BUSINESS GROWTH &
MARKETING BOOTCAMP
Mark Prince
 Mark Prince Growth
Dave Pannell
 Dave Pannell  @daviepannell
Dave Pannell
MCIM BA(Hons)
 Dave Pannell  @daviepannell
Over 20 years of marketing and
branding experience and ambassador
for CIM Yorkshire
Mark Prince
 Mark Prince Growth
Hugely experienced business leader,
author and speaker - with 30 years of
global corporate leadership.
Marketing is pointless
... if you don’t have your
business basics right first
£7mmarketing
“Coke sells tap water for 95p”
Coca-Cola’s new brand of“pure”
bottled water was revealed to be
tap water taken from the mains,
sold at a 300,000% mark-up.
How did you first hear about...
People forget what the basics
of marketing are:
Selling the right product
To the right people
At the right price
(ie your business basics!)
Business has changed
A growth mindset
The world’s largest taxi
company owns no vehicles
The world’s largest
accommodation provider
owns no properties
Disruption
Short, high-impact strategies
Fast growth mind-set
5 YEAR PLAN
VS
VS
VS
How do they do it?
Create a point of difference
Know their customer
Solve a problem others are not able or
willing to solve
Create a cause, serve a club
Create a point of difference
Know your customer
Their gender
Their age
Level of education	
Income
Do they need the
product or is it a
luxury?
How will they use the
product or service?
What do your customers
value most?
Do they impulse buy
or do they save
for it?
Where do they
get their decision
making information?
Where are your
customers located?
Solve a problem others are
not able or willing to solve
Create a cause, serve a club
Engage your market with...
Passion Technology Disruption
How we communicate, how
we work, how we gather
information, how we buy...
... so why are
you still trying to
find sales like it’s
the 90s?
Report: How Engineers Find
Information (Q4 2016)
INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERS
Nearly 70% turn to search
engines to find information
Report: Wolters Kluwer Health
Point-of-Care Survey (2011)
DOCTORS
Nearly half frequently use
search engines for diagnosing
their patients
At the start of their buying
decision.
Once they have narrowed
down the options themselves
to a couple of suppliers.
Only to confirm pricing or
delivery details.
20%
25%
55%
At what point B2B buyers want
to engage with suppliers
BUYINGDECISION
THE INVISIBLE BUYER
Visits your
website, takes
your information
and writes you off
without you ever
knowing you were
in the running
Pay per click
Landing pages
Nurturing
Follow-ups
Email capture
Re-marketing
SEO
Email marketing
LinkedIn
Personal brand
Social
Branding
PR
Direct sales
Strategy
2% Ready to engage
18% Decision-making
80% Passive / checking
you out80%
18%
2%
Visitors to your website
Limbo Deciding
Trigger
point
SaleAware
of a need
Customer buying timeline
Limbo Deciding
Trigger
point
SaleAware
of a need
Visits your site
for first time
LinkedIn
request
LinkedIn Articles
Clicked on
link in email Meeting
Email
exchange Follow-up call
 
  

 

Email marketing
Download
PDF&
capture
email
Customer buying timeline
 Your email
address
What does this tell you about the
person who downloaded?
Limbo Deciding
Trigger
point
SaleAware
of a need
Visits your site
for first time
LinkedIn
request
LinkedIn Articles
Clicked on
link in email Meeting
Email
exchange Follow-up call
 
  

 

Email marketing
Download
PDF&
capture
email
CAPTURING THE INVISIBLE BUYER
Send personal email & connect on LinkedIn
Added to sector specific mailing list
Contact shows interactivity
Follow-up call / email
Initial meeting
Sale
Digital marketing doesn’t get rid
of the need to sell
It gives you the opportunity to
have better sales conversations
with the right people
Splitpage
Squeeze
What makes email marketing different to...
Online pharmaceutical spam works
to a 0.00001% conversion rate.
Have to send 350 million emails
to generate 28 sales.
Spamalytics: An Empirical Analysis of
Spam Marketing Conversion (2008)
TARGETING
Your current
customers &
contacts
People who have
downloaded
information
Bought, very
targeted,
mailing lists
Higher interaction Lower interaction
There are 5 reasons why people
don’t buy from you:
No need
No money
No rush
No desire
No trust
TIMING
Limbo Deciding
Trigger
point
SaleAware
of a need
Visits your site
for first time
LinkedIn
request
LinkedIn Articles
Clicked on
link in email Meeting
Email
exchange Follow-up call
 
  

 

Email marketing
Download
PDF&
capture
email
Customer buying timeline
VS
Customers are not sat waiting for
your email to land as the answer to
all their problems.
At some point you have to pick up
the phone
Pay per click
Landing pages
Nurturing
Follow-ups
Email capture
Re-marketing
SEO
Email marketing
LinkedIn
Personal brand
Social
Branding
PR
Direct sales
Strategy
Google made $90 billion last year
$80 billion came from
advertising revenue
Source Alphabet Fourth Quarter
and Fiscal Year 2016 Results
 Accountants Huddersfield
 Accountants Huddersfield
Paid-for PPC
adverts
Ad
Paid-for PPC adverts
Paid-for PPC adverts
‘Local’results
Organic / SEO results
Ad
Ad
52% don’t look
beyond the
first two search
results
1
2
3
2
4
1
 Scroll down for local results
4
3
 Accountants Huddersfield
 Scroll down for organic results
 Accountants Huddersfield
1
2
3
2
3
1
4
5
4
 Accountants Huddersfield
Organic listings don’t appear until half way down
the results page
The days when you could
‘cheat’Google are over
Buying
backlinks
Keyword
stuffing
Invisible
content
VS
SEO and PPC
Google is in charge
(not you, and not an
SEO company)
Mobile search favours
mobile-friendly sites
Can only target one
keyword per page
Slow: off-site and on-
site techniques require
long-term strategies
Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
Instant results
and budget control
Only pay when
someone has a
genuine interest
Can directly target
all keywords (even
competitor product
names and brands!)
Exclude keywords
Pay Per Click (PPC)
Other search engines
are available!
Re-marketing
3 seconds
That’s how long someone takes to make
their mind up about your company when
they first visit your website
(You can't prove your credibility in that
time using words)
Branding in the digital world
Always online
Always there
Always ‘on’
Office / store
Stationery
Marketing literature
Press advert
Your brand pre-2000
Website
Mobile website
Google search results
Email stationery
LinkedIn
Social media (all of it!)
Online downloads
YouTube
Your brand now
2017
Pre-2000
Pre-2000 Now
Pre-2000 Now
1960s
People buy
from people -
and they buy most
from the people
they like
If I Google you and
find nothing then,
to me, you are a very
unremarkable person
THE WHOLE
WIDE WORLD
The bit you
have to be
known in
Branding Mark Prince
Articles Videos
Events Publications
Creating“The Fuel”

Personal
website

Regular email
newsletter

LinkedIn
management
Content feeds platforms
Activity feeds opportunities
Isn’t
it just
vanity?!
Credibility proven
before you even walk
through the door
Social media
Social Sales Social Sales
Hobbies, interests
& social selling
Have to make the
company sociable
B2B social B2C social
'Search for
part121G'
Pay per click
Landing pages
Nurturing
Follow-ups
Email capture
Re-marketing
SEO
Email marketing
LinkedIn
Personal brand
Social
Branding
PR
Direct sales
Strategy
What are you going to do
right now?
Over to you
Vitality, enthusiasm and
passion
Bring together the right
team for the right job
Build momentum, create a
drumbeat
Take a guide
Buy the book!
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BUSINESS GROWTH &
MARKETING BOOTCAMP
Mark Prince
 Mark Prince Growth
Dave Pannell
 Dave Pannell  @daviepannell

Marketing Bootcamp December 2017