Hello you wonderful people!
Something I’m regularly asked by both marketing leaders and business owners is:
How should I measure the performance of my marketing?
So Kevin and I need to tackle this question over the next few weeks. We start by looking at what not to measure. Check out the first article we share down below.
Next week on The B2B Playbook podcast, we’re sharing our 3 Tier Reporting system to show that marketing is actively contributing revenue to the business.
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This week we’re looking at how you can drive more revenue with email marketing, partnerships, A/B testing and more.
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3 B2B Strategy Tips
1) Your emails should serve 2 purposes: The first is product education and customer success. Hubspot do this incredibly well, with each email teaching you how to get the most out of their platform. It helps freemium customers see the value in their paid tiers, and their paying customer get maximum value out of their platform subscription.
The second is educating, nurturing and building community. This is using email to ‘be helpful’, and make people feel like they belong to a tribe. Kev and I show you on Episode 71 of The B2B Playbook podcast:
– how to apply each of these 2 types of emails to your business
– tips for each of the styles
– how to measure the performance of each
– how to optimise and get better at each of them
Check out Episode 71 – The 2 Types of Email Marketing You Need To Do, And How To Optimise Them
2) Start working with partners and affiliates: People need to trust you before they buy from you. Leveraging partnerships with complementary businesses and enabling affiliates to sell for you is kinda like a shortcut to getting that trust. That’s because if a partner or affiliate recommends you to their audience/friends, that trust is transferred to you.
That buys you time while your inbound and outbound engines are still gearing up. Plus if you do it right, it’s like having a whole army of sales people advocating for your brand that aren’t on your payroll!
Kevin and I show you step-by-step how to identify and implement partnership and affiliate programs on Episode 69 of The B2B Playbook podcast.
3) Be careful what you A/B test: Marketers will tell you to “always be testing”. But too often marketers in the B2B world are testing changes that are too small to make a real impact. B2B companies just don’t collect the data that many B2C ones do, so split testing the difference between your CTA being “get a free demo” and “request a demo” may not give you the uplift you’re looking for.
We give you a framework for CRO, A/B testing and MVT, as well as some ideas from where to start testing and how to run your tests. Check out Episode 68 – Improve Your Content & Creative With CRO & A/B Testing on The B2B Playbook podcast.
Doodle of the Week
3 Articles and Resources
1) Why marketing sourced pipeline should NOT be a KPI:: Measuring marketing based on the marketing sourced pipeline they bring in can lead to bad practices that don’t drive revenue. We show you what to avoid and what to measure instead.
2) Level up and leverage CRMs, CDPs and Data: As your business and marketing scales, you’ll need to upgrade your data platforms, tools and systems to keep up with that scale. We guide you through the jargon and help you decide what you need, and what is just a distraction in Episode 70.
3) A positioning masterclass: I’ve read a fair amount on product positioning, but I just finished reading April Dunford’s ‘Obviously Awesome’, and highly recommend it to any marketing leader who wants to more deeply understand positioning your product. There’s a great framework you can apply to your own business, and it’s a really easy read. Give it a go!
Thanks for reading!
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Strategy, Templates & Tools To Drive More Revenue With Marketing
Our 5 BEs Framework teaches b2b marketers exactly how to drive more revenue with your marketing.
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