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Databox’s CEO Pete Caputa wrote those words as he introduced our first 52 partners exactly one year ago.
That mindset drives not only our product, marketing, sales, and support strategy–it drives our business growth, too.
Thousands of agencies have contributed to our roundup posts.
Partners write guest posts on our blog.
They create KPI report templates for our users.
They take the product farther than we could have imagined, allowing us to learn new and different ways to provide more value to our users.
Today we’re rolling out new ways to provide more value to you, our partners, through new and exciting co-marketing opportunities.
We aim to drive more business for our partners, not just leads.
Before I get into the details, let me share a story on how we settled on this new approach.
We recently ran a pilot campaign with Chris Handy, founder at ClosedWon, to see if we could drive more than just leads through a targeted campaign.
Phase 1: Identify the package
ClosedWon offers several different packages for companies looking to implement Drift and increase their leads and sales.
These smaller (or free) packages would act as our content’s anchor point.
(Previously we’d send traffic or leads through our co-marketing initiatives, but the high-barrier of a ‘retainer engagement’ was usually the only way forward. Therefore, very little engagement would happen. These offers make it simple for clients to engage ClosedWon.)
By publishing educational content about Drift, we can create interest in ClosedWon’s Drift implementation package.
Phase 2: Identify the content
I invited Chris Handy of ClosedWon to record a Data Snack, or short video tutorial, sharing one bite-sized tip for implementing and/or improving a Drift strategy.
“Staring at a blank page is tough for me,” Handy said.
To make the whole process of co-marketing easier, we asked him to contribute a bite-sized Data Snack a couple times a month.He recorded this one on improving response time in Drift. I transcribed the post for him using Temi, and from there we had a dynamic post featuring text + video ready to share.
Phase 3. Identify the channels
When the content performs well, we cue up slots in one of three niche monthly newsletters–one for Google Analytics, HubSpot, and Top Content–depending on the subject area of the post.
We also promote through other appropriate channels, too.
In this case, we knew that because Handy had recorded a video, that LinkedIn (in addition to the Databox Blog) would be a great place to launch and promote the content.
After I mixed the video and added the Data Snacks branding to it, I sent the raw video file back to Handy to post to his own LinkedIn account so any engagement and conversation would center around him, not us.
It performed well…
According to Handy, this post alone generated ~25 private messages (separate from the post’s comments) and closed 2 new clients.
“Showing our work publicly serves as the best kind of marketing,” said Handy. “Eight weeks after publishing our first Data Snack, we can track many thousands of dollars in revenue back to clients who first became aware of ClosedWon via this content.”
Would you like to achieve similar results? Here’s the process we’ll follow together:
How to get started
One of the driving forces behind a revamped co-marketing process was to make it easier for you to contribute content.
For some people, like Handy and ClosedWon, that means video. Others hate recording video or find it hard to produce, so a blog post makes much more sense for them.
Regardless of the format, here’s how it will look in two phases:
Once the content is live, Databox will promote via:
How to get on the co-marketing content calendar
As of publication, we have several partners slotted in for the bi-monthly reminders.
We’re looking to add 5 partners per month.
It’ll be first come, first serve with preference going to Databox Premier Partners.
Interested in contributing or chatting more about these possibilities?
Send me an email.
Excited to work more closely with you.
Talk soon.
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Tamara Omerovic is a marketing consultant with 8 years of experience in content marketing and SEO. She specializes in leading high-performing teams and developing effective marketing processes for B2B SaaS brands.
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