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B2B Content Marketing, B2B Digital Marketing, B2B Marketing Automation

If you talk to an agency or “expert” marketing technologist they will tell you about all the Best Practices you should be following when it comes to Marketing Automation for B2B.  And all of those “best practices” are typically highly involved, complicated, time consuming and expensive.

But here’s the TRUTH, B2B Marketing Automation can be EASY.

 

Why would anyone try to make it so difficult?

There are many reasons…

  1. They believe it needs to be (… but it doesn’t)
  2. They don’t know it well enough and are quoting the “expert posts” they’ve read
  3. They aren’t that great at marketing and are a technology enthusiast (leads to overtech marketing)
  4. They have a desire to feel important and the more complicated something is the more important they think they are
  5. They want you to be “Stuck” with them, if it’s too hard for you then they feel you can’t get rid of them
  6. And the list goes on

 

So the question for you should be… “How Can I Make B2B Marketing Automation Easy?”

Read On.

 

How You Can Make B2B Marketing Automation Easy

The simplest and easiest way to get started with marketing automation as a B2B company is to use it in combination with a lead generation campaign by creating a linear, time based, drip nurture email sequence. (I explain below)

 

Here are the 3 things you need to do

  • Choose an Automation Platform (I won’t go into these here, but pick one!) *we love HubSpot
  • Create an Ad Campaign to fill your marketing automation platform
  • Create your automation emails & logic

 

Choose an Automation Platform

This up to you and the choices are many.

To be honest it doesn’t matter a ton which one you pick when you are first starting because it’s more important to just start doing it.

You’ll be looking at price, contact tiers, capabilities and integrations that fit your business best.

 

Again we personally love HubSpot for this (but it can get pricey quick, we get it)

 

Create and Ad Campaign

This is who you’ll actually use your marketing automation platform on.

Basically decide on a target customer, create the ads, set up the campaign and ensure that the leads which come in are integrated into your automation tools database through forms.

You can read in detail on how to set up a High ROI B2B Ad Campaign Here: https://acumenstudio.com/ad-campaigns-for-b2b-how-to-make-them-work-more-leads-and-paying-less/

 

Create Your Automation Emails & Logic

Lastly you’ll need to create the emails that will nurture your leads.

We recommend starting by doing this to start.

 

Create a 4 part email nurture series.

  1. Auto-response email to a form submission
  2. 2 days later – A follow up email asking if they received a link to the download from the form submission and / or if they have any questions
  3. 4 days later – An email giving them a little more detail on the same subject matter they originally requested and an ask to call them to learn more about them and their business need
  4. 5 days later – An email stating you don’t want to be a bother so you’d rather just jump on a call to talk give them more information on your company and what you do as well as learn about what their original interest was when downloading from the form.

 

At this point your sales team should reach out directly a couple days after the last email went out.  What you’ll find is that you get more responses and leads are more responsive to “warm call” outreach once they have gotten all of these emails.

 

I hope this shows you how a B2B company can implement a marketing automation tool and campaign easily without over-complicating the whole thing.

 

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    B2B Content Marketing, B2B Digital Marketing, Social Media Marketing

    The Everchanging LinkedIn Campaign Manager

    Another day, another change to the ad creation interface. It seems like everytime it’s time to go and create a new campaign, setting up the ad has a different user experience.

    In February, LinkedIn launched the new objective-based campaign experience. Like the name, this new experience is focused on the objective of the campaign first. To put it simply, you as the marketer decide what the focus of the campaign is going to be whether it’s website visits or engagement, then the rest of the campaign creation matches that objective.

     

    While most of the format has the same options and functionality, it’s still something to get used to.

     

    What’s New in the LinkedIn Campaign Manager

    In the objective-based experience, there are a number of new items to be aware of.

    • The objective is at the top of the page and must be selected before moving forward with any other part of the campaign.
    • The audience selection and targeting criteria comes next and is broken out by language, location, audience attributes (company, demographics, education, job experience, interests), then matched audiences (website audiences and list uploads). Each of criteria has deeper criteria listed within. Like the old experience, depending on the criteria you select, other criteria won’t be available.
    • The budget, bid type and conversion tracking also must be complete before setting up the ad creative.

     

    <h2>Benefits of the New Format</h2>

    The number one benefit to this new experience is that it makes the campaign creation simpler by streamlining it to fit what the objective is. It also offers automated bidding for that objective as well.

    Even though it’s another new experience, there are definitely huge benefits to the new experience.

     

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