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5 Problems With B2B Sales Funnels And How To Solve Them With Revenue Enablement

Forbes Leadership

In this article, I will address five common problems encountered within B2B sales funnels—and what features readers should seek to include in their revenue enablement solution.

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The Art of Value-Based Selling: Boosting Your Bottom Line

Chief Outsiders

In the realm of business-to-business (B2B) sales, blue lights, doorbusters, Black Friday sales, or penny pinchers don’t apply. Attention, bargain shoppers! That said, in our ever-evolving battleground, the age-old theory that "everyone buys a bargain" still holds.

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How To (Actually) Calculate CAC

Andrew Chen

Since HubSpot is a B2B SaaS product, CAC would equal the cost to acquire a new customer on one of their Basic, Pro, or Enterprise plans. CPA would be used for leading indicators to CAC, such as Cost Per Lead, Cost Per Sales Qualified Lead, Cost Per Trial or other points in the marketing and sales funnel.

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Replacing the Sales Funnel with the Sales Flywheel

Harvard Business Review

I’ve been using the sales funnel for 28 years, my whole career. This year, I retired the funnel — threw it a party, gave it a gold watch, and congratulated it on its move to a condo in Florida. If you’re B2B, the train is parked in the station, but it’s leaving soon. clu/Getty Images.

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What Salespeople Need to Know About the New B2B Landscape

Harvard Business Review

The AIDA model and its variants are the basis for sales funnels at many B2B firms. The typical funnel starts with a marketing-generated lead for a “suspect” that, after qualification, becomes a “prospect,” and then a customer through steps that are measured and managed.

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4 Ways to Improve Your Content Marketing

Harvard Business Review

With online technologies and targeted lists, this should be a cost-effective tool for separating the suspects from the prospects, accelerating customer conversion through the sales funnel, and, equally important, optimizing “data-driven marketing” by tying each piece of content to metrics like opens, reads, downloads, and so on.

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The Social Cost of Bad Online Marketing

Harvard Business Review

Despite taking the faux-curmudgeonly attitude of an anthropologist exploring the strange world of business dudes — is a sales funnel really that much of a novelty? Dan Lyons’s book Disrupted is an often-delightful tour through startup culture, based on the author’s experience working at online marketing firm HubSpot.