1. Low-cost, high-impact marketing successes discussed include pay-per-click advertising, search engine optimization, remarketing ads, and cross-sell promotions. Testing new channels is recommended by starting with research, establishing sales potential, and accepting that some experiments will fail but provide valuable learning.
2. When developing strategic alliances, it is important to clearly define expectations, ensure the partnership is mutually beneficial, and build trust, transparency and respect. Joint events and seminars can help increase the impact of strategic alliances.
3. Out-of-the-box low-cost, high-return initiatives include community involvement, content marketing, social media engagement, education materials, and showing appreciation for customers
Asia Orangio - How to acquire your first 100 customersJoe Glover
Do you ever wonder how some startups seem to figure out customer acquisition so easily? It seems like one second, you’ve never heard of them and the next second, they’re everywhere you turn.
Asia Matos, CEO and Founder of DemandMaven, walks you through the exact go-to-market process for winning your first 100 customers and discovering your absolute best marketing strategies and channels in the early days.
06. DIGGIT TIM CAIN (Digital First Media): 7 korakov do odličnega nativnega o...mateja repovž
Kakšno je odlično nativno oglaševanje? Kako tovrstne oglase vsebinsko in oblikovno pripraviti, da dosežemo želene rezultate? Zakaj je partnerstvo srce nativnega oglaševanja?
Od ideje, znanja, kreativnosti, navdiha in sodelovanja, do zavidljivih rezultatov realizacije nativnega oglaševanja s Timom Cainom.
Webinar - Why You Should Let Your Buyer Design Your Sales Process eCornell
“The buyer is in charge” is one of the most popular refrains in contemporary business sales and marketing today. Well it’s true; the Internet has changed buyer behavior forever. In the old days of business sales, the seller controlled the conversation. Now, the Internet has given the power back to the buyer. Marketing has undergone a radical transformation to change their approach to meet the new buyer’s expectations. It’s sales’ turn.
The reality is the buyer views their experience with a vendor as one of the most important factors in buying. When polled, buyers rate their experience with vendors higher than the expected answers of product and price. The sales leader’s imperative is to deliver the sales experience their buyers want and expect.
Craig Rosenberg is in the Chief Analyst for TOPO. TOPO helps organizations optimize their sales and marketing to order to deliver remarkable buying experiences. He has worked with 100’s of sales, inside sales, and marketing organizations to design, build and optimize their processes. He is known to many as the "Funnelholic", the name of his very popular sales and marketing blog.
In this webinar, we provide you with the blueprint and specific use case examples. You will learn:
- Best practices for understanding your buyer
- How the buyer affects your organizational design including people, process and technology
- Specific examples of companies creating buyer-responsive processes
- This discussion is tailored for CEOs, execs, VPs, upper-level management, and anyone involved in sales and overall business strategy.
Missed Opportunities: Rethinking Call Tracking for Google Ads & SEOSearch Engine Journal
Are you ready to improve your sales approach and convert your leads faster?
Sure, you could try spending thousands of dollars on PPC (with no results) – or, even worse, run ads blindly (and receive bad leads).
But why would you want to do that?
Watch this sponsored Search Engine Journal webinar and learn how you can improve your lead generation campaigns with call tracking.
In this presentation you’ll learn:
Common approaches to PPC that result in low customer retention and poor customer experiences.
How call tracking can help identify gaps in the sales process and improve the value of marketing leads.
How listening to call recordings can open up opportunities for new marketing tactics.
Inbound call processes are a goldmine, but sadly often overlooked by business leaders who just assume they have bad leads.
Franco Aquino, co-founder of REN Marketing, will be joined by Laura Lawrie, CallRail’s Principle Product Manager to discuss how call tracking can improve your lead generation campaigns, both paid and organic.
Content Marketing Strategy on a Cocktail NapkinDemandSphere
According to Content Marketing Institute, 48% of marketers don't have a written strategy for content marketing efforts. Get started by jotting down your goals and messages on a cocktail napkin.
Here's the truth, the majority of marketers FAILat content marketing. Don't believe us, data shows the overwhelming amount of companies openly admit that their content marketing is not meeting their expectations.
Our presentation shares content marketing "do's" and "don'ts" and how content strategy is the foundation for successful content marketing.
Content Marketing: Before you Write, Understand their PlightNuGrowth Solutions
Over the last several years, content
marketing has exploded in popularity.
In fact, 90% of all organizations use
content in their marketing efforts and
78% of CMOs see custom content as the
future of marketing.
Social Media Communications: A New Business ParadigmKemp Edmonds
1) Social media is not about selling but about engagement and building relationships. It requires choosing the right niche and having clear goals.
2) There are frameworks that can be used to plan and measure social media marketing efforts, including setting SMART goals and tracking key performance indicators.
3) Execution involves using different social networks and timing, as well as monitoring and measuring results, to achieve business objectives and ultimately the overall marketing goals of the organization.
Asia Orangio - How to acquire your first 100 customersJoe Glover
Do you ever wonder how some startups seem to figure out customer acquisition so easily? It seems like one second, you’ve never heard of them and the next second, they’re everywhere you turn.
Asia Matos, CEO and Founder of DemandMaven, walks you through the exact go-to-market process for winning your first 100 customers and discovering your absolute best marketing strategies and channels in the early days.
06. DIGGIT TIM CAIN (Digital First Media): 7 korakov do odličnega nativnega o...mateja repovž
Kakšno je odlično nativno oglaševanje? Kako tovrstne oglase vsebinsko in oblikovno pripraviti, da dosežemo želene rezultate? Zakaj je partnerstvo srce nativnega oglaševanja?
Od ideje, znanja, kreativnosti, navdiha in sodelovanja, do zavidljivih rezultatov realizacije nativnega oglaševanja s Timom Cainom.
Webinar - Why You Should Let Your Buyer Design Your Sales Process eCornell
“The buyer is in charge” is one of the most popular refrains in contemporary business sales and marketing today. Well it’s true; the Internet has changed buyer behavior forever. In the old days of business sales, the seller controlled the conversation. Now, the Internet has given the power back to the buyer. Marketing has undergone a radical transformation to change their approach to meet the new buyer’s expectations. It’s sales’ turn.
The reality is the buyer views their experience with a vendor as one of the most important factors in buying. When polled, buyers rate their experience with vendors higher than the expected answers of product and price. The sales leader’s imperative is to deliver the sales experience their buyers want and expect.
Craig Rosenberg is in the Chief Analyst for TOPO. TOPO helps organizations optimize their sales and marketing to order to deliver remarkable buying experiences. He has worked with 100’s of sales, inside sales, and marketing organizations to design, build and optimize their processes. He is known to many as the "Funnelholic", the name of his very popular sales and marketing blog.
In this webinar, we provide you with the blueprint and specific use case examples. You will learn:
- Best practices for understanding your buyer
- How the buyer affects your organizational design including people, process and technology
- Specific examples of companies creating buyer-responsive processes
- This discussion is tailored for CEOs, execs, VPs, upper-level management, and anyone involved in sales and overall business strategy.
Missed Opportunities: Rethinking Call Tracking for Google Ads & SEOSearch Engine Journal
Are you ready to improve your sales approach and convert your leads faster?
Sure, you could try spending thousands of dollars on PPC (with no results) – or, even worse, run ads blindly (and receive bad leads).
But why would you want to do that?
Watch this sponsored Search Engine Journal webinar and learn how you can improve your lead generation campaigns with call tracking.
In this presentation you’ll learn:
Common approaches to PPC that result in low customer retention and poor customer experiences.
How call tracking can help identify gaps in the sales process and improve the value of marketing leads.
How listening to call recordings can open up opportunities for new marketing tactics.
Inbound call processes are a goldmine, but sadly often overlooked by business leaders who just assume they have bad leads.
Franco Aquino, co-founder of REN Marketing, will be joined by Laura Lawrie, CallRail’s Principle Product Manager to discuss how call tracking can improve your lead generation campaigns, both paid and organic.
Content Marketing Strategy on a Cocktail NapkinDemandSphere
According to Content Marketing Institute, 48% of marketers don't have a written strategy for content marketing efforts. Get started by jotting down your goals and messages on a cocktail napkin.
Here's the truth, the majority of marketers FAILat content marketing. Don't believe us, data shows the overwhelming amount of companies openly admit that their content marketing is not meeting their expectations.
Our presentation shares content marketing "do's" and "don'ts" and how content strategy is the foundation for successful content marketing.
Content Marketing: Before you Write, Understand their PlightNuGrowth Solutions
Over the last several years, content
marketing has exploded in popularity.
In fact, 90% of all organizations use
content in their marketing efforts and
78% of CMOs see custom content as the
future of marketing.
Social Media Communications: A New Business ParadigmKemp Edmonds
1) Social media is not about selling but about engagement and building relationships. It requires choosing the right niche and having clear goals.
2) There are frameworks that can be used to plan and measure social media marketing efforts, including setting SMART goals and tracking key performance indicators.
3) Execution involves using different social networks and timing, as well as monitoring and measuring results, to achieve business objectives and ultimately the overall marketing goals of the organization.
Mr. Andrew must investigate strategic options and evaluate his organization's strategic position, products, customers, and competitors. He should identify new market segments and business opportunities. To revive inactive clients, he will conduct a SWOT analysis, contact clients regularly with promotional programs, and address their needs to build trust. His retention strategies include improving customer service, showing appreciation, being transparent, and initiating loyalty programs.
Customer retention is important as it costs 6-7 times more to acquire new customers than retain existing ones. Content marketing can help with customer retention by understanding customers' needs, being consistent with a content strategy and calendar, being proactive by addressing common questions, being authoritative with industry knowledge, making content share-worthy across departments, distributing content across multiple channels, and housing all content in a central online repository for easy access. Following these seven habits of highly effective content marketing can help create positive customer experiences and stronger customer relationships.
Delivered by Kath Pay, CEO of Holistic Email Marketing, at Figaro Digital's Email Marketing & CRM Seminar on Thursday 9 February 2017.
Aimed at marketing professionals looking to push the power of their email marketing, this session reveals how to leverage the testing ability of your emails to improve the performance of your other marketing acquisition and conversion channels. You will learn how to build a hypothesis into your emails, to drive the actions that provide the answers you're looking for. As well as how to use a push channel such as email to inform and improve pull channel performance. Plus, tactics to test for long-term results as well as short-term results.
This document provides information about a Growth Marketing Bootcamp. It begins by defining growth marketing as an approach that focuses on customer engagement and building a user base through experimental strategies. It emphasizes customer focus over brand focus. The document then explains why learning growth marketing is important, noting that it aims to increase and retain customers through a comprehensive, customized strategy. It also takes inputs from various fields to frame efficient growth strategies. The document then provides details about Xpert's Growth Marketing Bootcamp, a 6-week intensive program taught by industry experts to advance careers in growth marketing. It is relevant for marketing professionals, founders, and data analysts.
This document provides principles for persuasive web design. It discusses the importance of clarity, visual appeal through positive first impressions, strong visual hierarchy, conserving user attention, and having one primary action per screen. Specific tips are given, such as being specific, keeping designs simple, and only presenting the next step when users are ready. Research is cited showing that simpler designs with attention to visual cues can increase conversions and revenue. The document concludes by offering a book on web design principles and providing contact information.
Chuck Liu Design Research Lead KISSmetrics @chuckjliu cliu@kissmetrics.com
Market research helps you make decisions.
3 Essential Mantras of Market Research 1
Goal: Make better decisions, faster.
Get things done in days, not weeks or months.
Market research priorities are different depending on what stage your business is at
There are many FREE resources out there.
Google Trends: Measure market potential and interest AVINASH KAUSHIK HTTP://KISS.LY/LEANAC
Talking to experts: Get the detailed scoop of workflows and processes
1. Hypothesis- driven Have an idea to prove or disprove
2. Short and targeted 5 days, 2 weeks max
3 Ways for Early Stage Businesses to do Lean Market Research 2
1. Survey + Social Distribution Cheap (or free), but requires more work on your part
1. Make a screener or survey 2. Tweet/share it out 3. Analyze
Try the good ole’ “asking for a friend” (except it’s you really asking)
Whether you’re actually asking for a friend or not, this actually works be er, especially if you tag a potential competitor
1. Ask a question on Quora 2. Revitalize an old relevant thread with a new comment 3. Ask people to answer an existing question
2. AdWords Easy setup, variable expenses
You Pay for Clicks, Which Is Pre y Realistic
AdWords Keyword Planner does the work for you in volume and interest
1. Practice your pitch 2. Limited character count = concise messaging 3. Bad ideas = no problem
3. Amazon Mechanical Turk Disclaimer: I haven’t tried yet, but I want to
Mechanical Turk Plan: Simple • Design a test • Distribute a test • Analyze the data
3 Strategies for Existing Businesses/ Enterprises to Getting Faster Research Done 3
1. In-App Surveys Contextual, relevant, and dismissible
Existing workflow and pain points • Nudge your customers with in-app surveys • Open-ended
In-App Survey Pros and Cons Pros • Low cost • Low effort • Can be turned on/off as you please to measure activities over time • Quick responses based on targeting technique Cons • Limits demographic to your existing users • Can potentially annoy your users
2. Experience Sampling Uncover user needs and behaviors
Pros • Highlights behaviors, moods, stress levels • Gives context to these behaviors depending on how it was administered (same time every day, multiple times a day, etc.) • Measures differences over time Cons • Risk of participants dropping off or stopping participation • Incentive needed to lure in • Not good for checking if someone is doing a task repetitively Experience Sampling Pros and Cons
3. Persona Advisory Board
Quick Review: Personas (thanks to Buffer for these images!
Pros • Highly contextual information about day in the life, workflow, and process • Visibility into which tools are used for tasks • Deeper relationship and trust built with customer Cons • High amount of effort on your part • Recruiting can be hit or miss depending on your relationship with customers / th
Lead Scoring & Nurturing in Higher Educationpatmcgraw
Lead scoring and nurturing can help colleges and universities attract and retain more successful students. Lead scoring involves analyzing the traits of past successful students to identify others with similar profiles. Key traits may include demographics, psychographics, budget, authority to enroll, need for education, and timeframe. Organizations then focus enrollment efforts on leads most likely to enroll today through relevant outreach, while nurturing those likely to enroll later with less expensive channels. Done correctly with the right message through the right channels at the right time, lead scoring and nurturing can increase conversion rates by 1.5 to 3.0 times by ensuring all qualified prospects are contacted.
The document provides information about Econsultancy and the training it offers. Econsultancy is a company that bridges the gap between digital strategy and implementation through research, training, and events. It offers public and private training courses, subscriptions to online resources, industry events, and digital transformation services. The document then discusses Econsultancy's training in more detail, including practitioner-led courses on topics like email marketing that are 1-3 days long. It also offers online learning modules and an online classroom. The rest of the document provides an overview of a course on increasing email marketing conversions in 3 steps: getting subscribers to open emails, click on content, and complete a conversion on the landing page.
How to leverage content marketing to get more studentsArthur Gopak
Arthur Gopak, CEO of AlphaGamma, discusses how businesses can leverage content marketing to attract young professionals through a business portal. He advocates creating and distributing valuable, consistent content that offers value to the target audience without immediately focusing on sales or promotions. By following principles of content creation, promotion, and conversion - such as preparing relevant content, framing it well, offering value first before asking anything in return, and giving it time - conversions and business results will eventually follow.
Drip Marketing vs. Lead Nurturing in Lead Life Cycle | Position2Position2
Drip Marketing engages a prospect whereas Lead Nurturing involves understanding the prospect, their associated needs, & develops a better, more qualified sales opportunity.
This document provides guidance on lead qualification and nurturing for B2B marketers. It discusses how lead qualification can increase sales by ensuring the right leads are passed to sales. Nurturing unqualified leads with educational content can reduce spending by preventing leaks in the sales funnel. The document recommends qualifying leads based on both implicit factors like website behavior and explicit factors like job role. It also provides tips for nurturing leads through automated communications, personal notes, and reconnecting with past leads. Research shows companies that excel at lead qualification and nurturing close more deals with fewer resources.
On-Demand SlideShare:
Top 10 B2B Lead Scoring Mistakes
A well-planned, well-designed, and optimized lead scoring schema can be a key contributor to sales productivity, sales engagement, and the rate at which raw inquiries convert to qualified leads, opportunities, and deals.
In this slideshare, discover 10 of the most common lead scoring mistakes that B2B companies make. You'll learn:
-Why it's critical to separate demographic and behavioral scoring
-How to avoid "score inflation"
-Common attributes & behaviors that are often scored incorrectly
To receive monthly tips, strategies and information on upcoming events about demand generation, event marketing, and more, be sure to subscribe to The Point.
Howard J. Sewell is president of Spear Marketing Group and a 25-year B2B marketing veteran. He writes on demand generation, lead management, social media, and B2B marketing for Spear's blog "The Point."
How To Dramatically Increase Client RetentionSEOReseller.com
Getting people to your site is easy but keeping them coming back is the challenge. Join Clayton Wood as he talks about how to increase client retention.
This document provides tips and guidance for using video marketing for B2B businesses. It discusses defining the purpose and goals of video campaigns, choosing the right video format and length, and establishing a brand personality in videos. Examples are given of hypothetical video marketing campaigns for different types of companies. The document emphasizes determining the desired outcome of the video and targeting the appropriate audience before selecting a video type, tone, and length that align with the purpose.
It Takes Two: How to Grow with your Customers for Relationships that LastInfluitive
Evan Jacobs, Senior Manager of Customer Marketing & Advocacy
In today’s crowded marketplace, customers are inundated with information, offers and requests for their time, money and resources. This makes it difficult to not only cut through the noise, but also a challenge to create meaningful and lasting relationships with them. Lack of engagement doesn’t always mean they’re not listening; it could just mean you’re taking the wrong approach. Much like any other relationship, building and maintaining a certain level of trust is the key to a successful partnership. Creating this foundation can open a dialogue, allowing both parties to mutually benefit, grow and learn from one another.
In this session, Evan Jacobs, Senior Manager of Customer Marketing & Advocacy at the cyber-security company Rapid7, will break down the key steps and benefits to establishing trust and meaningful dialogue with customers, highlighting some this strategy and approach that Rapid7 has used to elevate customers into super advocates. Audience members will walk away with actionable steps for how to implement these tactics in their own organizations at a global level.
Own The Room is a training company like no other. We bring a uniquely experiential approach to learning and development. Using our highly interactive and innovative methodology, our expert Coaches keep you so energized and entertained that you may not even realize you’re at a training. No matter which of our programs you experience, you’ll be armed with real-life knowledge and long-lasting skills you can apply immediately.
Since our founding in 2003, we’ve partnered with more than 200 companies to deliver trainings in 46 countries and in 7 different languages. We empower individuals and teams with breakthrough skills they need to drive progress, increase efficiency, and improve collaboration -- all while boosting the bottom line.
This document discusses lead scoring and how it can improve marketing and sales results. Some key points:
- Lead scoring uses analytics to assign a score to sales prospects based on their interests, profile, and buying intentions to prioritize leads. Companies that implement lead scoring see up to a 77% lift in lead generation ROI.
- When building a lead scoring program, marketing and sales should agree on what qualifies as a good lead and collaborate on selecting relevant data dimensions to score, like website interactions, content downloads, and demographic information.
- Dimensions are assigned weight and impact levels. The program is modeled and tested before implementation to refine how it classifies leads as hot, warm or cold.
-
Marketing Automation Meetup - Eloqua Lead ScoringDerek Bell
On the first Thursday of each month, we host a Marketing Automation Meetup. Generally supporting our Oracle Marketing Cloud Eloqua customers and prospects, these events provide a wide range of information and insight to support Modern Marketers. This event, held 16 April 2015, focussed on Lead Scoring.
Hands- on Social Media 7: Building And Selling Social Strategyagencyside
The document provides guidance on selling social media services to clients. It recommends that salespeople demonstrate their own proficiency with social media, qualify customers by understanding their goals and ensuring budget fit, and price services using retainers, projects, or pay-for-performance models depending on the client and goals. It emphasizes understanding objectives over jumping to tactics and getting input from others to develop effective strategies.
The document outlines an approach to content and communications strategy that focuses on understanding why an organization communicates (their objectives), who they need to reach, what message to convey, and where to share that message. It emphasizes identifying the natural conversations occurring in social media and finding ways to contribute meaningfully. The approach strives to keep strategies simple, practical, and tied closely to establishing brand identity while creating value for audiences. It is led by an experienced strategist and aims to deliver measurable results through collaborative work tailored to each client's unique needs and goals.
Mr. Andrew must investigate strategic options and evaluate his organization's strategic position, products, customers, and competitors. He should identify new market segments and business opportunities. To revive inactive clients, he will conduct a SWOT analysis, contact clients regularly with promotional programs, and address their needs to build trust. His retention strategies include improving customer service, showing appreciation, being transparent, and initiating loyalty programs.
Customer retention is important as it costs 6-7 times more to acquire new customers than retain existing ones. Content marketing can help with customer retention by understanding customers' needs, being consistent with a content strategy and calendar, being proactive by addressing common questions, being authoritative with industry knowledge, making content share-worthy across departments, distributing content across multiple channels, and housing all content in a central online repository for easy access. Following these seven habits of highly effective content marketing can help create positive customer experiences and stronger customer relationships.
Delivered by Kath Pay, CEO of Holistic Email Marketing, at Figaro Digital's Email Marketing & CRM Seminar on Thursday 9 February 2017.
Aimed at marketing professionals looking to push the power of their email marketing, this session reveals how to leverage the testing ability of your emails to improve the performance of your other marketing acquisition and conversion channels. You will learn how to build a hypothesis into your emails, to drive the actions that provide the answers you're looking for. As well as how to use a push channel such as email to inform and improve pull channel performance. Plus, tactics to test for long-term results as well as short-term results.
This document provides information about a Growth Marketing Bootcamp. It begins by defining growth marketing as an approach that focuses on customer engagement and building a user base through experimental strategies. It emphasizes customer focus over brand focus. The document then explains why learning growth marketing is important, noting that it aims to increase and retain customers through a comprehensive, customized strategy. It also takes inputs from various fields to frame efficient growth strategies. The document then provides details about Xpert's Growth Marketing Bootcamp, a 6-week intensive program taught by industry experts to advance careers in growth marketing. It is relevant for marketing professionals, founders, and data analysts.
This document provides principles for persuasive web design. It discusses the importance of clarity, visual appeal through positive first impressions, strong visual hierarchy, conserving user attention, and having one primary action per screen. Specific tips are given, such as being specific, keeping designs simple, and only presenting the next step when users are ready. Research is cited showing that simpler designs with attention to visual cues can increase conversions and revenue. The document concludes by offering a book on web design principles and providing contact information.
Chuck Liu Design Research Lead KISSmetrics @chuckjliu cliu@kissmetrics.com
Market research helps you make decisions.
3 Essential Mantras of Market Research 1
Goal: Make better decisions, faster.
Get things done in days, not weeks or months.
Market research priorities are different depending on what stage your business is at
There are many FREE resources out there.
Google Trends: Measure market potential and interest AVINASH KAUSHIK HTTP://KISS.LY/LEANAC
Talking to experts: Get the detailed scoop of workflows and processes
1. Hypothesis- driven Have an idea to prove or disprove
2. Short and targeted 5 days, 2 weeks max
3 Ways for Early Stage Businesses to do Lean Market Research 2
1. Survey + Social Distribution Cheap (or free), but requires more work on your part
1. Make a screener or survey 2. Tweet/share it out 3. Analyze
Try the good ole’ “asking for a friend” (except it’s you really asking)
Whether you’re actually asking for a friend or not, this actually works be er, especially if you tag a potential competitor
1. Ask a question on Quora 2. Revitalize an old relevant thread with a new comment 3. Ask people to answer an existing question
2. AdWords Easy setup, variable expenses
You Pay for Clicks, Which Is Pre y Realistic
AdWords Keyword Planner does the work for you in volume and interest
1. Practice your pitch 2. Limited character count = concise messaging 3. Bad ideas = no problem
3. Amazon Mechanical Turk Disclaimer: I haven’t tried yet, but I want to
Mechanical Turk Plan: Simple • Design a test • Distribute a test • Analyze the data
3 Strategies for Existing Businesses/ Enterprises to Getting Faster Research Done 3
1. In-App Surveys Contextual, relevant, and dismissible
Existing workflow and pain points • Nudge your customers with in-app surveys • Open-ended
In-App Survey Pros and Cons Pros • Low cost • Low effort • Can be turned on/off as you please to measure activities over time • Quick responses based on targeting technique Cons • Limits demographic to your existing users • Can potentially annoy your users
2. Experience Sampling Uncover user needs and behaviors
Pros • Highlights behaviors, moods, stress levels • Gives context to these behaviors depending on how it was administered (same time every day, multiple times a day, etc.) • Measures differences over time Cons • Risk of participants dropping off or stopping participation • Incentive needed to lure in • Not good for checking if someone is doing a task repetitively Experience Sampling Pros and Cons
3. Persona Advisory Board
Quick Review: Personas (thanks to Buffer for these images!
Pros • Highly contextual information about day in the life, workflow, and process • Visibility into which tools are used for tasks • Deeper relationship and trust built with customer Cons • High amount of effort on your part • Recruiting can be hit or miss depending on your relationship with customers / th
Lead Scoring & Nurturing in Higher Educationpatmcgraw
Lead scoring and nurturing can help colleges and universities attract and retain more successful students. Lead scoring involves analyzing the traits of past successful students to identify others with similar profiles. Key traits may include demographics, psychographics, budget, authority to enroll, need for education, and timeframe. Organizations then focus enrollment efforts on leads most likely to enroll today through relevant outreach, while nurturing those likely to enroll later with less expensive channels. Done correctly with the right message through the right channels at the right time, lead scoring and nurturing can increase conversion rates by 1.5 to 3.0 times by ensuring all qualified prospects are contacted.
The document provides information about Econsultancy and the training it offers. Econsultancy is a company that bridges the gap between digital strategy and implementation through research, training, and events. It offers public and private training courses, subscriptions to online resources, industry events, and digital transformation services. The document then discusses Econsultancy's training in more detail, including practitioner-led courses on topics like email marketing that are 1-3 days long. It also offers online learning modules and an online classroom. The rest of the document provides an overview of a course on increasing email marketing conversions in 3 steps: getting subscribers to open emails, click on content, and complete a conversion on the landing page.
How to leverage content marketing to get more studentsArthur Gopak
Arthur Gopak, CEO of AlphaGamma, discusses how businesses can leverage content marketing to attract young professionals through a business portal. He advocates creating and distributing valuable, consistent content that offers value to the target audience without immediately focusing on sales or promotions. By following principles of content creation, promotion, and conversion - such as preparing relevant content, framing it well, offering value first before asking anything in return, and giving it time - conversions and business results will eventually follow.
Drip Marketing vs. Lead Nurturing in Lead Life Cycle | Position2Position2
Drip Marketing engages a prospect whereas Lead Nurturing involves understanding the prospect, their associated needs, & develops a better, more qualified sales opportunity.
This document provides guidance on lead qualification and nurturing for B2B marketers. It discusses how lead qualification can increase sales by ensuring the right leads are passed to sales. Nurturing unqualified leads with educational content can reduce spending by preventing leaks in the sales funnel. The document recommends qualifying leads based on both implicit factors like website behavior and explicit factors like job role. It also provides tips for nurturing leads through automated communications, personal notes, and reconnecting with past leads. Research shows companies that excel at lead qualification and nurturing close more deals with fewer resources.
On-Demand SlideShare:
Top 10 B2B Lead Scoring Mistakes
A well-planned, well-designed, and optimized lead scoring schema can be a key contributor to sales productivity, sales engagement, and the rate at which raw inquiries convert to qualified leads, opportunities, and deals.
In this slideshare, discover 10 of the most common lead scoring mistakes that B2B companies make. You'll learn:
-Why it's critical to separate demographic and behavioral scoring
-How to avoid "score inflation"
-Common attributes & behaviors that are often scored incorrectly
To receive monthly tips, strategies and information on upcoming events about demand generation, event marketing, and more, be sure to subscribe to The Point.
Howard J. Sewell is president of Spear Marketing Group and a 25-year B2B marketing veteran. He writes on demand generation, lead management, social media, and B2B marketing for Spear's blog "The Point."
How To Dramatically Increase Client RetentionSEOReseller.com
Getting people to your site is easy but keeping them coming back is the challenge. Join Clayton Wood as he talks about how to increase client retention.
This document provides tips and guidance for using video marketing for B2B businesses. It discusses defining the purpose and goals of video campaigns, choosing the right video format and length, and establishing a brand personality in videos. Examples are given of hypothetical video marketing campaigns for different types of companies. The document emphasizes determining the desired outcome of the video and targeting the appropriate audience before selecting a video type, tone, and length that align with the purpose.
It Takes Two: How to Grow with your Customers for Relationships that LastInfluitive
Evan Jacobs, Senior Manager of Customer Marketing & Advocacy
In today’s crowded marketplace, customers are inundated with information, offers and requests for their time, money and resources. This makes it difficult to not only cut through the noise, but also a challenge to create meaningful and lasting relationships with them. Lack of engagement doesn’t always mean they’re not listening; it could just mean you’re taking the wrong approach. Much like any other relationship, building and maintaining a certain level of trust is the key to a successful partnership. Creating this foundation can open a dialogue, allowing both parties to mutually benefit, grow and learn from one another.
In this session, Evan Jacobs, Senior Manager of Customer Marketing & Advocacy at the cyber-security company Rapid7, will break down the key steps and benefits to establishing trust and meaningful dialogue with customers, highlighting some this strategy and approach that Rapid7 has used to elevate customers into super advocates. Audience members will walk away with actionable steps for how to implement these tactics in their own organizations at a global level.
Own The Room is a training company like no other. We bring a uniquely experiential approach to learning and development. Using our highly interactive and innovative methodology, our expert Coaches keep you so energized and entertained that you may not even realize you’re at a training. No matter which of our programs you experience, you’ll be armed with real-life knowledge and long-lasting skills you can apply immediately.
Since our founding in 2003, we’ve partnered with more than 200 companies to deliver trainings in 46 countries and in 7 different languages. We empower individuals and teams with breakthrough skills they need to drive progress, increase efficiency, and improve collaboration -- all while boosting the bottom line.
This document discusses lead scoring and how it can improve marketing and sales results. Some key points:
- Lead scoring uses analytics to assign a score to sales prospects based on their interests, profile, and buying intentions to prioritize leads. Companies that implement lead scoring see up to a 77% lift in lead generation ROI.
- When building a lead scoring program, marketing and sales should agree on what qualifies as a good lead and collaborate on selecting relevant data dimensions to score, like website interactions, content downloads, and demographic information.
- Dimensions are assigned weight and impact levels. The program is modeled and tested before implementation to refine how it classifies leads as hot, warm or cold.
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Marketing Automation Meetup - Eloqua Lead ScoringDerek Bell
On the first Thursday of each month, we host a Marketing Automation Meetup. Generally supporting our Oracle Marketing Cloud Eloqua customers and prospects, these events provide a wide range of information and insight to support Modern Marketers. This event, held 16 April 2015, focussed on Lead Scoring.
Hands- on Social Media 7: Building And Selling Social Strategyagencyside
The document provides guidance on selling social media services to clients. It recommends that salespeople demonstrate their own proficiency with social media, qualify customers by understanding their goals and ensuring budget fit, and price services using retainers, projects, or pay-for-performance models depending on the client and goals. It emphasizes understanding objectives over jumping to tactics and getting input from others to develop effective strategies.
The document outlines an approach to content and communications strategy that focuses on understanding why an organization communicates (their objectives), who they need to reach, what message to convey, and where to share that message. It emphasizes identifying the natural conversations occurring in social media and finding ways to contribute meaningfully. The approach strives to keep strategies simple, practical, and tied closely to establishing brand identity while creating value for audiences. It is led by an experienced strategist and aims to deliver measurable results through collaborative work tailored to each client's unique needs and goals.
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The document provides an overview of business-to-business (B2B) marketing strategies and tactics for the digital age. It discusses developing buyer personas, identifying marketing channels, and creating and measuring marketing campaigns. Key points include developing a vision and goals, defining the target market and buyer persona through research, identifying appropriate marketing channels like blogs, social media and email, creating content like whitepapers and videos, and measuring performance to improve over time. The document also discusses shifts in the B2B buying process and how to adapt marketing approaches accordingly.
Rehashing offline copy or boring marketing collateral for your website just doesn't cut it anymore. Your website, blogs, webinars, video and podcasts, social media, and other online content all offer you tremendous opportunities to connect with your customers and drive business. Sounds great right? It is. But only if you do it well, and create the kind of content that both resonates with your customers and meets your business objectives.
The document summarizes key points from a workshop on identifying value and benefits in social media. It discusses different social media models and strategies for content creation and distribution. It also covers guidelines for measuring success and managing internal stakeholders. Audience analysis findings from a student survey are presented which could help improve engagement and relationships with prospective and current students.
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The document summarizes Alyssa Dver's presentation on developing an effective marketing plan in a short amount of time. It outlines an 8-step process for small businesses to inventory their marketing efforts, develop powerful positioning and messaging, validate pricing, acquire and foster leads, and create a defendable marketing plan. The goal is to help businesses calm marketing anxieties and build a solid marketing strategy in a no-time, step-by-step approach.
This document provides an overview of social media marketing from a consulting firm called SAPPO & CO. It discusses what social media is, why businesses should use social media, how to develop a social media strategy, and the services SAPPO & CO offers to help clients with social media. The presentation is divided into several sections that cover topics such as understanding customers on social media, developing engaging content, managing social media campaigns, and ensuring strategies are optimized for business goals and growth. SAPPO & CO promotes its "Social Business Value Creation" approach and expertise in helping businesses of all sizes and industries succeed with social media.
The document discusses effective strategies for nurturing business leads over extended sales cycles. It emphasizes that leads not closed on the initial outreach are still valuable and can become customers if properly nurtured. Specific recommendations include: developing a systematic nurturing process using targeted messaging; keeping prospects engaged through their research phase; addressing concerns to reduce risk; and offering help to move prospects through the buying process. Nurturing contacts over time increases the chances of converting them into customers.
This document discusses the importance of lead nurturing for B2B sales. It notes that 75% of leads are discarded without follow up, but nurtured leads are 3 times more likely to become customers. A case study shows how one company increased sales from older leads to 37% of customers through email nurturing. The document provides best practices for lead nurturing, including becoming an industry expert, educating sales, tracking results, and maintaining relationships with customers.
This document discusses the importance of lead nurturing for B2B sales. It provides insights from a case study where a company was able to generate 37% of new customers from leads over 3 months old and 20% from leads over 1 year old through effective lead nurturing. It outlines best practices like becoming an industry expert to nurture leads, tracking marketing activities, using call scripts and emails, not wasting leads, and tracking results. It also discusses nurturing leads through different stages of the sales cycle with a combination of communications like email, telemarketing, direct mail and webcasts.
Nurturing Best Practices for Demand GenAsad Haroon
Most companies have a database of leads that have been set aside after initial closing attempts failed to produce the desired results. These leads should not be ignored, as they can prove at least as valuable as fresh leads, and are worth working. The truth is, even the best leads will not produce the results you want if they are not managed and nurtured well.
Why the first 2 stages of Design thinking are important for a startup?Anuradha Sridharan
This document discusses the importance of the first two stages of design thinking - empathy and problem definition - for startups. It provides examples from two case studies of companies that utilized design thinking to better understand customer needs and problems. The document emphasizes spending time understanding the problem from the customer's perspective in order to identify opportunities to create value. It also stresses the importance of being open-minded during the empathy stage and allowing customer insights to shape the definition of problems to address.
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The document provides tips for effectively summarizing a client's current situation and desired situation in order to make recommendations. It advises asking open-ended questions about the client's business model, marketing efforts, and personal goals to understand where they are today and where they want to be. Understanding both the current and desired situations allows one to define a roadmap to help clients achieve their objectives. Sample questions are provided to evaluate the client's current situation in their business, marketing, and individual priorities as well as questions to understand their desired situation and priorities for the future.
The document provides tips for effectively summarizing a client's current situation and desired situation in order to make recommendations. It advises asking open-ended questions about the client's business model, marketing efforts, and personal goals to understand where they are today and where they want to be. Understanding both the current and desired situations allows one to define a roadmap to help clients achieve their objectives. Sample questions are provided to evaluate the client's current situation in their business, marketing, and individual priorities as well as questions to understand their desired situation and priorities for the future.
The document provides tips and techniques for researching leads and prospecting. It recommends researching leads on LinkedIn, Twitter, and through HubSpot's Marketing Grader and Lead Intelligence tools. The research aims to qualify leads, determine priority, and find opportunities to connect. Prospecting tips include focusing on activity over outcomes and avoiding procrastination behaviors. The presentation provides frameworks for researching leads systematically and prospecting effectively.
10 Survey Question You Should Ask Your CustomersRodrigo Fuentes
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Your customers are a great source of information. They can help you improve your business and product, gain a better understanding of your market and even bring you referrals. But you're wondering, "what questions to ask in customer feedback session?"
Asking the right questions can be game-changing for your business. Here are 10 game-changing questions you should be asking your customers right now.
Sales Methodologies - A quick guide to boosting success - realSociableDalia Asterbadi
The document discusses the top 6 sales methodologies used today: SPIN Selling, Conceptual Selling, SNAP Selling, Solution Selling, Customer Centric Selling, and Challenger Selling. It provides an overview of each methodology and tips for how to effectively utilize them. It also discusses how technology like realSociable can help salespeople implement the methodologies by providing business intelligence, maximizing online opportunities, and reducing administrative work to focus on relationships. The document advocates integrating technology with sales methodologies to create velocity while maintaining a relationship-driven approach.
How Prepared Are We for Customer 2.0?
By Juliann Grant, Telesian Technology
Customer 2.0 is calling! We have become so enamored with and caught up in the technology of Web 2.0, our PDA's, gadgets, and widgets that keep us connected and alive 24 hours a day to those around the world, that we forget at the core of it all, it must still be all about the customer.
We must not only use the timeliness and power of social media to broadcast our message to customers, but we need to use it to listen in order to learn what our customers are saying to each other and about us. The web have given customers immediate and almost limitless access to information on companies, products, and people, and realize it or not, we may not even be in the conversation! This is truly moving the "traditional" marketing and sales function towards irrelevance. We must realize that Customer 2.0 is embracing the "buying cycle" on their terms and no longer needs to wait on the "sales cycle".
The typical buyer is savvy, knowledgeable, and smart. Customer 2.0 demands that their web experience be fun, interactive, and social. They value professionalism over glitz. They want substance, not flash. They look to their peers to see what they are buying and want to do the same because they trust their experience. They talk to each other and in real time. Your misstep today is not only tomorrow's news, it is today's news as well.
How do we do this in the Automation and Engineering industry? We’re going to find out through with survey to uncover how well we are engaging with Customer 2.0. Do we speak their language? Are we connecting with them on their terms?
In this presentation, we will show how social media and the power of the web can be used to embrace Customer 2.0 in a meaningful, beneficial dialog that will help drive sales. A combination of case studies, customer interviews, surveys, and real social media encounters will be used to illustrate the power of the "new media" in marketing to Customer 2.0.
What Skills do B2B Marketers Need to be Truly Effective in 2014?Klaxon
Presentation delivered by Andy Bargery of Klaxon at a conference in London called The Evidence, March 2014.
The conference was organised by B2B Marketing Magazine and revolved around entries into the B2B Marketing Awards in 2013. This presentation was based on the submissions to those awards.
Today, websites are more critical to businesses success than ever before. Unfortunately, many have limited understanding to what a website should be, and more importantly, lack the knowledge of what a functional, fully-optimized website can deliver. Many under-estimate the value of going beyond a website that looks pretty. In order for a website to succeed in today’s digital focused world, we must go beyond design.
Topic: Secrets to Successful Data-Driven Marketing
As a marketer, you know the important role data plays when it comes to targeting and reaching new customers. But the truth is that most marketers see data as an obstacle. They find digging for data to be a chore—or even a bore. Sure, it's important, but where do you even begin? We'll explore how marketers can maximize business value from data about customers and prospects. We'll look at how to keep data clean and fresh, and look how we can apply what the data is telling us.
This document provides an overview of strategies for attracting top talent using digital marketing. It begins with a brief history of website design from the early 1990s to present. It then discusses top website trends for 2018 such as HTTPS security, push notifications, site speed optimization, mobile-first design, unique layouts/imagery/video, and optimized career sections. The document emphasizes the importance of a mobile-friendly website and social media presence for attracting both clients and talent. It also stresses using digital marketing to showcase company culture, community involvement, and career opportunities in order to engage potential job candidates. Overall, the document advocates applying customer acquisition strategies to talent attraction through an online presence that highlights the employer brand.
The document provides an agenda for a marketing meeting. The agenda includes registration starting at 8:00am followed by breakfast. An overview of meeting goals will be presented at 8:40am along with introductions. Various presentations will take place from 9:00am to 11:00am on topics such as LinkedIn advertising, low cost marketing tactics, and learning from others. The meeting will conclude from 11:00am to 11:30am with a wrap up and networking time.
In our first roundtable, we held three presentations: 1. What Does Your Marketing Strategy Look Like? 2. The Importance of a Digital Strategy 3. Integrated Marketing & Sales
Martha Herdendorf is a digital marketing manager with over 10 years of experience in social media strategy, content creation, team management, and account management. She currently oversees a team of 10+ social media creators at Guarantee Digital. Previously she worked at C. Blohm & Associates as a project coordinator where she developed marketing strategies and analyzed campaign performance. She has expertise in social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
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Explore the potential of Facebook marketing with SNJ Global Services. We specialize in targeted ad campaigns and engaging content strategies to enhance your brand's visibility and drive conversions. Discover more about our solutions at SNJ Global Services:
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In today's digital world, getting found online is crucial.
But with millions of websites vying for attention, how do you make your content stand out?
The answer: Writing for SEO (Search Engine Optimization).
Learn how to write compelling content that not only engages readers but also ranks higher in search engine results.
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Join this webinar with Flowcode's Corey Daugherty and Georgette Malitsis to explore the transformative power of QR codes in bridging offline and online marketing worlds. Get ready to gain practical knowledge on using QR codes to increase conversion rates, optimize customer journeys, and ultimately unlock a new realm of marketing potential!
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Derived from original research conducted by Flow SEO. We examined over 1000 SaaS landing pages and selected the top 112 URLs to figure out what it takes to rank in the top 10 results. This talk will dive into the top findings, dispel a few SEO myths, and some clever examples of real-life strategies from top software brands.
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Key Sections Covered:
Introduction to Digital Marketing: Understand the fundamentals and importance of digital marketing in today’s business landscape.
Digital Marketing Channels: Detailed exploration of key channels including SEO, SEM, email marketing, social media optimization (SMO), social media marketing (SMM), content marketing, affiliate marketing, and influencer marketing.
SEO (Search Engine Optimization): Learn the techniques to improve your website’s ranking and drive organic traffic.
SEM (Search Engine Marketing): Discover how to leverage paid advertising for instant visibility and traffic.
Email Marketing: Strategies for crafting effective email campaigns that yield high ROI.
Social Media Optimization (SMO) and Marketing (SMM): Best practices for optimizing and advertising on platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube.
Content Marketing: Creating and distributing valuable content to attract and retain your target audience.
Affiliate Marketing: Understand the process of earning commissions by promoting other companies' products.
Influencer Marketing: Leveraging influencers to boost your brand’s reach and credibility.
Additional Insights:
Copywriting vs. Content Writing: Differences and purposes of copywriting and content writing in digital marketing.
Email Marketing Journey: Workflow for achieving maximum results from email campaigns.
Real-World Examples: Case studies and examples to illustrate successful digital marketing strategies.
Stay ahead of the curve by mastering these digital marketing techniques and elevating your brand’s online presence. This presentation is a valuable resource for anyone looking to thrive in the digital marketing arena.
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Hyderabad, the burgeoning tech hub of India, has become a hotspot for digital marketing. With a blend of traditional businesses and modern startups, the city offers fertile ground for digital marketing agencies to thrive. This article delves into the top digital marketing companies in Hyderabad, exploring their services, expertise, and what makes them stand out in a competitive market.
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this presentation is part of #dudawebinar
Explore new tools and features unveiled at Google Marketing Live and how they can be applied to your marketing strategies.
Gain insights into how AI can enhance the creative elements of your ads with improved personalization and enhanced optimization.
Learn how to balance the latest technologies with the core, timeless aspects of good marketing.
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Simplify your lead generation process with our essential steps infographic. This guide covers four key areas to help you generate and nurture quality leads:
Market Research: Conduct thorough research to understand your target market. Identify their needs, pain points, and preferences to create tailored marketing campaigns.
Content Creation: Develop engaging and informative content that addresses your audience’s challenges and interests. Use a mix of content formats such as blog posts, videos, infographics, and whitepapers.
Channel Promotion: Promote your content through a variety of channels to increase visibility and reach. Utilize social media, email marketing, SEO, and paid advertising to distribute your content.
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Building a quality pipeline is a challenge, and Google isn’t making it any easier.
Changes in the way traffic, and leads, are coming to your site has probably shifted, yet lead gen is still a top priority.
During this webinar you’ll learn about channels and tactics that are working, and some of the common missteps we see brands making over and over.
Come prepared to take notes on the importance of customer journeys, how to build a customer-centric culture across all teams, and what to expect when working with third parties.
Plus we’re sharing case studies. Get an insider’s view into lead gen campaign successes and failures for ourselves, and our sponsors.
Get an exclusive peek behind the curtain and see how we approach product promotions using a holistic, consumer-centered strategy that pays off time after time.
Key takeaways:
The best ways to attract and nurture your leads through every step of their journey.
How to support your team, or an agency, to execute these strategies effectively.
What to do after the lead hits your workflow. Pitfalls to avoid, what’s working, what’s not, and how to set up effective nurture campaigns.
With our very own Heather Campbell and Brent Csutoras, we’ll explore how to evolve your strategy based on an ever-changing set of standards.
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Roundtable session 2 Takeaways
1. 1
Small Changes, Big Impact Takeaways
Round 1: We all have budgets
Question: How do you measure where money should be spent?
Answer: By using target audiences, trial & error, mining data for more information
Question: How do you know you are investing your dollars in the right places?
Answer: Having a goal set up and knowing your audience really well. By using trial & error and
adjusting the quality of conversions. Using platforms where your audience is. Lastly, who's giving
you pressure? How can you better assist them?
Question: What are some low cost, high impact successes you have implemented in the
past few years?
Answer: First of all, low cost is relative - definitely depends on company. PPC + SEO has been a
successful combination for generating leads. Remarketing ads have been helpful - very low cost
per click. Another one is cross-sell promotions. Try leveraging your vendors for money.
Question: How do you decide how much to allocate when testing new channels, and how do
you get buy-in?
Answer: Start with research. Where is the audience hanging out? Establish sales potential.
Sometimes there is a budget for experimentation - use that! Make sure to look at established
benchmarks in the industry. There is value in failure. It's always better to try than to do nothing.
Question: What channels or tactics are you reluctant to test based on budget?
Answer: What is the KPI - it would be great to know that up front (not always possible though).
Google AdWords, some SEO can be hard because it doesn't happen right away and takes a lot of
time.
Question: What is your go-to advice for allocating marketing budgets?
Measure things and go with what works. If you follow only data - you're just like everyone else. Use
a small portion to do something different and stand out. Experimenting is always a good idea
Bonus takeaways:
-SEO & PPC can work great together if you do it correctly.
- Use resources that are available to you (Case studies that have been done, research that has
happened etc.)
Round 2: We all need partners. Lets talk about our strategic alliances.
Question: Where do you find strategic alliances?
Answer: Sharing content with partners, conferences/associations/networking. Analyzing sales
channels - when is it a good time to partner? Also consider using volunteers.
Question: What value do you bring to a strategic partnership? What matters?
Answer: Simplify the buying process for customer. Have the ability to enhance end product. A
company that might have special expertise for complex problems. Combined expertise = more
value.
2. 2
Question: How do you define expectations with strategic partners?
Answer: Be careful to balance. Set clear expectations and make sure to have a point person to go
between. Creating respect and a good reputation is key.
Question: How do you make sure you have found a partner that will make a big impact?
Answer: Get insight from departments on partners. Rely on customer feedback. Make sure
customers are taken care of and make sure it is not one sided. Don't alienate anyone.
Question: What qualities matter most for a successful, long-term partnership?
Answer: Trust, transparency and respect. Often times, similar size companies give similar value in
what you get out of a partnership.
Question: What have you done to increase the impact of your strategic alliance? (i.e.
sharing comparative data, buyer personas, or business plans with your partners?)
Answer: Joint events. Seminars & Webinars
Round 3: We are constantly working to stand out. What are some out-of-the-box initiatives
that are low-cost, high return?
- Anything 1:1 or in person, community involvement, networking to make impactful conversations,
- Co-op programs
- Content marketing
- LinkedIn Blog posts- active use and requirement for employees
- PR
- Offering information or consulting
- Education materials (eBooks/email marketing)
- Making your company accessible and easy to do business with
- Internal training, in person education
- Offering free samples, try out a product with the ability to send back
- Thank you's showing appreciation
Round 4: We have to make choices.
Question: What new digital channels are on your radar?
Answer: Video - new approaches to video. Instagram stories which offer an ease of use and great
speed on a low budget. Also LinkedIn
Question: How do you evaluate a new digital channel?
Answer: Are they getting traffic/natural SEO - use a data approach first – and if you’re not seeing
results, it’s generally a good idea to go to the experts for help
Question: Which channels are your smallest/biggest spend and why?
Tradeshows tend to be larger spend; maybe move some budget to digital? Literature is also a big
spend (more traditional.) Smaller spend - content creation in-house (have someone do it at a lower
cost)
Question: What choices have you made that produced the most surprising results?
Answer: Shifting from traditional trade shows & publishing. A big surprising came from using email
campaigns. Educating prospects and customers.
3. 3
Question: What digital channels have proven most successful?
Answer: Email & content together as long as it’s segmented correctly - make sure to target the right
people.
Question: Let’s talk about failures: What hasn’t succeeded and what might you do
differently to get different results?
Answer: Telephone - cold calling, PPC, LI campaign - DIY, need a professional to help.
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