Today’s landscape requires the need for constant database care and feeding…smart marketing campaigns, hyper targeted, very personalized, with highly engaging and rich creative presentation. Spray and pray marketing tactics have not worked for quite some time, and just trying to mimic the new hot buzz wordy marketing approach doesn’t also pay off as well as a thoughtful, disciplined and collaborative developed marketing strategy between a client and its marketing agency. So where does the” certified” and the “vegetarian” come in?
Vegetarian Marketers love TOFU. That’s their meat!
What’s TOFU?
Top of Funnel focused marketing activities.
Or better defined.
Good top of the funnel content marketing serves to commence a relationship (by way of opt-in) with a prospect visiting your site who otherwise might leave without making contact
Here are the key questions you should ask when putting together top of the funnel content.
- Does this intersect my prospects’ information journey at the right point?
- Does this look to take control of the information journey thereafter?
- Is this too obviously marketing?
- Have I considered what else I’ll back up this content with?
Why TOFU (Top of Funnel)?
There is no middle of the funnel or bottom of the funnel without the top of the sales funnel. The challenges brands experience in the middle of the funnel usually fall into one of two areas. The first area is non-opportunities. These are the “deals” that aren’t qualified opportunities at all. The second group is stalled opportunities. These opportunities are usually missing some of the commitments necessary to move them forward internally. The end of the funnel problems are usually around capturing value. But top of the funnel problems are far trickier. Think about how a funnel works. If you feed it in dribs and drabs you get dribs and drabs out of the other end. But if you keep a nice steady stream pouring into the funnel, you get a nice steady stream out of the skinny end.
Make a long story short. Worry first—and most—about the top of the sales funnel.
Now for the “certified” part of the equation
Bluetext works with many marketing automation and CRM systems, including Eloqua, Hubpost, Marketo, Pardot, and Salesforce – integrating, configuring, pushing creative through them, optimizing with them. These tools are the personalization marketing brain and the central data hub of value that all of our blood, sweat and tears deliver for our clients every day.
Bluetext is proud to announce we have expanded our credentials by being named a certified Hubspot agency.
Why work with an agency that has certified credentials versus a lot of lip service?
There are a lot of agencies that offer marketing automation services, but not all of them have the appropriate certifications. For organizations looking to partner with an agency to help them with their marketing automation readiness and implementation it is important to verify that an agency has the expertise to do so. A HubSpot Certified Agency Partner provides validation of the depth of an agency’s inbound expertise.
Bluetext delivers innovative content marketing campaigns for many consumer brands like Google, WeatherBug and SoundExchange. Contact Bluetext to learn how we can build your sales funnel with innovative digital content marketing services.
