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For many B2B service providers and companies, acquiring new customers is a major challenge. Often, the market environment is very competitive, i.e. there is a multitude of comparable offers and competitors in the respective niche, region or industry. With increasing competitive pressure within the market segment, click prices for online marketing campaigns also rise, resulting in lead costs in the double- or triple-digit euro range.
What is the alternative?
With the help of so-called content marketing, you attract potential prospects and convince them of your offer. This is a marketing strategy that often pays off if you can't compete with the multi-million dollar marketing budgets of international corporations.
What is the alternative?
Collect leads and contact information for later contact
Has the prospect:in moved on your website, you have managed in the optimum case to trigger a direct order. In the vast majority of cases, however, this is not the case and so it is important to at least get the website visitor to at least bookmark your website for a later revisit or to make a request, e.g. to use a demo version, a free consultation or an individual offer.
There are various sources and strategies for generating leads (both as a B2B and as a provider in the end customer business). Basically, a distinction can be made between unpaid (so-called organic) and paid sources of leads, e.g. in the form of Google Ads.
The situation for most companies and providers in the B2B sector is as follows: There is strong competition/stiff competition in the respective niche, high click prices, escalating marketing budgets as well as ad campaigns that do not work. The downward spiral of ever increasing costs with ever poorer conversion rates is supposed to be stopped with a further increase in the marketing budget - which often enough fails.
But what is the alternative to expensive online marketing?
With the help of so-called content marketing, you provide potential prospects and customers with free knowledge with added value and thus create trust. The goal is that the customers in spé deal longer with your offer and do not leave your website after a few seconds, but click through your website. The more articles, i.e. content, you provide on your website, the more this testifies to competence in your respective field and will increase the likelihood of a purchase.
In the best case, you manage to get interested parties to sign up for your newsletter, for example, to be informed about future discount promotions, make an inquiry via contact form or phone. It is important to obtain their consent to be contacted in order to be able to contact them in the future in the so-called follow-up process and to convert them into customers in the long term. After all, the majority of B2B customers only buy after the second, third or fourth contact. Here, it is also important to understand the so-called sales cycle in the business-to-business business.
If you have managed to direct interested parties to your site through thematically relevant articles or blogpots, the first hurdle has been cleared. Therefore, think about how you can maximize the number of visitors who come to your site for free (so-called organic traffic). These can be, for example, articles with titles that consist of specific questions as potential customers enter them in Google or other search engines, articles about current news in your industry or niche, product news or reviews.
The search for the right agency is often difficult. In the price battle for the best advertising spaces, it is difficult for inexpensive providers to place or appear with your ad among the first ads on the first or second. After all, the cost of a click (PPC: price per click) in Google Ads , formerly known as Google Adwords, can quickly exceed €5 and more.
The first search results or are therefore dominated primarily by providers, which bring high-priced products and services to the woman or man. With given PPC costs, it is a question of the product price or price for an average deal when providing services and the so-called conversion rate, any rate that describes the number of sales -sales - and divided by the number of clicks generated. A cost-covering ad strategy and keyword selection together with constant optimization is necessary to become cost-covering, in the best case profitable.
Therefore, in the interest of better market transparency, it makes sense to include not only those providers listed high up in the list of postential contractors, but also to find agencies and service providers who cannot (yet) afford or do not want to invest a higher share of their revenue in higher click prices.
With our databases, starting with the media & PR database , through the company database to our agency database, we make a contribution to making the market more transparent, creating visibility on for smaller providers and facilitating the choice of the appropriate agency or provider.
For example, you can discover similar providers in your city or region based on keywords and compare them with each other, filter, sort and to be able to put the entries first on a long list, later on a short list.
At the same time, our address databases represent an efficient acquisition tool for companies, agencies and service providers and offer added value in customer acquisition in the B2B sector, more precisely: for directmarketing purposes and for expanding the individual acquisition strategy.
In the first part we have discussed the paid measures in the online marketing area.
Another way to attract traffic, i.e. website visitors - and hopefully enough potential customers - to your website is the so-called content marketing.
Content marketing is all about knowledge, in the form of entertaining and informative articles that you provide to your visitors for free on your website. On the one hand, articles serve as a confidence-building measure, on the other hand, you save the previously mentioned high PPC click prices and can ideally, in addition, through the content and the thematic focus, i.e. also through the selection and use of certain keywords and words, target your desired target group or desired customers better than with the possibilities in Google Ads, for example.