justin Mares, 2015-10-06 Most startups don’t fail because they can’t build a product. Most startups fail because they can’t get traction. Startup advice tends to be a lot of platitudes repackaged with new buzzwords, but Traction is something else entirely. As Gabriel Weinberg and Justin Mares learned from their own experiences, building a successful company is hard. For every startup that grows to the point where it can go public or be profitably acquired, hundreds of others sputter and die. Smart entrepreneurs know that the key to success isn’t the originality of your offering, the brilliance of your team, or how much money you raise. It’s how consistently you can grow and acquire new customers (or, for a free service, users). That’s called traction, and it makes everything else easier—fund-raising, hiring, press, partnerships, acquisitions. Talk is cheap, but traction is hard evidence that you’re on the right path. Traction will teach you the nineteen channels you can use to build a customer base, and how to pick the right ones for your business. It draws on inter-views with more than forty successful founders, including Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia), Alexis Ohanian (reddit), Paul English (Kayak), and Dharmesh Shah (HubSpot). You’ll learn, for example, how to: ·Find and use offline ads and other channels your competitors probably aren’t using ·Get targeted media coverage that will help you reach more customers ·Boost the effectiveness of your email marketing campaigns by automating staggered sets of prompts and updates ·Improve your search engine rankings and advertising through online tools and research Weinberg and Mares know that there’s no one-size-fits-all solution; every startup faces unique challenges and will benefit from a blend of these nineteen traction channels. They offer a three-step framework (called Bullseye) to figure out which ones will work best for your business. But no matter how you apply them, the lessons and examples in Traction will help you create and sustain the growth your business desperately needs. |
| b2b saas marketing budget: Lean B2B Étienne Garbugli, 2022-03-22 Get from Idea to Product/Market Fit in B2B. The world has changed. Nowadays, there are more companies building B2B products than there’s ever been. Products are entering organizations top-down, middle-out, and bottom-up. Teams and managers control their budgets. Buyers have become savvier and more impatient. The case for the value of new innovations no longer needs to be made. Technology products get hired, and fired faster than ever before. The challenges have moved from building and validating products to gaining adoption in increasingly crowded and fragmented markets. This, requires a new playbook. The second edition of Lean B2B is the result of years of research into B2B entrepreneurship. It builds off the unique Lean B2B Methodology, which has already helped thousands of entrepreneurs and innovators around the world build successful businesses. In this new edition, you’ll learn: - Why companies seek out new products, and why they agree to buy from unproven vendors like startups - How to find early adopters, establish your credibility, and convince business stakeholders to work with you - What type of opportunities can increase the likelihood of building a product that finds adoption in businesses - How to learn from stakeholders, identify a great opportunity, and create a compelling value proposition - How to get initial validation, create a minimum viable product, and iterate until you're able to find product/market fit This second edition of Lean B2B will show you how to build the products that businesses need, want, buy, and adopt. |
| b2b saas marketing budget: B2B Marketing Toni J. Young, 2024-01-10 Welcome to a journey through the dynamic and ever-evolving world of B2B marketing. In this book, you delve deep into the strategies, tools, and insights that are reshaping how businesses connect, engage, and grow in the digital age. Whether you're a seasoned marketer, a business leader, or someone stepping into the vast universe of B2B marketing, this book is your compass to navigate the complex terrain of modern marketing practices. |
| b2b saas marketing budget: B2B Revenue NOW Atte Sallamo, 2024-02-07 This book holds the BLUEPRINT for that methodology I've used to deliver measurable revenue growth for numerous B2B businesses. This method has yielded Return on Investment ranging from 324%, to 647% in B2B ROI, all the way up to 900% and beyond in pure profit. What I am describing here is not an alien result, but one your B2B company gets to experience (and should expect) once you get in place this framework that awaits you inside these covers. The process: 1) Find your ideal high-value clients. 2) UNIFY & ALIGN your revenue operations. 3) EXECUTE! Conquer your B2B profit & REVENUE GOALS. The proof and power of this process you'll come to experience firsthand on your own company's balance sheet. How is this possible? In all simplicity, we focus on what matters. on those SPECIFIC revenue-critical actions that scale (80/20 principle in action). We amplify them to work in your favor! Identifying your high-value audience, aligning marketing & sales, data-driven leadership, and the Account-Based orchestration of it all. Once you'll come to graduate from this curriculum, your business has a crystal clear understanding on where to place the energy of your enterprise so it yields the kind of growth that others will envy. This we'll do together by hand-picking the correct alignment processes, leadership practices, and measurement models for your business from the basket that this book is. ...For growth happens when the conditions inside your company support it. That's when you'll conquer your quarterly goals, deliver on your OKRs, and provide measurable (and fresh) revenue inflows that land on the balance sheet fueling your entire business. LEARN ABOUT: Rev Ops roadmap, Team structure, & Leadership. |
| b2b saas marketing budget: Continuous Modernization Diego Pacheco, Sam Sgro, 2024-09-23 <b>Description</b><br> As an engineer, it can feel like there is never enough time for testing, designing, or delivering quality solutions. Managers often feel overwhelmed by the need to deliver new features to support their teams while managing vulnerabilities and security standards. Engineers often have to work with legacy systems and learn many new technologies simultaneously to be effective in their jobs. This book teaches you continuous modernization, a key skill for tackling modern and legacy software. By adopting the right mindset and techniques, you will improve systems and workflows, making everything more efficient over time.<br><br> Continuous modernization is your essential guide to updating old software systems into modern, efficient, and scalable applications. This book covers everything from changing your mindset and technical practices to business strategies and fostering a culture of innovation. It includes tips on unlearning outdated methods, embracing feedback, making smart decisions, ensuring stability, and applying modern design principles. With practical techniques and real-world examples, it provides the tools you need to modernize your software systems and achieve lasting success successfully.<br><br> By the end of this book, readers will master continuous modernization principles and practices. They will learn to spot areas needing improvement, create effective modernization strategies, and implement changes that boost value and efficiency. Additionally, they will understand how to build a culture of innovation and ongoing learning to keep their software systems up-to-date and competitive in a fast-changing tech world. <p></p> <b>Key Features</b><br> ● Develop the mindset to drive software success, delivering impactful changes with fewer resources.<br> ● Explore patterns and anti-patterns in technical architecture, team dynamics, troubleshooting, and design.<br> ● Gain insights on solving large-scale software modernization challenges, from culture to architecture. <p></p> <b>What you will learn</b><br/> ● Learn patterns, anti-patterns, and tools to improve software architecture decisions.<br> ● Eliminate limiting practices to improve development efficiency.<br> ● Apply disciplined feedback loops to refine architecture and design decisions.<br> ● Implement advanced troubleshooting techniques to prevent design flaws.<br> ● Continuously refactor systems and scale modernization efforts in distributed architectures. <p></p> <b>Who this book is for</b><br> Our book is for professionals in the field of computer science. It is for software architects, engineers, testers, managers, directors, and VPs. This is for individuals and teams who may or may not have a modernization project but care about improving individuals and systems daily. <p></p> <b>Table of Contents</b><br> 1. What is Continuous Modernization?<br> 2. Unlearning<br> 3. Discipline & Feedback <br> 4. Decisions & Tradeoffs<br> 5. Stability & Troubleshooting<br> 6. Opportunistic Design<br> 7. Continuous Refactoring<br> 8. The Art of Selling<br> 9. Effective Negotiation<br> 10. Culture Shift<br> 11. Epilogue |
| b2b saas marketing budget: Killing Marketing: How Innovative Businesses Are Turning Marketing Cost Into Profit Joe Pulizzi, Robert Rose, 2017-09-08 Killing your current marketing structure may be the only way to save it! Two of the world’s top marketing experts reveal the next level of breakthrough success—transforming your marketing strategy into a standalone profit center. What if everything we currently know about marketing is what is holding us back? Over the last two decades, we’ve watched the entire world change the way it buys and stays loyal to brands. But, marketing departments are still operating in the same, campaign-centric, product-led operation that they have been following for 75 years. The most innovative companies around the world have achieved remarkable marketing results by fundamentally changing their approach. By creating value for customers through the use of owned media and the savvy use of content, these businesses have dramatically increased customer loyalty and revenue. Some of them have even taken it to the next step and developed a marketing function that actually pays for itself. Killing Marketing explores how these companies are ending the marketing as we know it—in favor of this new, exciting model. Killing Marketing provides the insight, approaches, and examples you need to understand these disruptive forces in ways that turn your marketing from cost center to revenue creator. This book builds the case for, literally, transforming the purpose of marketing within your organization. Joe Pulizzi and Robert Rose of the Content Marketing Institute show how leading companies are able sell the very content that propels their marketing strategy. You’ll learn how to: * Transform all or part of your marketing operation into a media company * Integrate this new operation into traditional marketing efforts * Develop best practices for attracting and retaining audiences * Build a strategy for competing against traditional media companies * Create a paid/earned media strategy fueled by an owned media strategy Red Bull, Johnson & Johnson, Disney and Arrow Electronics have succeeded in what ten years ago would have been deemed impossible. They continue to market their products as they always have, and, through their content-driven and audience-building initiatives, they drive value outside the day-to-day products they sell—and monetize it directly. Killing Marketing rewrites the rules of marketing—enabling you to make the kind of transition that turns average companies into industry legends. |
| b2b saas marketing budget: Customer Success Nick Mehta, Dan Steinman, Lincoln Murphy, 2016-02-29 Your business success is now forever linked to the success of your customers Customer Success is the groundbreaking guide to the exciting new model of customer management. Business relationships are fundamentally changing. In the world B.C. (Before Cloud), companies could focus totally on sales and marketing because customers were often 'stuck' after purchasing. Therefore, all of the 'post-sale' experience was a cost center in most companies. In the world A.B. (After Benioff), with granular per-year, per-month or per-use pricing models, cloud deployments and many competitive options, customers now have the power. As such, B2B vendors must deliver success for their clients to achieve success for their own businesses. Customer success teams are being created in companies to quarterback the customer lifecycle and drive adoption, renewals, up-sell and advocacy. The Customer Success philosophy is invading the boardroom and impacting the way CEOs think about their business. Today, Customer Success is the hottest B2B movement since the advent of the subscription business model, and this book is the one-of-a-kind guide that shows you how to make it work in your company. From the initial planning stages through execution, you'll have expert guidance to help you: Understand the context that led to the start of the Customer Success movement Build a Customer Success strategy proven by the most competitive companies in the world Implement an action plan for structuring the Customer Success organization, tiering your customers, and developing the right cross-functional playbooks Customers want products that help them achieve their own business outcomes. By enabling your customers to realize value in your products, you're protecting recurring revenue and creating a customer for life. Customer Success shows you how to kick start your customer-centric revolution, and make it stick for the long term. |
| b2b saas marketing budget: The SaaS Email Marketing Playbook Étienne Garbugli, 2020-04-23 “A great no-BS resource where you are guaranteed to pick up useful tips and approaches, whether you’re an email pro or just starting out.” – Andrus Purde, Founder & CEO, Outfunnel - - No matter how great your product is, it’s very likely that 40–60% of free trials never see your product a second time. This means that you stand to lose up to 60% of your hard-earned signups. Do you just let them go? Email marketing is one of the highest leverage activities in a SaaS business. It can help: • increase onboarding and trial conversions; • reduce churn; and • grow monthly recurring revenue (MRR). By introducing a single campaign today, you could significantly increase your conversions, and get the benefits of that increase predictably and repeatedly, week after week. That’s the beauty of automation. It’s also how we created an upsell program at LANDR that was generating up to 42% of weekly subscription conversions. When I joined LANDR, we were only sending 3 automated emails (and only 1 of those was performing). By focusing on sending the right email to the right user at the right time, performance jumped up, with increases in: • product onboarding completion; • engagement; • sales; and • upgrades to annual subscriptions. We made a lot of mistakes along the way (including sending 85,000 emails to the wrong users). It took a lot of trial and error, long hours, and exhaustive internet searches, but the results were obvious. Email was more effective at generating revenue than: • Investing in more ads; • Building new features hoping they’ll drive engagement; • Redesigning at the cost of trial and error. You can learn SaaS email marketing the way we did (through hard work), or jump to the front of the line. The SaaS Email Marketing Playbook includes everything I would have loved to know about email before I got started at LANDR: • how and when to create new emails or In-App messages to influence your users’ behaviors and purchase decisions; • how to double, triple, or quadruple the performance of every single email you send; • how to stand out in an increasingly more crowded inbox; and • how to create processes and structure to systematically grow the performance of an email marketing program. The book also includes seven deep dives to help you implement your onboarding, upsell, retention, referral, and behavioral sequences, among others. You don’t need to be a master copywriter (or have one on your team) to send effective emails. You just need the right processes and knowledge to start growing your business with email. The SaaS Email Marketing Playbook contains everything you need to plan, build, and optimize your email marketing program. - - The SaaS Email Marketing Playbook was written for businesses with clear signs of Product-Market Fit, that are: • selling to consumers or businesses; • charging monthly or yearly subscription fees; • generating more than $2k MRR; and • adding at least 200 email signups per week. |
| b2b saas marketing budget: LinkedIn Marketing Tim Shek, 2018-05-20 LinkedIn is the world's largest professional network platform. With over 500 million professionally-connected members, this is a giant opportunity for your Business-to-Business (B2B) marketing. This book guides you on how to use LinkedIn B2B marketing to generate qualified prospects and obtain clients. To appreciate what awaits you should you take up LinkedIn advertising, this guide begins by providing you with proven benefits of LinkedIn advertising so that you may know your gains well in advance. While LinkedIn has been used successfully by many companies to market their businesses, it is not a one-platform-fits-all kind of basket. There are those types of business that have a higher potential to gain from the uniqueness of LinkedIn platform and there are those that have a lower potential of deriving the same gain. This simply means that LinkedIn must be evaluated on a case-to-case basis. In this guide, you will find valuable criteria that will enable you to determine whether LinkedIn suits your marketing needs or not so that you do not risk your resources against potentially low ROI (return on investment). Professionals like belonging to clubs. Online, groups are the equivalent of professional clubs. Thus, you need to know how to use LinkedIn groups to your marketing advantage. This guide will show you how you can leverage the power of groups to gain a competitive edge in your niche. LinkedIn Ads are quite unique from other forms of online Ads. This means that you have to give them special attention by learning how to effectively use them for maximum results. We are going to show you how to use the various types of LinkedIn Ads to increase your income flow. What is the benefit of having a large following without an impact on your revenue? None! Most enterprises make the mistake of working so hard to acquire a huge following on LinkedIn without knowing how to financially gain from this following. We provide you with practical approaches to grow and monetize your LinkedIn following so that you can increase your income. Finally, there is a limit to how much you can do as an individual. Even if you employ a dozen more people to work specifically on your LinkedIn account, you cannot completely tap into the huge potential base of over 500 million people. This is where automation comes in handy. Technologies exist that can help you to effortlessly automate your LinkedIn income. This guide provides you with information on how you can automate your LinkedIn income and the specific tools you require in order to harness great success. Kindly download or print this book to learn more. Enjoy your reading! |
| b2b saas marketing budget: Decisively Digital Alexander Loth, 2021-05-28 Discover how to survive and thrive in an increasingly digital world Digital strategy should consist of more than just updating your business’ desktop computers and buying the newest smartphones for your employees. It requires the reimagining of existing business processes and the implementation of the latest technologies into current business activity to enable new capabilities for your firm. In Decisively Digital: From Creating a Culture to Designing Strategy, digital strategy advisor and author Alexander Loth leverages his extensive experience working with Microsoft, CERN, and SAP to deliver a robust and accessible exploration of what it takes for a company to unlock the potential of new digital technologies. You’ll discover how to: Utilize new technologies to establish a digital culture and realize the benefits of modern work for your employees Unleash the abilities that come with processing big data and taking advantage of data democracy, analytics, and cloud computing Implement artificial intelligence, blockchain, process automation, and IoT in a way that goes beyond the hype and delivers real business results Packed with interviews with industry leaders and real-world customer examples, Decisively Digital is ideal for CIOs, CDOs, and other executives and professionals who need to know how technology can improve their businesses and power results today and tomorrow. |
| b2b saas marketing budget: B2B eCommerce Gerrit Heinemann, 2022-11-11 This textbook covers the basics of business-to-business (B2B) eCommerce, where similar principles of customer targeting can be observed as in B2C eCommerce. Gerrit Heinemann highlights the specifics and business models of B2B eCommerce, analyzes the digital challenges and shows the consequences and opportunities for online sales in B2B. Recognised best-practice examples illustrate how successful B2B eCommerce can work and which risks have to be considered. |
| b2b saas marketing budget: Product-Led Growth Bush Wes, 2019-05 Product-Led Growth is about helping your customers experience the ongoing value your product provides. It is a critical step in successful product design and this book shows you how it's done. - Nir Eyal, Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author of Hooked |
| b2b saas marketing budget: Youtility Jay Baer, 2013-06-27 The difference between helping and selling is just two letters If you're wondering how to make your products seem more exciting online, you're asking the wrong question. You're not competing for attention only against other similar products. You're competing against your customers' friends and family and viral videos and cute puppies. To win attention these days you must ask a different question: How can we help? Jay Baer's Youtility offers a new approach that cuts through the clutter: marketing that is truly, inherently useful. If you sell something, you make a customer today, but if you genuinely help someone, you create a customer for life. |
| b2b saas marketing budget: Aligned to Achieve Tracy Eiler, Andrea Austin, 2016-09-01 A smart, practical guide to rocket-powered business growth Aligned to Achieve puts sales and marketing on the same page, creating a revenue 'dream team' that will drive your organization to new heights. Smart, practical explanations, case studies, and tips guide you toward action over theory, and dozens of examples illustrate the tangible effects of these changes in action at business-to-business companies. Written by sales and marketing executives who have made alignment work, this book is directed toward practitioners and leaders seeking to crack the code of sales and marketing alignment. Contributions by industry thought leaders and B2B executives provide fresh perspective and nuanced direction, while thoughtful, strategic, and well-supported guidance throughout helps you remove the obstacles standing in the way of your organization's financial and strategic goals. Misalignment between sales and marketing is an age-old problem—frequently lamented, but seldom addressed. As this schism grows amidst the evolving marketplace, its effects on top and bottom line performance are being felt more than ever before. This book shows you how to bring sales and marketing together effectively once and for all, leveraging their strengths to build an unstoppable force for growth. Understand the cost of misalignment and the driving forces behind it Learn strategies for improving your culture, process, leadership, and technology to initiate and support alignment Identify the best places to modify your sales and marketing programs to kickstart collaboration and cooperation between your teams Discover how other companies are uniting their sales and marketing teams into a single force for growth Walk away with practical advice on how to apply recommendation in the real world Misalignment is frustrating for everyone in sales, marketing, and leadership. It's also detrimental to your organization's performance—but the problem is not insurmountable. In fact, most of the obstacles it creates are self-inflicted, and entirely within control of leadership. Aligned to Achieve helps you identify and remove those obstacles, and build a culture of sustainable growth. |
| b2b saas marketing budget: From Impossible to Inevitable Aaron Ross, Jason Lemkin, 2019-06-05 Break your revenue records with Silicon Valley’s “growth bible” “This book makes very clear how to get to hyper-growth and the work needed to actually get there” Why are you struggling to grow your business when everyone else seems to be crushing their goals? If you needed to triple revenue within the next three years, would you know exactly how to do it? Doubling the size of your business, tripling it, even growing ten times larger isn't about magic. It's not about privileges, luck, or working harder. There's a template that the world's fastest growing companies follow to achieve and sustain much, much faster growth. From Impossible to Inevitable details the hypergrowth playbook of companies like Hubspot, Salesforce.com (the fastest growing multibillion dollar software company), and EchoSign—aka Adobe Document Services (which catapulted from $0 to $144 million in seven years). Whether you have a $1 billion or a $100,000 business, you can use the same insights as these notable companies to learn what it really takes to break your own revenue records. Pinpoint why you aren’t growing faster Understand what it takes to get to hypergrowth Nail a niche (the #1 missing growth ingredient) What every revenue leader needs to know about building a scalable sales team There’s no time like the present to surpass plateaus and get off of the up-and-down revenue rollercoaster. Find out how now! |
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| b2b saas marketing budget: Mastering Product Experience in SaaS Nick Bonfiglio, Mickey Alon, Myk Pono, Aptrinsic, 2017-11-15 Your success as a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) company is completely dependent on acquiring and keeping users in your product. But if you¿re using traditional marketing tactics, you¿re likely struggling to scale your business quickly. That¿s because conventional marketing techniques focus on engaging prospects and users outside of the product. |
| b2b saas marketing budget: Scaling Lean Ash Maurya, 2016 Scaling Lean offers an invaluable blueprint for modeling startup success. You'll learn the essential metrics that measure the output of a working business model, give you the pulse of your company, communicate its health to investors, and enable you to make precise interventions when things go wrong, --Amazon.com. |
| b2b saas marketing budget: Blueprints for a SaaS Sales Organization Jacco Van Der Kooij, Fernando Pizarro, Winning by Winning by Design, 2018-03-14 An updated version of the must-have book for SaaS sales teams, which The SaaS Sales Method defines to include Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success. Because of their very nature, SaaS companies live and die on revenue growth. And once the service is ready there is a very small window in which to scale. Missing that window is the difference between massive success and mediocrity. With such high stakes, it is crucial to get a sales team and process in place that will scale. Yet most early stage companies build their sales teams by the seat of their pants. This book distills the authors' years of building high performance SaaS teams into a set of highly detailed instructions that will allow sales leaders to design, implement and execute all around sales plans.Blueprints for a SaaS Sales Organization provides detailed guidance for SaaS sales leaders on how to build an sales organization that works together across the entire customer relationship. It builds on the concepts in The SaaS Sales Method and provides detailed information on how to structure teams so that they apply fundamental sales skills during Moments That Matter. |
| b2b saas marketing budget: Obviously Awesome April Dunford, 2019-05-14 You know your product is awesome-but does anybody else? Successfully connecting your product with consumers isn't a matter of following trends, comparing yourself to the competition or trying to attract the widest customer base. So what is it? April Dunford, positioning guru and tech exec, is here to enlighten you. |
| b2b saas marketing budget: Startup Myths and Models Rizwan Virk, 2020-06-02 Budding entrepreneurs face a challenging road. The path is not made any easier by all the clichés they hear about how to make a startup succeed—from platitudes and conventional wisdom to downright contradictions. This witty and wise guide to the dilemmas of entrepreneurship debunks widespread misconceptions about how the world of startups works and offers hard-earned advice for every step of the journey. Instead of startup myths—legends spun from a fantasy version of Silicon Valley—Rizwan Virk provides startup models—frameworks that help make thoughtful decisions about starting, growing, managing, and selling a business. Rather than dispensing simplistic rules, he mentors readers in the development of a mental toolkit for approaching challenges based on how startup markets evolve in real life. In snappy prose with savvy pop-culture and real-world examples, Virk recasts entrepreneurship as a grand adventure. He points out the pitfalls that appear along the way and offers insights into how to avoid them, sharing the secrets of founding a startup, raising money, hiring and firing, when to enter a market and when to exit, and how to value a company. Virk combines lessons learned the hard way during his twenty-five years of founding, investing in, and advising startups with reflections from well-known venture capitalists and experts. His candid advice makes Startup Myths and Models an ideal guide for those readers just embarking on the startup life and those looking for their next adventure. |
| b2b saas marketing budget: Winning on Purpose Fred Reichheld, Darci Darnell, Maureen Burns, 2021-12-07 Great leaders embrace a higher purpose to win. The Net Promoter System shines as their guiding star. Few management ideas have spread so far and wide as the Net Promoter System (NPS). Since its conception almost two decades ago by customer loyalty guru Fred Reichheld, thousands of companies around the world have adopted it—from industrial titans such as Mercedes-Benz and Cummins to tech giants like Apple and Amazon to digital innovators such as Warby Parker and Peloton. Now, Reichheld has raised the bar yet again. In Winning on Purpose, he demonstrates that the primary purpose of a business should be to enrich the lives of its customers. Why? Because when customers feel this love, they come back for more and bring their friends—generating good profits. This is NPS 3.0 and it puts a new take on the age-old Golden Rule—treat customers the way you would want a loved one treated—at the heart of enduring business success. As the compelling examples in this book illustrate, companies with superior NPS consistently deliver higher returns to shareholders across a wide array of industries. But winning on purpose isn't easy. Reichheld also explains why many NPS practitioners achieve just a small fraction of the system's full potential, and he presents the newest thinking and best practices for doing NPS right. He unveils the Earned Growth Rate (EGR): the first reliable, complementary accounting measure that can truly leverage the power of NPS. With keen insight and moving personal stories, Reichheld advances the thinking and practice of NPS. Winning on Purpose is your indispensable guide for inspiring customer love within your own teams and using Net Promoter to achieve both personal and business success. |
| b2b saas marketing budget: The Expansion Sale: Four Must-Win Conversations to Keep and Grow Your Customers Erik Peterson, Tim Riesterer, 2020-02-11 Proven customer engagement approaches for winning in the most important moments driving profitability and growth—customer retention and expansion Industry analysts report that up 70-80% of business growth comes from existing customers. So why are you still investing mainly in attracting new customers? And, leaving renewals and upsells to chance? Or, worse yet, using a one-size-fits-all approach to acquisition as you do for expansions? The Expansion Sale provides everything you need to seize the competitive edge in the customer-success space. Authors Erik Peterson and Tim Riesterer explain how the buying psychology of existing customers differs from that of new customers, and show how to adapt your commercial engagement strategies accordingly. They provide clear, easy-to-apply messaging frameworks for creating and delivering winning conversations in the four must-win commercial moments of customer success: ensuring renewals, communicating price increases, increasing upsells, and apologizing effectively for service failures. |
| b2b saas marketing budget: Handbook on Business to Business Marketing Gary L. Lilien, Rajdeep Grewal, 2012-01-01 This insightful Handbook provides a comprehensive state-of-the-art review of business-to-business marketing. It supplies an overview and pioneers new ideas relating to the activity of building mutually value-generating relationships between organizations Ð from businesses to government agencies to not-for-profit organizations Ð and the many individuals within them. Comprising 38 chapters written by internationally renowned scholars, this Handbook presents perspectives of a variety of issue areas from both an academic and a managerial perspective (state of theory and state of practice). The material in this compendium includes theoretical and practical perspectives in business-to-business marketing, marketing mix and strategy, interfirm relationships, personal selling and sales management, technology marketing, and methodological issues central to business-to-business markets. Published in conjunction with Penn StateÕs Institute for the Study of Business Markets, this extensive volume will expand research and teaching in business-to-business marketing in academia and will improve the practice of business-to-business marketing for firms in the industry. This path-breaking Handbook is targeted primarily at marketing academics and graduate students who want a complete overview of the academic state of the business-to-business marketing domain. It will also prove an invaluable resource for forward-thinking business-to-business practitioners who want to be aware of the current state of knowledge in their domains. |
| b2b saas marketing budget: Stop Random Acts of Marketing Karen Hayward, 2019-11-04 Many mid-market companies in today's digital era lack a comprehensive growth plan. They launch sales initiatives that are reactive and ineffective, not supported by solid marketing plans, lack KPIs, and are frustrated by the lack of ROI on monies spent. Without a systematic roadmap, you can't take your business where it needs to go. Karen Hayward worked in the trenches with Fortune 1000 companies for twenty years. As a consultant, she's used the knowledge gained through experience to help mid-market CEOs see the bigger picture and develop in-house marketing and sales strategies based on the voice of the customer and real market insight. In Stop Random Acts of Marketing, she provides you with the necessary tools for prioritizing, optimizing, and initiating a clear plan for sustainable growth. It's time to stop undervaluing your marketing, delegating your growth strategy to outside agencies or your most junior marketing resource, and relying on sales to understand your customers. It's time to re-architect your company with a new methodology for success. |
| b2b saas marketing budget: Hacking Sales Max Altschuler, 2016-05-31 Stay ahead of the sales evolution with a more efficient approach to everything Hacking Sales helps you transform your sales process using the next generation of tools, tactics and strategies. Author Max Altschuler has dedicated his business to helping companies build modern, efficient, high tech sales processes that generate more revenue while using fewer resources. In this book, he shows you the most effective changes you can make, starting today, to evolve your sales and continually raise the bar. You’ll walk through the entire sales process from start to finish, learning critical hacks every step of the way. Find and capture your lowest-hanging fruit at the top of the funnel, build massive lead lists using ICP and TAM, utilize multiple prospecting strategies, perfect your follow-ups, nurture leads, outsource where advantageous, and much more. Build, refine, and enhance your pipeline over time, close deals faster, and use the right tools for the job—this book is your roadmap to fast and efficient revenue growth. Without a reliable process, you’re disjointed, disorganized, and ultimately, underperforming. Whether you’re building a sales process from scratch or looking to become your company’s rock star, this book shows you how to make it happen. Identify your Ideal Customer and your Total Addressable Market Build massive lead lists and properly target your campaigns Learn effective hacks for messaging and social media outreach Overcome customer objections before they happen The economy is evolving, the customer is evolving, and sales itself is evolving. Forty percent of the Fortune 500 from the year 2000 were absent from the Fortune 500 in the year 2015, precisely because they failed to evolve. Today’s sales environment is very much a “keep up or get left behind” paradigm, but you need to do better to excel. Hacking Sales shows you how to get ahead of everyone else with focused effort and the most effective approach to modern sales. |
| b2b saas marketing budget: Start Small, Stay Small Rob Walling, 2010 Start Small, Stay Small is a step-by-step guide to launching a self-funded startup. If you're a desktop, mobile or web developer, this book is your blueprint to getting your startup off the ground with no outside investment.This book intentionally avoids topics restricted to venture-backed startups such as: honing your investment pitch, securing funding, and figuring out how to use the piles of cash investors keep placing in your lap.This book assumes: You don't have $6M of investor funds sitting in your bank account You're not going to relocate to the handful of startup hubs in the world You're not going to work 70 hour weeks for low pay with the hope of someday making millions from stock options There's nothing wrong with pursuing venture funding and attempting to grow fast like Amazon, Google, Twitter, and Facebook. It just so happened that most people are not in a place to do this.Start Small, Stay Small also focuses on the single most important element of a startup that most developers avoid: marketing. There are many great resources for learning how to write code, organize source control, or connect to a database. This book does not cover the technical aspects developers already know or can learn elsewhere. It focuses on finding your idea, testing it before you build, and getting it into the hands of your customers. |
| b2b saas marketing budget: Product-Led Onboarding Ramli John, 2021-06-04 When you borrow a plate from grandma, does she ask you to pay a deposit? Of course not. Likewise, blocking your non-paying (freemium) customers from the core experience of your product, is like chopping your own leg off while running a marathon. Yet, this is just one of the crucial mistakes that most SaaS companies make right off the bat. Think about it. Do YOU have... Stalled accounts taking up valuable space? Sub-par clients who only expect freebies and don't ever use the full features of your product? Low conversion from free accounts to paid? Then, you might have a shot-yourself-in-the-foot problem. In this book, you'll find the easy, 6-step formula you can apply to your operations today that can change absolutely everything. You'll be able to count your company among giants like Mixpanel, Ubisoft, and Outsystems when you: Captivate clients' attention from the get-go. Make it easier for clients to get good at using your software so they are more likely to use it. Create a fool-proof checklist to make your product go viral. Match services with behaviors, and get users addicted to your product. Win rave reviews by making clients feel like VIPs. Use this strategy at each level in your team to supercharge its effect. Rinse and repeat, and watch your business grow while you sleep. In short, you'll discover why putting your customer first is the ultimate secret to growing your company. And how you can achieve astronomical conversions and customer loyalty without even trying. Check out what others are saying: |
| b2b saas marketing budget: The Visible Expert Lee W. Frederiksen, Elizabeth Harr, Sylvia S. Montgomery, 2014-09-02 What does it take to become a well-known expert in your field - someone other practitioners and the media seek out for leadership and insight? We call these stars Visible Experts . And becoming one is easier than it looks. In this research-based book, you will learn how you or your colleagues can become Visible Experts and leverage this status to drive significant new growth and profits for your firm. You will discover which tools and techniques you need to build your reputation and ascend to prominence. And you will hear from real experts from across the professional services who have climbed from obscurity to the peak of their profession. The Visible Expert is the essential manual for any individual or firm that is ready to take their expertise to the highest level. Based on interviews with over 1,000 experts and buyers of their services, this book will take you higher, faster. |
| b2b saas marketing budget: Category Creation Anthony Kennada, 2019-10-08 Lessons from HubSpot, Salesforce, Gainsight and Other Iconic Brands The Uber of this The Salesforce of that It's like Instagram, but for... There is no such thing as an original idea anymore – right? Actually, it turns out that the world’s most innovative companies have created so much more than just brand new products and technology. They've created entirely new market categories. The challenge is that successfully building new categories requires a perfect storm of luck and timing. Or does it? Category Creation is the first and only book on the topic written by executives and marketers actively building new categories. It explains how category creation has become the Holy Grail of marketing, and more importantly, how it can be planned and orchestrated. It's not about luck. You can use the same tactics that other category-defining companies have used to delight customers, employees, and investors. There’s no better strategy that results in faster growth and higher valuations for the company on top. Author Anthony Kennada, former Chief Marketing Officer at Gainsight, explains how he led Gainsight in creating the “customer success” category, and shares success stories from fellow category-creators like Salesforce, HubSpot and others. It requires much more than just having the best product. You have to start and grow a conversation that doesn’t yet exist, positioning a newly discovered problem in addition to your company and product offerings. The book explains the 7 key principles of category creation, including the importance of creating a community of early adopters who will rally around the problem they all share—especially if someone will lead them. · Identify the “go” and “no go” signals for category creation in your business · Activate customers and influencers as brand ambassadors · Grow a community by investing in live events and experiences · Prove the impact of category creation investments on growth, customer success, and company culture Written for entrepreneurs, marketers, and executives from startups to large enterprises, Category Creation is the exclusive playbook for building a category defining brand in the modern economy. |
| b2b saas marketing budget: In Search of Stupidity Merrill R. Chapman, 2003-07-08 Describes influential business philosophies and marketing ideas from the past twenty years and examines why they did not work. |
| b2b saas marketing budget: The Price Advantage Michael V. Marn, Eric V. Roegner, Craig C. Zawada, 2004-04-12 The Price Advantage by three preeminent experts at McKinsey & Company is the most pragmatic and insightful book on pricing available. Based on in-depth, first-hand experience with hundreds of companies, this book is designed to provide managers with comprehensive guidance through the maze of pricing issues. The authors demonstrate why pricing excellence is critical to corporate success and profitability, then explain state-of-the-art approaches to analyzing and improving your own pricing strategy for any product or service. Their advice is critical for readers who need to develop pricing strategies that work in both good economic times and bad. |
| b2b saas marketing budget: The Cmo Manifesto John F. Ellett, 2012-11-07 The CMO Manifesto – A 100-Day Action Plan for Marketing Change Agents is the essential guidebook for marketing executives who have been chartered to disrupt the status quo and become leaders of positive change at their companies. Based on research with successful CMOs from leading firms such as Anhueser-Busch, Fidelity, GE, General Mills and Proctor & Gamble, the book combines stories, insights and tools to help marketing executives maximize the impact of their critical first 100 days. Through 12 practical steps, The CMO Manifesto provides a clear, actionable roadmap of activities essential to the success of any marketing executive. Take the lead. Make an impact. Create change. |
B2B模式、B2C模式、C2C模式分别是什么含义? - 知乎
b2b模式的劣势包括： 竞争激烈 ：B2B市场上存在激烈的竞争，需要企业具备更高的专业水平和更好的服务才能脱颖而出。 交易流程复杂 ：B2B交易往往涉及多个环节，包括询价、议价、签 …
国内的哪些 b2b 平台口碑很好？ - 知乎
本文将分析国内几家口碑良好的b2b平台，探讨它们在市场竞争中的优势和特点。 阿里巴巴：作为国内最大的b2b平台之一，阿里巴巴凭借其广泛的供应商资源和庞大的买家群体，在国内b2b …
目前国内的B2B平台有哪些？ - 知乎
Apr 7, 2019 · 提到b2b平台，阿里巴巴当然首屈一指，也是天花板般的存在。 它是由马云着手创建的平台，也是截止目前做得最大最成功的B2B平台，最早入驻的企业早就赚到了人生中的第一 …
B2B和B2C有什么区别？ - 知乎
b2b的客户在采购的时候是完全理性的，往往会货比300家，而b2c的顾客虽然也会货比三家，但是非常感性。 B2B的客户，他们简单粗暴。 下单的时候，直接在微信上告诉你，要几件这、几 …
亚马逊B2B怎么个操作流程？？后期运营和B2C一样吗？？
Dec 14, 2020 · 亚马逊b2b是全球开店企业店铺的一个独特的板块，但是这里的b2b我们称为小b端，针对的买家主要是政府，企业，学校，医院，或者一些非盈利性机构。 这里的非盈利性的 …
外贸常用的免费B2B平台有哪些？ - 知乎
首先，做外贸，B2B平台与B2C平台由于面对的客户群体不一样，所以两者会相差很远。B2C平台一般现在入驻的就是4大平台：亚马逊、eBay、Wish和速卖通。 而这里主要讲的是B2B平 …
以ftp开头的网址怎么打开? - 知乎
FTP开头的网址可以通过浏览器、FTP客户端或命令行工具打开。
C2C、O2O、B2B、B2C 的区别在哪里？ - 知乎
你在地摊买东西，c2c. 你去超市买东西，b2c. 超市找经销商进货，b2b. 超市出租柜台给经销商卖东西，b2b2c
有哪些境外企业工商信息查询网站或App？ - 知乎
当然了，除去上面的各个官网以外，还有一些专业且可信的第三方b2b公司（类似是国内的阿里巴巴），他们依托强大的市场决断能力以及多年的数据查询及收集经验，还是能够在我们查询一 …
亚马逊B2B跟B2C有什么本质区别？ - 知乎
B2B跨境电商：从广义层面来看，跨境电商B2B 指互联网化的企业对企业 跨境贸易 活动，也即“互联网+ 传统 国际贸易 ”。从狭义层面来看，跨境电商B2B 指基于电子商务信息平台或交易平台 …
B2B模式、B2C模式、C2C模式分别是什么含义? - 知乎
b2b模式的劣势包括： 竞争激烈 ：B2B市场上存在激烈的竞争，需要企业具备更高的专业水平和更好的服务才能脱颖而出。 交易流程复杂 ：B2B交易往往涉及多个环节，包括询价、议价、签 …
国内的哪些 b2b 平台口碑很好？ - 知乎
本文将分析国内几家口碑良好的b2b平台，探讨它们在市场竞争中的优势和特点。 阿里巴巴：作为国内最大的b2b平台之一，阿里巴巴凭借其广泛的供应商资源和庞大的买家群体，在国内b2b …
目前国内的B2B平台有哪些？ - 知乎
Apr 7, 2019 · 提到b2b平台，阿里巴巴当然首屈一指，也是天花板般的存在。 它是由马云着手创建的平台，也是截止目前做得最大最成功的B2B平台，最早入驻的企业早就赚到了人生中的第一 …
B2B和B2C有什么区别？ - 知乎
b2b的客户在采购的时候是完全理性的，往往会货比300家，而b2c的顾客虽然也会货比三家，但是非常感性。 B2B的客户，他们简单粗暴。 下单的时候，直接在微信上告诉你，要几件这、几 …
亚马逊B2B怎么个操作流程？？后期运营和B2C一样吗？？
Dec 14, 2020 · 亚马逊b2b是全球开店企业店铺的一个独特的板块，但是这里的b2b我们称为小b端，针对的买家主要是政府，企业，学校，医院，或者一些非盈利性机构。 这里的非盈利性的 …
外贸常用的免费B2B平台有哪些？ - 知乎
首先，做外贸，B2B平台与B2C平台由于面对的客户群体不一样，所以两者会相差很远。B2C平台一般现在入驻的就是4大平台：亚马逊、eBay、Wish和速卖通。 而这里主要讲的是B2B平 …
以ftp开头的网址怎么打开? - 知乎
FTP开头的网址可以通过浏览器、FTP客户端或命令行工具打开。
C2C、O2O、B2B、B2C 的区别在哪里？ - 知乎
你在地摊买东西，c2c. 你去超市买东西，b2c. 超市找经销商进货，b2b. 超市出租柜台给经销商卖东西，b2b2c
有哪些境外企业工商信息查询网站或App？ - 知乎
当然了，除去上面的各个官网以外，还有一些专业且可信的第三方b2b公司（类似是国内的阿里巴巴），他们依托强大的市场决断能力以及多年的数据查询及收集经验，还是能够在我们查询一 …
亚马逊B2B跟B2C有什么本质区别？ - 知乎
B2B跨境电商：从广义层面来看，跨境电商B2B 指互联网化的企业对企业 跨境贸易 活动，也即“互联网+ 传统 国际贸易 ”。从狭义层面来看，跨境电商B2B 指基于电子商务信息平台或交易平台 …
