ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Overall acquisition costs for both B2C and B2B have gone up by 50% in the past five years. To offset these costs, you need to earn more repeat purchases from existing customers. That means better margins, more profitability, and cost-efficient scaling. Or you lowered shipping costs in a country and won new business.

Retention 126

Retention Analytics Campaign eCommerce 126

Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 17, 2023

How To Scale Your B2B Marketing Strategy written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with Louis Gudema In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Louis Gudema. Louis is a fractional CMO for B2B companies, and mentors startups at MIT. And I, that's really my expertise.

B2B 82

B2B Marketing B2C ChatGPT 82

ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Muun found a market need but failed to compete with bigger names that provided customers with authoritative content and resources. 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.

Marketing 110

Marketing Product Audience Equity 110

Up and Running

OCTOBER 7, 2014

You probably don’t have a big portion of your income that you can tuck away as savings, and you welcome opportunities to make your operations more cost-effective. It’s always tempting to buy name brand, but it’s almost never worth the money. Really evaluate the cost and benefits to the company.

South Africa 157

South Africa Software Review Green Technical Review 157

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 8, 2021

That’s why Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) is such a critical metric. Cost of software/hardware used in sales and marketing Agency, PR, or any third-party costs involved in sales and marketing. The sum total of these costs divided by the number of new customers gives you CAC. If so, include it in your acquisition costs.

Acquisition 135

Acquisition Churn Rate Cost Customer 135

Austin Startup

OCTOBER 15, 2017

In the torrent of real and fake news, what’s his competitive edge other than name recognition? If you deliver exactly the same results at the same net cost to the customer via a SaaS product, you may get a tech multiple 10X higher. Price is no longer cost + markup = customer price. What is your Customer Acquisition Cost?

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Software Review Nevada Silicon Valley 48

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 9, 2012

But commercial fishermen have to -- day in, day out -- in good weather or in bad -- acquire their target fish and then sell it for more than cost of catching it. What are the value propositions, benefits and the messaging (bait), the pricing structure and channels (tackle), and length of sales cycle (how likely a fish will snap your line)?

Entrepreneur 167

Entrepreneur Lean Southern California San Diego 167

Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

If you're moving out of brick and mortar into online, more and more businesses, whether you're B2B or you're b2c, are realizing that digital is a primary channel or at least equal. What's your name? It's like, that's who they got to know us, and now they're starting to trust us, so they're gonna give us their name and email.

Marketing 75

Marketing Differentiation B2C PR 75

Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 15, 2022

So it's not Lululemon's Shop of Stuff, it's Lululemon's Events and Gathering and Slack channel and the place where they can connect with actual people. I think B2B companies in particular have probably been slower to come to this idea. B2B companies I think are probably the greatest untapped opportunity right now.

Community 81

Community Framework Advisory Board Viral 81

ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

The average B2B buyer has 27 brand interactions before deciding. Only around 10–15% of B2B leads turn into paying customers, and it’s because tactics optimizing for the early stages of the funnel only cater to early-stage goals. Other times, they’ll focus on a particular channel or initiative.

Demand 95

Demand Management B2B Campaign 95

ConversionXL

MARCH 28, 2017

best for B2B). If [company name] were a person, what kind of person would it be? (or Here is her magic “cold” outreach template: Hi [Name], I found your profile on LinkedIn and wondered if you’d be interested in participating with a research study I’m running geared towards [their field of expertise]. Your name].

Conversion 48

Conversion B2B Naming Acquisition 48

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. It was a significant chunk of the marketing budget and came at the expense of other channels. Why do I say that?

B2B 131

B2B Marketing Analytics Campaign 131

Up and Running

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Did you, as an eCommerce store owner, know that for online retailers, the average cost to fulfill an order is about 70% of the average order value ? Be that as it may, there are always alternatives that can help a business owner like yourself reduce such costs. Shocking, right?

eCommerce 110

eCommerce Customer Retention Reputation 110

ConversionXL

MAY 22, 2017

His name was Mark Benioff (another former Oracle Executive) and in 1999 he had the pleasure to introduce the business world the first CRM in Cloud. Organizing multi-channel campaigns, segmenting audiences, and distributing personalized content, suddenly appeared to be easy, like never before. It was 2003. SaaS Stack Scalability.

Customer 92

Customer Marketing Artificial Inteligence Clickthrough 92

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Prabhdeep Singh: Ask any entrepreneur about their most valuable resource when they’re making tough decisions, and you’ll hear the name of someone, not something. We’re not mainly for B2B companies or later stage companies or anything like that. In most cases our teaching members are happy to offer their advice at no cost.

New York 114

New York Technical Review Networking Advisory Board 114

Austin Startup

JULY 12, 2010

One, a focus on great customer care has become, in the era of Zappos, not just a requisite checkbox, but an opportunity for differentiation, and a primary means of acquiring and retaining users (customer care as a revenue generator, not just a cost center).

Customer 80

Customer Harvest B2C Technical Review 80

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Critiquing the “one-size-fits-all” used by Goliath advertising on traditional channels, the authors proclaims that digital advertising allows marketers to “speak directly to the people who most want to hear what they have to say”. Determine campaign media channels. Digital Advertising and Marketing Channels. Sponsorships.

Social Media 100

Social Media Campaign SEO B2C 100

Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 20, 2016

96% of B2B brands use video in marketing campaigns. For a more permanent arrangement, we can look at Amazon’s Style Code Live , which regularly invites beauty vlogger Tati Westbrook to host and has her promoting the show weekly on her own channel. 92% of mobile video viewers share videos with others.

Video 28

Video Software Review Technical Review Campaign 28

Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 17, 2018

You can get big-time, modern, virtual phone functionality at a fraction of the cost. I actually did a study on this a few years ago, and I looked at 351 B2B companies with 50 to 1000 employees, and there was a huge difference between the software companies and the non software companies. Imagine how much that’s costing people.

Marketing 56

Marketing Social Media Analytics Software 56

Up and Running

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

According to the 2017 State of Digital Marketing report , webinars are one of the top drivers of revenue for B2B marketers, coming just second after white papers. 74% of B2B marketers consider webinars to be the most effective way of generating high-quality leads. The names of the speakers. Webinar costs.

Product 97

Product Audience Social Media Sales 97

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Learn the release schedules for new products, new content, new campaigns within other channels. 24/7 online retailers could apply this same tactic for Campaigns that focus around getting people to contact the business for special deals, or b2b Campaigns that connect visitors to inside sales. What days of the week does support work?

PPC 111

PPC Widget Campaign Technical Review 111

Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Behavior Scoring = evaluating a lead based on the observed activities and behaviors of the individual across multiple channels (attending a webinar, viewing an RFP, downloading a thought leadership piece, scheduling a call with Sales, etc.). Hybrid = uses both Profiling & Behavioral Scoring to assess the viability of each lead.

Lead Generation 28

Lead Generation Baltimore Programming Framework 28

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Traffic by channel: Find out where your visitors come from Where to track traffic by channel 3. Cost per click: Track ad spending to improve performance Where to track CPC 12. Customer acquisition cost: Prevent reckless spending Where to track CAC 13. Traffic by channel: Find out where your visitors come from.

Metrics 105

Metrics Analytics Marketing Acquisition 105

Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

There's so many things now that happen to actually be the more effective marketing tactics and channels that aren't measurable by the tools that most companies use. And if we were able to increase our reduce the CPC cost per click, maybe you can justify that, and that would ultimately yield them more results. powered by

Metrics 74

Metrics Analytics Forecast Software Review 74

Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

The corporate B2B sales cycle produces a harshly binary outcome: either the company dies while waiting for a corporate client to sign the paperwork and remit the funds, or else it delivers gigantic outsized sales with relatively little effort. The great advantage of the B2B market is the potentially huge size of revenues from just one sale.

Houston 85

Houston B2B Sales Cycle Angel Investor 85

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 14, 2022

They can keep doubling down on advertising with the digital goliaths of today or begin to diversify and invest in other marketing channels, with an eye toward the future. So yeah, I, there there's some confusion around these terms, partner, marketing partnership, marketing affiliate market, and you have influencer and B2B.

Marketing 89

Marketing Affiliate Channel Software Review 89

Up and Running

JULY 7, 2021

Create a brand name. The first thing you should choose is your brand name. It could be relevant to the eCommerce business itself like the way Woocommerce and Shopify iterated on online shopping terms for their brand names. Whichever name you choose, just make sure to follow the SSS rule. Keep your brand name short.

eCommerce 149

eCommerce Social Media Naming Technical Review 149

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Explore the impact of dark social on brand discovery and gain insights into the four key channels for optimization: traditional search engines, rented channels like social media, earned media through endorsements and PR, and emerging media such as voice and AI platforms. So it's not just sort of a one. And that's the other thing.

Engineer 64

Engineer SEO ChatGPT Channel 64

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 1, 2023

So yes, I've done a lot of launches in the B2B and consumer space, so thought I'd write a book, John Jantsch (02:36): Okay, so awesome. Scroll back to top Sign up to receive email updates Enter your name and email address below and I'll send you periodic updates about the podcast. So let's start off on the negative.

Product 60

Product Framework Technical Review Cofounder 60

ConversionXL

AUGUST 7, 2019

That’s especially true for B2B marketers. Yet, according to another study , only 11% of B2B companies have ongoing influencer marketing programs, compared to 48% of B2C brands. Yet, according to another study , only 11% of B2B companies have ongoing influencer marketing programs, compared to 48% of B2C brands.

B2B 110

B2B Marketing Social Media B2C 110

ConversionXL

MARCH 20, 2019

G2 Crowd confirms that it’s a high-cost option. Demandbase’s costs place it in the 96th percentile for “Marketing Account Management” software. Given the number of people involved in B2B decisions, account-wide coverage has value in addition to one-to-one targeting. That’s only one segment of the B2B market.

Software Review 117

Software Review Software Marketing IP 117

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 25, 2018

It’s hard to do, which is why most demand generation advice merely advocates adding another channel or tool to the heap. At a bare minimum, correct goal tracking in Google Analytics identifies the most valuable on-site user behaviors and attributes them to a marketing channel. But demand generation isn’t a pile of tactics.

Demand 132

Demand Vertical Campaign Channel 132

ConversionXL

JUNE 23, 2019

Many companies (not just B2B) don’t reveal their prices, and make people get in touch instead. People always want to know how much a product or service costs. “Real people” means that there are photos, full names, what they do, their employer, etc. Provide the information about your secure channels (e.g.

Reputation 132

Reputation Caching Design Community 132

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 21, 2022

Key Takeaway: Marketing has changed for all types of business in the last few years thanks to new platforms, channels, and technology. But for small businesses — the changes have been revolutionary, often leveling the playing field and providing a way to reach their customers and new audiences in a low-cost, targeted, and personalized way.

Small Business 90

Small Business Software Review Marketing Technical Review 90

searchengineland.com

MAY 30, 2012

B2B Search Marketing. Also note that the data I’ve provide the candidate so far doesn’t include anything around revenue or costs. These are two named algo updates from 2009/2010 and familiarity with them indicates some duration of hands-on search. EBook: Cross Channel Marketing. PRO Guides. Search Week Newsletter.

SEO 54

SEO SEM Social Media Search 54

Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Key Takeaway: Marketing has changed for all types of businesses in the last few years thanks to new platforms, channels, and technology. But for small businesses — the changes have been revolutionary, often leveling the playing field and providing a way to reach their customers and new audiences in a low-cost, targeted, and personalized way.

Software Review 88

Software Review Marketing Technical Review Michigan 88

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

You invest in a variety of digital marketing channels to get in front of new audiences and drive traffic back to your site. Memberstack’s B2B audience are familiar with YCombinator. The second section takes a similar approach while directly addressing a common objection: the high cost of furniture shipping. Image source.

Audience 156

Audience Video Software Review Conversion 156