ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Complex products and decisions—rife in the B2B world—encourage us to default to our heuristic judgment. In fact, the secrets that have helped differentiate brands are far more enduring. Because commodities lack appealing secrets, a farcical backstory—masquerading as a differentiator—fills the void. Image source ).

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Complex products and decisions—rife in the B2B world—encourage us to default to our heuristic judgment. In fact, the secrets that have helped differentiate brands are far more enduring. Because commodities lack appealing secrets, a farcical backstory—masquerading as a differentiator—fills the void. Image source ).

Customer 101

Customer Differentiation West Virginia Campaign 101

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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Cost Marketing Audience Media 37

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 4, 2014

They should also consider launching online B2C or B2B platforms incorporating mobile and social-commerce. Faced with the rising costs of labour, materials and land in Chinese cities, companies are increasingly sourcing from other Asian countries like Vietnam, Indonesia, Pakistan and Bangladesh.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Last week, in part one of the B2B versus B2C series, I explained there are several reasons as to why entrepreneurs should venture into “B2B” (“Business to Business”) service based companies as opposed to any form of “B2C” (“Business to Consumer”) company, “B2B” product-oriented company or strictly a web-based B2B firm.

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B2B Business Model B2C Agile 105

ConversionXL

AUGUST 21, 2019

Most B2B leads don’t become customers. Email automation lets you nurture leads at scale, so you can compensate for lower conversion rates with volume at virtually no cost. Additionally, most B2B marketers aren’t nurturing lead-magnet downloaders properly. Benchmarks for download-to-customer conversion rates are scarce.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

2:48] Has design been a key differentiator for Typeform? [3:23] 8:26] What do you feel is your core differentiator? [10:50] John Jantsch (02:48): And we can get into the specifics, but I mean, that design aspect has really been a key differentiator for Typeform, hasn't. 3:23] As CMO, how do you look at the customer journey? [5:26]

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 15, 2017

If you deliver exactly the same results at the same net cost to the customer via a SaaS product, you may get a tech multiple 10X higher. Price is no longer cost + markup = customer price. Now it’s cost + markup + 14 layers of intermediaries who all get a cut = price paid by insurance or the government.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 15, 2022

I think B2B companies in particular have probably been slower to come to this idea. B2B companies I think are probably the greatest untapped opportunity right now. And I think it's coming around, I think the problem that B2B is gonna have is actually executing it. Whereas b2c, I mean m and MS has had a, has a community, right?

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

We’re not mainly for B2B companies or later stage companies or anything like that. And on the periphery, we like to help our members with some basic resources, at no additional cost. In most cases our teaching members are happy to offer their advice at no cost. David Teten: How do startups sign up? It varies case-to-case.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 3, 2016

I built and grew a business with the key differentiator being speed. This builds momentum and reduces the cost of the professional services. As you likely realize, online marketing services are, at heart, a B2B solution. But getting even more granular, my clients themselves are B2Bs as well. 11 – An Open Name.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 17, 2024

Prior to starting MarketMuse in 2015, Jeff was a marketing consultant in Atlanta and led the Traffic, Search and Engagement team for seven years at TechTarget, a leader in B2B technology publishing and lead generation. And that's really the differentiator. It can be as customized as you might want just from the base model.

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Artificial Inteligence ChatGPT Differentiation Technical Review 75

ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

The average B2B buyer has 27 brand interactions before deciding. Only around 10–15% of B2B leads turn into paying customers, and it’s because tactics optimizing for the early stages of the funnel only cater to early-stage goals. Very few, if any, of these interactions are with a sales rep.

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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

MARCH 25, 2020

A B2B website that educates potential buyers isn’t a personal “weblog.” Up-to-date content can be a differentiator. Length is an increasingly unhelpful differentiator. It’s a low-cost way to earn traffic and accommodate mobile users, who want quick answers. To be honest, it never did. It doesn’t age the same way.

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Analytics Metrics Technical Review Search 68

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 It can be tempting to reuse product descriptions from your own copy and from product manufacturers throughout your website, but you should try to avoid it at all costs. trillion in 2021, up from $1.3

SEO 80

SEO eCommerce Analytics Software Review 80

Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

07:11] With so many tools claiming the same space, how does Databox differentiate itself? [08:43] And if we were able to increase our reduce the CPC cost per click, maybe you can justify that, and that would ultimately yield them more results. 08:43] Many tools only show real-time data, making historical comparisons challenging.

Metrics 75

Metrics Analytics Forecast Software Review 75

ConversionXL

MARCH 5, 2019

Undoubtedly, this takes more effort and costs more. After you’ve persuaded recipients to open your email, you need to deliver high-quality content to differentiate your email from everything else in their inbox. Our own Name2Email extension can quickly suggest possible addresses; Tools like Hunter.io Offer value to the recipient.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

They include total sales, campaign ROI, conversion rates, cost per lead, cost per sale, revenue per click and so on. B2B messages should answer pertinent business questions like the following: How does this solution help solve a business problem? Do a competitive and cost analysis for those keywords.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 28, 2017

best for B2B). For B2B, post-conversion survey could be part of an on-boarding email. The key differentiator for this product was a 3G connection that didn’t require communicating through a phone. For instance : What is the biggest challenge you’re facing right now? Where do you see yourself in 3 years from now?

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

This has allowed us to deliver a truly differentiated product for the same price consumers would otherwise spend on craft beer at a store. We see this as a pretty great accomplishment for anyone looking for personalized beverages!

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 4, 2017

In the B2B segment, a number of software products targeted at agencies offer ‘white labeled’ solutions that these agencies can customize while reselling to their own end customers. Personalization is a low cost strategy that can yield high response from your customers.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 11, 2014

If there is a similar product, see how your idea can be differentiated and, of course, use the competing products price point as a starting point for yours. Many business owners turn to overseas suppliers to curb rising production costs and to boost global competitiveness. Global Sources . ” 2.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

I only work with B2B clients as well into service delivery. And when I present it to them in terms of a cost analysis, [00:05:00] in terms of what you would. If you're B2B, it should be LinkedIn. Owning that conversation earned would be for B2B, like maybe some press, maybe some influencers. What's your cost per lead?

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ConversionXL

MARCH 30, 2015

Here are some ideas about of how you can apply 10 Jakob Nielsen Usability Heuristics to lead generation websites in the B2B or high consideration B2C realm, where there isn’t necessarily any transactional functionality, e.g. e-commerce, user registrations, etc. That’s an important distinction. Image Credit.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 14, 2018

According to DemandMetric , content marketing costs 62 percent less than traditional marketing and generates three times as many leads. As a result, 93 percent of business-to-business (B2B) marketers use content marketing. Content marketing has been effective for B2B marketers as well. Adapt your content marketing strategy.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 26, 2018

Depending on your vertical, total cost of business name change can run into millions of dollars like the attempt to change UTA to TDU. This would likely necessitate business name change with its associated rebranding costs. Differentiation in this case is key. Source: Pixabay. It puts you in a class of your own all by yourself.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Sure you *could* have a whole team – but more people adds more complexity as well as cost. Doesn’t matter if it’s B2B or B2C, ecommerce or SaaS, we’re deadling with (irrational, emotional) human beings. They tend bees, arrange flowers, and any other number of hobbies that involve visual differential analysis.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 20, 2019

G2 Crowd confirms that it’s a high-cost option. Demandbase’s costs place it in the 96th percentile for “Marketing Account Management” software. Given the number of people involved in B2B decisions, account-wide coverage has value in addition to one-to-one targeting. That’s only one segment of the B2B market.

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ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2019

Focus offline conversations on high-value points of differentiation. That’s true even among B2B customers who are supposedly more rational than their B2C counterparts. Similarly, for B2B sellers, most consideration takes place away from your site, in meeting rooms with decision-makers you’ll never meet. Text content is cheap.

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Marketing Sales Cycle Retention Differentiation 124

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 13, 2018

As it turns out, those caps represent a fraction of overall value—like differentiating a presidential suite from a standard room based on square footage. Users get credits toward BigQuery; extensive querying of GA data in BigQuery could generate added costs.). A 10% increase in efficiency would nearly cover the cost of GA360.

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

B2B demand generation focuses on ROI. Look instead at measuring KPIs like close rate, cost per acquisition, cost per lead, conversion rates, average contract value, and lifetime customer value. If differentiation is a contentious issue for you, try this: create a list of three qualities that differentiate your brand.

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Demand Affiliate Audience Leadership 115

ConversionXL

AUGUST 10, 2021

Whatever makes your brand stand out and differentiate , use that on Instagram, too. One B2B brand that does this well is social media scheduling platform Later. It is tempting to work with an influencer with 25 million followers, but it will cost a lot more, and often the influencer has lost direct touch and access with their fans.

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Metrics Audience Curation Algorithm 152

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

And it builds this emotional switching cost. You can see the ROI of that kind of community because it's cost avoidance. And one of the things I'm proud of in the book is I have dozens of brand new case studies, diverse b2b, b2c, big companies, you know, small companies. These, this is my place, these are my people.

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Community Marketing Audience Networking 84

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Copy testing, in other words, won’t help you differentiate —it will help you know if you’re conveying that differentiation effectively, in a brand spot or on a long-form sales page. For specific B2B folks (targeting by title + industry), LinkedIn is a good bet. And most copy tests don’t reward you for that.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Memberstack’s B2B audience are familiar with YCombinator. The second section takes a similar approach while directly addressing a common objection: the high cost of furniture shipping. The landing page aggressively differentiates the brand from its competitors. It names them outright and lists their faults in the hero section.

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Audience Video Software Review Conversion 156

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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