Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Transcript of How to Turn Marketing Costs Into Profit written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. That’s not really true, but in this episode of The Duct Tape Marketing podcast I do speak with Joe Pulizzi and Robert Rose, authors of Killing Marketing: How Innovative Businesses are Turning Marketing Costs into Profit.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 7, 2022

” Melanie is also the Co-Founder of The Convoy and GroupUps, B2B marketplaces that help small businesses save money so they can invest more in themselves and their communities. Some things are just the cost of making the wrong decision is so much higher. That's true in like the B2B space.

Marketing 79

Marketing Audience B2B Framework 79

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

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

That's hundred grand annual revenue. And that became about, and now is about 40% of HubSpot's revenue. I always stayed there until that team was counter million in annualized revenue, which was around 2016. But yeah, so they definitely made a bunch of changes. Definitely.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2020

Last year, I gave a presentation on how we generated 40% year-over-year organic revenue growth by focusing on out executing the competition, not outsmarting them. I compare it to parts of Market Muse—but at 1% the cost. I’m definitely not the first person to talk about freshness as a “ranking factor.” Content freshness.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 7, 2023

Over the past two decades, she has led large revenue-producing divisions at businesses ranging from start-ups to the Fortune 500. Over the past two decades, she has led large revenue producing divisions at businesses ranging from startups to Fortune 500. Tiffani is also the host of the podcast  What’s Next! with Tiffani Bova.

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Genuine VC

MARCH 24, 2014

The five conditions for a Series A financing which he enumerated are: a core team ready to scale, demonstrable market size, repeatable cost effective customer acquisition, metric momentum, and plausible monetization. Generate Real Revenue. For B2B startups especially, revenue is the best signal of product-market fit.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

I’ve written on the expert network industry a fair amount in the past: see How to Earn More Consulting Revenue from Expert Networks and How Executives Can Work with Private Equity and Venture Capital Portfolio Companies. We’re not mainly for B2B companies or later stage companies or anything like that. It varies case-to-case.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

If you are yet to start using webinars to drive sales, you are missing out on a huge opportunity to boost your revenue and grow your business. 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. Webinar costs.

Product 97

Product Audience Social Media Sales 97

Seeing Both Sides

JULY 11, 2013

Across our portfolio and in my own entrepreneurial experience, I have seen three main sales models work successfully in scaling B2B sales: 1) Enterprise; 2) Telephone; and 3) Developer-driven. customer acquisition cost or CAC). To achieve friction-free revenue (and who doesn''t want friction-free revenue?),

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Up and Running

APRIL 17, 2018

B2B ecommerce sales , (businesses selling directly to other businesses) generate three times as much revenue as B2C, at $7.7 Check out the video below for an easy-to-understand definition of SEO. Higher conversion rates mean more of your website visitors are purchasing your products, which means higher revenue for you.

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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).

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Customer Harvest B2C Technical Review 80

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Definitions of failure also vary. Nichole Elizabeth DeMeré , a B2B SaaS consultant, lamented that. Another plus: It costs almost nothing to produce. American Biophysics, which had $70 million in annual revenue, was later sold to Woodstream for just $6 million. The real number, they argue, is around 40%. Conclusion.

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Product Campaign Acquisition Social Media 110

ConversionXL

APRIL 4, 2017

For certain businesses, though – usually B2B with a high enough price tag and lifetime value – sales is a must. Predictable Revenue. Choosing these channels to push your growth is definitely taking a bigger risk than choosing any other “classic” channel. Some resources for sales: Close.io Hacking Sales.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

The important thing to note from the definition above is that lead scoring measures that value of a lead to your company. Some key questions to consider for creating your target buyer profile: Who is an ideal customer for us (industry, company size, revenue, etc.)? Where are our ideal customers located? Drop him a note here.

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Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

Very simply, your cost to acquire a customer needs to be lower than the value of that customer (lifetime value). Diving in a bit more into some thoughts here: 1b) Ad-based revenue streams generally have terrible unit economics. Ads can also be cost-per-click or cost-per-action ads. 2) B2B startups have high margins.

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Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

Very simply, your cost to acquire a customer needs to be lower than the value of that customer (lifetime value). Diving in a bit more into some thoughts here: 1b) Ad-based revenue streams generally have terrible unit economics. Ads can also be cost-per-click or cost-per-action ads. 2) B2B startups have high margins.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 17, 2018

You can get big-time, modern, virtual phone functionality at a fraction of the cost. He is the president and founder of Revenue & Associates and the creator of The bullseye marketing framework and we’re going to talk about a book built on that called Bullseye Marketing: How to Grow Your Business Faster.

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Marketing Social Media Analytics Software 56

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 30, 2015

Since the cost of bad hires is enormous for a company’s bottom line, it is critical for those that are in charge of hiring to “get it right.”. Eliot Burdett, CEO of Peak Sales Recruiting, a leading B2B sales recruiting company, explains the key is to look beyond the resume and test for certain personality traits.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Here’s what it will cost you: . Here’s what it will cost you: . Here’s what it will cost you: . Here’s what it will cost: . Here’s what it will cost you: . Here’s what it will cost: . Track and understand customer data through real-time customer behaviors and engagement. The Lite plan starts at $9 per month.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

A supply store such as this AutoZone in New Hampshire is definitely on point by focusing on ice melt now, but wouldn’t want to keep running those same keywords full speed in mid-July. Running these reports is definitely a good way to start evaluating time of day data from a PPC performance standpoint. Exercise: image source.

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PPC Widget Campaign Technical Review 111

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Click-Through Rate Definition The Conversion Rate Formula: How to Calculate Conversion Rate Bounce Rate: Everything You Want to Know and More How To Calculate and Increase Customer Lifetime Value PPC Click-Through-Rate: What it Means and How to Use It (and Improve It) How to Track and Improve Ecommerce Customer Acquisition Effectiveness.

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Metrics Analytics Marketing Acquisition 105

VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

If the state has budget issues, which I believe it does, and needs to raise tax revenue (which has other options available such as cutting staff, eliminating duplication and programs and implementing automation – all of which businesses have been doing for the last ~2 years), then let’s raise taxes. Those are debatable.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

Outcomes: Revenue | Ideas Funded Behavior: Path Length | Cart Abandonment Rate Acquisition: Assisted Conversions | Share of Search. Every ecommerce site has to obsess about Revenue. Always adapt to what’s most important and sensible for you (and remember that nothing is free, every measurement decision you make has a cost!).

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Metrics Acquisition eCommerce Analytics 141

Cracking the Code

JANUARY 28, 2008

Eloqua is bringing this revolution to the B2B marketers by providing on-demand applications and best-practice expertise for B2B marketers to execute, automate and measure effective marketing programs that drive revenue. Note: high CAC ratio means high productiviy (see blog post for definition). Started on Jan.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Let’s say your company is in the B2B Software as a Service (SaaS) space. Since most online users don’t go past the first page of Google search engine results, you’ll definitely want to ensure your web pages rank on the first page for related key word searches. The cost per click also tends to be lower due to less competition.

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Hippoland

OCTOBER 16, 2016

Essentially my definition for companies in this category is that the technology is so difficult to build that only a small subset of people in the world can build it. As a result, for these kinds of businesses, investors often don’t expect that companies can earn revenue right out of the gate, because they may not legally be able to.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 14, 2022

Let's define partnerships in your view because there's a lot of definitions. So yeah, I, there there's some confusion around these terms, partner, marketing partnership, marketing affiliate market, and you have influencer and B2B. You say like great for every dollar we're selling, it's costing us five. Like that's crazy.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 15, 2020

People saying, “This is what’s happening to B2B SaaS or this is what’s happening to this category.” And so, we’ve seen a product-led growth motion certainly in the B2B space happening slowly. ” At least at Reforge, a lot of our revenue comes from company education budgets.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 7, 2022

So a lot of agencies track revenue, some actually even track profit, but you, if we're gonna optimize, um, profitability, what, what should we be measuring? And that's mostly gonna be the labor cost of the work that we do for clients. So I'm also maybe a little French too, that might have helped. Marcel Petitpas (01:46): I like it.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 20, 2016

For example, say you need to increase the number of top-of-funnel leads for your B2B company. Revenue generation: the amount of sales generated from social media marketing. If one of your goals is to increase social media engagement, definitely keep track of the number of likes, shares, comments, and retweets. Engagement.

Social Media 60

Social Media Media Small Business Marketing 60

ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

It aims to fuel your sales pipeline , shorten the sales cycle, and generate revenue. In other words, it boosts revenue by delivering the right information to the right people at the right time so that they can make confident decisions. ROI on marketing-sourced revenue. Deciding between LBM and ABM.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Um, first off, I want to get a definition what's, I mean, what's the difference between community and like audience or even customers? And it builds this emotional switching cost. This is where he is getting his revenue. You can see the ROI of that kind of community because it's cost avoidance. I don't know.

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Community Marketing Audience Networking 83

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 25, 2018

It starts with having the right data in the system,” noted Kamil Rextin, who wrote about B2B attribution. For B2B marketers, demand generation tactics—no matter how well targeted—fail if they focus exclusively on how a product or service benefits the prospect alone. Data types are important. Strategies are based on bad data.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 21, 2019

Increase recurring revenue. And despite what the old adage says, the customer is most definitely not always right. Poor customer service : A report by Forrester revealed that 23% of B2B CMOs view improving customer experience as a top-three objective. Hidden or unexpected costs anger consumers. Increase brand reputation.

Software Review 125

Software Review Social Media Demand Advertising 125

Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Definitely do not start Tweeting or embarrassing your brand on Facebook (we'll do that in a bit). The cool part about display advertising is that we can build our brands cost effectively, introduce our products to a new audience, and create demand based on a number of intent signals (this last part is often missing from offline media).

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Analytics Marketing Channel Metrics 165

Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 30, 2022

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. Company like ours, signposts, we are a B2B or business to business company. Laura Nelson (08:56): Yeah, it definitely has.

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