3 Cs to Keep Your Business Growing with B2B Digital Strategy
by Carol Adams Financial AdviserWhether you target B2B or B2C market, one thing is
common in both the marketing – digital strategy. If you want to grow your
business, you need to have an effective digital marketing strategy so ideal
prospects could turn to customers as soon as possible. When it comes to
preparing a digital marketing strategy for the B2B model, you often find yourself
clueless.
Note that in this type of business model, businesses
are your customers, and you will have to target a person within the
organization that has decision-making power. When it is the B2c model, you are
targeting people directly. It can be anyone who fits your target audience.
However, if your target audience is business, you need
to specify with terms and phrases that the ads you are running are aimed at
them only. For instance, you are running Facebook ads by targeting job titles.
Contrary to B2C models where customers generally make a decision based on
reviews and superficial factors, B2B customers can take a longer time to arrive
at a decision.
They conduct deeper research to find out if it is
worth investing in your product or service. If you want to make your digital
marketing for B2B model effective, you need to take care of these three Cs:
Communication across all channels
When your customer comes to know about your product or
service through an ad, they would like to learn more about you. Since you are
targeting entrepreneurs or those who have decision-making power, they will
research it.
They can visit your website or dive into a social
media platform. They want to know about your product, no matter where they get
it. Therefore, it is crucial to generate top-notch content for all
communication channels.
Note that the content you share is what will give them
the exact information. This is the only source of communication between you and
your client. Make sure that you are sharing content everywhere. It should be
engaging and aim at providing the right and relevant information.
Content
Next C, you need to focus on is content. Instead of chasing
people and promoting your offering to them by cold calling, you should provide
content to users that they show interest themselves in your products and
services.
This form of marketing is known as inbound marketing. Make
sure that the content you have generated for your clients is optimized well.
Use SEO-friendly techniques to increase organic traffic. When the traffic to
your site is increased, it is likely to be turned.
Content optimization will benefit you only if you have
generated high-quality content. Content here does not mean a detailed
explanation of your product and service. Here content refers to inbound
content marketing.
You will have to generate content on topics that will
serve as a solution to their current problems. You cannot just plainly keep
talking about your products and services, but you will also have to tell them
how they can make their life better even without relying on your offerings.
Contacts
It is generally assumed that the more leads you
generate, the more digital marketing strategy you are leveraging, but this may
not be completely true when you are targeting a B2B model. Although you have to
frame a digital marketing strategy for both types of business models, they are
more often than not different and work differently.
If you want to make the most of your marketing effort, you
should leverage your current contacts. Though you have to build new contacts to
grow your networking, it does not mean that you will dump your current
contacts.
Studies have found that some entrepreneurs fail to
generate revenues despite great marketing effort because of poor sales
communication. This kind of strategy is known as the integrated inbound approach. It
will allow you to leverage your network of contacts rather than content.
The type of content you will aim for under this strategy
is customer stories, interviews with experts, webinars, workshops, and any other
content-type that you can immediately use to establish a relationship with your
clients.
One of the significant advantages of this strategy is
it brings together both content marketing and inbound marketing. By using this
approach, you can generate faster results for your B2B model.
If you want to generate profits faster for your B2B company, you will have to focus on three Cs undoubtedly. You know very well
that you cannot take your business ahead without marketing, but it has no use
if it is not in the right way and the right direction.
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