B2B Marketing

Introduction The Software as a Service (SaaS) market is a difficult yet interesting concept to tackle. The concept is large and a number of components are difficult to isolate and resolve. So you might as well pat yourself on the back if at the end of the day you can deliver the B2B SaaS service...Read More

Introduction When you run any marketing campaign, you do so to increase brand awareness and reputation and hence attract new leads to drive conversions. Customer testimonials are one of the most influential marketing tactics you can use to achieve these goals. There are several studies to support that as a form of “word of mouth...Read More

Introduction Email makes up an important part of b2b marketing. In a 2016 Salesforce survey conducted among 4000 marketers, 80% of respondents agreed that “email is core to their business”. However, b2b customers, particularly tech buyers, can be very particular, meaning that unless you “dot all the i’s and cross all the t’s” before you...Read More

Introduction A B2B buyer persona is a construct that represents your perfect customer, developed by observations from market analysis and data collected from your existing client base. It is the way you want your actual customers to be, and a starting point for identifying them in real life. The ideal customer can be attained, but...Read More

Introduction Consumer marketing and b2b marketing are markedly different. You only have to think about popular commercials for everyday consumer products to know what I mean. Advertisements for products we use daily are memorable; from cars, breakfast cereals, washing detergents, cars, phones, or recent technologies like amazon echo, adverts for all these products are catchy...Read More

Buying and selling a product or service is not as straight-forward as it seems. There are several emotional as well as psychological aspects that play a significant part in confirming the purchase, and that usually goes unnoticed. It’s vital that companies take stock of purchasing decisions that involve less perceived factors to deepen their understanding...Read More

Introduction: What is a Drip Marketing Campaign Drip marketing refers to sending a stream of marketing messages (usually via email) to prospects, leads and customers, to stimulate conversion. This process is usually coordinated with the help of marketing automation software. The long sales cycle experienced in SaaS buying and selling makes drip marketing integral in...Read More

Google Ad Sense is an advertising program that allows website owners to monetize their websites by displaying third party ads to visitors. It’s quite simple to start monetizing your website with Ad Sense. Once your Google Ad Sense account has been approved, all you need to do is insert code in your pages and you...Read More

Introduction Cloud business intelligence (BI) solutions offer multiple benefits to organizations at all levels to an organization. Whether it is optimizing services with access to real time data, making well-informed decisions with data-driven insights on market fluctuations or enjoying more business savings, cloud BI solutions are pioneering new and exciting changes in the field. Wondering...Read More

Introduction AI is continually gaining traction in the marketing field. Though there are fears that AI may remove the personal touch from everything, proponents of AI hold the opposing view: that AI will introduce a more personal touch, especially in marketing. There is nowhere where this is truer than in social media engagements. Brands use...Read More

Introduction Every business today is looking for its lane in crowded markets. This means that the competition to stand out from the crowd and show potential buyers what you have to offer can feel like a mammoth task. To cut through all the noise, marketers need to deploy effective content marketing strategies and advertising campaigns....Read More

Introduction According to Cisco, the number of devices connected to the Internet of Things (IoT) today is 15 billion, and this number is set to rise to 50 billion devices by 2020. Undoubtedly, IoT is defining and reshaping markets to the extent that its growth has been termed as ‘the next Industrial Revolution.’ Essentially, IoT...Read More

Introduction Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the capability of a machine to achieve cognitive functions that are usually associated with people. These cognitive functions include perception, problem-solving, learning, reasoning, environmental interactions, and creativity. Some of the broad categories that AI includes are: Machine Learning and its offshoots like Deep-Learning Neural Networks Physical Artificial Intelligence (including self-driving...Read More

Introduction to Marketing Automation According to the Salesforce State of Marketing report for 2018, 44% of marketing leaders use a marketing automation platform and another 42% plan to use one within the next two years. As such, you are in good company to get onboard with marketing automation. The main reason for getting onboard with...Read More

Introduction In a previous article, we talked about SQL and MQL. In this article, we introduce yet another term: HQL, that is, high quality leads. To kick us off, let’s explore what makes a lead be termed as high quality. Looked at in another way, the opposite of high quality is low quality. Though you...Read More