Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Mistake One: Keywords In Broad Match. AdWords is set by default to have your keywords in broad match, and this causes your keywords to match for a huge variety of searches you never intended. By default your ads shows for a huge variety of searches that you never intended.

Philadelphia 68

Philadelphia Cost Matching PPC 68

ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

Some see it as a sales tactic, while others view it as a content marketing strategy. Account-based marketing is an approach where marketing and sales work together to nurture target accounts and convert or retain customers. It needs perfect alignment from sales, marketing, and executive leaders across the organization.

Customer 98

Customer Marketing Channel Acquisition 98

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

For a startup, having great sales DNA is a wonderful asset. This is the magic of sales: by learning about each customer in-depth, they can convince each of them that this product would solve serious problems. But here’s where a truly great sales artist comes in. They are closing orders.

Customer 167

Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Sometimes your product or offer is so new that there’s no search demand out there for you to easily harvest. This means you have to generate awareness and demand yourself, before you get that sale. If there’s one thing that’s still keeping Google neck to neck with Facebook when it comes to advertising, then it’s their search network.

PPC 48

PPC B2C B2B Sales Cycle 48

ConversionXL

APRIL 7, 2021

Here’s the irony though— even though potential customers may be in the market for a solution like yours, you still need to deploy the traditional sales/marketing strategies to convince them to make a purchase. When sales made a list of logos they wanted to sell, or the list of ‘dream customers’ to close.

IP 98

IP Marketing Technical Review Software Review 98

K9 Ventures

AUGUST 13, 2010

So the departments either didn’t have the capacity to pay or it would be an endless sales-cycle, where we would spend lots of time on the sales, but it still wouldn’t close. Google’s first business model was to sell/license search to the major portals (Yahoo! In fact, that wasn’t Google’s idea at all.

Revenue 72

Revenue Developer Java Customer Development 72

Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

I was in sales and marketing, and Andrea was in operations and dementia care. And before starting Senior Living Smart, I was a national VP of sales and marketing for Five Star, which was the fifth largest senior living company. Search, social, email, and text. And I think that's really the compelling part. We just need leads.

Differentiation 74

Differentiation Sales Cycle Audio Networking 74

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 22, 2018

The traditional marketing/sales funnel (soon to be replaced by Hubspot’s Flywheel Model ) is a fantastic framework to put things into perspective. After she gets a series of lead nurturing emails and sales/marketing communications, she signs up for a demo and converts into a paying customer. The non-linear user journey.

B2B 131

B2B Marketing Analytics Campaign 131

ConversionXL

APRIL 10, 2019

ABM campaigns dedicate resources and time toward only a few prospects, and enterprise-level leads often have long sales cycles. With account-based content , you’re usually cutting out search engines and proactively reaching out to prospects. Customer Match In Google Ads. That makes an ABM-only approach risky.

PPC 131

PPC Campaign Marketing Sales Cycle 131

ConversionXL

MAY 19, 2016

For example, someone searches for local car insurance and finds thousands of options, but focuses on the top three results first… All three pages are open in the browser for comparison… The person compares the landing pages, trying to determine which is the right option for them… What about motorcycle insurance?

Analytics 78

Analytics Metrics Channel Software Review 78

ConversionXL

MAY 14, 2019

Unlisted videos don’t show up on your channel or in search results but can be viewed by someone with the direct link. You can select whether your ads will appear within YouTube search results, in YouTube videos, and/or on a collection of other sites and apps that are part of the Google Display Network. Which should you use?

Campaign 133

Campaign Audience Channel Metrics 133

ConversionXL

APRIL 12, 2017

E.g. Message match / headline match from PPC ad to landing page. Long copy” doesn’t mean “long form sales page”. There’s a time and place for long form sales pages. Search dropdown. Field length should match estimated text size. Longer decision cycle. Marketing/Sales optimization funnel.

San Antonio 86

San Antonio Metrics B2B Analytics 86