Strategies for generating B2B leads online: II

1. Content Marketing:

Content marketing refers to the marketing focused on creating, publishing and distributing content to online targeted audience.It is a crucial element for B2B lead generation. It is often used by businesses in order to attract attention, generate leads, expand their customer base, generate online sales, increase brand awareness or engage an online community of users. While pursuing content marketing, the main focus of the businesses should be the needs of the prospect or customer.

Once a business has identified the customer’s need, information can be presented in a variety of formats, including news, video,white papers, e-books, infographics, email newsletters, case studies, podcasts, how-to guides, question and answer articles, photos, blogs, etc. The appropriate type of content for any business will depend on the business’ goals and target customer.

Content marketing
Content marketing

2. Search engine marketing:

Search engine marketing includes both paid search results (using tools like Google Adwords or Bing Ads, formerly known as Microsoft ad-center) and organic search results (SEO) and plays a crucial rule in B2B lead generation. It includes the following steps:

  • Keyword research and analysis: It involves ensuring the site can be indexed in the search engines, finding the most relevant and popular keywords for the site and its products, and using those keywords on the site in a way that will generate and convert traffic.
  •  Website saturation and popularity: It means how much presence a website has on search engines, can be analyzed through the number of pages of the site that are indexed by search engines (saturation) and how many back links the site has (popularity).
  • Back end tools: These include Web analytic tools and HTML validators which provide data on a website and its visitors and allow the success of a website to be measured.
  • Whois tools: They reveal the owners of various websites and can provide valuable information relating to copyright and trademark issues.
  • Google Mobile-Friendly Website Checker: This test will analyze a URL and report if the page has a mobile-friendly design.
Search engine marketing
Search engine marketing

 

 

Tips to increase conversion rate: I

In our previous post, we shared the importance of conversion rate optimization and how it affects your value for your partners and affiliates. So, now you know how beneficial CRO is for any business or site. So, here we are with some tips and tricks that can prove to be helpful in increasing your conversion rate:

1. Competitor analysis:

You need to literally monitor your competitors and every time you go to your competitors and you notice something different, memorize it. Simply explore what your competitors are doing that you are not, what strategies they are using that you are missing out. Consistent monitoring will give you some ideas that you can test on your site. In the most favorable condition, it might help you spot a weakness in their product or approach that you can capitalize on.

Competitor analysis
Competitor analysis

2. Target the right keywords:

It becomes quite annoying if people are searching for something and they land on a page that has got nothing to do with their search term. In order to avoid this, you need to make sure you are using support keywords within your content as well that help the search engines to be sure of what your content is about. You can utilize Google keyword tool for this. By setting up the right keywords at the top of your funnel, you ensure the success of your conversion rate optimization technique.

Keywords
Keywords

3. Employ A/B testing:

A/B testing refers to the process of comparing two versions of a web page to see which one performs better. In order to determine the tests, you should be doing, consider the potential revenue each test may bring, and rank tests accordingly. It’s important to test one hypothesis at a time in order to know which change made the difference. Main things to test include headlines, page layout, navigation, radical change and more. You can use tools such as Google Content Experiments, Optimizely etc for this purpose.

AB-Testing
AB-Testing

Inbound marketing strategies to grow your business: I

Inbound marketing refers to the technique of drawing customers to products and services via content marketing, social media marketing and search engine optimization. Inbound marketing provides information, an improved customer experience and builds trust by offering potential customers the valuable information they desire via company sponsored newsletters, blogs, and entries on social media platforms.

Inbound marketing

We have mentioned a number of inbound marketing strategies to grow your business:

1. Leverage the power of keywords:

In order to rank higher in SERPs you need to identify the most relevant keywords and optimize your content accordingly. This will help you to successfully gain traffic for relevant keywords if you use those keywords on your site. So, you need to focus on keywords, specifically long tail keywords that are important. Having a quality website and content optimized for SEO ensures that Google’s web-crawling technology is able to identify and index your site’s content to have it appear for free to people searching and rank higher in the search results.

Keyword optimization
Keyword optimization

2. Social media interaction:

This is an era driven by social media. These days, potential customers find companies, follow those companies, and interact with those companies.Since there are real people behind every like and share, so, in order to connect with those people, you need to ask questions, answer questions, respond to tweets, and be a presence. Each of these social mentions provide an opportunity for your business to interact with the mention, thereby increasing its brand image and its reach into other social networks as well.

Social media engagement
Social media engagement

3. Use guest blogging:

Guest blogging is a new way to promote your web blog or website. In this strategy you may post your article or blog on others blog by getting their permission. Guest Blogging is used by bloggers to increase traffic for their blog by posting published blog on other blogger’s blog.

Guest blogging
Guest blogging