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B2B Services Company Achieves 155% Increase in Leads in One Year. 

Combining audience analysis with reverse engineering, a 7-figure affiliate management agency was able to double their organic new users in one year and increase high-quality leads by 155%.

BACKGROUND

During 2015 – 2016 an American B2B services company was making 2.3M annually. In the years to follow they lost nearly 30% of their overall income.

They brainstormed with team members to think about what changed internally. What were they doing in 2015 that they were not doing in 2018?

Across the board the answer was: content.

During the heyday years of 2015 – 2016 they were churning out tons of great content!

So, they began again, writing a ton of content.

Despite the team’s best efforts traffic continued to decrease. The new content failed to increase the quantity – or quality – of leads through the organic channel.

THE SOLUTION

By analyzing the company’s best accounts, listening to sales calls, reading emails, digging through contracts and listening to what was discussed in networking groups we were able to find a pattern.

We applied that pattern to keyword research and found 4 “golden touch points,” or pillar topics, that were true to their brand and targeted their ideal client.

These 4 pillar topics were tested with Ads in order to gather the current keyword volume and conversion rates across a few marketing channels. 

Armed with real-time data, we began rolling out search marketing campaigns on a monthly basis beginning of 2020. 

Example Campaign A:

Example Campaign B:

THE RESULTS

Because the content is strategic and intentional this B2B services company is now running active organic campaigns that are cost-effective and generate leads from their ideal audience. 

In just 3 months, the American B2B services company achieved a 200% increase in targeted leads. 

Month 3 Report:

  • 200% increase in Leads.
  • 47% increase in New Site Users.
  • 114,000 Google Search Impressions

Year End Report

By the end of 2020, the company achieved:

  • 159% increase in Leads
  • 14,922 New Site Users
  • 1.57M Google Search Impressions 

Year over Year Growth

This company is well positioned and is becoming a thought leader in their niche market. By focusing on what their audience needs to hear, from the sources they need to hear it. 

2021 will be expanding the same organic success into other channels to create a full digital marketing experience.

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Outsourcing SEO Manager https://kaylelarkin.com/outsourcing-seo-manager/ Mon, 23 Mar 2020 21:30:12 +0000 https://kaylelarkin.com/?p=1042

Outsourcing your SEO manager is the insider secret to scaling SaaS customer acquisition and e-commerce revenue.  

Partnering with an entire team of expert search marketing professionals allows for rapid scale.

By reducing company overhead, cost per acquisition and increases the time devoted to organic channels.

Who Needs to Outsource?

If any of the following rings true for your company, you will want to consider outsourcing an SEO manager:

  • Needs to Quickly Scale Organic Channel
  • Limited Budget
    • unable to hire multiple full-time employees with varying skill levels
  • High Customer Acquisition Costs
  • Relying too Heavily on PPC
  • Minimum Bandwidth
    • current team is too busy to launch, manage and optimize SEM
  • Unable to Find the Necessary Talent to Scale Quickly
  • Current SEO unsuccessful
    • working for over a year and the money put in is not resulting in increased revenue.

If you are looking to reduce customer acquisition costs, enter new markets or increase sales –  you will want to consider partnering with an SEO manager.

What Does an Outsourced SEO Manager Do?

For a SaaS company or digital based agency (ecommerce, affiliate marketing, video production) your most valuable resource is time. 

To add more of this valuable resource, you need more people.

More account strategists, creatives and project managers means you are spending more time hiring and training new employees.  

More people means more overhead.

Digital agencies become extremely bloated, rather than more efficient, which is why growth is so difficult to achieve.

Outsourcing SEO is the practice of having search engine optimization services done outside your company instead of handling search optimization in-house.

Example of search engine marketing services:

  • Technical Audits
  • Content Audits
  • Audience Analysis
  • Keyword Research
  • OnPage SEO
  • Content Marketing
  • Conversion Optimization
  • Google Analytics
  • Data Studio Reporting
  • Google Ads

Finding the right SEO Manager allows you more time and resources to scale your business and opens a point of contact to a large team of SEO professionals.

How an Outsourced SEO Manager Scales Revenue:

Experience

SEO management companies provide an experienced team to manage and grow your program right away.

Immediately you acquire an entire team, with experience and proven track records that go far beyond what one or two in-house employees can provide.

This breadth of knowledge and exposure to an increasingly wide range of circumstances proves itself to be very valuable.

Minimum Training

Hiring an SEO manager is still going to need training time.

Because an SEO management company should have its own training program, you don’t have to pay for training.

Only need an onboarding call for introductions and to learn how to best support your team.

Agencies are exposed to a wide variety of circumstances that only comes from working on multiple accounts across industries.

Allowing them to act efficiently to extraordinary circumstances.

Low Overhead

According to Salary.com, “the average Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Manager salary in the United States is $77,240 as of February 26, 2020, but the salary range typically falls between $66,383 and $95,237.”

Now add 1-2 support stuaff, benefits, a work space and seo tools.

Don’t worry if your firm does not have that amount to budget.

Outsourcing seo management allows you to work with a team of industry leading experts, for a fraction of the cost.

Where you may have only been able to afford one person, an outsourced SEO management agency provides 2-5 people per account. 

When you compare the resources, the cost/benefit analysis falls heavily to the outsourced agency.

Save Time

Because an SEO management company can provide technical, creative and prospecting resources, you only need to be available for a quick meeting each month and a few emails.

For example, Larkin SEO manages everything from top-level strategy development and execution to goal tracking.

Find “the Right Fit”

The hiring process is a huge drain on time and money. You can research all the questions to ask when hiring a SEO expert – but how will you know what a quality answer is?

Are you able to train this new hire to work effectively with your team?

What about when they need time off, who will pick up the slack?

Or let’s say you’ve already found an SEO team member. Three months in, do you know what they’re working on?

Do you know if it’s effective?

What if a client is not getting the results they need – is your SEO new hire able to shift gears and increase leads?

Because we work as a team, if one account manager does not meet your needs, we can swap out another one with no downtime and no learning curve.  

Results Orientated

Subscription based and SEO management for e-commerce is priced by a percent of channel growth.

Because our growth is fully integrated with your growth, you can imagine we are extremely results oriented.

Outsourcing your SEO manager has a real financial impact on your overall costs and ability to scale quickly.

Larkin SEO has been studying search marketing since 2008. Using best practices, to keep companies in Google’s good graces. 

Ensuring your digital marketing campaigns are utilizing the key phrases customers are searching on the platforms your audience trusts for information.

At the end of the day, outsourcing SEO management allows you with more time and resources to scale your business.

Find out why agencies choose Larkin SEO by starting with an email.

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How do we determine an Expert? https://kaylelarkin.com/how-do-we-determine-an-expert/ Thu, 02 Jan 2020 22:41:18 +0000 https://kaylelarkin.com/?p=1083

A B2B client came to me with the problem that lead generation had slowed over the past two years. They were lead to believe this was because they are writing content for their peers, not their clients.

They dedicated a lot of time and effort into market research to determine who their clients are and what influences their audience to partner with them. 

Reviewing the market research feedback, we were able to see the most important factors in choosing an agency (aside from price) are:

  • Expertise
  • Confidence in ability
  • Referral
  • Industry reputation

So, I asked myself (and Google)… “how do we identify experts?” And “what builds confidence in a person?”

I came across an article in Psychology Today from September 2018, that references papers such as Crispen & Hoffman, 2016, and Shanteau, 2015, and suggestions by Danny Kahneman and Robert Hoffman. 

I’m sure you can think of at least one person right now that was highly recommended and ended up being a complete flop.

While there are no absolutes, there are soft criteria we can pay attention to that will give us the upper hand.

How to Determine If Someone is an Expert

Reliability

Does this person (or company) have a measurable track record of making good decisions? Look for a large sample as it is possible to do very well just by luck.

Keep in mind that, “a watch that is consistently one hour slow will be highly reliable but completely inaccurate.”

Peer Respect

Do others in their field respect them?

Just because someone is the loudest or has 30k YouTube followers doesn’t mean they are an expert and trustworthy.

Tread cautiously as peer respect can be manipulated by a person’s confidence and articulation.

Career

Consider the number of years performing the task because they will have likely been exposed to a wider set of circumstances. 

There are many marketing companies I know that combine top level manager experience to say the company has 50 years experience.

It’s a bit of a dodgy indicator. As some 10-year experts have been repeating the same strategies and have not sought out to expand their skillset.

Reflection

When I ask “What was the last mistake you made?” a credible expert will be able describe a recent blunder because it has been eating at them. 

In contrast, someone posing as an expert, will typically say they can’t think of any or make a joke to defer the statement as folly.

I was curious and posed this question to the largest SEO Group on Facebook, at publication they have 52,000 members.

“What was the last mistake you made?”

Of the respondents:

  • 71% made a joke implying they have never made a mistake. 
  • 12% made a bad hiring decision involving believing the hype of an “expert.”
  • Only 9% provided an example of a mistake they had made in the past year.

Tacit Knowledge 

This is my favorite indicator as it holds to be the most true. Tacit knowledge involves: perceptual skills, pattern recognition, anticipation and mental models.

This is easier said than found as some experts may be less articulate because tacit knowledge is by definition hard to articulate. 

According to Statista, there were 13,740 advertising agencies in the United States in 2017. We were able to determine the most important criteria in choosing an agency (aside from price) are:

  • Expertise
  • Confidence in ability

To increase lead generation and conversion rates as a B2B agency you must position your company as an expert in the field.

Focus on creating thought leadership articles to increase your industry reputation. By doing so you will showcase your expertise and increase quality lead generation.

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