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Author: Brad Smith
Increase Leads & Revenue by Focusing On Marketing Impact, Not Activity.
In today’s fast-moving world, being a marketer means more than it used to. It used to mean that you could write some savvy sales copy, take a picture of a pretty woman, include the ad in the local newspaper, and then, so long as your product was appealing, watch clients flock to your business with […]
Why Sales Reps are Your Smartest Marketers
Crappy in-house marketers are expensive. They charge you more money than they should, and they bring in fewer clients than they promise. Unfortunately, today’s world is crowded with lousy marketers. As social media has found its massive online footing, everyone who’s read Contagious by Jonah Berger or Purple Cow by Seth Godin considers themselves to […]
Why You Should Ditch Your Traditional Marketing Funnel (And Do This Instead)
Most marketers use the same funnel. It’s a funnel that starts with awareness and ends with conversion and retention. One that is meant for guiding a visitor to become a lead, a lead to become a customer, and a customer to become an evangelist. And it’s awful. For the marketers who are serious about growing […]
Part 4: B2B Content Marketing
A common thread for many B2B buyers is the search for knowledge. For every challenge they face, they want information on how to overcome it. For B2B businesses this provides a great opportunity. Not only do you have a product or service that can solve this problem, but you have the knowledge to answer their […]
The Hard Truth About CTR
Click-through rate (CTR) is one of the first metrics on the monthly report. Everyone obsesses over it, wondering why Campaign A is outperforming Campaign B. But here’s the thing. It’s actually not that important. Not in the grand scheme of things, anyway. It does serve a purpose. It can be a helpful leading indicator to […]
Got Your Budget Cut? Here’s What to Do About It
While the majority of marketers are expecting increases to their marketing budget this year, 14% are bracing for a cut. This is up from only 3% who expected cuts a few years ago and is the second highest reported percentage in the last five years for B2B marketers. Budget cuts, while unpleasant, aren’t necessarily the […]
B2B Marketing Basics: Understanding Your Audience (Part 2!)
Effective B2B marketing is kind of like the third date. You’ve gone out twice before, each time carefully gathering and storing information given by the other person. Where they are from. The last place they went on vacation. Their favorite show on Netflix. Then, if you’ve done your job right, on the third date you […]
Share of SERP: A B2B Cheat Sheet to Maximizing Your Inbound Lead Generation from Search Marketing
Every day, more than 6 billion queries are typed into Google. That’s more than 6 billion chances for a link to your website to appear on someone’s screen. You like your odds. But there’s a lot standing in your way. You find yourself asking a lot of questions, like “what keyword should I target?” and […]
5 B2B Marketing Strategies to Show Up on the First Page of Google without Ranking Organically
There are absolutely no guarantees with SEO. You could spend thousands of hours (and dollars) trying to organically rank for big keywords and still find your website stuck in the SERP swamps. Not every company has the kind of time and resources to sink into SEO, anyway. The reality is that unless you’re already one […]
3 Marketing Activities to Increase Your Google SERP CTR
Keyword rankings used to be more important than they are today. The vast majority of clicks went to the first few positions. So getting into the first three positions meant everything. Even the third position would receive exponentially more clicks than positions six through ten. However, that’s all starting to change. SERPs are personalized to […]
