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Inbound Marketing for Lead Generation. Ilya Mirman Twitter: @ IlyaMirman Mike Volpe Twitter: @ mvolpe. Twitter: @ ilyamirman & @ mvolpe Slides: www.MikeVolpe.com/WOMMA Share whatever, wherever!. Marketing is Changing. 1950 - 2000. 2000 - 2050. Outbound Marketing.
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Inbound Marketingfor Lead Generation Ilya Mirman Twitter: @IlyaMirman Mike Volpe Twitter: @mvolpe
Twitter: @ilyamirman & @mvolpe Slides: www.MikeVolpe.com/WOMMA Share whatever, wherever!
Marketing is Changing 1950 - 2000 2000 - 2050
Outbound Marketing is Harder 800-555-1234 Annoying Salesperson
The Good News… Inbound Marketing: Get Found using Google, Social Media and Blogs Top 5 Web Marketing Book on Amazon InboundBook.com
The Great News… Source: survey of hundreds of businesses: HubSpot.com/ROI
Budget vs. Brains Flickr: Refracted Moments Flickr: Gaetoan Lee
“If you have more money than brains, use outbound marketing. If you have more brains than money, use inbound marketing” -- Guy Kawasaki
Am I promoting my content in social media conversations?
Am I converting as many visitors into leads and sales as I can?
Stop thinking like a marketer or advertiser.
Start thinking like a publisher and socializer.
Cilk Arts, Inc* Mission: To provide the easiest, quickest, and most reliable way to optimize application performance on multicore processors. Our Goal: Owna multicore programming standard • Cilk++ Runtime on every processor • Cilk++ used by all C/C++ multi-coders [*July 2009: Cilk Arts acquired by Intel]
Go To Market Approach • Open source business model • Low-touch, low-cost sales model • Broad awareness, trial, adoption • Big bet on Inbound Marketing • No sales people • Hired 1 marketer (me) 8 months before shipping product to implement Inbound Marketing approach • Blog as primary marketing vehicle • Entire team contributed (~1 post per week) • Helped us engage with the developers we hoped to serve; understand what content they’re interested in
Results • Reached over 100,000 developers • Traffic and awareness matched or exceeded competitors • >3,000 leads • >1,000 downloads • >6,200 inbound links • >600 blog subscribers • Adoption at >300 universities worldwide
Content is King • Blog was primary vehicle • Entire team contributed • Repurposed content in multiple ways • e-Book • Short YouTube videos • Online courses • 2-day training workshop
Blog Metrics Engaged entire team Don’t know ahead of time which topics will strike a chord Links drove search engine rank
Blogging Attracts More Links Source: Data from over 1,500 small businesses - http://hub.tm/BlogROI
Blogging Attracts More Visitors Source: Data from over 1,500 small businesses - http://hub.tm/BlogROI
Social Media • Engaged bloggers in industry and academia • Drove coverage, links, conference invites
Blogging Drives Social Success Source: Data from over 2,000 businesses - http://bit.ly/a6SrWh
Social Media = Leads and Sales Source: survey of hundreds of businesses: HubSpot.com/ROI
Thought Leadership & Awareness • Grew a loyal following: • > 6,200 inbound links • > 600 Blog subscribers Inbound Links Blog Subscribers
Organic SEO • Web site optimized for long tail of relevant search terms • 40% of traffic from search • High rank for ~300 relevant phrases • Ongoing maintenance to optimize popular pages for key terms Keywords w/high Google rank
Lead Capture • Translating content & traffic to Leads using Landing Pages
Lead Management • 3000+ Leads • 1 Sales & 1 Marketing person managed it all • Even engaged engineers with lead alerts • Key: Closed Loop Marketing & CRM Integration Sales Marketing
Visitors & Sources • Healthy mix of traffic from organic search and key social media sites published eBook; Pilot campaign to quant finance community Posted Cilk++ docs; Pilot campaign to IEEE community
Inbound Marketing Lessons Do… • Get your whole organization engaged in contributing content • Be real, be genuine • Build an editorial calendar with a broad set of interesting, valuable content, targeted at key personas • Leverage content in many ways (Blog, e-Books, Tutorials, YouTube, SlideShare, etc.) • Use Closed Loop Marketing to get a single view of your funnel so Sales & Marketing can work as an efficient team Don’t… • …be a blatant, self-centered commercial • …focus on just one topic • …make your blog your only social media effort; instead, spend time on other blogs, community sites, and contribute • …worry about slow periods (# of visitors,# of subscribers, # of comments)
Inbound Marketing Summary Convert
Suggested Next Steps • Read the “Inbound Marketing” Book • Grade your website: www.WebsiteGrader.com • Additional Free Resources: www.HubSpot.com/marketing-hubs
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