VC Cafe

AUGUST 3, 2024

Several Israeli athletes won medals in the olympics this week amid death threats and intimidation campaigns. Good stuff Maya Cohen and team Monto for coming out of stealth with a $9M seed round for your e-invoicing platform to bring order to B2B payments! But there are also still 115 Israelis held in G**a and their time is running out.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

They allow you to create and optimize campaigns based on actionable evidence rather than intuition. Customer acquisition cost: Prevent reckless spending Where to track CAC 13. Digital marketing metrics are values that are used to track and measure campaign performance. Marketing metrics are a competitive advantage.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

B2B buyers aren’t all-rational, and they will often follow and recommend tools they’ve heard of even if they’ve never used them. The marketing team should create its own momentum through feature launches, content campaigns, product launches, and announcements. More networking and curated roundtables, less gurus and swag.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 4, 2016

Yes, there’s a lot of insight to be gained from web analytics for eCommerce sites , you can also learn a lot about B2B lead generation if you’re using analytics correctly. From an online perspective, the lead acquisition funnel has three major steps – brand awareness, prospects acquisition, and lead generation.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 6, 2019

LinkedIn ads offer the benefits of video content and the granular targeting of a B2B-centric platform. The growth of B2B video marketing. But LinkedIn owns the lucrative B2B audience. As AJ Wilcox notes in his course on LinkedIn ads , 72% of the Fortune 1000 are B2B companies. digital ad spend went to video.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Understand that B2B buyers are still humans. Maya Shah-Ceccotti , senior product marketing manager at ScreenCloud, claims that marketers in the B2B space often neglect that end buyers are still humans who are only representing businesses. There is no reason why the same shouldn’t apply to B2B customers.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 28, 2020

It wasn’t quite a flip from B2C to B2B, but it was close. That difference cascades down the funnel, allowing you to track the ROI of your lead sources between inbound and outbound campaigns—all the way through to revenue. SiriusDecisions says buyers encounter 32% more marketing campaigns now than they did just two years ago.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

It’s why Canva can call itself a multibillion-dollar platform and how ConvertKit pulled itself up to compete with goliaths like MailChimp and Campaign Monitor. Where campaigns to build brand awareness and generate top-of-funnel sales drive traditional marketing, data across the entire customer lifecycle drives growth hacking in marketing.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2022

This will improve customer lifetime value (CLTV), making customer acquisition costs (CAC) healthier. That B2B sales are built on relationships. It’s important to track each campaign to identify what’s working and what can be improved. Set clear goals for your campaigns (e.g., So, what does this tell us? Track and tweak.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 7, 2021

If you’re selling B2B, you know it’s a wide and competitive market. Sorry, but ABM is not B2B, nor is it right for all markets, business models, or companies (just like every company should not be running freemium aka PLG for acquisition.) You want to deploy low-touch campaigns to convert a higher volume of customers.

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IP Marketing Technical Review Software Review 98

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Over a third of email marketers struggle with acquisition and close to a half say increasing engagement is their number one challenge. Email generates as much as $42 for every dollar spent , and is a top-three marketing channel for 87% of B2B and 76% of B2C marketers. via B2B Marketing Alliance ]. Step 1: Define your goals.

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Email Customer Marketing Software Review 136

ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

In this article, you’ll learn how to design a successful brand marketing campaign that expresses your brand’s core values, create content your customers crave, and ensure your entire brand ecosystem is designed to support customer loyalty. Brand strategy isn’t just for marketers and their campaigns.

Marketing 128

Marketing Campaign Software Review Tulsa 128

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

For product launches, long-term success relies on cornerstones of marketing research and execution, like a strong value proposition and full-funnel campaign. The key to product launches is to create a resilient campaign—one that can survive the nonlinear journey. Nichole Elizabeth DeMeré , a B2B SaaS consultant, lamented that.

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Product Campaign Acquisition Social Media 110

ConversionXL

MARCH 11, 2020

Some 73% of Millennial workers are involved in B2B purchase decisions, and 85% of that group uses social media to research products and services for their companies. Still, Facebook (91%), Linkedin (80%), and Twitter (67%) are the most popular social media platforms among B2B marketers. When does Instagram make sense for B2B?

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ConversionXL

JULY 21, 2022

Its study of B2B buyers shows an even split in how decision-makers interact with sales reps traditionally, remotely, and self-served digitally: Of the B2B leaders that use omnichannel marketing, 83% say it’s a more successful way to prospect and secure new business than traditional “face-to-face only” selling.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Instead, it identifies the fault lines within tactics and between tactics that keep demand generation campaigns from amounting to more than their component parts. It starts with having the right data in the system,” noted Kamil Rextin, who wrote about B2B attribution. Bad data affects demand generation campaigns in other ways, too.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

#tearsofpain One way of removing silos and focusing on the entire business is to leverage Acquisition, Behavior and Outcome metrics. A small change I’ll make in this post is that when I recommend the metrics, I’ll follow the Outcomes | Behavior | Acquisition structure throughout this post. Hence that’s the macro-outcome.

Metrics 143

Metrics Acquisition eCommerce Analytics 143

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 2, 2020

The first two are more familiar to B2B marketers; the last one often applies to B2C. If the purpose of the analysis is to identify top traffic sources, a much clearer step is “Identify your top two traffic channels in the Google Analytics ‘Acquisition’ report.”. How do you win a presidential campaign? Run the best campaign.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

It’s not a channel, campaign, or tactic. Individuals don’t make B2B buying decisions; groups do. How you approach it will depend on your business model and ideal accounts and how (or if) you plan to expand campaigns. For example, if one new acquisition is worth $10K, a pilot win could be 20 new acquisitions for $200K.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 28, 2021

But when we took a closer look, we discovered that, even if we scaled our email campaigns, the users who received our emails represented a measly 1% of our overall revenue. We launched our second campaign a week later, and the story got worse. Both were above industry benchmarks, which was something we were really proud of.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 3, 2021

Even the most skilled digital marketers can struggle to run profitable Google Ads campaigns. In this article, I’ll break down how to use your Google Ads campaigns as prospecting tools for SEO. To prospect well, you need to properly optimize your Google Ads campaign. Most likely, your first campaign will not be profitable.

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PPC SEO Campaign Analytics 146

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

In my daily work with ecommerce brands, I see two types of companies: The first type focuses on acquisition and conversion. Overall acquisition costs for both B2C and B2B have gone up by 50% in the past five years. By campaign of first order. Marketing campaigns and promotions. The second relies on retention.

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Retention Analytics Campaign eCommerce 126

ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Studies show that only 5% of B2B customers are ready to buy. When it comes time to decide where to allocate resources to build brand equity, it seems like the best way forward would be to drive a brand awareness campaign. Use this information to drive your marketing and create campaigns that people want to share and shout about online.

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Equity Marketing Social Media Software Review 94

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 1, 2022

95% of B2B buyers are not ready to buy your product right now. When B2B buyers are considering a purchase, they spend only 17% of their time meeting with potential suppliers. According to Walker: “B2B buyers are discovering, researching, and evaluating products in places companies can’t track.”.

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Up and Running

JULY 15, 2015

50% of B2B companies find it difficult to attribute marketing activity directly to revenue results. Ecommerce statistics—money generated by source, by campaign, by ad, and so on. Online goal statistics—email submissions and downloads by source, by campaign, by ad. Acquisition Cost of a New Customer. Cost Per Lead.

Marketing 60

Marketing Social Media Campaign Acquisition 60

ConversionXL

AUGUST 18, 2020

Before you kick off a link-building campaign or invest in creating quality content, you need to understand where the volume is, how competitive terms are, and the intent behind those queries. In this article, I walk you through a framework—the SEO pyramid—and how to think about keyword research for B2B SaaS businesses. Solution terms.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Studies show only 5% of B2B buyers are ready to buy right now. There can be a temptation to get your brand widely recognized by running a blanket campaign that targets all major platforms. 50% of B2B decision-makers use YouTube to research purchases, and 70% of viewers bought from a brand after seeing it on YouTube.

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Audience Technical Review Social Media Campaign 122

ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

Each marketing campaign should have one specific message based on a single idea. B2B demand generation focuses on ROI. Look instead at measuring KPIs like close rate, cost per acquisition, cost per lead, conversion rates, average contract value, and lifetime customer value. What is your value offer ? The message. The channels.

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Demand Affiliate Audience Leadership 115

ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

To pull this off, they wouldn’t run a hit-and-hope campaign to target a ton of brands like T-Mobile and pray they’d notice. According to Demand Gen Report, 56% of B2B buyers say that a web search is their first resource, and 79% say the winning vendor’s content significantly impacts their buying decision.

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Lead Generation Marketing Sales Cycle Campaign 94

Version One Ventures

MAY 17, 2022

Inflection is the only marketing automation solution purpose built for B2B product-led companies. In years past, the B2B customer experience and buying process were owned by sales. And thus we’ve seen the rise of product-led companies…companies that rely on the product itself to drive user acquisition, activation and retention. .

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B2B Product Stealth Marketing 105

ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2020

Damn, I’ll admit—I even have a tradition of treating myself with a beautiful new pair after a successful business trip or client acquisition. I’ve been in the B2B link-building game for almost five years, and the true value of link building isn’t quick fixes. B2B copywriting almost always requires more skill and time compared to B2C.

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ConversionXL

JULY 10, 2019

That simplifies content creation and link building compared to, say, trying to promote niche B2B software. Some events that earned links were intentional—acquisitions and funding announcements, for example. A couple of acquisitions showed up in this data set, attracting coverage in tech press and the wider business press.

Marketing 125

Marketing Acquisition Software Review Aggregator 125

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Today, Grizzle is a full-service content marketing and SEO agency that provides B2B and SaaS companies end-to-end services. Most B2B buyers know this. From here, I touch upon a simple but powerful complication: When marketing a B2B company solving a marketing challenge, you’re faced with an overwhelming array of choices.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 10, 2019

PPC campaigns continue to become increasingly well-targeted. While those tactics may have differentiated your campaigns in the past, they no longer do (or won’t soon). One way to stand out is to go beyond keyword targeting and create PPC campaigns for specific targets—an account-based marketing (ABM) strategy.

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PPC Campaign Marketing Sales Cycle 131

ConversionXL

MAY 8, 2019

Product pages will never rank organically for content-related searches,” explains Aaron Orendorff , a B2B content strategist: When someone goes looking for guidance on terms associated with your product—“how to [blank],” “best [blanks],” “who uses [blank],” etc.—it’s Case studies help B2B companies convert and accelerate the most leads.

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eCommerce Marketing Audience Non-Compete 131

ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

They use these insights to launch branding campaigns aimed at influencing brand associations (customer feelings about your brand). This is particularly true for complex verticals such as B2B SaaS products, where product marketing’s ability to pinpoint users with the most need and educate them on product features and benefits proves useful.

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Marketing Product Audience Equity 110

VC Cafe

JULY 29, 2024

In the tech world, Israeli startup Wiz turned down the $23 billion acquisition offer from Google and opted for going public instead. EXITS Well done Elad Tsur and team Planck on the $300M acquisition by Applied Systems ! This week, 5 bodies were recovered by the IDF. We must #BRINGTHEMHOME, every last one of the hostages, NOW.

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Artificial Inteligence Israel Generative AI Europe 78