Digital Marketing is about driving leads that become customers.

And to get there it’s about distribution. Distribution of offers that excite and thrill your best prospects. Distribution at the intersection of their attention.  Distribution of a well orchestrated process… Let’s fire up the engines.

Paid Media

It takes money to make money. Paid media will be your biggest driver, but it doesn’t have to be expensive. Content placement, paid social, re-targeting, email media sends, paid influencers and PPC are your main weapons.

Earned Media

It’s the hardest channel to master. No, you’re not going viral. You gotta work-work-work for this channel. Organic social, reviews, referrals, partners, PR mentions, SEO, shares and re-posts are the vehicles. Roll up your sleeves.

Owned Media

The highest ROI is in your owned channels. Your website, landing pages, blog, apps, and email list bring the biggest bang for you buck. Shake your money maker and focus on these first.

Get it FREE: The B2B Marketing Playbook

Download the step-by-step process to build a 100% inbound lead machine and ignite hyper-growth.

There’s no secret… online marketing is a process.

Yes, effective lead generation has a process. It’s about using proven direct response models that marketers have been using since the advent of media. David Ogilvy, Seth Godin and the Sham-wow guy all used the same model. What’s changed is the channel and distribution methods. Want thousands of leads a month for your team? Use this model…

Unique Value Proposition

It starts by identifying what truly makes you unique. Your brand and voice must stand out. Nothing is worse than incrementalism and being an “also ran”. Find your unique weirdness and run with it. Point is, you have to stand out from your peers. We are attracted to the thing that is different.

Ideal Client Profile

Only target your best clients. While it’s great that you can sell to a broad market, that’s not your ICP. Your tribe is the group of people whose problem you directly solve, every time. Identify the exact characteristics (industry, sector, size, titles). Now, use language and copy for those personas.

Online Channels

Where do your ICPs hang out online? What social channels and publications do they consume? Where do they go to learn? Where do they go to be acknowledged? What trade associations do they belong to? Now, go meet them there, digitally. Build and buy those audiences.

Lead Magnet

What valuable lead magnet, trip wire or offer could you make so that if your ideal client saw it they would have to respond? What is your “too good to be true” offer? Think freemium here. Build it and promote it. And don’t be cheap! Build the right magnet and the boat will be filled with prospects.

Value-Price Chain

Now that you have them in the boat via your lead magnet, walk them up the value-price chain… Content to free offer. Free offer to basic. Basic to standard. Standard to premium. This is where you can get sales involved. After they know you, like you, trust you, and are willing to try you.

High Five

High five yourself and your team. (I’m a fan of the fist bump). You just got it right! You made it rain leads and deals by getting buyers to come to you based on solving their problem and making a “must have” offer. The sales team loves you, your boss loves you, your dog loves you. You are a legend my friend.

Feed the Hungry… Sales people, that is.

Inbound leads are 750% more likely to close. Create a high-quality lead machine for your team.

Successful marketing means successful distribution.

Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg and Jay Z will all tell you, nothing gets sold without successful distribution. Marketing is about distribution… of your message, your content, your offers, and your product. “Build it and they will come” and “blog it and they will convert” is mythology.  You need distribution of a well orchestrated process. Fortunately, I’ve got you covered.  I’m sharing the exact execution plan I used to drive 1,500 inbound B2B MQLs per month. Fire away…

The B2B Marketing Playbook by Tim Muenchen

Get it FREE: The B2B Marketing Playbook

Download the marketing playbook I used to go from 0 – 1,500 inbound MQLS per month in 26 months

About those random acts of marketing.

It’s painful to see waste. Money spent on “marketing” that was well intended, but end up so far off the mark. As a marketing purist, I want to save the world from bad marketing. Better yet, I want to convert the naysayers who think “marketing doesn’t work”.  As part of that effort, I give you the 6 random acts of marketing that are most annoying. Please do not participate in any of these activities…

Content that focuses on eyeballs

It’s a great general interest piece. It even drafted off current pop culture. People love, love, love it. Problem is, none of them are future customers. That article is not going viral. Keep your content centered on solving problems for your ICP.

No decent lead magnet or content upgrades

30-day free trials are table stakes. And that “free demo” is a joke. Offer something of real value. And don’t make it self serving. A calculator, checklist, cheat sheet, mind map, trending alerts, free software… Think like Dropbox, MailChimp, and Canva.

Boring corporate speak

The material is boring or even worse, undifferentiated. It’s a massive wall of words. And I don’t understand what you do. What does “inspire. listen. empower.” mean? Get rid of the corporate speak. It’s not smart. Try an authentic voice that uses the language of your buyer.

Organic traffic only

Maybe in 2007. If you think your blog and social feeds are going to organically drive meaningful traffic and leads, think again. You need to have great content, awesome lead magnets… and you have to promote it through paid channels.

Wasting money on PPC

Bidding on expensive keywords that all the competition bids on. Then sending them to the website or blog without a solid offer or reason to convert. PPC can work, but it’s not always the best strategy. If it is, send them to a squeeze page with a balling offer.

Images that don’t render

You went to the trouble to write that post, find a great image, and overlay a fun CTA… But when I see it in my feed, I only see half the image and your CTA is cut off. 80% of what we learn is visual. Size images to render on all channels and devices.

Want hundreds of leads per month for your sales team?

Of course you do…

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