There are many reasons to integrate Mailchimp with WordPress. A visitor that’s ready to share his or her email address grants permission to build a relationship. That’s a valuable moment! So integrating your WordPress website with your Mailchimp account is a must for any B2B marketer working with these tools. But the integration can be done in several ways, and the option you choose impacts your marketing capabilities. SoRead more
Marketers working with different marketing technology tools often face integration problems. And these are important to tackle, because it doesn’t matter much to your customers and prospects whether they have had contact via social media, an event, an account manager or email. They assume that you know the contact history and remember who they are and what their question was—at all times and through all channels. But collecting andRead more
In our previous blog we discussed marketing tools B2B marketers can choose from to optimize their digital marketing efforts. Choosing the right tools from the rich marketing technology landscape is your first challenge, and but aligning them is you next. Which building block matches the functionality you need to communicate with potential customers per stage in their buyer journey? Lets look at the different categories of B2B marketing toolsRead more
Today B2B marketers benefit from an abundance of great and easy-to-use marketing technology tools like WordPress, MailChimp, Pipedrive and LinkedIn. Chiefmartec.com now counts a staggering 8,000 tools marketers can use. And many of them are very accessible and cost next to nothing. So, how do you choose which technology to use as a small business? B2B Marketing Technology in 10 Building Blocks First, let us organize the most importantRead more
LinkedIn Lead Generation Forms (or Lead Gen Forms) are a great way to generate marketing qualified leads on LinkedIn. As LinkedIn will pre-fill the form, there is a really low barrier for LinkedIn users to become your leads. Essentially, LinkedIn Lead Gen Forms add a call-to-action to your sponsored content ads, asking users to sign-up, download your eBook, or whatever action you’re targeting. When users click your call-to-action they’llRead more
There is no doubt that the coronavirus has a major impact on how you do business, calling for adjustments in your B2B content marketing approach. HubSpot measured a collapse in total ‘deals created’ over the last weeks in their CRM data. This implies a big impact on the commercial process, expected revenues for this year and the role of marketing to bend the curve. So how should B2B contentRead more
In just a few years the role of marketing has changed for B2B’s and as a consequence, what B2Bs expect from their B2B marketing agency and agency pricing. Today investments in marketing must help a business sell more stuff. Anything else that it achieves is nice, but it’s complementary to that main goal. At the same time there is an increasing number of challenges and trends B2B’s need toRead more
How to get started with your B2B marketing strategy Finding it difficult to get started with defining a B2B marketing strategy for your small business? Just start with a simple starting point: ‘do what you say, say what you do’. When it comes to B2B content marketing, the urge can be to present things better and more beautiful than they in fact are. But when you tell tall tales,Read more
How can you set up an owned, earned & paid media model for B2B content marketing? It’s an essential question, as high-quality content that is mapped to the buyer journey of potential customer is worthless if it is invisible to the DMU. In order to bring across content effectively to the target audience, you need to think long and hard about the owned, earned and paid media model youRead more
One of the best ways to grow your opt-in Mailchimp newsletter list is by offering great content. Adding a Mailchimp newletter opt-in to your WordPress download form can save you a lot of manual hassle. You can think of combining a content offer and newletter opt-in from two different angle: Give your audience a reason to join your Mailchimp newsletter list by requiring them to fill out a formRead more