B2B Marketing Getting the customer

to come to you

S h i r a A b e l •  VP Marketing, Musketeer •  CEO, Hunter & Bard

–  Marketing strategy –  Marketing implementation –  Full branding & design

•  Taught Marketing for Startups at StartHub (Tel Aviv/ Jaffa Academic College)

•  Mentor at: Google Campus, Microsoft, Founder Institute, Seedcamp, Trento, & more

•  MBA, Kellogg School of Management

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“A true unfair advantage is something that cannot be easily copied or bought.” - Jason Cohen

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Agenda •  Strategy

–  Concept à Alpha –  Launch

•  You’ve Hit It –  Product Market Fit –  Tactics

•  Behavioral Engineering –  Action Triggers –  Small Things Matter

•  Sales

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STRATEGY

CONCEPT à ALPHA The Unknown

MARKETING SHOULD START THE MOMENT THE PRODUCT IS CONCEPTUALIZED

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Marketing for Concept Phase

What does your brand stand for? Visually and in messaging

Test assumptions (cost, messaging, bundle mix, etc.). Mobile ads à app/ Ads à landing page

Get to know influencers & media people on Twitter. Give a lot. Don’t ask for anything.

1 2 3

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YOU DON’T OWN YOUR BRAND – YOUR CUSTOMERS DO. AND PERCEPTION IS REALITY

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How to Test Your Idea - Web •  Create a Minimal Viable Product MVP

–  This’ll be ugly and basic –  Take people through the motions

•  Ads to landing pages to test messages – see what people click on

•  https://spaces.pe ß test willingness to buy & price elasticity

•  Can build an entire product & take’m down to BUY •  Once product/market fit has been reached à do a

Big Launch

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How to Test Your Idea - Mobile •  Create a rough app & have friends & family test via

Testflight (very beginning) •  Make a MVP and launch in the app store of a

smaller country only •  Create a Minimal Viable Brand

–  Purpose – Why do we exist –  Positioning – Where do we fit in the market –  Personality – How do we tell that story*

•  Once product/market fit had been reached, build the main app and do a Big Launch

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Alpha Phase •  Start the blog with newsletter sign up (think

Danielle Morrill & Mattermark) •  Landing pages à more sign ups •  A/B test messaging & optimization using

unbounce.com or launchrock.com (more sign ups)

•  Social outreach starts to the media The point is to begin building an interest and an audience through good content before launch

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LAUNCH You know better, but not for sure

Launch •  Ask the media people and influencers who now

know you if they would be willing to check out your product & give feedback

•  PR on a slow news day (avoid days where Apple announces anything, election days, CES, DLD, etc…)

•  Send an announcement to the list you’ve been growing through the blog, ads, and social

•  Attempt an act of virality (I say attempt, because nothing is guaranteed)

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What’s Your Strategy @shiraabel

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Business Objective

Improve Financial Performance!Business Metric

Reduce Long-Term Dependence on Ads & Lower

Overall Costs!

Marketing Metric!Increase Relationship / Content Marketing – Raise percentage of traffic from blog versus

ads!

EXAMPLE

Marketing Strategies for B2B •  Become known as a

industry leader in a chosen niche (think about crossing the chasm – Outbrain does this well)

•  Connect with those who use your product where they live online (Objet has a FB page for that reason)

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•  Let the end-user (who may not be the client) know about your work (i.e. Intel inside)

•  Increase customer lifetime by giving information that the customer values (creates loyalty / increases switching cost)

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Marketing Strategies for Web

•  Become known as a product leader in a chosen niche (think Martha Stewart – home, or Buffer – social media management)

•  Increase average purchase rate (in-store recommendations are great for this)

•  Create evangelists who will bring in a wider client base

•  Increase customer lifetime value by giving information that the customer values (creates loyalty / increases switching cost – think Kissmetrics blog)

Marketing Strategies for Apps

•  Create several free apps that have in-app advertisements directing to your paid app

•  Have your free app represent a much larger service (store, blog, service, company ß this is where the monetization is)

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•  Have in-app rev-share advertising and go for large numbers (Inneractive, Admob, etc.)

•  Have a free Lite and a Premium Paid version (Lite having advertising – Premium having none)

Build an App Family

•  Send advertising to main app •  Do complementary apps – NOT same app with

different names (branded house or a house of brands)

•  Lite and paid versions

Main App

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Performance Measurement •  Is your objective SMART: specific, measurable, assignable, realistic &

time specific? •  What are your strategic initiatives?

–  Build awareness –  Expand distribution (i.e. increase downloads) –  Build penetration –  Build buying rate –  Increase loyalty

•  Funnel ß e.g. when purchases through the app –  Where do you want people to go? –  What action do you want people to take? –  Track the movement –  Conversion rate / A/B Testing –  Test & iterate

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YOU’VE HIT IT

PRODUCT / MARKET FIT Now you know for sure, b*tches!

AFTER PRODUCT MARKET FIT – SEEK TO ACQUIRE MASS USERS

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The Holy Trinity of Marketing Online

GREAT PRODUCT

Earned Media / PR

Relationship Marketing

SEO / Ads / Affiliate

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The Holy Trinity of Mobile Marketing

GREAT PRODUCT

Earned Media / PR

Mobile Ads Seamless Social sharing

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TACTICS Getting it done

Sample Tactics (not in order) •  Online Ads (FB, Google & more) •  PR (Media Kit recommended) •  Facebook •  Pinterest •  YouTube •  Twitter •  Quora •  LinkedIn •  Blogging •  Seeding posts •  Google+ •  Blog commenting •  Games •  Infographics

•  White papers / Case studies •  Peer review •  Newsletter / Email (highest ROI of

all digital media) •  Forums •  E-book •  Webinars •  Community •  Guest blogging •  Podcast •  Teleseminar •  Affiliate Marketing •  Game elements (e.g. leader

board, 80% signed up) •  SEO / SEM

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Why Earned Media & PR •  Exposes you to big numbers all at once •  Gives a spike of traffic •  May be strategic instead of pure growth

(e.g. much of the time TechCrunch isn’t the target market, but it’s what VCs read & gives social proof)

•  Has a strong trust rate

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What is Earned Media & PR •  Blog posts that you write and submit for

publishing (how-to’s are great for this) •  Coverage from any media (radio

interview, blog post, news article, etc) •  Mentions from others that you didn’t

pitch •  Evangelists who are well known (imagine

Oprah mentioning you to her minions)

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How to Do Earned Media & PR •  Get to know media & bloggers on Twitter long before

launch •  Give •  2 weeks before launch ask if they would be willing to

check out your product (consider an embargo) •  I’ve heard of success from mass emails (luckiest woman

I’ve ever met – only case of success I know) •  KEEP YOUR ASK SHORT

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Sample Email

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Keep in Touch – Email •  Think about your demographic (every person with

responsibility uses email) •  Keep it short •  A/B test several subject lines •  Action-trigger emails have a higher opening rate •  Keep it relevant •  Appropriate landing page à funnel them in •  Let people choose what they want to be notified

for •  DON’T BUY LISTS OR SPAM

Reallygoodemails.com

Keep in Touch – Notifications •  iOS 108 characters max •  Android – recommended 50 characters max (1-line

on the notification bar) * ht/ Danya Schwartz Bar-El •  Localize sending so user receives notification

between 9-11am or 2-5pm (but test first) •  A/B test messaging for a couple of days then blast

everybody else with the winner •  In-app landing page – like all landing pages - fitted

to the message and the push campaign

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Thought Leadership is Critical •  Blogging and guest blogging is one of the

best ways to do this •  Webinars / Presentations that give helpful

industry related information (think Crunched and its Growth Hacker series)

•  White papers (sign up to our newsletter and get this white paper for free!)

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Content Marketing •  Takes time •  Builds the brand •  Costs (yes, time is money) •  Builds a relationship •  Increases referral rate •  One key point – social needs to be built

into the product

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What Do You Read? •  No one cares about your company •  People are busy •  They care about what they need for

work or life •  Don’t waste their time •  Speak to your customer with respect

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Affiliate, SEO & Media Buy (Ads) •  Immediate •  Targeted •  Mobile has a stronger conversion than web •  Strongest conversion is mobile FB •  Costs (which is fine if you charge, could be a dilemma if

you’re free) •  Doesn’t build a relationship •  Has the lowest trust rate •  Affiliate needs to be well vetted in order to not destroy

the brand

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Localization

Viral If You Can @shiraabel

BEHAVIORAL ENGINEERING

“Simplicity changes behavior.” - B.J. Fogg

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ACTION TRIGGERS

You can’t force anyone to do something they don’t want to, but if they do want to – this will help you get them there

T-Shirt Economy •  Reputation based

–  Incentives are about doing something for the love of it NOT financial reward

–  Easier to get someone to do something for free than for less money (e.g. lawyers would rather do pro bono than get paid less per hour for the same work)

–  Changes the way we perceive the work we do –  When we already have our basic needs met, we’re more

likely to do something for our own joy •  This is where the evangelists should be – that’s why

not paying them is a good thing

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Financial Economy •  People judge if something is “worth” their time •  Become less enthusiastic if the work is not paid

according to expectations •  Make sure incentives are aligned with goals •  Proven to be a bad way to build incentives to get

people to work harder –  Studies have shown that for cognitive work, a larger reward

results in worse results –  Loss aversion, however, brings better results

•  This will affect the affiliates the most

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Reward Status Achievement Self Expression Competition Altruism

Points

Levels

Challenges

Virtual Goods

Leaderboards

Gifting & Charity

Nir Eyal – If you don’t know him – you should.

Watch the Funnel Acquisition –

Learns About Product Conversion –

Signs Up Retention –

Uses Product

WOM (Sharing)

Buys

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Engineering Social Proof @shiraabel

Engineering Social Proof

Ask for reviews in update notes

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Engineering the Path to OK The user must do a set

of actions, before permission is requested.

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Engineering the Path to OK

User-triggered requests showed the highest

conversion rates

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Engineering the Path to OK

Marking optional fields only encourages

‘voluntary over-disclosure’

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SMALL THINGS MATTER Get down to the details

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How You Say Things Matters Researchers found that placing the following statement at the end of an ad… caused their trust scores to jump as much as 33 percent!’

“You can trust us to do the job for you.”

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Framing How you say and do things matters.

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Loss Aversion Fear of missing out.

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Inclusion – e.g. Easter Egg

Achievement

Engineering Viral @shiraabel

Get Emotional 1.  Fear – Insurance 2.  Guilt – Mother’s Day 3.  Trust – Financial

institutions 4.  Value – Matching

prices 5.  Belonging – Part of our

community 6.  Competition – Doing

better than the Jones’s

7.  Instant Gratification – I want it now

8.  Leadership – Early adopter & evangelist

9.  Trendsetting – What are the leaders doing?

10.  Time – Save time

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Cognitive Resources •  Behavior depends on time of day – we’re more likely to have

no patience at the end of the day, when we’re hungry or tired •  Place – if we’re being interrupted every 30 seconds, our

cognitive resources will be spent – decision making goes down •  How much we’ve had to concentrate – again, using up

cognitive resources –  We can’t decipher truth from fiction when we’re cognitively spent –  Our mood can change simply by putting a pencil between our teeth

and forcing ourselves to smile

Point being – When is your customer using your product? What’s their cognitive level?

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International Markets •  Americans spell correctly. However, the British

disagree. There are more Americans than British J (localize your English – even when it’s for Australians)

•  Spelling and grammar count – mistakes lower trust levels in all languages and cultures

•  Find someone from the culture you’re aiming to sell to, who knows marketing – to do your marketing. OR – go there & live for a bit. Understanding culture is critical.

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Jack Dorsey: The Power of User Narratives http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acMXhhdWylQ

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UserOnboard.com – Web

UXArchive.com – Mobile

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SALES

Sales Tools •  Case studies show your ideal customer and how things

go when everything is perfect •  Connecting with individuals on social builds the

relationship, e.g. –  Object can showcase customers design work on its FB page –  LinkedIn group about industry – lead generation –  Social CRM on Twitter

•  Email marketing reminds companies that you exist & what you can do for them

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Sales Research •  What is the title of the person in the organization that

typically makes the decisions? –  Rapportive –  LinkedIn

•  Who are the media people who cover your industry? –  Twitter –  FB –  Quora –  LinkedIn

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App Sales •  Salesforce & other sales platforms have app stores

–  Users on these app stores are already in the frame of mind to buy

•  Business app stores have less competition •  Selling through a website means less expensive marketing •  SaaS if you can – don’t make people pay for the app itself

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Rapportive

Find the email of the person you want to connect to by checking names through the Rapportive plugin.

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Boomerang in Gmail @shiraabel

This helps you remember to send that follow up email.

Sidekick by Hubspot @shiraabel

Find out when the email you sent was opened by the recipient.

LinkedIn

Choose who you want to connect to: What groups is the person in? If you know the title but not the whole name – do a search in Google of the partial name and title & you’ll get the whole name.

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Who Are You Looking For @shiraabel

Google Search @shiraabel

First & Last Name Found! @shiraabel

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Hat tip:

References & Reads •  All of the stock photos are taken from http://thestocks.im/ •  THANK  YOU’S:  Dan-­‐ya  Shwartz  Bar-­‐El  &  Ze'ev  Rosenstein •  http://uxmovement.com/forms/why-users-fill-out-less-if-you-mark-required-fields/ •  http://dancounsell.com/articles/prompting-for-app-reviews •  http://agevik.se/post/72876032312/20-lessons-about-making-viral-apps-i-learned-the-hard •  http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2011/09/web-content-conversions/ •  http://www.slideshare.net/startuplessonslearned/eric-ries-the-lean-startup-google-tech-talk •  http://www.slideshare.net/gzicherm/nir-eyal-hookedatgsummit •  http://www.businessmodelgeneration.com/canvas •  http://www.briansolis.com/2008/08/socialization-of-your-personal-brand_28/ •  http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2004/03/its_a_small_wor.html •  http://www.quora.com/Udemy/How-did-Udemy-get-11-000-courses-online-so-quickly •  http://www.amazon.com/Mountain-Three-Wolf-Short-Sleeve/product-reviews/B002HJ377A •  http://www.amazon.com/BIC-Cristal-1-0mm-Black-MSLP16-Blk/dp/B004F9QBE6 •  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QmCUDHpNzE •  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUG9qYTJMsI •  http://www.macadamia-apps.com/app-launch-7-mistakes-to-learn-from/   •  http://flowingdata.com/2011/09/18/yoda-pie-chart/ •  http://blog.bitly.com/post/9887686919/you-just-shared-a-link-how-long-will-people-pay •  http://www.briansolis.com/2011/09/whats-the-r-o-i-a-framework-for-social-analytics/ •  http://www.slideshare.net/setlinger/altimeter-social-analytics081011final •  Breakthrough Marketing Plans •  http://www.seomoz.org/blog/tracking-the-roi-of-social-media •  http://ideas.deloitte.ca/blog/2011/09/social-media-going-beyond-roi/ •  http://www.jeffbullas.com/2011/09/20/the-10-key-mistakes-many-bloggers-and-writers-make/ •  http://www.jeffbullas.com/2011/03/01/the-10-best-facebook-campaigns/ •  http://www.facebook-studio.com/ •  http://www.seomoz.org/blog/tracking-the-roi-of-social-media •  http://marketingfortomorrow.com/tag/marketing-tone/

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