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Ideal Customer Identification

Do you know your best customer? Seriously - do you really, really understand your best customer? For example, do they live in a big city or the suburbs? Watch Jeopardy or Modern Family? Use their iPhone nonstop, or get nervous about new technology? If you don't know the answer, it's time to do some research. Asking these types of questions will help you paint a clearer picture of your target customer - what marketers like to call their "buyer persona" - which will help you make smarter marketing decisions that always cater to the needs of your target customer.

 

The key to successful marketing is making marketing people love. And the first step to making marketing people love is understanding *what* your best customer loves. Once you understand your buyers' loves, needs, and interests, you can use this information to guide all of your marketing moving forward. Not only will you be successful, but you'll also make your buyers happy! 

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You don't want a bunch of visitors to your website. 

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You want your ideal client to visit your website!

Buyer Personas allow you to take a deeper dive into your ideal customer.

Buyer personas are fictional, generalized representations of your ideal customers. They help you understand your customers (and prospective customers) better, and make it easier for you to tailor content to the specific needs, behaviors, and concerns of different groups.

HubSpot offers a really cool online tool to help you create buyer personas.

You want potential customer to visit your website and say, "They get me. They understand my problems and can solve them."

How Can You Use Personas?

At the most basic level, personas allow you to personalize or target your marketing for different segments of your audience. For example, instead of sending the same lead nurturing emails to everyone in your database, you can segment by buyer persona and tailor your messaging according to what you know about those different personas.

 

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Here are some practical methods for gathering the information you need to develop personas:

  • Interview customers in person or over the phone to discover what they like about your product or service.
  • Review your contacts database to uncover trends about how certain leads or customers find and consume your content.
  • When creating forms to use on your website, use form fields that capture important persona information. (For example, if all of your personas vary based on company size, ask each lead for information about company size on your forms. You could also gather information on what forms of social media your leads use by asking a question about social media.)
  • Take into consideration your sales team's feedback on the leads they are interacting with most. (What types of sales cycles does your sales team work with? What generalizations can they make about the different types of customers you serve       best?)

 

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Inbound Marketing

What is Inbound Marketing?

The internet has leveled the playing field for competition among small and large companies. Potential customers use the internet to research companies long before they contact them directly. Inbound marketing is customer-centric, not seller-centric.

Inbound Marketing can be summarized in 4 steps:

  • ATTRACT POTENTIAL CUSTOMERS
  • CONVERT THEM INTO LEADS
  • CLOSE LEADS INTO CUSTOMERS
  • DELIGHT CUSTOMERS INTO EVANGELISTS FOR YOUR PRODUCTS/SERVICES

The Inbound approach is all about designing your website for conversion by providing valuable content that your ideal customer actually wants and is willing to provide information in exchange for that content. 

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HubSpot defines Inbound as a method of attracting, engaging, and delighting people to grow a business that provides value and builds trust. As technology shifts, inbound guides an approach to doing business in a human and helpful way. Inbound is a better way to market, a better way to sell, and a better way to serve your customers. When good-for-the-customer means good-for-the-business, your company can grow better over the long term.

Once potential customers provide their information, you must nurture that relationship with offers that add value to the relationship. Gone are the days of canned emails and generic white papers. Segmentation of your leads into specific buyer profiles is critical to identify the offers/information that are specific to their buying process. Leads will continue along the buyer's journey if and only if you establish brand trust and credibility with your offers.

You have nurtured the relationship and they have become a customer. Now what? Your competitors want your customers as much as you want them. Remarkable content offers must be made to existing customers to keep them.

Unlike outbound marketing, with inbound marketing, you don’t need to fight for your potential customers’ attention. By creating content designed to address the problems and needs of your ideal customers, you attract qualified prospects and build trust and credibility for your business.

This approach allows the buyer to be in control and allows you to get out of the way and let them buy from you!

 

30 Proven Techniques For Lead Generation HubSpot provides a full platform of software for marketing, sales, service, and customer relationship management. These tools are powerful alone, but they’re even better when used together, helping you grow with the inbound methodology.
 
HubSpot allows your marketing to ATTRACT new prospects with:
Ads
Video
Blogging
Social Media
Content Strategy
 
You can use HubSpot to ENGAGE those prospects with:
Lead Flows
Email Marketing
Lead Management
Conversational Bots
Marketing Automation
 
Your marketing does not stop there, HubSpot helps you DELIGHT your customers and prospects using:
Smart Content
Conversations Inbox
Marketing Automation with Workflows
Attribution reporting- easily identify your most effective marketing channels
 
It still does not stop there. Once someone has moved themselves from being a Marketing Qualified Lead to a Sales Qualified Lead, your Inbound Marketing Strategy continues.
 
We consistently reference the Prospects Report in HubSpot, as you can easily identify who is visiting your website and use your Buyer Persona information to connect with leads on LinkedIn. Quit wasting time arranging a meeting. The Meetings Tool eliminates the endless cycle of emails trying to coordinate schedules. Combining Email Templates and Sequences allows sales to focus on selling! Don't forget about Predictive Lead Scoring to allow sales to focus on highly qualified leads.
 
 
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We help you with:

  • Ideal Customer Identification
  • Inbound Marketing
  • Content Creation
  • Blog Creation
  • Landing Pages
  • Forms
  • Calls To Action
  • Sequences
  • Email Templates
  • Automated Workflows
  • Email Optimization
  • Social Media Management
  • Website Refreshes

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Content Marketing

What is Content Marketing?

Useful content should be at the core of your marketing

Traditional marketing is becoming less and less effective by the minute; as a forward-thinking marketer, you know there has to be a better way.

Enter Content Marketing.

"Content marketing is a strategic marketing approach focused on creating and distributing valuable, relevant, and consistent content to attract and retain a clearly defined audience — and, ultimately, to drive profitable customer action."

Instead of pitching your products or services, you are providing truly relevant and useful content to your prospects and customers to help them solve their issues.

Source: Content Marketing Institute

Creating blog posts is certainly one part of Content Marketing. When thinking about blog posts, you need to return to your Buyer Personas and create content that will engage them and position you as a thought leader in your industry.

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has some useful tips on Types of Blog Posts to Write:

  • How-to - Posts that teach readers how to do something; these typically perform very well in organic search if they align with long-tail search terms.
  • List Posts - Curated examples that can be informative, and thus also rather search-friendly, or simply entertaining.
  • Thought Leadership - Posts that explain fundamental shifts in an industry, or ask the reader to rethink conventional wisdom.
  • Newsjacks - Timely content that either reports on industry news, or finds unexpected tie-ins with popular news items.
  • Infographics/SlideShares - Blog posts that primarily use visual content to tell a story.

A major component of Content Marketing is the Content Offer. Content Offers can be:

  • eBooks - Incredibly popular format for content; typically presented as a PDF and redeemed behind a form.
  • Research Reports - Often presented as a gated PDF, or an ungated microsite.
  • Webinars - Though time-intensive, webinars may feature a guest speaker who brings his or her own audience, which can help broaden the top of the funnel. Recorded versions of webinars can live behind a landing page to extend their lifespan.
  • Tools & Templates - Because they're extremely utilitarian in nature, tools and templates often prove to be incredible for long-term lead generation despite the upfront resource investment required. 
You can also create Visual Content Offers, such as:
  • Infographics - These can be embedded in blog posts and shared on social media.
  • SlideShares - Some social media managers focus a lot of energy on SlideShare as a channel and create content exclusively for it. 
  • Video - Whether for YouTube or a blog post embed, short videos for the sake of entertainment or education can help you diversify your content portfolio and improve your SEO.

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Once you create valuable content for your ideal customer, it needs to be distributed across all relevant channels.

Remember that Buyer Persona thing.

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Analytics That Profit is a HubSpot Certified Agency Partner and a certified Growth-Driven Design Agency. Our staff is certified in HubSpot Marketing Software, Content Marketing, Email Marketing, Contextual Marketing, HubSpot Sales Software, Delivering Client Success and Growth-Driven Design. We are also certified by Google for Google Analytics and AdWords.

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We help you with:

  • Ideal Customer Identification
  • Inbound Marketing
  • Content Creation
  • Blog Creation
  • Landing Pages
  • Forms
  • Calls To Action
  • Sequences
  • Email Templates
  • Automated Workflows
  • Email Optimization
  • Social Media Management
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Social Media

Social Media doesn’t just belong to Marketing anymore.

Actions that a social media manager takes can affect all other departments, with Sales and Support receiving the majority of the impact; be sure to keep this in mind when monitoring your channels.

According to research from A Sales Guy, 72.6% of salespeople who incorporated social media into their process outperformed their colleagues. In addition, socially savvy reps beat their quotas 23% more often. We call this Social Selling.

72% of people who complain on Twitter expect a response within one hour. In the same study, 60% of respondents cited negative consequences to the brand if they didn’t receive timely Twitter responses. Twitter is the new phone for customer support, and these stats prove the importance of a quick response when someone has an issue with your brand.

A new study released by BRANDfog suggests that social CEOs are better leaders who can strengthen brands, build trust in products and services, demonstrate brand values, and communicate accountability - all by simply being on a social network.

Monitoring your business’ social media presence is incredibly important. You need to respond to people talking about your brand and understand how people view your company. Social media isn’t this magical fairy dust that makes business leads come rushing in for your company. It’s hard work! It requires time and effort, often across multiple departments and among multiple employees.

72% OF PEOPLE WHO COMPLAIN ON TWITTER EXPECT A RESPONSE WITHIN AN HOUR.

Your marketing team should create streams that specifically monitor:

  • The activity of each of your lead personas based on what product or service in which they are interested.
  • The activity of thought leaders in your industry when they mention certain terms on social media.
  • The conversation around the words and phrases that are core to your brand message and positioning.

HubSpot makes this easy with their Social tool inside the Marketing Platform. It allows you to easily Monitor and Publish to social media and provides detailed reporting for you to identify what content is resonating with your audience.

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The need to login to all social media platforms is removed as you can respond and interact directly from HubSpot.

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Utilizing the HubSpot integration with contacts, your salespeople should create streams that specifically monitor:

  • Their open leads’ conversations.
  • Their “closed lost” leads’ mentions of certain terms.
  • Their “closed won” leads to check in with them after the sale.

 

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Your support team should create streams that specifically monitor:

  • Questions or concerns users have about your products or services.
  • Conversations your customers and leads are having about your products or services.
  • Positive and negative feedback for your products or services.

Executives should create streams that specifically monitor:
  • Conversations people are having about you and your executive team.
  • Conversations your customers and leads are having about your products or services vs competitors' products or services.
  • The activity of other executives in your industry when they mention certain terms on Twitter.

 

Now that we’ve gone through why you should monitor, who should do the monitoring, and some basics for listening and responding, it’s time to determine next steps for your efforts. In anything you do, it’s important to set a goal for yourself, and monitoring social media should be no different.

Depending on which department owns your accounts, here are a few goals and metrics you can achieve through monitoring social media:

  • Leads generated
  • Industry trend tracking
  • Thought leadership
  • Interactions from influencers
  • Interactions from detractors
  • Competitive intelligence
  • Revenue
  • Qualified opportunities
  • Opportunities won
  • Daily or weekly touch points
  • Brand mentions
  • Sentiment
  • Crisis management
  • Conversations
  • Response rate
  • Resolved issues
  • Customer happiness and delight
  • Product feedback

If you’ve never set a goal for social media monitoring before, start by aligning your monitoring goals with your department’s goals. For example, if you’re monitoring from the Sales department, maybe you should set a goal for yourself to interact with 10 prospects per week on social media. Once you’ve achieved this goal and feel like you can go deeper, attach your goal to a revenue number or see how many deals you can close with social selling per month or per quarter. If you think you’d have more success setting your monitoring goals using a template, feel free to download our SMART goals template below.

SMART Marketing Goals Template

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Analytics That Profit is a HubSpot Certified Agency Partner and a certified Growth-Driven Design Agency. Our staff is certified in HubSpot Marketing Software, Content Marketing, Email Marketing, Contextual Marketing, HubSpot Sales Software, Delivering Client Success and Growth-Driven Design. We are also certified by Google for Google Analytics and AdWords.

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Website Refresh

 

 

3 Reasons Websites Go Over Budget and Over Schedule

Several inherent problems exist in traditional web design, with the reiterative process being one of the biggest stumbling blocks. A single change can necessitate a new round of edits, proofing, and approvals before going live...and additional changes could still be needed once the single "fix" has been published.

Another large problem is the dormancy of a website. Websites are often put on "set it and forget it" mode, which leads to updates being put off for years, at times. This brings challenges, as the market does not remain dormant and your outdated site could be causing missed opportunities for new consumers to find your products and services.

Read on for 3 reasons websites go over budget and over schedule.

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1. Web Developer/Code Dependent 

In traditional web design, unless you are experienced in web development and coding, you are dependent on someone else to make changes to the website. This creates a long reiterative process:

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Wait.

Publish.

Find issues.

Submit another change request.

Wait.

Publish.

A month has now passed! 

Platforms such as Squarepace, WordPress, Wix, GoDaddy and HubSpot offer themed templates for websites. All the coding is done behind the curtain so the end user can add content without any special coding skills required. With the coding piece removed, we can now make changes to the site without the reliance on another person (or team), and can also focus on the content and design of the site.

2. Lack Of Website Hyperfocus

We need to update our website. Why? Our competitors' sites look better than ours.

This reminds me of what my mother used to say to me, "If all your friends jumped off a cliff, would you?" Me being the snarky little ginger that I was would reply, "Yes! All my friends would be dead." Didn't work well with my mother and won't work well for your business. It costs money to refresh a website. The lack of a hyperfocus makes your website a cost center not a revenue generator. If you are going to spend money on your website, then shouldn't your site have a desired outcome and ROI? If all you want is your contact information, then go with a simple contact page. The reality is, most people use the internet to research potential vendors.

Research from Google shows that 90% of B2B researchers who are online use search to specifically research business purchases.

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A hyper-focused website will solve problems for visitors. Potential customers, when searching the internet for vendors, want to understand your capabilities and unique value proposition to solve their problem so they can move forward in the buying process. This is why it is important to understand your customers using Buyer Personas. Once identified, you can provide highly relevant hyper-focused content that will lead them through the buyer's journey.

Pro Tip: Ask your current customers what they want to see on your website. 

3. Ignoring Low Hanging Fruit

While a cool digital online tool seems like a nice addition, they can be expensive to develop. Focus on low hanging fruit first. The revenue generated can then be used to pay for the cool digital tools. How do you find low hanging fruit? Identify friction points in the conversion process with Google Analytics. An easy way to do this is to set up goals in Google Analytics. If you have not set goals in Google Analytics read this article.

low hanging fruit reasons websites go over budget analytics that profitOnce you have identified the friction points, design the conversion process so it is easy for your website visitors to get the information they need. Solve the problem. Don't be the problem.

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Your Website

A 24 HOUR SALES FORCE THAT NEVER TAKES A VACATION!

Here are some enlightening facts from Google:

  •  90% of B2B researchers who are online use search specifically to research business purchases.
  •  On average, B2B researchers do 12 searches prior to engaging on a specific brand's site.
  •  71% start on a generic query, so they're looking for product first, not for you.
  •  70% of B2B buyers and researchers are watching videos throughout their path to purchase.

Source: https://www.thinkwithgoogle.com/consumer-insights/the-changingface-b2b-marketing/

This makes it clear that your website is most likely the first “salesperson” consumers will talk to in their buying journey. Building your website around this data will provide consumers with a positive experience about your brand.

Your “salesperson” needs to have answers as to why you can solve the problems that consumers are researching.

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A website refresh every 18-24 months is obsolete thinking. We view your website as a living, breathing organism that is always in a state of evolution, which is why we became a Growth-Driven Design certified HubSpot Partner.

A little background... HubSpot conducted a survey in 2016 and found that only 42% of marketers make impactful improvements to their website every year. We get it. Coordinating developers and coders, graphic designers and copywriters can become a nightmare. The graphic below illustrates this lengthy process.

Traditional Web Design: Waterfall

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We use the HubSpot Growth-Driven Design model to keep your website updated.

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HubSpot Growth-Driven Design is based on agile methodology, which removes the interdependencies of traditional waterfall design (the next process has to wait on the previous process, etc.), dramatically reducing time from concept to launch.

Successful websites begin with a focused growth strategy. Our goal in the strategic stage is to develop an empathetic understanding of your audience's world and how your website can solve problems along their journey.

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The goal of the Launch Pad website is to quickly build a website that looks and performs better than what you have today, but is not your final product. Your Launch Pad is the foundation from which you collect real-user date and optimize.

The advantage to this approach is we can make changes to your website and make them live with a mouse click. No developers or designers need to be involved.

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Analytics That Profit is a HubSpot Certified Agency Partner and a certified Growth-Driven Design Agency. Our staff is certified in HubSpot Marketing Software, Content Marketing, Email Marketing, Contextual Marketing, HubSpot Sales Software, Delivering Client Success and Growth-Driven Design. We are also certified by Google for Google Analytics and AdWords.

 

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