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Are you marketing or selling?

Peter Winick

And as a general rule, when you’re moving into the B2C space, that’s marketing. It’s high volume, low ticket, sales funnels, etc. Moving into enterprise, large-scale organizational sales, corporate sales, which is where we quite frankly as an organization spend most of our time working with our clients.

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How To (Actually) Calculate CAC

Andrew Chen

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. B2C companies supported by ad models are a little different. Example 2: SaaS Company w/ Inside Sales. Here’s an example.

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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. When I started my career, the most profitable application of force was in sales. All of these examples are B2C.

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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.

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The Most Successful Brands Focus on Users — Not Buyers

Harvard Business Review

Furthermore, they engage customers more as users than as buyers, shifting their investments from pre-purchase promotion and sales to post-purchase renewal and advocacy. They recognize that some of the most meaningful activity happens outside the sales funnel. Ad impressions are valuable, but what matters most is engagement.