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Successful startup marketing - These are the success factors

1. Create a clear and meaningful brand profile.

A startup should create a clear and meaningful brand profile that allows customers to clearly perceive and identify with it. To do this, startups should develop a unique selling proposition that sets them apart from the competition.

2. Strengthen your presence on social media

Social media is an essential part of modern marketing. Startups should expand their presence on key platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn to create a strong connection with potential customers.

3. Create a content marketing program

Content marketing is an important part of marketing. Startups should develop a content marketing program to produce relevant and engaging content to reach their target audience.

4. Create an email marketing strategy

Email marketing is one of the most effective ways to reach and convert customers. Startups should develop an email marketing strategy to connect with customers and keep them updated on products and services.

5. Invest in paid advertising

Paid advertising, such as Google Ads and Facebook Ads, can help startups generate more traffic and customers faster and more efficiently. Invest in Paid Advertising to increase your visibility and grow your audience.

6. Be strategic about networking

Networking is an important part of marketing for startups. Startups should strategically build networks to connect with potential customers and partners.

Google Ads are dead - Why Google advertising in B2B will no longer work in 2023

Google Ads will still work in 2023, but it is likely that performance will decline for B2B companies. Google Ads is a very expensive way to advertise, and costs will likely continue to rise. In addition, competition in this space will continue to increase as more companies try to promote their products through Google Ads. In addition, Google Ads will become more and more focused on ad creation, segmentation and campaign optimization, which means that companies that don't have the resources, technology and skills to use these things effectively will have a hard time getting competitive results. It is likely that companies operating in the B2B market will need to change their strategy and move to other methods of generating leads and sales, such as content marketing, SEO, email marketing and social media marketing. These strategies are less costly than Google Ads and may prove more effective in the medium term.

Content marketing for more leads? What you should consider

Many B2B companies, agencies and service providers wonder how you can achieve more customer inquiries, leads and sales without increasing your online marketing budget - i.e. Google Ads budget, for example.

One viable way is so-called content marketing. The goal of content marketing is to attract interested parties and potential buyers or customers for your products and services by means of texts (content) like a magnet. This is done with short informative texts, with the help of which you provide your future clientele with a free sample of your competence and expertise. In this way you establish trust and the customer an initial relationship with your offer.

It is important to optimize the texts or your content directly with regard to search engine findability, i.e. they should be created directly search engine optimized (SEO optimized). All thematically relevant keywords must be included in the text. In addition, it is a good idea to use the search queries in question form (Ex. "How to create a press release?"), which potential customers might enter in the search engines such as Google, as headings or subheadings in order to achieve more organic search hits and thus website visitors.

If the texts you create or have written as part of content marketing are thematically relevant, entertaining as well as search engine optimized, there is a good chance that you will receive relevant search queries in the search engines such as Google or Bing - and thus free website visitors - in the future.

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How to make yourself independent of expensive search engine advertising

Every online store or provider on the Internet who places online advertising knows the problem: search engine click prices can be so high that they cause even the most conservative business plan to collapse. Customers must be found, but from where? A multitude of competitors join you in bidding on the few search engine advertising slots and vie for the attention of potential customers.

For companies in the B2B sector, the situation is aggravated by the fact that you are usually competing in your niche with larger providers with five-, six-, or seven-figure marketing budgets, even nationally or even internationally, and, that the number of search queries is far lower than in B2C, i.e. end-customer business. It is not uncommon for there to be only a few dozen search queries per day to which suitable search engine advertising could be played out at all. Adblockers further reduce this number. The consequence of this scarce demand: high click prices, not infrequently over 3 or 4 euros, to even get a few visitors daily to the - expensively created - website.

The problem: Even with a four- or five-figure marketing budget, you won't get significantly more leads because there simply aren't enough search queries. For keywords that are searched for relatively infrequently and for which you are competing with many competitors, and with a given conversion rate of a few percent (in the best case scenario), you will thus not be able to scale your sales, the number of customers and thus your business.

The alternative? Direct marketing as well as content marketing! We have developed solutions for both alternatives: Our 2022 Company Database for B2B marketing addresses, our Lettershop service, and our Content Creation Tools.