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. Like this show? And I, that's really my expertise.

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B2B Marketing B2C ChatGPT 81

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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. If we look at the hierarchy of marketing data, it goes something like this: Acquisition (e.g. What is attribution?

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NOVEMBER 22, 2022

They allow you to create and optimize campaigns based on actionable evidence rather than intuition. Click-through rate: Understand how your emails and ads engage customers Where to track click-through rate 11. Customer acquisition cost: Prevent reckless spending Where to track CAC 13. You have to track metrics you can act on.

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Metrics Analytics Marketing Acquisition 105

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MARCH 5, 2019

Cold emails are unsolicited emails sent to previously uncontacted recipients. To many, cold emails are synonymous with spam and a nuisance—one reason why U.S. hours checking their work email each day. Why would anyone want to use cold email? Still, it’s easy to get cold emails wrong. workers spend 3.2

Email 130

Email Campaign Reputation San Diego 130

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NOVEMBER 23, 2022

B2B buyers aren’t all-rational, and they will often follow and recommend tools they’ve heard of even if they’ve never used them. The marketing team should create its own momentum through feature launches, content campaigns, product launches, and announcements. More networking and curated roundtables, less gurus and swag.

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B2B Marketing Curation PPC 94

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JANUARY 28, 2019

No other marketing channel builds lifelong relationships like email. It’s a prime reason that email marketing is the preferred marketing channel for customer acquisition and customer retention ( 80% and 81% , respectively). Yet, rich media email is a double-edged sword: Execute it correctly, and it adds visual delight.

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Email Media Audio Software Review 118

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FEBRUARY 3, 2022

It’s why Canva can call itself a multibillion-dollar platform and how ConvertKit pulled itself up to compete with goliaths like MailChimp and Campaign Monitor. Where campaigns to build brand awareness and generate top-of-funnel sales drive traditional marketing, data across the entire customer lifecycle drives growth hacking in marketing.

Retention 113

Retention Marketing Acquisition Channel 113

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JUNE 16, 2022

This will improve customer lifetime value (CLTV), making customer acquisition costs (CAC) healthier. That B2B sales are built on relationships. It’s important to track each campaign to identify what’s working and what can be improved. Set clear goals for your campaigns (e.g., The email finishes with some reassurance.

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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.

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Lead Generation B2B Analytics eCommerce 48

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OCTOBER 30, 2021

What emails did they click through? Campaign Monitor has successfully done this by claiming featured snippet status with an infographic related to the search term “email list tips”: A person searching for this term may be looking to invest in email marketing tools further down the line. Generating awareness through PPC.

Customer 140

Customer Marketing Social Media CPA 140

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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.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2019

For product launches, long-term success relies on cornerstones of marketing research and execution, like a strong value proposition and full-funnel campaign. The key to product launches is to create a resilient campaign—one that can survive the nonlinear journey. Nichole Elizabeth DeMeré , a B2B SaaS consultant, lamented that.

Product 110

Product Campaign Acquisition Social Media 110

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MAY 27, 2022

Each marketing campaign should have one specific message based on a single idea. email nurturing, retargeting) require specific channels. B2B demand generation focuses on ROI. Every week, I receive emails from people thanking me for a specific tactic or piece of advice. The message. What is the key takeaway? The channels.

Demand 115

Demand Affiliate Audience Leadership 115

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OCTOBER 25, 2018

You email them. Instead, it identifies the fault lines within tactics and between tactics that keep demand generation campaigns from amounting to more than their component parts. It starts with having the right data in the system,” noted Kamil Rextin, who wrote about B2B attribution. It’s an absurd standard. You have a website.

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APRIL 28, 2020

It wasn’t quite a flip from B2C to B2B, but it was close. That difference cascades down the funnel, allowing you to track the ROI of your lead sources between inbound and outbound campaigns—all the way through to revenue. A new email is created in HubSpot. Honorable mention: The DemandGen Framework. Image source ).

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Demand Revenue SQL B2B 101

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

EMaaS: How Email Marketing Can Be Your Agency’s Most Profitable Service written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Meanwhile, small business owners consistently rate email marketing as one of the top three performing channels , and unlike SEO, it’s not a black box and isn’t subject to algorithmic fluctuations.

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Email Technical Review Marketing SEO 48

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APRIL 7, 2021

The book, “ No Forms, No Cold Calls & No Spam ” does not explicitly say it but, the signals you capture during AMB feed into an outbound email sequence or ads to get someone to your website and fill out a form. Of course, you need to email & call & ‘spam’ prospects. Who does ABM make sense for?

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IP Marketing Technical Review Software Review 98

Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

#tearsofpain One way of removing silos and focusing on the entire business is to leverage Acquisition, Behavior and Outcome metrics. A small change I’ll make in this post is that when I recommend the metrics, I’ll follow the Outcomes | Behavior | Acquisition structure throughout this post. Hence that’s the macro-outcome.

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Metrics Acquisition eCommerce Analytics 141

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FEBRUARY 12, 2019

In my daily work with ecommerce brands, I see two types of companies: The first type focuses on acquisition and conversion. Overall acquisition costs for both B2C and B2B have gone up by 50% in the past five years. As a result: They’re converted via email. By campaign of first order. The second relies on retention.

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Retention Analytics Campaign eCommerce 126

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JUNE 2, 2022

To pull this off, they wouldn’t run a hit-and-hope campaign to target a ton of brands like T-Mobile and pray they’d notice. According to Demand Gen Report, 56% of B2B buyers say that a web search is their first resource, and 79% say the winning vendor’s content significantly impacts their buying decision.

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Lead Generation Marketing Sales Cycle Campaign 94

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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.”. Word-of-mouth interactions (e.g.,

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B2B Social Media Channel Audience 103

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JUNE 2, 2022

It’s not a channel, campaign, or tactic. Individuals don’t make B2B buying decisions; groups do. Snowflake used content marketing platform Uberflip to curate and tailor content for specific accounts, using a variety of marketing tactics, including ads, email marketing, direct mail, and sponsored content.

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Customer Marketing Channel Acquisition 98

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JANUARY 18, 2022

Studies show only 5% of B2B buyers are ready to buy right now. There can be a temptation to get your brand widely recognized by running a blanket campaign that targets all major platforms. 50% of B2B decision-makers use YouTube to research purchases, and 70% of viewers bought from a brand after seeing it on YouTube.

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Audience Technical Review Social Media Campaign 122

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DECEMBER 2, 2020

Email marketing is important, huh? The first two are more familiar to B2B marketers; the last one often applies to B2C. If the purpose of the analysis is to identify top traffic sources, a much clearer step is “Identify your top two traffic channels in the Google Analytics ‘Acquisition’ report.”. Run the best campaign.

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Analytics Acquisition Channel B2C 161

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MAY 8, 2019

Ecommerce marketing often focuses on the bottom of the funnel—remarketing ads for abandoned carts, time-limited email discounts, etc. Content developed for audiences at the top of the funnel can help ween your marketing campaigns from paid ads and create a steady, recurring flow of potential buyers to monetize down the road.

eCommerce 131

eCommerce Marketing Audience Non-Compete 131

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AUGUST 18, 2020

Before you kick off a link-building campaign or invest in creating quality content, you need to understand where the volume is, how competitive terms are, and the intent behind those queries. email marketing software,” “accounting software”), but Google processes more than 40,000 searches per second. What is the SEO pyramid?

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Framework B2B SEO Search 123

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JANUARY 18, 2022

Studies show that only 5% of B2B customers are ready to buy. When it comes time to decide where to allocate resources to build brand equity, it seems like the best way forward would be to drive a brand awareness campaign. Use this information to drive your marketing and create campaigns that people want to share and shout about online.

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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. Ecommerce statistics—money generated by source, by campaign, by ad, and so on. Online goal statistics—email submissions and downloads by source, by campaign, by ad. Acquisition Cost of a New Customer. Cost Per Lead.

Marketing 60

Marketing Social Media Campaign Acquisition 60

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MAY 27, 2020

Damn, I’ll admit—I even have a tradition of treating myself with a beautiful new pair after a successful business trip or client acquisition. Take this email pitch I received recently. I’ve been in the B2B link-building game for almost five years, and the true value of link building isn’t quick fixes. Don’t forget to tag them!)

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JULY 8, 2021

Email subscribers from search traffic. If audience building is a priority, email subscribers should be an important metric. Therefore, a critical KPI might be: “number of email subscribers generated from organic traffic”. This doesn’t factor the costs of email marketing and retargeting into overall profitability.

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Conversion CPA Metrics Analytics 156

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MAY 27, 2022

By asking for an email address to join a webinar after a prospect has consumed non-gated content, for example, the marketing team can secure leads. They then launched a series of personalized ad campaigns according to the specific buying stage, company, and persona. To secure information (email address, name, phone number, etc.).

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Demand Lead Generation PPC Leadership 91

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JULY 10, 2019

That simplifies content creation and link building compared to, say, trying to promote niche B2B software. In all likelihood, the data breach contained more than just passwords—it probably contained emails and, perhaps, addresses, too. Some events that earned links were intentional—acquisitions and funding announcements, for example.

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Marketing Acquisition Software Review Aggregator 125

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NOVEMBER 5, 2020

I put together a one-page website, a list of 100 people to reach out to, and a cold email script that would make seasoned sales professionals cringe. Today, Grizzle is a full-service content marketing and SEO agency that provides B2B and SaaS companies end-to-end services. It starts with a simple email. Image source ).

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PR B2B Lean Audience 120

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APRIL 3, 2018

How many emails do you get cc’d or bcc’d on? email: use data to send highly personalized message by pulling data from across sources (e.g. Ezra Firestone – What Works in Email Marketing Right Now. Email & ads are the 2 big communication channels. On avg $1 spent on email returns $38. Corporate Agility.

Retention 106

Retention Artificial Inteligence Channel Email 106

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JANUARY 18, 2022

They use these insights to launch branding campaigns aimed at influencing brand associations (customer feelings about your brand). 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

Austin Startup

APRIL 17, 2017

Internship Title: Marketing Intern Compensation: Unpaid Description: As the Marketing Intern at Thrillbox, you’ll be helping run all internal marketing campaigns for 30,000 users in 115 countries of their mobile app 360 video player. To Apply: Email jobs@Thrillbox.com and reference the Capital Factory intern program.

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Semantic Social Media Database Artificial Inteligence 48

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APRIL 10, 2019

PPC campaigns continue to become increasingly well-targeted. While those tactics may have differentiated your campaigns in the past, they no longer do (or won’t soon). One way to stand out is to go beyond keyword targeting and create PPC campaigns for specific targets—an account-based marketing (ABM) strategy.

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