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B2B Content Marketing, B2B Digital Marketing, Print Company Marketing, Print Industry Marketing

Have you ever asked the question, “How can I spend less on ads, but still get more leads”?

We assume the answer is YES and it’s likely you’ve asked that numerous times and heard the answer “Of Course I / We Can”, but the results NEVER came.

This is something that we hear over and over again from print companies (and those in the print industry).

 

The problem is that today everyone thinks they are a marketer.

And in theory we are all marketers, but the difference between those who are good and those who can’t deliver results are the marketers that Don’t Know How to Execute.

So we’ve provided the two things you need to do so that you can spend less on ads but still generate high quality leads.  Target a specific customer and create a campaign specifically for them.

 

*Because we DO Know How to Execute!

 

Target A Specific Customer

This sounds simple and it’s likely you’re thinking “duh”, but the fact is the majority of print companies don’t do this often.

We are not advocating abandoning everything else you’re doing and we aren’t saying tailor your business to only focus on a single customer segment, but what we ARE saying is start running a campaign that is targeting one specific customer segment to better connect and convert new business.

 

Here are some ways to best identify a customer segment you can target

  • Is there an industry that you have a lot of example work for? This is helpful in legitimizing your expertise and provides a lot of good content for case studies.
  • Is there an industry you want to do more business in? This is an easy way to break in.
  • Is there something you do that is unique for a specific industry which provides a significant differentiator between you and a competitor? This will help close deals quickly!

 

Whatever industry you choose to go after you’ll need to target them using social media.

This is the most accurate and cost effective way of targeting buyers in specific industries.

LinkedIn is where most of the print companies are seeing success today.

 

So let’s talk about campaigns.

 

Create a Campaign for Your Target Customer

This is the easiest part.  There are just a few things to create so that you have a clear campaign for your target customer that will get the to convert as high quality low cost leads.

Here are the things you’ll need to create

  1. Landing Page with a form
  2. PDF to download
  3. Ad(s)

 

Start by creating the landing page.

This will include copy that describes an issue that customer segment is facing, a description of what a positive outcome looks like for that customer once their issue is solved and a call to action asking them to download the PDF that shows how they can get to that outcome.

 

Next develop the PDF they will download.

This can be a case study, a whitepaper, a catalog, a step by step tutorial, etc.

It must be something interesting to this specific customer segment.

 

Last create an Ad or Ads.

In our experience and research targeting a specific customer segment is most easily deployed on LinkedIn.  So the Ad you will be creating is a sponsored post.

This means you will create a post for your LinkedIn company page and then put ad spend against it to expose it to your target customer.

We typically start with 1 ad and as volume picks up or the ad begins to not produce as much try running another version.

 

The LinkedIn Ads Manager

You will need to have a LinkedIn company page.

You’ll need to create a LinkedIn Ads Account as well to run these ads.

But it produces so well.

Targeting criteria on this platform includes job titles, years of experience, industry, specific companies and more.

 

By doing this you’ll be focusing your ad spend to a finite audience with a message that speaks directly to them, giving that customer segment a deliverable custom tailored to their needs, which will Convert Like Wildfire!

 

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    B2B Content Marketing, B2B Digital Marketing, Content Marketing, Search Engine Optimization

    Search Engine Optimization: Ongoing SEO Or One-Time Enough?

    Your business launches a new website or a redesign and now you start to think about search engine optimization (SEO). Is one-time SEO enough or do you need ongoing SEO? The one-time SEO is good to get started but ongoing search engine optimization is critical for a successful business. Organic search engine optimization is cost-effective and contributes to ROI giving your business that competitive edge. Once, you get to the first page of the search results you don’t want to let your guard down or your competitors will pass you up. Thousands of websites launched every day causes your competitors to continue to grow. Ongoing SEO will get you to the top of search results and help keep you there. Not having search engine optimization in the budget could cause your online business to fail.

     

    Technical SEO Goes Beyond Keyword Research

    Technical SEO is very important for websites to make sure it is search engine friendly. Most people believe SEO is just keyword research, but technical SEO goes far beyond keyword research. Just last week, I worked on a client’s new site and I discovered their web designer forgot to remove the noindex from the code. The noindex was telling the search engines not to index the pages so the pages will not show up in the search results. This is a major disaster for a business especially if not found right away. Surprisingly, this happens often.

    Here are just a few things that technical SEO checks:

    • Crawl errors
    • Indexing issues
    • Mobile-friendly
    • Page Rendering
    • Site speed
    • Canonical issues
    • & More

     

    A good Digital Marketing Audit should be very thorough and identify a websites key strengths and weaknesses.  SEO included!

     

    B2C & B2B SEO Strategies

    Some of our important b2c and b2b SEO strategies involve educating your customers. Just by answering why, how and what questions from their searches helps your business become the authority and creates traffic to your site.

    These services below complement our SEO:

    • Content marketing
    • PPC
    • Social media
    • Email marketing

     

    All these things build a powerful marketing strategy. If you’re in need of detailed strategic work like this See Below!

     

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      B2B Content Marketing, B2B Digital Marketing, Business, Content Marketing, Digital Marketing, Print Company Marketing

      If you’re asking… “How Do I Switch To A New Project Management Software?” or “My Company Needs to Change Project Management Tools, What’s the Best Way?” then read on to see what we did.

       

      Project management tools are supposed to be an organizer’s dream come true, right? So you would think switching from a project management tool that no long fits your needs to one that has all the bells and whistles would be a dream come true.  However, making the switch from one project management tool to the next presents a load of issues you would have never thought possible…one could say this is really an organizer’s worst nightmare?

       

      Choosing the Right Project Management Tool

      Choosing the right project management tool that will fit all of your wants, needs and desires may seem overwhelming and nearly impossible, but the thing to keep in mind and the best way to approach this question is to write out your top three ‘must-haves’ for your new project management tool.  

       

      Below are a few features that were important to Acumen when we made the switch to our new project management system.

      • Ability to create task templates
      • Subtasks and sub-folders
      • Ability to send GIFs in a task thread

       

      For our needs, it was essential that we found a project management tool that allowed us to create temples we could reuse for our monthly work for all of our clients. This would allow us to cut down the time our team spent creating new tasks every month and assigning them out.

       

      It was also important for us to have the ability to create tasks within tasks, sub-tasks or ‘task inception’ if you will 😉 (get it because Inception was a dream within a dream and this is a task within a task…ok cool, just making sure).  Having this ability would allow us to breakdown a larger tasks into smaller ones and for us to know exactly where we were within a project or task.

       

      Ok so the last bullet point, “ability to send a GIF” may or may not have been really vital to anyone else but me. I love sending GIFs and use them to communicate roughly 90% of my day.    

       

      So in Conclusion on Switching to a New Project Management Tool

      As long as you have your list of top ‘must-haves’ for a new project management tool and focus on making sure your new tool has those features, your transition from one platform to the next will be less painful than had you never made that list to begin with….keep in mind, keywords there “less painful”.  Believe me, it will still be painful, but it will be one less thing you need to worry about as you do your research.

       

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