Gareth Hancock

When researching a new product, buyers use 10 or more channels to interact with companies. Each channel presents a chance to make a good impression. 

Optimize each channel, and you’ll win new customers, enjoy higher order rates, and retain customers. Get them wrong, and you risk damaging brand perception and trust. 

In this post, we’ll explore lessons from brands that use omnichannel marketing to deliver a seamless customer experience.

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Unique selling proposition examples

Your unique selling proposition (USP) separates you from the competition. It’s a statement that communicates your strengths and benefits over your competition’s. A good one makes your product or brand stand out amongst the noise. 

Similar to a unique value proposition (UVP), for customers, it’s a reason to trust and choose you ahead of someone else. For you, it’s the linchpin that powers your sales and marketing efforts. 

USP and UVP are occasionally used interchangeably; but they shouldn’t be. The two are similar, but have different purposes. A unique selling proposition focuses on what separates you from the competition. In comparison, a unique value proposition focuses solely on the benefit that you provide to the customer.

But what does a USP look like?   

In this article, we’ll demonstrate what makes an effective USP by sharing some of the best examples from the worlds of B2B marketing, e-commerce, and DTC. 

You’ll learn why and how these brands get it right so you can follow their lead to unearth your own competitive advantage.

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Consistency is the cornerstone of good marketing. You only have to look at top brands to see this in action: Apple’s sleekness, Coca-Cola’s playfulness, Disney’s magic.

Consistency is equally critical for startups. Stacked Marketer turned a free newsletter into a six-figure revenue generator by staying actionable, convenient, and entertaining. 

Being consistent earns trust and cements brand status—qualities that add 10–20% to your overall growth, according to LucidPress research. On the flip side, inconsistency confuses consumers, limiting your chance to generate leads.

A marketing playbook, whether B2B or B2C-focused, helps you achieve brand consistency across channels and campaigns.

In this article, we’ll explain how to create a marketing playbook to align your teams and boost your sales opportunities.

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You should be dedicating resources to encouraging each new and existing customer to increase their spending. If not, you’re missing out on a play that can deliver exponential returns.

Recommending additional products or services can help customers solve problems while upping their investment. This will improve customer lifetime value (CLTV), making customer acquisition costs (CAC) healthier.

It’s called cross-selling; a tactic that drives 35% of sales for Amazon and helps leading SaaS companies reduce churn. 

In this post, we’ll show how to put it into practice by breaking down examples of cross-selling done well. 

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Every business needs leads. The biggest challenge for marketers is getting them.

Account-based marketing (ABM) and lead generation both offer a way to do this. Done right, both can help attract the kind of high-quality leads that become long-term customers and advocates.

Snowflake achieved over 300% growth with ABM. Templafy generated 475% ROI with lead generation. DocuSign combines both to fuel its sales funnel.

In this article, we’ll look at both disciplines, explaining what they are and when they’re best used. You’ll also learn how to approach ABM and lead generation to engage your ideal customer. 

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Ask 10 people what account-based marketing (ABM) is and you’ll get 10 different answers. Some see it as a sales tactic, while others view it as a content marketing strategy. 

Because every business adapts ABM to suit their own growth model, the definition changes to fit. 

But, one thing’s for sure: getting clear on what ABM means to your company is critical to making it work. ABM is built on alignment and without everyone on the same page from the start, any plans to drive growth are doomed to fail.

In this article, you’ll learn how to define your ABM strategy so you can target the right accounts and increase your revenue.  

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Done right, demand generation can supercharge growth. It’s how ConvertKit grew from $98K to $625K MRR and Morning Brew reached two million subscribers in just five years.

Demand generation tactics address two of the biggest marketing challenges: raising brand awareness and generating leads.

Without awareness and leads, you’re missing out on opportunities to close sales and grow your business. That’s why you need a demand generation strategy.

In this article, you’ll learn how to follow in the footsteps of brands like ConvertKit and Morning Brew through interest-building demand generation tactics.

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The average B2B buyer has 27 brand interactions before deciding. Very few, if any, of these interactions are with a sales rep.

Instead, buyers are self-directed, gathering information from social media, websites, webinars, and online events.

This behavior has marketers pledging to up their demand generation budgets. Because if people are making up their own minds, without coercion from sales, creating demand is the best way to get them to choose you.

In this article, you’ll learn about how a demand generation manager benefits an organization and which qualities they need to fuel your sales pipeline.

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In the early 2000s, DVDs were the primary way to watch videos. Netflix streaming launched in 2007, and the DVD player is now a technological antique.

Products, much like humans, live on borrowed time. From the moment they launch, they’re on a journey towards decline. 

How this journey plays out is what marketers try to predict by using the product lifecycle as a model. 

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On-point product marketing is why Webflow was able to enter the no-code website market with competitors like Wix and Squarespace and still generate 4 million monthly users. Brands like Webflow, Drift, and Close prove you can grow and succeed in a completely saturated market.

With everyone else seeking to beat out the competition, you need to find a way to do it differently, better. 

Product marketers lead the business to where they need to play in order to win.

In this article, we’ll break down seven product marketing examples from brands that put their audience first and communicate value to stand out from the competition. You’ll learn why they work, with key takeaways to inspire your marketing efforts.

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