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You have developed a new product or offer a new service and are now looking for customers. Without proactively addressing potential new customers on all channels, you will fail sooner or later as a B2B service provider, because: No matter how much online advertising you place expensively, the number of potential leads via search engine marketing is very limited compared to B2C business and is usually not enough to cover your costs in the first place. Therefore, deal comprehensively with the topics of cold calling, advertising letters & lettershop as well as customer acquisition via LinkedIn, Facebook and social media.
Most of your eventual buyers are NOT currently looking for
No matter how great your product or service is, most of the customer groups you have in mind won't need it. Don't expect the number of searches on Google and other search engines to be enough to get enough leads from which you could generate any customers at all. In reality, over 80% of your potential customers are not currently actively searching for your product or service, and therefore not Googling for it. So the only way you will reach these customer groups is through a phone call or letter.
The price is NOT the central decision criterion for your customer
The actual price charged is secondary in terms of your customer's buying decision. More important is to clearly present the benefits of your product or service to the customer in spé and build trust. Address the individual needs, which can be not only the current, but also the future needs of the customer, and see where the shoe pinches, or where problems and potential for improvement lie.
Make sure that potential customers get information on your website
Most of your website visitors are gone faster than you can look. You've invested thousands of euros in redesigning your website? Congratulations, but you would have been better off investing that money in telephone sales. Often, your website is only called up and visited a few times after the successful initial contact and your offer is scrutinized before a positive purchase decision is made. You should therefore make sure that you collect the contact details of prospective customers, e.g. through a newsletter registration, request via contact form incl. the declaration of consent for a later contact.
Most buyers of your products will NOT use them
If you have managed to convince your potential customer of the benefits of your product or services (by identifying and addressing their pain points) and have created a level of trust through communication, the customer will buy - regardless of whether they currently need the product or will use it in the future. The average B2B customer typically buys an opportunity, potential, tool, or even a way to improve his situation, situation, or opportunities that he will want to access and benefit from in the future when he will actually need it. In this sense, he is buying an additional item in his arsenal.
A few of your potential customers are swimming in money, but most are not far from insolvency
Make sure that your offer is aimed at a clientele that is solvent enough to pay the prices charged - and on time. Nothing is more annoying than unpaid invoices, chargebacks and avoidable reminders. Depending on the scope of your service, installment payments or monthly lump sums may be an option. In addition to the option for customers to order on account, you should also offer payments via PayPal, Klarna (formerly Sofortüberweisung) and possibly by credit card. However, note here that additional costs arise.
Without networking and personal network you will not be successful
Without referrals from actual customers who, in good conscience, introduce your products and services to acquaintances and friends entrepreneurs, agency owners or other self-employed and freelancers, you will not grow sustainably. Referral marketing should be a central part of your marketing strategy. Therefore, also consider setting up your own affiliate program to benefit from the network effect.
Many B2B companies, agencies and service providers wonder how you can achieve more customer inquiries, leads and sales without increasing your online marketing budget - i.e. Google Ads budget, for example.
One viable way is so-called content marketing. The goal of content marketing is to attract interested parties and potential buyers or customers for your products and services by means of texts (content) like a magnet. This is done with short informative texts, with the help of which you provide your future clientele with a free sample of your competence and expertise. In this way you establish trust and the customer an initial relationship with your offer.
It is important to optimize the texts or your content directly with regard to search engine findability, i.e. they should be created directly search engine optimized (SEO optimized). All thematically relevant keywords must be included in the text. In addition, it is a good idea to use the search queries in question form (Ex. "How to create a press release?"), which potential customers might enter in the search engines such as Google, as headings or subheadings in order to achieve more organic search hits and thus website visitors.
If the texts you create or have written as part of content marketing are thematically relevant, entertaining as well as search engine optimized, there is a good chance that you will receive relevant search queries in the search engines such as Google or Bing - and thus free website visitors - in the future.
You do not have time to create texts for your website, advertising texts (so-called copywriting) or product descriptions? Contact us for a no-obligation quote.
Click prices between 3 and 7 euros for online advertising in the B2B sector quickly collapse all business plans and revenue expectations of startups & Gründer:innen. For all those who have not previously built a test balloon to check the current click prices in their niche, before deciding to develop or offer a product or service, this circumstance can mean a rude awakening later on.
The problem: In contrast to the end-customer business (B2C), providers in the business-to-business (B2B) sector are vying for far fewer active search queries and thus potential customers. Since every provider tries to direct a few of the few search queries of potential B2B customers to its own website in the first place, the PPC click prices for search engine advertising on Google Ads, for example, are correspondingly high.
Postal mailings represent an alternative for the acquisition of customers in the B2B area. Contrary to the prices in online marketing, this offline marketing method has a decisive advantage: calculable costs. Because: The price for printing and mailing the advertising letters, along with the acquisition costs for the marketing addresses, is already fixed in advance and can therefore be planned.
With our lettershop service, we can take over this task completely for you if you wish. From address selection to printing and dispatch. Inquire now and generate more leads!