Recorded: Monday 01 August 2016 - Published: Thursday 11 August 2016
Welcome
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New Keynote Speaker announced:
http://www.inbound.com/speakers/reshma-saujani
Reshma Saujani - http://reshmasaujani.com/
Author, Founder & CEO of Girls Who Code - https://girlswhocode.com/
https://girlswhocode.com/summer-immersion-programs/
https://www.facebook.com/GirlsWhoCode
Brian and Dharmesh got bumped from the speaker page ?
http://www.inbound.com/inbound16/speakers
Endeavouring…
What is coming:
Merge Companies like you do with contacts - In development http://ideas.hubspot.com/forums/76407-general-hubspot-ideas/suggestions/6940198-merge-companies-like-you-do-with-contacts
Create ability to have parent accounts, and sub accounts - In design http://ideas.hubspot.com/forums/76407-general-hubspot-ideas/suggestions/6675612-create-ability-to-have-parent-accounts-and-subacc
"Pin" a note to the top of a contact or company timeline - In design http://ideas.hubspot.com/forums/76407-general-hubspot-ideas/suggestions/9936039--pin-a-note-to-the-top-of-a-contact-or-company-ti
Customers complaining about the cost of keeping contacts in their database...
Cost of Acquisition versus Cost of Nurture (Cost of Retention)
http://www.craigbailey.net/cost-acquisition-versus-cost-nurture/
Interesting to consider when people complain that it costs too much to keep people in the database.
Consider 10K contacts:
MailChimp: $75 = 0.75c per contact per month or 9c per year - http://mailchimp.com/pricing/growing-business/
Active Campaign: $350 = 3.5c per contact per month or 42c per year - http://www.activecampaign.com/pricing/
HubSpot: $1050 + $68 x 9 = $1662 = 16.6c per contact per month or $2 per year - http://www.hubspot.com/pricing/marketing#?currency=AUD (should actually use USD pricing as this would be comparable with the other two examples)
Compare this with the cost of acquisition
Often B2B companies are happy if they can get a lead for less than $100 per lead
On Facebook we’ll often get leads for less $20, and this is considered an excellent result.
So: B2B businesses are usually happy to pay $20+ per lead, but will baulk at paying $2 per lead to nurture them for a year…
Solve for the problem: Cost of retention is NOT the problem!
Instead: Focus on reducing cost of acquisition OR improving conversion rate OR increasing lead quality OR...
Facebook Time on site Custom Web Audiences:
http://www.jonloomer.com/2016/07/28/time-on-website-custom-audience-facebook/
I don’t have it yet :-(
George B Thomas is back with us!
A disturbance in the inbound force…
George B Thomas lessons on Facebook live chat:
https://www.facebook.com/Mr.GeorgeBThomas/videos/881325441972715/
A good reminder of the real priorities in life!
Using Slack to DM yourself notes (e.g. copy URLs from phone to desktop)
Marketing School by Neil Patel & Eric Siu.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/marketing-school-digital-marketing/id1138869817?mt=2
Skitch
Get your point across with fewer words using annotation, shapes and sketches, so that your ideas become reality faster.
Wins the award for least informative product page in the history of the internet!