SaaS marketing 101 How to execute today for maximum growthAli Mahmoud
Practical tips for any small business or SaaS Company to improve their marketing. Inbound Marketing is a topic often covered however what about businesses that need short term results while they execute on their long term inbound strategy.
Entrepreneurs are faced with too many choices: inbound vs outbound, social, referral or account-based marketing. This slideshare takes an in-depth look at outbound marketing & referral marketing which can be two highly effective vehicles to help you acquire customers today.
Enjoy and please share your thoughts, successes and even your failures. We can all grow together.
SaaS Marketing - Blogging, Social and SearchAgile SEO
-- How do SaaS providers use blogging, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, SEO, PPC, and PR?
-- How can SaaS providers generate buzz and viral content?
-- Which online channels have the highest ROI?
-- How should SaaS providers integrate social media into their marketing process?
Gilad David Maayan, a SaaS marketing and social media expert, reviews how today's online marketing channels work together to generate high impact for growing SaaS providers.
The document discusses key aspects of building a successful sales organization for a SaaS company. It covers the shift from traditional on-premise software sales models to the SaaS model with more frequent customer touchpoints. Successful SaaS sales requires continually refining processes, systems, skills, and structure. The sales strategy should have a vision aligned with goals and markets. Different customer segments require tailored sales models with the appropriate roles. Setting goals and quotas for sales territories is important for driving attainment. Customer success and account management play separate but important post-sale roles in ensuring ongoing customer value and opportunities.
Page 1 Rank (1st page SERP) for your top 2 to 5 keyword phrases and leapfrog the competition.
The document covers SEO from a B2B SaaS Perspective:
(1) Basic overview of how B2B SEO works
(2) Basic overview of free tools and software to help with SEO
(3) How to select keywords for which you will optimize your website
(4) How to implement keywords into your website to drive SEO
(5) How to create backlinks to your website to improve SEO
Whether you’re advertising online or reaching out to clients via email, landing pages can be your greatest online marketing asset. Learn how landing pages fit into your marketing arsenal, best practices for increasing conversions from any campaign, and proven techniques for implementing A/B tests that yield results.
Presented by Jenny DeGraff, Director of Design Optimization at the Central Virginia AMA event on June 16, 2015.
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Brenda Spoonemore - A biz dev playbook for startups: Why, when and how to do ...GeekWire
This document provides guidance on business development strategies for early stage startups. It discusses what business development is, how it can help startups, and challenges early stage startups face. It then presents three case studies of business development deals between Yardbarker and FoxSports, BigDoor and NFL.com, and Fantasy Moguls and CBSSports.com. Finally, it outlines a three step process for startups to develop business deals: defining needs and potential partners, pitching potential partners, and negotiating and formalizing agreements while focusing on the relationship.
This document outlines an inbound marketing approach that uses blogging, social media, targeted offers, landing pages, calls to action, email nurturing, and email blasts to generate more traffic, leads, and customers. It emphasizes using analytics to measure the performance of each campaign element and continuously improve the inbound marketing strategy. The goal is to implement a metrics-based approach that delivers real marketing ROI through an analyze-and-optimize cycle.
SaaS marketing 101 How to execute today for maximum growthAli Mahmoud
Practical tips for any small business or SaaS Company to improve their marketing. Inbound Marketing is a topic often covered however what about businesses that need short term results while they execute on their long term inbound strategy.
Entrepreneurs are faced with too many choices: inbound vs outbound, social, referral or account-based marketing. This slideshare takes an in-depth look at outbound marketing & referral marketing which can be two highly effective vehicles to help you acquire customers today.
Enjoy and please share your thoughts, successes and even your failures. We can all grow together.
SaaS Marketing - Blogging, Social and SearchAgile SEO
-- How do SaaS providers use blogging, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, SEO, PPC, and PR?
-- How can SaaS providers generate buzz and viral content?
-- Which online channels have the highest ROI?
-- How should SaaS providers integrate social media into their marketing process?
Gilad David Maayan, a SaaS marketing and social media expert, reviews how today's online marketing channels work together to generate high impact for growing SaaS providers.
The document discusses key aspects of building a successful sales organization for a SaaS company. It covers the shift from traditional on-premise software sales models to the SaaS model with more frequent customer touchpoints. Successful SaaS sales requires continually refining processes, systems, skills, and structure. The sales strategy should have a vision aligned with goals and markets. Different customer segments require tailored sales models with the appropriate roles. Setting goals and quotas for sales territories is important for driving attainment. Customer success and account management play separate but important post-sale roles in ensuring ongoing customer value and opportunities.
Page 1 Rank (1st page SERP) for your top 2 to 5 keyword phrases and leapfrog the competition.
The document covers SEO from a B2B SaaS Perspective:
(1) Basic overview of how B2B SEO works
(2) Basic overview of free tools and software to help with SEO
(3) How to select keywords for which you will optimize your website
(4) How to implement keywords into your website to drive SEO
(5) How to create backlinks to your website to improve SEO
Whether you’re advertising online or reaching out to clients via email, landing pages can be your greatest online marketing asset. Learn how landing pages fit into your marketing arsenal, best practices for increasing conversions from any campaign, and proven techniques for implementing A/B tests that yield results.
Presented by Jenny DeGraff, Director of Design Optimization at the Central Virginia AMA event on June 16, 2015.
Searching for an independent company promoting thoughts? You have arrived at the ideal locations. We realize that not at all like enormous organizations with greater money vaults and surprisingly a greater number of promoting choices...
Brenda Spoonemore - A biz dev playbook for startups: Why, when and how to do ...GeekWire
This document provides guidance on business development strategies for early stage startups. It discusses what business development is, how it can help startups, and challenges early stage startups face. It then presents three case studies of business development deals between Yardbarker and FoxSports, BigDoor and NFL.com, and Fantasy Moguls and CBSSports.com. Finally, it outlines a three step process for startups to develop business deals: defining needs and potential partners, pitching potential partners, and negotiating and formalizing agreements while focusing on the relationship.
This document outlines an inbound marketing approach that uses blogging, social media, targeted offers, landing pages, calls to action, email nurturing, and email blasts to generate more traffic, leads, and customers. It emphasizes using analytics to measure the performance of each campaign element and continuously improve the inbound marketing strategy. The goal is to implement a metrics-based approach that delivers real marketing ROI through an analyze-and-optimize cycle.
In this presentation, we outline the benefits of SEO and why you should use both paid and organic search for maximizing your revenue. Brought to you by https://ppc.co/ and https://seo.co/ppc/
Building a Sales Funnel That Sells with WordpressDan Kaufman
Having a nice looking website is great – but if you are not able to lead your prospect down the right path they will never become a customer / client. How to build a sales funnel within WordPress. A sales funnel is a structured method for developing products and/or service offerings at multiple price points, designed to entice prospects to first divulge their contact information, then make an initial purchase, followed by additional purchases. The Marketing Funnel, done right, maximizes the lifetime value of a client.
The document discusses key components of new business success including what you say, how you say it, and who you say it to. It emphasizes that copywriting is essential for marketing online through email, websites, blogs, social media and other digital channels. Effective copy separates winners from losers by attracting qualified buyers and persuading them to take action through compelling messaging. Hiring expert copywriters can significantly increase online sales, traffic and earnings.
This document discusses 7 smart ideas for marketing a SaaS business: 1) Build a marketing strategy based on customer acquisition costs, lifetime value, and return on investment. 2) Constantly optimize your website's conversion rate. 3) Showcase your expertise to become a thought leader. 4) Focus on the benefits of your product rather than technical details. 5) Nurture prospects with helpful content. 6) Market to existing customers to retain them. 7) Use the right marketing software to efficiently implement your strategy. The full white paper provides more details on effectively marketing SaaS.
The document outlines the 9 most common and expensive mistakes found in Google AdWords audits. These include: 1) not tracking campaign results, 2) lacking a clear value proposition in ads, 3) not using targeted landing pages, 4) not writing targeted ad headlines, 5) bidding too high to be in the top spot without optimizing quality score, 6) not using negative keywords, 7) not using dayparting techniques, 8) not using geographic targeting, and 9) not doing A/B testing of ads and landing pages. The author recommends having an audit done to identify any issues and optimize the campaign.
Inbound marketing your competitive advantage - the content marketing show - w...HubSpot
The document discusses inbound marketing and how it can help companies better target their marketing efforts towards buyers like Dave. It recommends using buyer personas to understand customers and create relevant content and marketing assets. It also stresses the importance of measuring marketing performance across the entire customer funnel, from attracting visitors to converting leads and closing sales. If done correctly through inbound marketing, companies can see significant increases in web traffic, leads, and customers over time.
This document provides guidance on setting up and optimizing LinkedIn ad campaigns. It outlines the key steps including defining campaign goals, choosing a campaign name, selecting targeting criteria like job title, company and location, and tracking results. For example, it discusses how an accounting software company called ProStock may target their ads towards accountants in North America to drive leads through free trials and educational content. The document provides tips at each step and examples to help advertisers set up effective LinkedIn ad campaigns.
Your ultimate guide to Google Analytics Remarketing.
Find out how Google Analytics is working and what are GA Audiences. Understand which signals to use, how to create Audience lists and and leverage GA capabilities for advanced uses cases such as cross-device Remarketing, CRM-based Audience Lists, Email-based Retargeting, etc ...
Leave Your Competition in the Dust By Avoiding (Very) Common AdWords Pitfalls...Search Scientists
In this talk, I focus on fixing these common AdWords Mistakes
1. Low Quality Scores
2. Low Exact Match Impression Share & Weak Negative Keyword Optimization
3. PPC Without a Sales Funnel
4. Not using RLSA
5. Not Bidding on your own Brand
6. Not using automated rules
7. Not being active and optimizing regularly
Grey Suit Retail provides tools and services to allow businesses to sell more products online through websites, apps, mobile marketing, and social media. Their reseller program allows other companies to private label and resell Grey Suit Retail's services to their own customers. As a reseller, you own the customer relationships, set pricing, and manage billing, while Grey Suit Retail handles the technical implementation and ongoing support. Their services include websites with ecommerce capabilities, mobile marketing, social media apps for Facebook, and analytics to measure results.
Heard of inbound marketing but aren't exactly sure what it means? This SlideShare outlines the core of inbound marketing and ways you can use inbound to grow your business. Generating organic, self-qualified traffic is the name of the marketing game in 2016.
Introducing Affiliate gold digging for affiliate marketing gold in 2021and Beyond! Inside this ebook you will discover the topics about the reason super affiliates make so much more than others these regular Affiliate program which to join getting paid the highest rates pay per lead programs PPC: get paid for sending visitors to a website recurring income how to get paid for the same sale over and over again and so much more!
The Art of Startup Customer AcquisitionMartin Wrobel
"How to choose the right sales and marketing channels for your startup?"
Presentation of "Martin Wrobel" at "Startup Night 2016" at "Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Berlin"
27 Free & Low-Budget Marketing Ideas for Any BusinessBusinessTime1
This document provides 27 free and low-budget marketing ideas for small businesses. It begins by introducing the challenge small businesses face with limited marketing budgets. It then outlines marketing ideas broken into three categories: free and fast ideas that require little time or resources, free ideas that require more effort, and quick ideas that require a small budget. Specific ideas include creating a Google Business profile, engaging on social media, using hashtags, blogging, forming partnerships, and hosting webinars. The document emphasizes that many effective marketing strategies can be done at low or no cost.
A presentation I gave on July 10, 2009 for members of the Cape Cod Technology Council in Hyannis, MA. I gave an overview of inbound marketing, then got into the details of SEO, blogging, social media and measurement of the marketing and sales funnel.
10 Ways to Make Your Lead Generation Website Convert On the First VisitStraightNorthIM
84% of website conversions occur on the first visit, so it is crucial for lead generation websites to convert visitors immediately. The document provides 10 tips to improve first-visit conversions: 1) use compelling content that stimulates action, 2) have intuitive navigation, 3) include relevant custom imagery, 4) add persuasive credibility elements, 5) personalize the website, 6) create irresistible calls to action, 7) optimize forms, 8) prominently display phone numbers, 9) continuously test the website, and 10) ensure mobile-friendly design given that 23% of online leads come from mobile devices. Continuous testing is important to further improve conversions.
3 years ago, a simple request changed Marcus Sheridan's life. A CMO (chief marketing officer) from a manufacturing company said to him, "Marcus, I believe in inbound marketing. I believe in HubSpot. But I just can't get buy-in from everyone in management and sales to help me in this process. So I need you to come out to our company and convince everyone that they want to be a part of this." That statement led to Marcus Sheridan giving what was his first Inbound Marketing Workshop, something he has done many, many times since then to organizations of all sizes. In this passionate and interactive session, Sheridan will show: 1. The steps to giving an effective workshop so that everyone is engaged, illuminated, and bought-in to the essence of inbound marketing. 2. How to use the workshop to turn everyone on the team into a content producer 3. How add workshops to your service offerings so as to lead to stronger client relations and better profits for Inbound Agencies
B2B Lead Gen and Brand Building - B2B Product Marketing SeriesMichael Fertman
Overview of a typical B2B Product Marketing Branding and Lead Generation Plan to accelerate the sales growth rate and enhance brand recognition at a low cost and high ROI.
"High Impact, High ROI, Low Cost Framework"
21 Things That Need To Be In Your Intro Employee TrainingAntoniya K Zorluer
This short document promotes the creation of presentations using Haiku Deck, an online presentation tool. It displays three stock photos and text that encourages the viewer to get started making their own Haiku Deck presentation. A brief call to action is given to create a presentation on SlideShare.
1) The document discusses lessons learned by Drew Houston, co-founder and CEO of Dropbox, about how they applied lean startup principles and grew Dropbox from 100,000 users to millions without traditional marketing.
2) Early on, Dropbox got feedback directly from users through a screencast and beta launch video which helped them learn. Their public launch focused on making users happy rather than traditional marketing plans.
3) Experiments with paid search, affiliates and other traditional tactics failed, but Dropbox continued growing through word-of-mouth as they encouraged sharing and referrals between users.
4) Dropbox's success showed that best practices don't always work and it's important to understand your market type and how your product fits
In this presentation, we outline the benefits of SEO and why you should use both paid and organic search for maximizing your revenue. Brought to you by https://ppc.co/ and https://seo.co/ppc/
Building a Sales Funnel That Sells with WordpressDan Kaufman
Having a nice looking website is great – but if you are not able to lead your prospect down the right path they will never become a customer / client. How to build a sales funnel within WordPress. A sales funnel is a structured method for developing products and/or service offerings at multiple price points, designed to entice prospects to first divulge their contact information, then make an initial purchase, followed by additional purchases. The Marketing Funnel, done right, maximizes the lifetime value of a client.
The document discusses key components of new business success including what you say, how you say it, and who you say it to. It emphasizes that copywriting is essential for marketing online through email, websites, blogs, social media and other digital channels. Effective copy separates winners from losers by attracting qualified buyers and persuading them to take action through compelling messaging. Hiring expert copywriters can significantly increase online sales, traffic and earnings.
This document discusses 7 smart ideas for marketing a SaaS business: 1) Build a marketing strategy based on customer acquisition costs, lifetime value, and return on investment. 2) Constantly optimize your website's conversion rate. 3) Showcase your expertise to become a thought leader. 4) Focus on the benefits of your product rather than technical details. 5) Nurture prospects with helpful content. 6) Market to existing customers to retain them. 7) Use the right marketing software to efficiently implement your strategy. The full white paper provides more details on effectively marketing SaaS.
The document outlines the 9 most common and expensive mistakes found in Google AdWords audits. These include: 1) not tracking campaign results, 2) lacking a clear value proposition in ads, 3) not using targeted landing pages, 4) not writing targeted ad headlines, 5) bidding too high to be in the top spot without optimizing quality score, 6) not using negative keywords, 7) not using dayparting techniques, 8) not using geographic targeting, and 9) not doing A/B testing of ads and landing pages. The author recommends having an audit done to identify any issues and optimize the campaign.
Inbound marketing your competitive advantage - the content marketing show - w...HubSpot
The document discusses inbound marketing and how it can help companies better target their marketing efforts towards buyers like Dave. It recommends using buyer personas to understand customers and create relevant content and marketing assets. It also stresses the importance of measuring marketing performance across the entire customer funnel, from attracting visitors to converting leads and closing sales. If done correctly through inbound marketing, companies can see significant increases in web traffic, leads, and customers over time.
This document provides guidance on setting up and optimizing LinkedIn ad campaigns. It outlines the key steps including defining campaign goals, choosing a campaign name, selecting targeting criteria like job title, company and location, and tracking results. For example, it discusses how an accounting software company called ProStock may target their ads towards accountants in North America to drive leads through free trials and educational content. The document provides tips at each step and examples to help advertisers set up effective LinkedIn ad campaigns.
Your ultimate guide to Google Analytics Remarketing.
Find out how Google Analytics is working and what are GA Audiences. Understand which signals to use, how to create Audience lists and and leverage GA capabilities for advanced uses cases such as cross-device Remarketing, CRM-based Audience Lists, Email-based Retargeting, etc ...
Leave Your Competition in the Dust By Avoiding (Very) Common AdWords Pitfalls...Search Scientists
In this talk, I focus on fixing these common AdWords Mistakes
1. Low Quality Scores
2. Low Exact Match Impression Share & Weak Negative Keyword Optimization
3. PPC Without a Sales Funnel
4. Not using RLSA
5. Not Bidding on your own Brand
6. Not using automated rules
7. Not being active and optimizing regularly
Grey Suit Retail provides tools and services to allow businesses to sell more products online through websites, apps, mobile marketing, and social media. Their reseller program allows other companies to private label and resell Grey Suit Retail's services to their own customers. As a reseller, you own the customer relationships, set pricing, and manage billing, while Grey Suit Retail handles the technical implementation and ongoing support. Their services include websites with ecommerce capabilities, mobile marketing, social media apps for Facebook, and analytics to measure results.
Heard of inbound marketing but aren't exactly sure what it means? This SlideShare outlines the core of inbound marketing and ways you can use inbound to grow your business. Generating organic, self-qualified traffic is the name of the marketing game in 2016.
Introducing Affiliate gold digging for affiliate marketing gold in 2021and Beyond! Inside this ebook you will discover the topics about the reason super affiliates make so much more than others these regular Affiliate program which to join getting paid the highest rates pay per lead programs PPC: get paid for sending visitors to a website recurring income how to get paid for the same sale over and over again and so much more!
The Art of Startup Customer AcquisitionMartin Wrobel
"How to choose the right sales and marketing channels for your startup?"
Presentation of "Martin Wrobel" at "Startup Night 2016" at "Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Berlin"
27 Free & Low-Budget Marketing Ideas for Any BusinessBusinessTime1
This document provides 27 free and low-budget marketing ideas for small businesses. It begins by introducing the challenge small businesses face with limited marketing budgets. It then outlines marketing ideas broken into three categories: free and fast ideas that require little time or resources, free ideas that require more effort, and quick ideas that require a small budget. Specific ideas include creating a Google Business profile, engaging on social media, using hashtags, blogging, forming partnerships, and hosting webinars. The document emphasizes that many effective marketing strategies can be done at low or no cost.
A presentation I gave on July 10, 2009 for members of the Cape Cod Technology Council in Hyannis, MA. I gave an overview of inbound marketing, then got into the details of SEO, blogging, social media and measurement of the marketing and sales funnel.
10 Ways to Make Your Lead Generation Website Convert On the First VisitStraightNorthIM
84% of website conversions occur on the first visit, so it is crucial for lead generation websites to convert visitors immediately. The document provides 10 tips to improve first-visit conversions: 1) use compelling content that stimulates action, 2) have intuitive navigation, 3) include relevant custom imagery, 4) add persuasive credibility elements, 5) personalize the website, 6) create irresistible calls to action, 7) optimize forms, 8) prominently display phone numbers, 9) continuously test the website, and 10) ensure mobile-friendly design given that 23% of online leads come from mobile devices. Continuous testing is important to further improve conversions.
3 years ago, a simple request changed Marcus Sheridan's life. A CMO (chief marketing officer) from a manufacturing company said to him, "Marcus, I believe in inbound marketing. I believe in HubSpot. But I just can't get buy-in from everyone in management and sales to help me in this process. So I need you to come out to our company and convince everyone that they want to be a part of this." That statement led to Marcus Sheridan giving what was his first Inbound Marketing Workshop, something he has done many, many times since then to organizations of all sizes. In this passionate and interactive session, Sheridan will show: 1. The steps to giving an effective workshop so that everyone is engaged, illuminated, and bought-in to the essence of inbound marketing. 2. How to use the workshop to turn everyone on the team into a content producer 3. How add workshops to your service offerings so as to lead to stronger client relations and better profits for Inbound Agencies
B2B Lead Gen and Brand Building - B2B Product Marketing SeriesMichael Fertman
Overview of a typical B2B Product Marketing Branding and Lead Generation Plan to accelerate the sales growth rate and enhance brand recognition at a low cost and high ROI.
"High Impact, High ROI, Low Cost Framework"
21 Things That Need To Be In Your Intro Employee TrainingAntoniya K Zorluer
This short document promotes the creation of presentations using Haiku Deck, an online presentation tool. It displays three stock photos and text that encourages the viewer to get started making their own Haiku Deck presentation. A brief call to action is given to create a presentation on SlideShare.
1) The document discusses lessons learned by Drew Houston, co-founder and CEO of Dropbox, about how they applied lean startup principles and grew Dropbox from 100,000 users to millions without traditional marketing.
2) Early on, Dropbox got feedback directly from users through a screencast and beta launch video which helped them learn. Their public launch focused on making users happy rather than traditional marketing plans.
3) Experiments with paid search, affiliates and other traditional tactics failed, but Dropbox continued growing through word-of-mouth as they encouraged sharing and referrals between users.
4) Dropbox's success showed that best practices don't always work and it's important to understand your market type and how your product fits
This document discusses AdPushup, a solution that helps web publishers optimize ad revenue. It uses A/B testing of different ad placements, sizes, and types to improve click-through rates and revenue per thousand impressions. Since display advertising is growing significantly, AdPushup's approach can help publishers maximize profits from their ad spaces. A case study showed it increasing one publisher's revenue per thousand impressions from $3.82 to $12.10. AdPushup plans to monetize further as it adds more publisher clients and inventory.
The deck we used to raise $270k for our startup Castleentercastle
Castle (entercastle.com) is a Detroit-based real estate startup that lets rental owners put their properties on autopilot. In April 2015, we closed a $270,000 angel round using this deck.
Questions? Comments? I'd love to hear from you. Email me at max@entercastle.com.
AppVirality - Plug & Play growth hacking toolkit for Mobile apps.
We help app developers implement Uber/Lyft like in-app referrals under 30 minutes. No coding required.
Checkout - http://appvirality.com
The 10 most interesting slides that helped our SaaS company raise 9 millionGoCanvas
Have you ever wondered what goes into a pitch deck? Or what slides matter? Here are the 10 slides that seemed to resonate most with VCs we met with our our journey to raising our latest $9 million in funding. Be sure to check the notes for explanations of each slide.
The document outlines Square's business proposition of providing a simple and low-cost way for merchants to accept credit card payments using a mobile device. Key points include:
- Square charges merchants a flat 2.75% fee per transaction with no setup costs or monthly fees.
- The company has experienced rapid growth, processing over $1 million in payments per day.
- Square targets small businesses and individuals by offering a simple interface and device that plugs into smartphones.
- Backed by experienced founders and investors, Square aims to become the dominant platform in mobile payments by acquiring new merchants through wide exposure and competitive pricing.
The document discusses the benefits of meditation for reducing stress and anxiety. Regular meditation practice can help calm the mind and body by lowering heart rate and blood pressure. Studies have shown that meditating for just 10-20 minutes per day can have significant positive impacts on both mental and physical health over time.
This document summarizes a platform that allows users to create customized maps of communities and interests. It started with 20,000 unique users and 18,000 monthly alerts. The platform has since received many requests to build maps for different interests around the world. The document outlines the business model, which includes organizing map data and monetizing through advertising, premium listings, and a potential SAAS model. It provides a timeline showing past pilots and plans for future mobile and discovery features. The team is seeking $1M in funding to further develop their self-service platform.
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive function. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms.
Manpacks is a startup that provides monthly subscriptions for men's underwear. It aims to solve problems men have obtaining and maintaining their underwear supply. The founders have relevant experience in retail operations, web design and development. They are currently raising $500k on AngelList and 70% is already committed. The website and social media promote the company's limited time offers and discovery of new products to help men.
Machine Learning is the new buzz word and AI is the slang word these days. What does happen in this exiting field in Europe? Is AI common ground for all businesses or the exclusive territory for a few? Who has managed to validate a business model for autonomous vehicles or chatbots? What does data-driven or API-first business models look like?
The investor presentation we used to raise 2 million dollarsMikael Cho
The investor presentation we used to raise 2 million dollars for ooomf.com (now pickcrew.com)
View the online version here: https://pickcrew.com/investors/
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise boosts blood flow and levels of neurotransmitters and endorphins which elevate and stabilize mood.
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against developing mental illness and improve symptoms for those who already have a condition.
Marketing directors and other corporate marketers are intimately acquainted with the need for continuous new content to fuel their campaigns and maintain their relationship with their audience, and the centrality of a blog in supplying said content. As is so often the case, however, familiarity can breed contempt, and many people in your audience might simply be tired of the same old, same old when it comes to the content you're sending them.
But the rewards of a high-impact blog are undeniable: companies like Groove, HubSpot, and Net-Results have found that a high-quality blog can become the biggest single contributor to growing their earned audience and their sales leads.
Make no mistake, business blogging is not for the faint of heart. Knowledge of a product, service or even entire industry or profession is not, in and of itself, sufficient to effectively blog about it. Expertise does not necessarily a good storyteller make. And a successful business blogger is just that: A storyteller.
The document provides an 8-step guide to internet marketing. It discusses creating a keyword strategy, optimizing website content for keywords through on-page SEO elements like titles, meta descriptions and headings, creating blog and other content, promoting content on social media, converting site traffic into leads, nurturing leads with email marketing, being mobile-friendly, and analyzing strategies. The guide recommends businesses first focus on their on-page optimization by incorporating targeted keywords throughout their website to increase their chances of ranking higher in search results for those keywords.
Ultimate Guide: Build a Passive Income Blog From Scratch in 2016Gabriel St-Germain
This document provides an overview of how to build a passive income blog from scratch. It covers choosing a niche topic, setting up the blog using WordPress, creating content, and monetizing the blog through affiliate marketing. The key aspects covered include finding a niche you are passionate about; using WordPress for its customization options and popularity; optimizing content for search engines through long-form, high-quality posts; and integrating affiliate links and product recommendations to earn commissions without much ongoing work. The goal is to establish a blog that can generate income even when not actively working on it.
helps with content ideas,
collaborates on pillar pages and topic clusters
Promoter: owns social media, promotes
content, tracks engagement
Style Guide Creator: develops brand
guidelines for tone, formatting, etc.
Choosing a Content
Management System
and Setting Up Your Blog
is intuitive and user-friendly.
MOBILE RESPONSIVENESS
Make sure your CMS allows you to create content that looks
good on any device. Mobile responsiveness is key for a
modern blog.
SEO OPTIMIZATION
Look for a CMS that makes it easy to optimize your content
for search engines through features like XML sitemaps, meta
tags, and image alt
The document provides guidance on starting a successful B2B blog. It discusses that the primary reasons for blogging are to differentiate your business, build connections with customers, and improve search engine rankings. However, company culture must support blogging through executive sponsorship and an approval process that does not overly burden content creation. Key aspects to consider include goals, content sources, required time and personnel commitments, and quality over just quantity of posts.
Blogging is a fantastic tool for your business and can be a highly valuable asset in itself. This presentation will help build a blog like a professional.
What Every Website Owner Should Know About SEO (Series: Digital Marketing Tip...Financial Poise
Many website owners assume their website will automatically start showing up well on Google as soon as it goes live. Unfortunately, this isn’t typically the case. With more than six billion websites in existence, just having a website isn’t usually enough to make it rank at the top of a Google search. In this episode we explain how search engine optimization (SEO) works. This is what makes a website rank well on Google. We also share actionable tips on how a website owner can improve their website rankings, and as a result, increase website traffic, leads and sales.
To view the accompanying webinar, go to: https://www.financialpoise.com/financial-poise-webinars/what-every-website-owner-should-know-about-seo-2021/
CREATING BLOG PROFITS WITH SIMPLE METHODSFeroz Khan
The presentation covers the following subjects to help you turn your blog into a perpetual source of income:
- Building blocks of successful blogging
- Proper methodology for blogs oriented towards making money
- How to generate profit with advertising such as AdSense
- Additional tips for generating more revenue with your blog
- The facts about using sponsored reviews in your blogging
- How to improve your success by writing about what you love.
If you ask thousands of bloggers. what is the main thing you face online to make money online. they will tell you TRAFFIC. traffic is lifeblood of any online business. here are some 5 strategies to grow your audience online
6 awesome steps to promote your businessKickoffLabs
Learn how to promote your online business using lead generation techniques to build qualified web traffic. Cover the use of landing pages for viral growth and high conversion rates. www.kickofflabs.com
Build your business with Linkedin for Fraser Valley ExecutiveAnyssa Jane
This document provides tips for using LinkedIn effectively for business purposes. It discusses setting up an optimized profile on LinkedIn, including choosing a relevant job title and headline, writing an impactful summary, and selecting a professional photo. The document also provides seven key tasks that LinkedIn can help CEOs with, such as managing demands on their time, hiring smarter, and gaining market insights. Overall, the document outlines best practices for crafting a LinkedIn profile and leveraging the professional networking platform to benefit one's business goals.
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List of Services offered in Digital Marketing |Techvolt Software :
Techvolt Software offers best Digital Marketing services for promoting your products and services through online platform on the below methods of Digital marketing
1. Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
2. Search Engine Marketing (SEM)
3. Social Media Optimization (SMO)
4. Social Media Marketing (SMM)
5. Campaigns
Importance | Need of Digital Marketing (Online Promotions) :
1. Quick Promotions through Online
2. Generation of More leads and Business Enquiries via Search Engine and Social Media Platform
3. Latest Technology development vs Business promotions
4. Creation of Social Branding
5. Promotion with less investment
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1. Services offered with Affordable cost
2. Free Content writing
3. Free Dynamic Website design*
4. Best combo offers on website Hosting,design along with digital marketing services
5. Assured Lead Generation through Search Engine and Social Media
6. Online Maintenance Support
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2. INTRODUCTION
Customer acquisition is loved by every business, be it a giant like
Salesforce or a startup like ZoomCharts.
The question is HOW to generate qualified B2B
leads?
3. CONTENT
Here are 5 proven customer acquisition strategies that work for
different types of B2B businesses:
• LinkedIn lead generation
• Blog marketing
• Guest blogging on other websites
• Freemium model
• Email marketing & automation
4. LINKEDIN LEAD GENERATION
Best suited for: B2B organizations selling products or services to
another companies whose executives are active on LinkedIn.
Ease of implementation: Easy to Moderate
Results can be seen in: Less than a week if implemented in the right
way
5. LINKEDIN LEAD GENERATION
Here’s how to do LinkedIn Lead Generation the right way:
• Create a customer persona to define your target audience.
• Narrow down to the size of company, geography, seniority of executives or
job roles you want to target.
• Head over to LinkedIn, premium account is recommended, and start
searching using search bar of LinkedIn.
• For example, JOB ROLE at COMPANY NAME or JOB ROLE in CITY/COUNTRY
6. Here is an example how to search for MARKETING DIRECTORS in
UNITED KINGDOM:
7. Once you find people to target in the search list, follow these steps:
1. Send them connect request
2. When they accept your request, send a message to introduce
yourself on 3rd day
3. Send them a pitch on 7th day about your product/service in a
conversational tone
4. Follow them up on 10th day, if needed.
9. BLOG MARKETING
Best suited for: B2B organizations selling products or services which
is solving problems that are being searched by people on the internet.
Ease of implementation: Easy to Moderate
Results can be seen in: At least 3 months if it’s starting from the
scratch. But results are extremely powerful and stays for life.
10. BLOGGING THE NEIL PATEL WAY
Neil Patel is a growth hacker and digital
marketing mogul who founded
marketing analytics software Crazy Egg
& KISSMetrics.
He writes posts on QuickSprout to help
digital marketers around the globe.
Writing posts for marketers not only
helps him generate leads but also
increases his blog’s ranking in search
engines.
Neil Patel’s strong blog presence ranks
him in the top 10 results in Google and
that builds more brand awareness.
11. HOW TO MAKE YOUR COMPANY
BLOG WORK FOR YOU?
Here are the ways that can be followed for any kind of product or
service:
• Understand the core problem you’re solving and who are you solving
it for. For example, you’re a website developing firm.
• Understand the person you want to reach out with your blog. Your
target audience is local business owners.
• What does this person search for on the internet when he thinks
about building a site for his business?
• For example, a search could be “why to build a website for your local
business”.
12. Head over to adwords.google.com and open Google Keyword Planner.
Add all these queries there and see how many people are actually
searching for it
13. Using the Google Keyword Planner, you’ve got the list of topics you
can write about.
The next step is to build links to get your blog posts rank higher. For
this, you can do the following things:
• Comment on other similar blogs with genuine answers and a link to
your post
• Start answering questions on Quora & Yahoo with your post’s link
• Approach other bloggers who write similar posts and pitch them to
include a link to your post in their relevant post.
14. GUEST BLOGGING ON OTHER
SITES
Best suited for: B2B organizations selling products or services where
their target is looking for a solution on the internet.
Ease of implementation: Easy to Moderate
Results can be seen in: At least a couple of months if it’s started
from the scratch.
What is a Guest Post?
Guest post is nothing but writing a post relevant to your topics for
someone else’s blog which publishes similar posts. It contains a link
to your post and information about your business.
15. WRITING GUEST POST FOR B2B
BUSINESSES
• To begin with, find a topic local businesses might be searching for
when setting up a website. Think of 2-3 similar ideas related to their
problems.
• Find a blog that will be enriched by your content.
• Reach out to the blog owner via email provided on their website or
their twitter handle.
16. Here’s an example of reaching out to the owner of a blog who writes about
SEO
Subject : Hi Andrew! Loved your post on “how to do
local SEO”
Hi Andrew,
Hope you are doing great.
My name is Shivankit and I just wanted to thank you
for the amazing post on Local SEO that you wrote last
week.
I have been an avid reader of your blog and love going
through it a couple of times every week.
I also blog at XXX about how local businesses can
design great websites and earn more business. I was
wondering if you’d be interested in getting a post
published by me about “How great website design can
mean more business for local businesses”
I’d love to entertain any other ideas you have as well.
Keep up the good work!
Shivankit Arora
Marketing Head
XXX
Local SEO Guide is Andrew Shotland's
blog on local search optimization,
small business marketing & search
engine optimization strategy.
17. HOW DOES GUEST BLOGGING
HELP?
• It gets links back to your site from this credible blog that you
pitched to.
• More guest posts equals more backlinks and more backlinks equal
higher rankings in the search engines.
• More visibility. You are seen as a much more credible person in your
domain
• Plus your visibility increases as the readers of this new blog that you
posted on also get to know about you.
18. FREEMIUM MODEL OF YOUR
PRODUCT
Best suited for: B2B companies selling a product that will cost the
client a recurring fee.
Ease of implementation: Easy to Moderate
Results can be seen in: At least a couple of months if starting from
scratch.
What is Freemium?
It is just a version/part of your product that you give away for free for
a limited or unlimited duration.
19.
20. WHY TO CHOOSE FREEMIUM?
The answer is simple, to BUILD TRUST.
When you are selling a B2B product and you know that it does all
those beautiful things for your client, you need to understand that the
client needs to take a demo for themselves in order to gain some
hands on experience and trust on your product.
21. EXAMPLES OF FREEMIUM
BUSINESS MODELS
Buffer is a social media
scheduling service. You can
connect your social profiles and
schedule content.
• Free model allows you to
connect 3 social media channels
at a time and schedule 10 posts
per network.
• A person can easily upgrade to
a higher version (for just $10
per month) and connect more
accounts and schedule more
posts.
22. EXAMPLES OF FREEMIUM
BUSINESS MODELS
KISSmetrics is a marketing
analytics tool that analyzes how
customers and users are
interacting with your website.
Kissmetric’s free trial allows you
to see and build trust with the
product first before you want to
make a decision to buy or not buy
it.
23. EMAIL MARKETING AND
AUTOMATION
Best suited for: B2B companies where the decision maker (from client
side) is not active any where else(other than mail) including LinkedIn.
Ease of implementation: Moderate to Difficult
Results can be seen in: At least a couple of weeks if starting from
scratch.
24. MAILCHIMP - THE EMAIL CHAMPION
Mailchimp allows you to send
marketing emails, automated
messages, and targeted
campaigns.
You can fetch detailed reports of
your campaigns and monitor
which email is working best for
your business.
25. HOW TO USE MAILCHIMP TO GENERATE
MORE LEADS
• Use LinkedIn/company websites to scrape email ID’s of executives
who are my potential leads.
• Decide on a workflow. For example, a software development
company that builds software for investment banks. Now to
approach the technology heads of such companies, follow these
steps:
a) Day 1: Short email about my services and asking for a call
b) Day 3: Follow-up if they didn’t open the mail
c) Day 5: Follow-up if they opened but did not reply
• All these steps can be performed using an email automation tool like
Mailchimp.
26. What are your marketing
hacks to get more
clients?
I would love to hear your
thoughts! Drop me a mail at
shivankit[at]marketingmasala[dot]
com
You can also connect with me on
twitter at @marketingmasala