Lead Scoring and Ideal Customer Profile:

Building an ideal customer profile helps you segment your customers who are willing to buy from you. It is a description of a fictitious organization which gets significant value from your service or product. By knowing what they need and by figuring out how they will respond, your marketing strategies can evolve and become more personalized.

Content Marketing

Think of content as the fuel to all of your marketing campaigns from email to social. Create content that is impactful to your audience and drives sharing. Through creating high quality content, you can begin to gain your buyer’s trust and start breaking through the noise. The good thing about content marketing is that it comes in many different formats and is able to be distributed on various formats. This has the potential to reach many different customers on all areas of the web.

SEO:

Search engines such as Google equate high-quality content with a high-quality website, creating content with value is very important. Conduct a content audit to see how many of your assets fall into the thought leadership vs. promotional category. That means making sure that your thought leadership content has substance to it. Lots of companies are jumping on the content bandwagon, so do it right: focus on quality over quantity, and on providing useful – not promotional – information.

Use your content and distribute it to a wide variety of platforms. The more engagement you get, the more Google considers your content to be of high value, and this will boost your SEO rankings. Think of SEO as a long term strategy where the natural links to your site will grow and eventually placing relevant keywords for your business into the top spot.

Blogging/Guest Blogging:

Blogging and writing articles is a fantastic way of getting a targeted audience to your website for B2B Marketing. This is because the people who actually read the blog are interested in what you have to say about your niche. Once you have published an amount of useful, targeted and engaging articles, people in your industry will start to pay attention.

Social Media:

Lead generation from social media is becoming more and more important. Not only does it allow you to reach your audiences frequently, it can also allow you to build a connection with your customers. In marketing businesses, LinkedIn is a great example of how you can use social media to directly reach influencers in your industry.

Website:

Having a well made website with a clear Call to Action is one of the most important areas in B2B inbound marketing. All your leads and potential customers will eventually go on your website. Therefore, the content, layout, design are essential in converting interested customers into paying ones.

Email Marketing:

One of the most effective outbound B2B marketing strategies is email. Due to its low cost and wide reach, email is the cornerstone of every business marketing campaign. From cold email lead generation campaigns, to staying in touch with customers, email is a great way to funnel prospects and cold leads into engaging customers. Email is also a great way to distribute content in forms of text, images and video.

Display Ads:

Display ads also serve a purpose at every stage in the funnel-building brand and audience at Top of Funnel, educating and helping evaluation at Mid-Funnel, and increasing conversions at Bottom of Funnel. You can use retargeting to advertise your business to the ones who have visited your website before. The amount of Ad space offered by Google is enormous and the placement of your ads can be targeted to websites in your niche.

Pay Per Click Ads:

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With Pay-per-Click (PPC ) ads you pay for each click on your ad which is displayed on a search engine such as Google, Yahoo, or Bing, or on a website. For PPC on search engines, your ads show up as sponsored results on the top and side of the organic search terms. PPC ads are a terrific way to draw attention to your latest content or service offerings. They are also highly targeted so they can generate very high quality leads.

Content Syndication

Because prospective buyers won’t always end up at your website as they start their purchase journey, it’s important that you establish a presence where they may show up. A great way to deliver high-value content to the correct prospects is through content syndication – a content sharing strategy that can be used to promote your whitepapers, articles, news releases, etc. on other websites for greater reach and engagement.