Why AdWords is the better alternative for your B2B Marketing Services
Why AdWords must become a key part of your B2B Marketing Services
Let’s look at two alternative advertising approaches in B2B Marketing:
- You pay a couple of dollars or less when someone clicks on your ad. This ‘someone’ has typed words into Google that match what you sell and has a good chance of buying from you.
OR
- You pay a thousand dollars or ten thousand dollars to place an advertisement in a newspaper or business magazine. Many thousands buy it; a few see your ad. Most who do see it ignore it, as it’s not relevant to them, or they are not ready to buy yet.
Spending even a thousand dollars for a small ad is a waste. Why?
Here are the two final nails in the coffin of mass media advertising:
- • It’s not interactive, so it takes more effort to get in touch with you. It’s just one click on Google.
- • Have you seen the research on how few young people read newspapers? Who would want to be a publisher running around like a chook with its head cut off? It is dead—it just doesn’t know it yet!
So, let’s do the maths:
If the newspaper ad works really well, you’ll get fifty qualified leads, and let’s say it only cost a $1000 and you only ran it once (freakish results, you must write great ads!). It took a lot of effort to write the ad, it ran once and now the campaign is over.
On Google you might spend $100, or $200, and also generate fifty leads. You can keep testing and refining the ad campaign, reducing the costs. The leads keep flowing, day by day; it’s ongoing and works out much cheaper.
It’s a No-brainer. So why haven’t AdWords become a Tsunami yet?
Well firstly, it kind of has; Google’s revenue from AdWords is now a ridiculous number of billions. And Pay-per-click has a long, long way to go yet.
Secondly, there are some powerful industries linked to the world of mass media advertising that are continuing to sell what they do in the traditional ways: publishers, TV networks, radio networks and, of course, traditional advertising agencies. These are big strong companies and they won’t vanish overnight.
But you and your business can ignore this battle; right now, Google AdWords are like ‘low hanging fruit’— ripe for the picking.
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Cheers, Toby [B33]
Toby is the author of 4 books including Get Your Prospects Talking Back available on Amazon