Digital Marketing Strategy for the Bvblogic Tech Company

Our challenge was to develop a paid media strategy to help B2B businesses generate more leads. The specificity of technology companies is that direct sales do not work, and the cycle of deciding on a deal can take some time (1–3 months). To not lose contact with the audience, it’s necessary to build communication in a few touches.

From the start, we had the following input data:

• Precise geography — Scandinavian countries (Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland),
• Content on the site that reveals the specifics of the services,
• Clear, limited budget.

In the first iteration, the PPC team with Livepage IT marketers developed a digital marketing strategy via paid media channels through content distribution (showing content to the target audience). We have worked with such paid media as Google Ads, Facebook, Quora, LinkedIn, Twitter.

Read on to see the results we’ve achieved.

The first version of the marketing funnel

When we started working with Bvblogic, we used a three-step funnel which included:

• The first stage of the funnel. At the first stage, we introduced users to the business and showed articles that arouse interest. We gave our readers the idea that with Bvblogic’s services, they can solve their problems and satisfy their needs.
• The second stage. Using remarketing, we returned users who viewed the Stage 1 content to articles that maximized the benefits of integrating Bvblogic with their business.
• The third stage. We directed the users who viewed the case studies from Stage 2 to the Offer Page*, where we directly offered the Bvblogic’s services as development specialists.

* Offer Page — a page with a commercial offer, which emphasizes the service’s value to the audience.

Using this approach, we gradually warmed up users in our marketing funnel, demonstrating more conversion content and guiding the most interested readers to the offer page.

Different advertising systems in the remarketing strategy made it possible to obtain ‘presence in the media space’ among the target audience. Even if the user came from Google Ads to a case study or an article, they later saw ads in all used systems, where they were logged in, as they got into the remarketing audience.

Thus, we first set up campaigns for new users and remarketing campaigns in the following networks: Google Ads, Facebook, Twitter, Quora.

Analysis of the first results

We analyzed the work of advertising campaigns in the first month. This helped us see the traffic quality based on KPIs from Google Analytics (average time on a landing page and page depth) and the cost of a click in each advertising system.

Campaigns in Google Ads and Facebook brought in a large amount of high-quality traffic, so we decided to reallocate the budget to them.

We also decided to replace Twitter with LinkedIn, as the behavioral metrics of traffic from Twitter were much lower than in other working ad systems.

Creative ad campaign ideas

Our team paid particular attention to banner ads. It was essential for us that the target audience notices the Bvblogic corporate identity and sees the images they are used to.

We’ve made a series of banners with famous paintings by Scandinavian artists that align with the articles’ titles and meanings. In the design, we used the corporate symbol of the company — a red square.

Banners that we showed at the first stage of the funnel

Second stage banners

Third stage banners (Offer page)

Identifying growth opportunities

In the second month of work, we saw that the 3-stage funnel is effective from a long perspective and with a big budget.

In our case, it was necessary to get a result in a shorter time and at a more affordable price, without overpaying much.

As a result, we decided to optimize and simplify the funnel structure to match our goals and capabilities.

Conversion funnel optimization

The best solution was to shorten the conversion path. We settled on a funnel, in which new users got either to the article or to the case study, and then the remarketing campaign led these users directly to the Offer Page.

To identify the best combination of remarketing — Article + Offer Page (thematic article + service offer page) or Case Study + Offer Page — we created two ad groups. Thanks to this, we received a high-quality distribution of the budget between ads in advertising campaigns within a week.

Having looked at the results for the Article and Case Study ad groups, we noticed that they both perform well. Therefore, we decided not to lose users who went through the funnel stage to the Offer Page — we returned them to the funnel via the content they hadn’t seen before.

So we looped the funnel (Article → Offer Page → Case Study → Offer Page → exclude from the funnel if there is no contact) and vice versa (Case Study → Offer Page → Article → Offer Page → exclude from the funnel if there is no contact). Thanks to this, we got peak engagement rates by the end of May.

The increase in user indicators (scroll 60% + time on page is more than 30 seconds) clearly shows the efforts on the received traffic quality without losing it.

After cutting the funnel, users began to reach the Offer Page faster, and most importantly, converting to leads. Thus, we managed to get results in a shorter time and received a stable lead generation system in four months of work.

Scaling results

Having analyzed the results of the new structure, we again started looking for bottlenecks and growth points.

We decided to move towards Account-based marketing — targeting a list of contacts. We used Data Scraper, CrunchBase, and Snov.io to parse Matching Audience (lists of phone numbers, emails, and social network profiles) to achieve our goals. We compiled a contact list of over 40,000 emails, LinkedIn profiles, and phone numbers. Using these lists, we launched ad campaigns on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Quora.

The LinkedIn ad campaign

We created a LinkedIn Message Ad Campaigns — ads in the format of private messages. This tool turned out to be significantly cheaper than classic banner advertising ($0.17 vs. $6).

The only nuance is that InMail campaigns are picky about the text of the message. Thus, you need to continually update the message’s text for repeated communication with the target audience.

Using InMail together with LinkedIn’s targeting capabilities made it possible to get as close as possible to the target audience and, as a result, get ~1000 clicks to the site and Clutch.

Results of work on paid media strategy

As a result, we reached peak KPIs in the 5th month of cooperation: 75 form submissions from Offer Page, 2 form submissions from blog pages, and 20 chat messages.

Comparison of the month with peak indicators vs. the previous period (Link to the full resolution)

Plans for the future

Our team has boosted an increase in the number of leads from Scandinavia for a large tech company. We won’t stop there and will scale the current marketing funnel to new geography, considering the cultural, economic, and social characteristics.

If you have any questions regarding marketing for your technology company, leave a request and our team will help you develop an effective marketing strategy.