Why spend any time or money on SaaS marketing if it isn't going to pay off? And yet there are plenty of companies sinking thousands of dollars every month into inbound marketing strategies that don't pay their own way—let alone return a profit.
The wonderful news for you is that marketing success has nothing to do with complicated, top-secret or corporate-only strategies. In fact, the real "magic secrets" of ROI-generating software marketing are so common sense, we hope you don't feel silly when you read them.
It's easy to lose sight of the real-world picture when we're compelled to follow latest and greatest tips to "stump Google crawlers and get pages ranked." And that leads us to Common Sense Secret #1...
The beginning of inbound marketing got us pretty hung up on "tricks" for getting the search engines to rank your pages above the fold. That's still the goal, of course, but the reality is that tricking people never works for very long.
We now know the most successful companies do what any friend, advisor, mentor or confidant does—they listen to what their target markets want, and then they provide products/services accordingly. To market them, these companies produce lots of high-quality and varied information about those products/services. As a result, they become prospects' go-to resource because the company has historically proven itself to be an approachable and intuitive authority on the subject.
Try putting SEO tricks on the back-burner. Focus on what buyer personas need to read and process to feel comfortable learning more, to become a qualified lead, and to eventually become a sale. Quality content has always been the way to go.
Of course, people love freebies and discounts, buyer incentives, and kick-backs. At the end of the day, however, these bonuses don't make for long-term, loyal customers. For this reason, we want to warn you about two common marketing strategies that backfire more often than not.
The more you nurture the right targets, the more successful your SaaS marketing will be.
When we need something, we look to our inner circles first before seeking outward. Making yourself visible at trade shows and industry-relevant events is an automatic opportunity to exponentially grow your inner circles as long as you've confirmed your target market(s) will be there.
Capitalize on those connections by:
It all makes such simple sense, doesn't it? Now use that sensible "magic" to grow the success of your SaaS business.
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