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Brandon Coward Last updated: April 15, 2021 One of the biggest questions B2B SaaS companies have about paid marketing is their expected ROI. Essentially, they want the ability to forecast, “If we spend X dollars next quarter, we’ll get Y dollars in return.” But the majority of companies we speak with don’t have the necessary data to do accurate forecasting. Typically they’re missing …
Brandon Coward Last updated: April 6, 2021 Whenever we talk to prospects about what’s broken in their marketing efforts, 8 out of 10 tell us analytics and attribution. The reason for this is the disconnect between their data sources. In B2B SaaS marketing strategy, the conversation usually begins and ends with traffic and engagement analytics. CRM and product-usage data are managed by different stakeholders. …
Brandon Coward Last updated: March 23, 2021 When B2B SaaS companies struggle to succeed running Google ads, they tend to frame it as a problem with budgets and targeting. Don’t get us wrong: these elements can be factors. But there’s another piece to the puzzle that we think deserves more attention: ad creative. Here’s why: From an emotional standpoint, ad creative …
Brandon Coward Last updated: March 23, 2021 When building lookalike audiences for Facebook ad campaigns, many SaaS companies rely on limited sources of data. They tend to settle for custom audience data based on all their website’s visitors or other low-purchase intent criteria. But this practice often results in ad campaigns that are less effective than they could be. That’s because their …
Brandon Coward Last updated: December 18, 2020 Landing pages or web pages: where should you send traffic to during your next PPC marketing campaign? This is a common question we hear from SaaS companies we work with. In fact, it’s a question they sometimes agonize and obsess over. This is because the answer can often be more nuanced than clear cut. For some businesses, …
Brandon Coward Last updated: December 18, 2020 For prospects to convert into customers, they need to feel a sense of certainty that the monetary and time investments involved with adapting a new system into their business will be worth it. As such, B2B lead generation and nurturing takes time and many different touch points along the path to a sale. This is what …
Brandon Coward Last updated: December 18, 2020 When it comes to making decisions about how to allocate marketing budget based on performance, understanding the conversion paths that prospects take on the way to becoming customers is essential. But during new client engagements, when we look under the hood, most SaaS companies we work with haven’t set up their analytics properly to have clear access …
Brandon Coward Last updated: April 12, 2021 While most SaaS companies think they are doing remarketing properly — for example, by having a “demo request” CTA follow site visitors around the web — they are not. The core mistake they are making is that they use a one-size-fits-all approach that completely disregards the fact that their audiences are made up of people …
Brandon Coward Last updated: May 25, 2020 In this article, we provide an analysis of the paid search strategies of two best-in-class SaaS companies. We discuss what each company did well throughout their funnel, where we found mistakes and missed opportunities, and what we’d do differently if they were our client (including mocked up examples of how we’d update their landing page …
Brandon Coward Last updated: May 25, 2020 We’ve noticed that many SaaS companies make changes to their PPC campaigns too soon, and without ever having established a baseline to measure performance. They’ll wait a period of time — a day, a week, or sometimes a few hours — and say it’s not working because they’re not getting enough clicks, or the clicks …
