This was discussed at "B2B SaaS Marketing Masterclass" conducted by HelloMeets at 91Springboard's office in Bengaluru.
Speaker & Presentation by:
Tejaswi Raghurama, Marketing Manager at Typito
-Tejaswi was an employee at Typito (60,000+ users and growing)
-He previously led inbound marketing team at Wingify ($18Million ARR)
-He was the second employee and first marketer at Pipemonk (acquired by Freshworks)
Presentation includes:
-How to build generate Marketing Qualified Leads from Quora
-How to setup an outbound email campaign that generates high value leads
-How to create social media videos that engage and convert (on a budget)
-Actionable guide to create videos that can be used for content marketing, product marketing, on-boarding & customer advocacy
-Setting up & scaling a cold email campaign to target & convert mid-large size companies
-Importance of doing things that don’t scale in early stage
-Channels and campaigns that consistently work to get your first 100 customers
3. It all starts with alignment
60,000+ users
18 Million ARR
0 to $25,000 MRR
Top 10 Slack apps
● Lean but mean
● Documented experimentation
● Managing a high LTV:CAC ratio
● Delegation, build processes for scale
● Marketing need not scale
● VC Funding <> Growth
● Marketing that scales
4. Things that do scale | Outbound
Things that don’t scale
Things that do scale | Quora
Social Media Videos
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Agenda
15. 3. Finding a channel that
competition can’t copy
16. Delighted users with support and onboarding
Live chat implemented on website
Couple of 5-star reviews
All hands support; explicitly ask reviews
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120+ 5 Star Reviews5
17. ● 60-75% MQLs month-on-month for more than 2 years
● Zero spend
● Drove inbound partnership opportunities
● Humanized the brand
Results
18. Research + Intuition
Experimentation with bias to action
Look for patterns
Measure
Double down
● Lead volume
● Lead conversion rate
● Revenue
● LTV
23. Why Outbound?
● 3-4% CTR in PPC
● Content marketing is great but long term
● Get attention of decision makers
● Target big, named accounts
● Low cost branding
32. 1. Create lists of target companies by industry, filters
2. Create list of possible titles of high value targets
3. LinkedIn search with operators (OR, AND)
4. Collect First Name, Last Name and Title
5. Using Hunter, identify probable email format
6. Formulate email addresses
33. 1. Prosecting: The lean way
● 100 companies/day
● 500 contacts/day
● 85% Accuracy of Email Address
● Zero spend on tools or databases
● 1 person to do data entry
● 4-5 follow-ups, 2-5 days interval
● 40% Open Rate
● 10-12 demos/week
34. 2. The Outreach: Timely, Personalization at Scale
$0.001/email
$50/month
36. Research driven campaign
● Aggressive spend in your industry vertical (Martech)
● Social signals
● Tech stack
● Job posting
● Hook and bait (gated content)
37. Move over {First Name},
1. Personalize for groups, not every individual
Office Manager/ IT Admin HR Manager COO, CTO
- No more timesheets on paper
- Employees won’t just walk up to you
- Check status and live attendance
- Reviews from other IT admins
- Reporting
- Easy visibility for leadership
- Approval flow is real-time
- Reviews from CEOs
- We love slack just like you
- Everything in slack.
Simple commands.
- Can you connect me to your
HR/Admin
- Reviews from COO
40. Over to you
1. Define your ICP using framework
2. Create a tool stack that works for you
3. Draft email sequence with personalization in groups
4. Track what matters. Iterate and experiment with triggers, approaches.
5. Quick Tips: Multiple domains, speed throttling, account tracking