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Carri Bugbee

A B2B Guide for Blogging Lead Generation - 0 views

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shared by Carri Bugbee on 03 May 12 - Cached
  • As a B2B marketer, your job is to diversify the lead generation offers available on your blog so they apply to these different personas. These offers will fall into two main categories.
  • If someone is visiting your site for the first time, it's likely they aren't ready for a ton of product-focused information. Instead, they probably want to learn more about your business and, more importantly, your expertise. The best way to convey industry expertise is through some type of premium content.
  • Warm leads need a different type of offer. They already know that you have expertise, possibly because they have read one of your premium content pieces or because they have already talked to a sales rep. These leads want more product-focused information.  They want detail, a discount or a free trail.
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  • The End of a Blog Post - Putting a call-to-action at the end of a blog post is the offline equivalent of calling a lead within minutes of a conversion. If someone has just read a piece of your content, it is likely they are at the peak of their interest. If you can place a call-to-action at the bottom of a blog post that connects with a content offer similar to the topic of the article, then you can dramatically increase your response rate for generating business blog leads.
  • Top Bar and/or Side Bar - Think of your blog like a publishing site. What type of content offers are most applicable to the majority of your blog readers? Use these offers in visual calls-to-action, either in your sidebar or below your blog's navigation. This type of call-to-action will have a lower click-through rate, but it will help capture leads that are not focused on a particular blog post but are instead scanning your blog.
  • Text Links - It is common practice to link to other websites and blogs in your own blog posts. Additionally, it is important to take the opportunity, where relevant, to include some anchor text links to offers related to the blog post.
Carri Bugbee

Frequency of Blogging Makes a Difference for Customer Acquisition - 0 views

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shared by Carri Bugbee on 02 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • Increased frequency of blogging correlates with increased customer acquisition, according to [pdf] an e-book released in February 2012 by HubSpot. 92% of of blog users who posted multiple times a day acquired a customer through their blog, a figure that decreased to 66% for those who blogged monthly and 43% for those who posted less than monthly. Overall, 60% of the survey respondents indicated that they blog weekly, while 10% post daily and 30% either monthly or less.
  • By contrast, among B2B companies, LinkedIn was the most effective, with 65% of these respondents having acquired a customer through the professional network. Company blogs (60%), Facebook (43%), and Twitter (40%) followed.
  • Facebook has generated leads for 73% of B2C marketers, ahead of Twitter (40%) and LinkedIn (12%), it takes second rank for B2B marketers. Of those, 44.6% say LinkedIn has been effective in generating lead flow, with Facebook in second (35.1%), and Twitter (31.6%) in third.
Carri Bugbee

How to Calculate & Track a Leads Goal That Sales Supports - 0 views

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shared by Carri Bugbee on 17 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • An SLA between Marketing and Sales is an agreement where Marketing promises to produce a certain quantity and quality of leads for Sales over a given time period. The SLA is tracked on a daily basis, typically in the form of a chart or graph that maps the progress against a cumulative goal
  • next time Sales complains (and if you’re on track), all you have to do is tell them to take a look at the SLA -- the proof is in the data!
  • In your SLA, you should get credit for the quantity, but also more importantly, the quality of the leads you hand over to Sales.
Carri Bugbee

Buyer Personas, Content Strategies Fuel Successful Marketing Campaigns - Musings - 0 views

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shared by Carri Bugbee on 02 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • To improve sales pro­duc­tiv­ity mar­keters must pro­vide rel­e­vant infor­ma­tion to sup­port the needs of both key deci­sion mak­ers, as well as the buy­ing influ­encers. Effec­tive lead nur­tur­ing cam­paigns are highly depen­dent upon the avail­abil­ity of rel­e­vant con­tent, for each key touch­point through­out the buy­ing cycle. B2B mar­ket­ing automa­tion experts like Elo­qua and Mar­keto say that this con­tent should be rel­e­vant to the buyer’s role and key busi­ness issues, not just to the appli­ca­tion or solu­tion under consideration.
  • 45% of CMOs sur­veyed say they are faced with “mar­ket­ing to a grow­ing num­ber of peo­ple involved in the buy­ing process,”
  • A buyer per­sona is a detailed pro­file of an exam­ple buyer that rep­re­sents the real audi­ence — an arche­type of the tar­get buyer. Mar­keters can use buyer per­sonas to clar­ify the goals, con­cerns, pref­er­ences and deci­sion process that are most rel­e­vant to their cus­tomers. Imag­ine how effec­tive mar­keters could be if we would all stop mak­ing stuff up and start align­ing our mes­sages and pro­grams with the way real peo­ple think.
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  • ead nur­tur­ing cam­paigns are heav­ily depen­dent on high qual­ity con­tent that can be served up to the right per­son, at the right stage of the buy­ing cycle. With­out that con­tent, lead nur­tur­ing ini­tia­tives can­not deliver supe­rior results.
  • Map Buy­ers to Content Once you’ve iden­ti­fied key buyer per­sonas and devel­oped a POV on how best to inform or moti­vate them, you’ll want to turn that into a con­tent map. B2B mar­ket­ing automa­tion Mar­keto pro­vides sev­eral resources to help with con­tent map­ping. For exam­ple, Marketo’s blog shows a grid that you can adapt, with rows and columns to map the con­tent you have (or need to cre­ate) for each key buy­ing role, for each key stage of the buy­ing cycle.
  • Carri Bugbee on 02 Apr 12
     
    Develop Buyer Personas When build­ing your con­tent strat­egy, don't over­look the crit­i­cal impor­tance of iden­ti­fy­ing key buyer per­sonas and char­ac­ter­iz­ing their respec­tive needs as they progress through the buy­ing cycle. For exam­ple, if a CMO, CFO, and VP of Mar­ket­ing Oper­a­tions all need to say yes before you can make a sale, how do you address their dif­fer­ing concerns? What's a buyer persona? "A buyer per­sona is a detailed pro­file of an exam­ple buyer that rep­re­sents the real audi­ence - an arche­type of the tar­get buyer. Mar­keters can use buyer per­sonas to clar­ify the goals, con­cerns, pref­er­ences and deci­sion process that are most rel­e­vant to their cus­tomers. Imag­ine how effec­tive mar­keters could be if we would all stop mak­ing stuff up and start align­ing our mes­sages and pro­grams with the way real peo­ple think.
Carri Bugbee

Marketers embrace digital content testing :: BtoB Magazine - 0 views

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shared by Carri Bugbee on 12 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • While testing content is nothing new—in fact, most marketers and agencies perform some sort of testing on creative content before publication—the formalization of such processes has become a priority at many b2b companies.
  • We've learned that simplicity is the key—easily scanned, brief content, appropriate imagery and a value-based call to action.” For example, after simplifying a registration form for a particular call to action, SAP.com saw a 96% increase in the number of registrations.
  • “We have to look at what is the downside to SAP in removing a field, such as taking away "industry.' We have industry-specific sales teams, so for each field we take away to get an increased conversion, there is a downside—now we have to do more work on the back end [to learn this information].”
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  • For its Web pages, HP scores content using tools such as Safeguard by SDL Tridion, which scans Web page content for keyword optimization, metadata and visual elements to optimize the user experience and improve SEO.
  • HP's social media group reviews blogs written by HPers and implements best practices, such as testing headlines, language and calls to action. Once blogs have been reviewed and tested, the views on blog pages may increase up to eight times, Anderson said.
  • “We have a publishing calendar every week, which looks at all the content we're pushing out to meet our corporate goals,” said Cindy Kim, director-marketing and social media at JDA. “We use LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook to see what topics resonate.”
Carri Bugbee

Top 5 Trends in Sales 2.0 - 0 views

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shared by Carri Bugbee on 26 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • 1 – Attract many, then focus on filtering If your prospects do research online, will they find your company, or your competitor? Mark Roberge, VP Sales from HubSpot argued that you should keep the top of your sales funnel as broad as possible.
  • #2 – Give all sales people a social media address Scott Holden, Senior Director at Salesforce.com argued that not just companies need to be discoverable, but also individual sales representatives. Social pages are often the first ones to come up in search results.
  • Scott Holden summarized this as moving from self-promotion to social referrals: “trust me, he is a great lover” and not “I am a great lover”.  I expressed a similar sentiment in my blog earlier this week on Genuine Customer Engagement.
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  • 50%-70% of sales processes start long before a sales person ever gets involved. The most important deciding factor in the sales process was “online demos”, not sales person interaction.
  • #5 – Consider a territory model based on social proximity
  • leads are assigned based on the personal relationship of a rep to the lead, rather than geography. On paper this social proximity model sounds great, but in reality it is still difficult to implement.
  • B2B companies need to learn from this and move to lower touch selling models, wherever possible. One of the speakers, Rini Das from PAKRA, has achieved just that. She is closing 95% of her business based on social media leads.
Carri Bugbee

Defining Your Content Strategy :: BtoB Magazine - 0 views

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shared by Carri Bugbee on 12 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • Find out what are the top five events your target audience attends every year, the top five publications they read, the top five blogs they subscribe to, the top five influencers they follow, top analyst firms they go to for referrals, etc. Information is the new currency, and by knowing where your audience turns to for information, you can prioritize your marketing tactics and align your content strategy accordingly.
  • Build a brand story that has multiple levels of content to support your story and messaging.
Carri Bugbee

Lead nurturing 101 - B2B Marketing - 0 views

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shared by Carri Bugbee on 02 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • Research from Forrester, CSO Insights, Brian Carroll – as well as Marketo’s own research –demonstrates the ROI of lead nurturing. In particular, companies that excel at lead nurturing: Decrease the percent of marketing-generated leads that are ignored by sales (from as high as 80% to as low as 25%). Raise win rates on marketing-generated leads (7% points higher) and reduce “no decisions” (6% lower). Have more sales representatives that make quota (9% higher) and a shorter ramp up time for new reps (10% decrease).
Carri Bugbee

Time to shift b-to-b social media marketing focus from the "media" to the "social" :: B... - 0 views

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shared by Carri Bugbee on 12 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • Social media is about relationships, so it requires you to engage in two-way conversations and participate consistently. Social media is real time, so you need to be monitoring the conversations and taking action on them in real time. Social media enhances and amplifies other channels, so it cannot be used in a silo.
  • To generate demand from these conversations, you want the engine to identify those people who are potential buyers in the discover phase of their customer life-cycle so that you have already started a relationship with them and created brand preference when they enter the explore phase.
Carri Bugbee

Content Costs for Demand Generation and Marketing Automation | Demand Gen (r)Evolution - 0 views

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shared by Carri Bugbee on 04 May 12 - No Cached
  • 26% of average marketing budget is spent on content marketing, with 3.5 dollars spent on distribution for each dollar spent on creation.  Do the math and that means 5.8% of the average marketing budget is spent on creating content.
  • To put all this in perspective, license fees for marketing automation software are usually 1% to 2% of the total marketing budget.  In other words, content will cost several times more than software when most companies deploy a marketing automation system (and distribution costs will outweigh them both).
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