How do you ensure the optimum findability of your business across the purchasing cycles of business buyers? What are your key value propositions and how should these be leveraged within the marketplace? How can your website function as a permanent, active inbound lead generation tool?
A building is only as tall as its foundations are strong, and that's true for effective marketing campaigns as well: it all starts with a B2B marketing strategy. There's no one-size-fits-all approach when it comes to marketing. Communications need to be specifically tailored towards bridging your organisation's unique business goals with the specific requirements of your customer base - all packaged within the marketing channels that most accurately reflect the media use of your potential buyers.
That's the key to a B2B marketing strategy. For CubicICE, this encompasses the entire marketing process, from market, competitor and online research, to strategic implementation and integrated content development, through to detailed measurements, analysis and reporting. From small businesses targeting new markets to some of Africa's largest B2B brands, we've specialised in B2B marketing strategies for over 30 years.
Contact us today to see how a marketing strategy can grow your business.
We'll analyse your market place and competitors to develop your brand's value proposition and unique selling points.
We align your marketing objectives to your business goals and then implement day-to-day actions in order to achieve results.
As an integrated marketer, we offer the complete marketing mix. We'll choose the right channels to achieve your goals.
We'll identify how campaign success can be monitored and measured to effectively identify marketing activity success.
We use the most up-to-date reporting, analytical and measurement techniques to show ROI of your marketing efforts.
We'll define and commit to a project timeline as well as a rollout plan of your tailored marketing strategy.
Jump to: DEFINING TARGETS | MARKETING ACROSS B2B SALES | BRAND AWARENESS | CONVERSION PLANNING & MEASUREMENT
Successful brands locate their products in a light that makes it simultaneously desirable and unique. This is your brand value proposition: a positioning statement that explains what benefit you provide; for who; and how you do it uniquely. It describes your target buyer, the problem you solve, and why you are better than the alternatives. Your value proposition provides the fundamental shape for your marketing and brand building efforts.
To effectively craft your value proposition, your marketing partner needs to have a firm understanding of your products and services, existing business strategies and organisational goals, as well as a broader market analysis and an awareness of your competitors' key differentiators.
As a B2B and industrial marketing specialist with over 30 years' experience, we've worked across a vast range of industries in South Africa and Africa, and have an excellent knowledge of the technical subjects, products and concepts involved in business, B2B and industrial environments. That said, we'll always approach a B2B marketing strategy afresh, and look to participate in any training, demonstrations or factory tours available to help increase our understanding of your business.
At the end of this research-centred process, we're ready to translate your short-, medium- and long-term business goals into clearly defined marketing objectives.
We'll help define your company's value propositions in order to establish the key messages that will help build your brand in the market!
The next step is in understanding, researching and defining your marketing targets - breaking up potential buyers into specific, accurate user personas. Successful B2B marketing strategies target well-defined customer segments at specific stages of the B2B buying cycle utilising the most suitable media channels for each objective.
This includes understanding the context in which those potential customers make buying decisions, utilising media and receiving business and industry information. Today's, search engines are the #1 resource for finding work-related information, usually sending traffic to supplier websites or online catalogues, with over 90% of business purchases beginning with an Internet search.
The best B2B marketing strategies, however, also create marketing content according to a business environment wherein the greater the amount of information sought by the buyer, the more people involved in a collective buying decision. This means that the nature of business marketing is defined not just by lengthy sales cycles that require nurturing, but by multiple sales cycles too, with a collective purchasing agreement between various stakeholders: engineers, C-level executives, financial centres, and so on.
Only once a thorough analysis into marketing targets and context has been conducted can we begin to more accurately translate your B2B marketing tactics within a customer-centric, needs-based marketing matrix.
Different media channels are used in different ways and for different objectives in the workplace, and a B2B marketing strategy needs to align with these various contexts. Because business purchases usually represent significant capital and need to prove investment, decision makers will consult as much information as they can to ensure they make the correct business choice, and the B2B buyer of today has more information at their fingertips than ever before! That's why buying cycles are 20% longer than they were 5 years ago.
Successful B2B marketing campaigns need to create informative, persuasive, quality content that targets the full sales cycle to ensure that content always matches customers' various locations along the sales cycle before it culminates in a purchase.
Here's a look at media use across the buying cycle, once a prospecting buyer has taken the initial steps towards a business purchase:
When analysing media use across the customer journey, we see that digital platforms are where industrial professionals turn first for information about suppliers, and sourcing and researching components, equipment and services. For CubicICE, this means that a multichannel digital strategy is typically the centrepiece of our marketing solutions geared towards B2B lead generation.
We specialise in end-to-end B2B digital marketing strategies centred on websites as the #1 decision marketing touchpoint for B2B buyers. As a leading digital marketing agency, our approach to web development will help ensure your business:
If your brand commands top-of-mind awareness in a particular industry or a particular category, you're already in the inside line by the time a buyer is ready to initiate a transaction. B2B marketing companies generally spend over 80% of their efforts on lead generation activities, but brand awareness is a crucial part of this. Brand awareness enhances the power of all other marketing activities, and is therefore a central pillar within a B2B marketing strategy.
So how do you create top-of-mind awareness? Marketers attain this level of brand supremacy via the strategic repetition of powerful messages and brand touchpoints over a multichannel marketing mix. Most importantly, you need to establish brand presence not just across the buy cycle, but through a continuous PR and B2B advertising strategy that works to establish trust, credibility and awareness.
As a full service integrated marketing agency, we have all the tools you need to increase your brand awareness and boost your lead generation activities:
Interested in what a B2B marketing strategy for your business might look like? Call us on 011Â 705 2545 or send us an enquiry!
Social media plays a unique role within B2B and industrial marketing strategies. While social media has evolved into an established media channel among technical professionals, it's not yet among the primary digital resources that professionals use for work-related purposes. When thinking about a social media marketing strategy, consider the following factors:
While we see social media as not yet a primary lead generation channel during the buying process, it plays an important role in increasing product and brand awareness and in establishing customer engagement channels and service marketing. We use social media as part of an integrated marketing approach that strategically supports your broader digital objectives, and reinforces your key value propositions to boost top-of-mind awareness.
In order to understand and refine the performance of your marketing content, conversion goals need to be established for each piece of content. Conversion planning orders your marketing content, and allows a sequence of marketing messages to be considered as a chain of company / customer negotiations across the customer journey. A marketing rollout plan needs to be defined in the planning stages of your B2B marketing strategy, yet they also need to be flexible enough to allow for campaign evolution as determined by ongoing performance evaluation.
In order to measure the performance of your marketing campaigns, CubicICE provides powerful data metrics reporting services that deliver constant, ongoing intelligence to describe the reach, engagement and conversion performance of your marketing investments. This means we can provide visibility into your ROI as well as optimise cost-per-lead ratio.
The last crucial ingredient in business-to-business marketing strategies is flexibility, and a willingness to adapt approaches and tactical priorities to mirror changes in market, communication or organisational requirements as they happen. This is especially pronounced in the digital marketing environment, where constantly evolving algorithms or the shifting semantic environments of Google searches mean digital marketers need to not just expect change, but be proactive in uncovering the effects that change will have on their current marketing plan.
Need a B2B or industrial marketing strategy to generate leads and grow your business? Speak to our team about a B2B marketing plan for your business!
To nurture leads towards a sale, you need an integrated marketing agency that offers the relevant marketing mix to serve powerful, engaging content to defined target audiences. We'll help you grow your business through tailored marketing campaigns targeting the complete B2B lead generation process while ensuring you:
We utilise the power of integrated marketing and our knowledge gained over 30 years' experience in business to business marketing to develop your B2B marketing strategy. CubicICE has proven expertise and an understanding of what works in digital and traditional marketing channels, and will only execute the best marketing strategies utilising the most relevant marketing tools tailored to your business requirements to boost your marketing penetration.
Call us on 011Â 705 2454 or use the form below to speak to our management about developing a marketing strategy for your business!
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