ConversionXL

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Talk to any B2B marketer about attribution and they’ll either roll their eyes or rant about how it’s important but hard to get right—long lead cycles, multiple contacts from a single organization, etc. As a group, we’ve gotten a firmer grasp on top-of-the-funnel metrics. Some might stare blankly and ask what you mean.

B2B 131

B2B Marketing Analytics Campaign 131

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Many B2B companies run into the same problem, particularly those that are: Complex, with products that require deep expertise to understand and use. But, ultimately, it generates paying customers—and that’s the only metric that really matters. Partner with industry publications to reach hundreds of decision-makers. Conclusion.

B2B 133

B2B Marketing SEO Search 133

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Are there use cases for voice search in B2B? Notably, Dean continued, “the growth in voice isn’t coming 100% from smart speakers like Google Home, which aren’t super relevant for B2B companies anyway. Instead, a good chunk of all searches are becoming voice searches on mobile phones and—important for B2B—desktops.”.

B2B 100

B2B eCommerce Search Non-Compete 100

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

We'll start with digital at the highest strategic level, which leads us into content marketing, from there it is a quick hop over to the challenge of metrics and silos, followed by a recommendation to optimize for the global maxima, and we end with the last two visuals that cover social investment and social content strategy.

Analytics 156

Analytics Marketing Social Media Technical Review 156

Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

With over a decade of experience in his toolkit, he specializes in helping clients build out cross-channel acquisition systems using a mix of owned, earned and paid tactics. 07:17] What is you cross-channel acquisition strategy? [11:13] 17:30] How deep into financials and metrics do you get before taking a client on? [19:01]

Channel 92

Channel Acquisition Framework B2B 92

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. LinkedIn video ad metrics.

Video 129

Video B2B Technical Review Campaign 129

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Whether you are a B2B SaaS company or a B2C mobile app, knowing how your business stacks up against industry averages can help you make informed decisions and drive growth. For example, in B2B SaaS conversion, OpenView Partners 2022 benchmark report found that the average conversion rate for B2B SaaS businesses was 7.3%

Retention 109

Retention Conversion Churn Rate B2C 109

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.

Lead Generation 48

Lead Generation B2B Analytics eCommerce 48

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

How to create a growth hacking strategy using the pirate metrics model. Growth hacking in marketing incorporates the five stages of the customer lifecycle into the “ AARRR Framework ,” otherwise known as the “Pirate Metrics model.”. Acquisition. Image source. This stage answers the question: “How do our customers find us?”.

Retention 113

Retention Marketing Acquisition Channel 113

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

If you are a regular reader of this blog you know how deeply fond I am of the Acquisition, Behavior, Outcomes framework. Now it's time for acquisition. It will be a great reflection of how well thought out their acquisition strategy is, or how sub-optimal it is. ~ Now, I better understand visitor acquisition.

Web 139

Web Analytics Technical Review Affiliate 139

ConversionXL

JULY 8, 2021

If audience building is a priority, email subscribers should be an important metric. If you’re using content to generate leads for your B2B or SaaS business, it’s critical you measure how well your activities are contributing to the cause. Acquisition conversion rate: Which channels produce the best conversion rate, and why?

Conversion 156

Conversion CPA Metrics Analytics 156

ConversionXL

APRIL 28, 2020

It wasn’t quite a flip from B2C to B2B, but it was close. I also liked the DemandGen Framework because it considered customer expansion revenue in addition to the acquisition side , which is covered by the SiriusDecisions models. In that unannounced meeting, Brett Hurt, our CEO and co-founder, laid it out for us. Image source ).

Demand 101

Demand Revenue SQL B2B 101

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

As with most platforms, there are metrics that matter, and vanity metrics. With YouTube, for organic, average view duration (AVD) and click-through rate (CTR) should be prioritized over YouTube search optimization, descriptions, tags, and other vanity metrics. Both metrics represent high engagement.

Analytics 134

Analytics Metrics Channel Video 134

David Teten

DECEMBER 16, 2015

I review a lot of board decks with a beautifully hand-crafted page with metrics for the company. Good metrics are comparable across industries; comparative ; readily understandable; and help drive decisions. Comparative means that you can compare a metric across time periods, groups of users, or competitors. So how do you do it?

Metrics 60

Metrics Analytics Balance Sheet .Net 60

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 30, 2021

According to Statista , Facebook is strong for both B2B and B2C marketers, LinkedIn is better suited to B2B marketing, and Instagram is best for B2C marketers. You can do this by tracking metrics and user behavior. Cost per acquisition (CPA). Generating awareness through social media. Image source.

Customer 140

Customer Marketing Social Media CPA 140

ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

The metrics. B2B demand generation focuses on ROI. Vanity metrics are less important. Look instead at measuring KPIs like close rate, cost per acquisition, cost per lead, conversion rates, average contract value, and lifetime customer value. Which channels have the best engagement? Which have the most potential?

Demand 115

Demand Affiliate Audience Leadership 115

ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Studies show that only 5% of B2B customers are ready to buy. There’s no metric to measure customers’ emotional responses and what impact those subjective emotions have on your business. There are other brand awareness metrics you can measure to build out this picture, including: Direct traffic. Customer acquisition cost.

Equity 94

Equity Marketing Social Media Software Review 94

Up and Running

JULY 15, 2015

50% of B2B companies find it difficult to attribute marketing activity directly to revenue results. Acquisition Cost of a New Customer. It not only helps with measuring ROI, but it is extremely helpful in determining a basic marketing budget (number of new customers in a year times acquisition cost). Do you feel the same way?

Marketing 60

Marketing Social Media Campaign Acquisition 60

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 25, 2018

It starts with having the right data in the system,” noted Kamil Rextin, who wrote about B2B attribution. Bogdanovich, who’s worked with dozens of companies on Salesforce integration and marketing automation, sketched an order of operations for data acquisition and deployment in demand gen campaigns: Bring clean data into the CRM.

Demand 132

Demand Vertical Campaign Channel 132

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 12, 2013

And you are telling me that the Cost Per Acquisition for my display campaigns is not $201 but rather a lowly $155? " In this case it was a B2B client, long conversion cycle that lasted around 65 days, ignoring the outliers, so I picked 75. That is so cool. Just to be conservative. Tag your Social campaigns.

Channel 162

Channel Analytics Campaign Conversion 162

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.) They won’t magically show up at your doorstep and sign a $100K cheque.

IP 98

IP Marketing Technical Review Software Review 98

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.

Customer 118

Customer Marketing Channel Audience 118

Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 12, 2024

As a co-founder of TACK and author of B2B Influencer Marketing: Work With Creators to Generate Authentic and Effective Marketing , Bennett reveals the transformative power of authentic creator partnerships in today’s competitive business landscape. He's also the author of a book we're going to talk about today.

B2B 74

B2B Marketing B2C Social Media 74

ConversionXL

MARCH 5, 2019

For example, Jon Buchan of Charm Offensive is known for his humorous B2B emails, usually with pictures of cute animals included as attachments. Ultimately, the only metric that matters is the positive reply rate. If your email isn’t getting a good reply rate, you can look at the following metrics to work out what’s going wrong.

Email 130

Email Campaign Reputation San Diego 130

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 ].

Email 136

Email Customer Marketing Software Review 136

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 23, 2022

” No one questions the importance of revenue, but asking the question enabled us to start thinking on what would be the right metric. Did you know that companies like Airbnb, Spotify and Netflix purposely avoid setting revenue as their North Star Metric? Why is revenue not a good ‘North Star’ Metric?

Metrics 179

Metrics Revenue B2C Portfolio 179

ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

Individuals don’t make B2B buying decisions; groups do. For 90% of companies , the top goal for ABM is new business generation— new clients, new contracts, new logo acquisition, etc. Does your company clearly understand current CAC , LTV, CAC payback period, and other core growth metrics?

Customer 98

Customer Marketing Channel Acquisition 98

ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Most business buyers (95%) are not currently in the market to buy, according to research from the B2B Institute and Professor John Dawes of the Ehrenberg-Bass Institute. Marketers must adjust their expectations and metrics with expanded brand tracking. Use marketing as the vehicle to communicate your brand. Storytelling is personal.

Marketing 128

Marketing Campaign Software Review Tulsa 128

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 23, 2013

time to earn back the revenue to cover all your customer acquisition expenses) 75% annual retention. Few B2B companies can truly claim “viral growth” characteristics. But for the few who do, they can maintain growth rates of X%/yr where X is much larger than cancellation, and do so with very little acquisition costs.

Business Model 335

Business Model .Net Revenue IPO 335

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.”. Is revenue growing?

B2B 103

B2B Social Media Channel Audience 103

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 6, 2010

I hope that before you go for massive web analytics glory that your use your wonderful powers first to make sure your site and customer acquisition strategy does not suck. No longer can tools or "analysts" just puke 15 metrics on a report and hope to survive. Got a creative use of statistics in your web metrics practice?

Analytics 99

Analytics Web Campaign PPC 99

ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Studies show only 5% of B2B buyers are ready to buy right now. 50% of B2B decision-makers use YouTube to research purchases, and 70% of viewers bought from a brand after seeing it on YouTube. It’s a masterclass in B2B storytelling. There’s no specific metric to determine if your brand awareness efforts are working.

Audience 122

Audience Technical Review Social Media Campaign 122

ConversionXL

JUNE 8, 2017

Quantitative research with digital analytics tools like Google Analytics , Mixpanel, Amplitude or RJ Metrics will inform you about where your users are coming from, what they are doing during their sessions and where they are dropping off from your conversion funnel or when they churn. Acquisition segments. Acquisition segments.

Programming 97

Programming Revenue Analytics Software Review 97

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 10, 2011

We have IT-minded people engaging in massive data puking (one report with 30 metrics anyone?) I want to propose a framework you can use to measure success using metrics that matter for one simple reason: They actually measure if you are participating in the channel in an optimal fashion. That is why I love this metric.

Social Media 166

Social Media Metrics Conversion Media 166

VC Cafe

JUNE 6, 2024

It’s not a surprise, given that entrepreneurs are obsessed with data and metrics, but in the conservative VC market of 2024, it feels even more important for founders to know what ‘good’ looks like and what investors expect.

B2B 97

B2B Burn Rate Generative AI Retention 97

View from Seed

MARCH 3, 2015

Even identifying as a demand-gen marketer or branding or B2B or B2C leaves a lot of decisions still on the table to actually execute. It may turn out that Facebook is the most expensive user acquisition channel for you, but you won’t know that until you test other things. Where do you start?

Marketing 120

Marketing Sales Cycle Startup CTO Hire 120

Mucker Lab

APRIL 6, 2023

You engage the marketing team and you do a lot of acquisition and people are coming. You can begin to work on position a little bit, but the early acquisitions are there to give you more users to work on to continue to build out the product. Then, any marketing budget or any acquisition effort you do at large scale is not wasted.

Product 78

Product CTO Hire Startup Fractional CTO 78