“Inbound marketing is the bee's knees! Unlike many other marketing strategies, inbound focuses on everything from getting noticed through delighting current customers. As you could guess, there are many moving parts to any successful inbound marketing strategy...some easy, minimal tasks, some time consuming, difficult tasks."
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Businesses are created, thrive, and fold with the fluctuation of the economy. Almost as common as a business closing is the announcement of a merger between two brands or of the acquisition of one company by another.
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A new quarter. A fresh start. Time to try new things and attract new business.
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Oftentimes when I’m asked about inbound strategy, it’s tempting to give a wishy-washy answer like, “It depends on the situation” “It depends on the company” “It depends on the goal.” This kind of deflection helps no one improve, create, and measure their strategies.
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You have your goals. You know your opportunities. You’re ready to leverage your brand’s strengths.
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You’ve worked with the folks at Customer Y and Customer X for 25 years each, and they still provide a nice chunk of revenue. Your business has been in the B2B/industrial game for 50-100 years, and the brand is already “well known” (somewhere, at least). Trade shows and sales visits to the prospect’s facility are what your sales team knows and is good at. (Though that pesky pandemic sure made it hard.) So, why invest in digital marketing?
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What’s the most common cause of failure for a B2B digital marketing campaign? Most often, it’s either poor understanding of how inbound marketing works, or lack of commitment to a plan.
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“Did you hear that the longer your content is, the better it performs in SEO?” “Rack up as many backlinks as possible, no matter where they come from.” “You don’t need a CRM. Your business is too small.” “SEO is dead.” Have you heard these words before? You probably have if you’ve been around online marketing long enough.
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COVID-19. There -- we got that out of the way. In all seriousness, it’s impossible to talk about the future of B2B sales without touching on the coronavirus -- as sick as we all are of discussing it.
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Talk with any successful digital marketer, and the #1 thing they’ll tell you is the foundation of any lead-generating, sales-converting, customer-delighting strategy is content.
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If you are executing digital marketing, congratulations! You are most likely already one step ahead of your competition, and making strides to meaningfully connect with prospects online. But, how do you know if you’re seeing continual success year over year, and improving your metrics?
Without the tools in place to analyze and benchmark your efforts, it is impossible to scale your online marketing and ensure continuous success.
