A startup called Crowdy.ai has created a widget it describes as a “social proof engine” that it hopes will change the way B2B companies sell online by providing visual evidence of prospects during into customers. Deal-Maker is a web site integration that provides real-time updates on how web site visitors are taking action on a […]
Category: Conversion
Unbounce uses ‘Machine Vs. Marketer’ game to demonstrate potential for AI in boosting landing page conversions
Unbounce has been helping marketing teams develop and generate better performance from landing pages since its inception, but now the firm is using comparative data to show customers how machine learning could improve their results even further. In a series of event appearances starting last Fall, Vancouver-based Unbounce has been staging “Machine vs. Marketer,” where […]
TechTarget CMO suggests a more holistic way to think about lead gen quality
The many online magazines published by TechTarget cover everything from enterprise resource planing applications to data storage and servers, but the one technology innovation that’s unlikely to be covered by its editors and reporters is its own toolset for helping marketers gather more accurate, actionable sales leads. Earlier this month TechTarget announced updates to its […]
5 UX changes B2B marketers can make to boost path-to-purchase conversions
Most marketers know the chief difference between the purchase process of B2C and B2B models: consumer transactions are typically simpler, streamlined and influenced by emotion, whereas business conversion is gradual, complex, and usually marred in red tape and protocol. UX design agencies are familiar with this disparity too—crafting an ideal user experience for a B2C company’s […]
5 eCommerce Lessons Learned From 2 Failed Startups
Opening a shop is easy but keeping it open is hard. If you’re an entrepreneur you can relate to my situation. I was about to lose all hope. My second venture failed massively. Sometimes, failure gives us a new perspective. And that is what got me going on my third venture. I sat down in […]
Customer Experience is the New Battleground for B2B Businesses
Customer experience has remained one of the most crucial factors in retaining the existing clients. The customer pool for B2B businesses is smaller when compared to B2C businesses. For B2B businesses, it is extremely important to hold on to the current customers as losing even a single customer due to poor customer service can be […]
The One Metric That Identifies Qualified Buyers
Elle Woulfe, VP Marketing at LookbookHQ, began her session at yesterday’s MarTech Conference in Boston with one question, “how did you measure the success of your last campaign?” Most of the room would agree the accepted standard, by tracking: Clicks Downloads Form completions Attribution tied to revenue Marketing has become about the numbers, and whether we’re […]
Terminus Unites Inbound and Account-Based Marketing with HubSpot Integration
B2B marketers can now trigger account-based advertising campaigns from HubSpot’s marketing software, enabling easy orchestration of ABM with email nurture campaigns Terminus, the leader of the account-based marketing (ABM) movement transforming B2B marketing, today announced its integration with HubSpot Marketing software. By combining HubSpot’s inbound marketing capabilities with the Terminus ABM platform, customers can now […]
B2B startups share their secrets for acquiring enterprise customers
For half a year, Michael Litt woke up to the same thing every morning: a series of wild goose chases to find his next enterprise customer. The founder of Vidyard, the Waterloo Ont.-based provider of video marketing tools, would have spent the previous day pouring through a list of 85,000 companies which had been identified […]
The big question for B2B startups: Build a data science and AI team, or buy one?
Content marketing platform company Uberflip was recently on the verge of making an acquisition in the artificial intelligence space, before concluding it needed to develop its own capabilities, its CEO told the TechWeek Toronto audience on Thursday. Speaking in a session on “data intelligence,” Uberflip co-founder Yoav Schwartz did not disclose the name of the […]
5 Simple Steps to Creating a High-Converting Business Strategy
Any newly established company bases its business strategy on projected expenses and income, the last being in turn dependent on the size of the target audience its products addresses. Finally, the attracted potential customers have to undergo the process of conversion in order to become actual, paying customers. Successful businesses are therefore those which not […]
20 Steps to Take After Your B2B Event
We always seem to be heading into event season, so eyes always seem to be on the checklist of needs we each have to prepare for conferences, summits, forums, or meetups. Do you have location, catering, audio/visual, guest speakers and timing all squared aware? Or, if you’re attending…did you pack your comfy walking shoes? But […]
Wikipedia Marketing for B2B: The 101 with Mike Wood
Did you know that Wikipedia averages more than 18 billion page views per month? It’s one of the most visited websites in the world. Wikipedia isn’t just a de facto research ‘base’ for many social media users and customers. Having a page there is also a guarantee of high ranking in search engine results. That […]
Account-Based Marketing: An opportunity for marketing & sales to renew their vows
Sales and marketing have numerous shared goals. Both want to drive company growth, increase revenue and improve profitability. Still, marketing and sales have grown apart over the years. Marketing focuses on nurturing leads over time while sales concentrates on closing deals as quickly as possible. Marketing teams are often structured around channels and discipline while […]
How to Re-engage Email Subscribers: An actionable check list
According to a Mckinsey report, email is 40 times more effective at acquiring and engaging subscribers than Facebook and Twitter. While this might be true, it does not account for the number of inactive customers who continue to receive emails while open and click rates are depreciating. Email might be a cheaper way to make sales, […]
B2B Solution of the Week: Strategic mass media advertising
B2B companies generally don’t use mass media advertising, but forward-thinking firms do it for various purposes. Leading pure-play B2B firms use mass media in very specific ways, and they do know it works and how. If they didn’t know it works they would not advertise at all. Some companies such as RingCentral, a cloud-based phone […]
Do Targeted Ads Flatter B2B Decision Makers?
Flattery will, in fact, get you almost everywhere – in targeted online advertisements. When an ad implies that a viewer is “environmentally conscious” or “sophisticated”, for example, the viewer is likelier to pay attention to the ad, a new study says. Furthermore, the viewer’s own perception of their trait may enhance, or even change, as […]
FlipMyFunnel Roadshow: Make accounts love that you’re targeting them
Learning to target accounts and make the target love it was how B2B News Network closed coverage of the FlipMyFunnel Roadshow. The session in San Francisco, Feb. 25, was presented by Eric Spett, CEO of Terminus, account-based marketing provider and organizer of the conference, and Tyler Lessard, CMO of Vidyard, a personalized video marketing vendor. […]
Cross-device conversion tracking poses challenges, spurs solutions
Are businesses and marketers prepared to convert in the age of the connected customer? In a 2015 report, Global Web Index stated that 91 percent of internet users use their personal computers to connect to the internet and 80 percent of internet users own a smartphone. Tablets, game consoles and smart TVs are also increasingly […]
Report: Predictive marketing platforms boost revenue
A new Forrester Consulting report says businesses taking advantage of predictive marketing tools can often see their main objectives be accomplished: increase revenue growth. Predictive marketing and analytics platforms are essential to revenue growth for companies, the report states. It’s believed that B2B firms using these types of tools often outperform their rivals in various […]