Bill Colbert

Bill Colbert is the Founder and CEO of Treetop Growth Strategy. When he's not helping clients acquire customers, he's asking for help, with finding his tee shot. Or watching an NBA game.
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B2B Lead Generation: How to Segment Your Post-Conversion Marketing Automation

Posted by Bill Colbert on Sep 22, 2016 9:42:56 PM

 

Just like the immortal character "Beanie", played by Vince Vaughn in Old School, you have to be careful about making sure the right message goes to the right audience. Sometimes you need to use earmuffs. (And not just in Chicago in February.) Here are two b2b lead generation strategies you can use as a B2B or SaaS company when setting up marketing automation workflows.

 

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Topics: b2b lead generation, lead nurturing

Facebook Advertising Examples: 4 Images Styles for B2B and SaaS Companies 

Posted by Bill Colbert on Sep 19, 2016 3:34:06 PM

You're all ready to start advertising on Facebook. You've selected the type of ads you want to run. You've thought of a good headline. But you just...need...to...figure out...a great image. There's so many options but, how do I know what works for me? The truth is, you won't. Or, more specifically, you won't know the best option until you test several variations. There are some great, helpful studies to be found about what types of images get the most engagement, but when you're advertising on Facebook, you're going to want to test, test and test again. Not to worry though. I've managed hundreds of thousands of dollars in Facebook advertising spend and have found success with a number of different types of ads. I'm going share with you some Facebook advertising examples that you can take and use to help your SaaS cost per acquisition go as low as possible.  

 

Facebook advertising examples: The straight-into-the-camera single-human image.

This image has worked well for me for two reasons: 1) The girl is pretty far zoomed-in-on. You can clearly see her face. 2) the red and blue colors are eye catching. They contrast nicely with the muted, clear background of the studio setting. When advertising on Facebook, color contrast can have a drastic impact. Tip: What you can do in Photoshop to make the color pop even more is to add an adjustment layer to increase the vibrance, hue, saturation, or sometimes all three.

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Topics: SaaS, Facebook Ads

Customer Acquisition Strategy: How we increased conversions 95% to lower cost per acquisition

Posted by Bill Colbert on Aug 22, 2016 1:18:22 PM

 

Having a great explainer video can be a critical component to your customer acquisition strategy, particularly with the emergence of video ads on Facebook. But once you sit down and try to create one, it's probably going to take more time than you thought. In this article, I'll explain how a great explainer video was central to our success when I ran marketing at amSTATZ. Hopefully you save some time as you develop your own customer acquisition plan by reading about our keys that I learned from multiple iterations over several months. The first video we produced was done for $0.00. That's right; a member of the customer success team used iMovie to do it all. The video was a great value for what it cost, and converted at 9%, meaning 9% of page visitors would submit their email to start a free trial. But it was 3:11 in length, the footage of the product looked grainy, and the voice over quality wasn't great; you could hear that it wasn't recorded in a real sound studio. The second video brought our email-submission conversion rate to 17%. Now, 9% to 17% may not sound like a lot, but, it's actually huge.

Here's the video that saw the huge jump in conversions:

 

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Topics: Customer Acquisition

Is UberPOOL Driving Uber's Brand Off The Deep End?

Posted by Bill Colbert on Mar 14, 2016 3:57:00 PM

A private driver, on demand. They showed up in like, 2 minutes. They were friendly and took you right to where you needed to go. Ahhh...the good old days. Life sure was better way back in... 2015.

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Topics: Technology

How Plane Makes It Easy to Strike Up Casual Conversations with New People Around the Globe

Posted by Bill Colbert on Mar 6, 2016 4:02:00 AM

"You're an introvert?! No Way!"

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Topics: Technology

Why WhoNow Will Become The Dating App You Continue To Use After You Get Married

Posted by Bill Colbert on Feb 29, 2016 4:00:00 PM

 

 

A CRM for your dating life? WhoNow is working on changing the way you manage all your flames, current and former. Oh, and they may just be ushering in a whole new era of an utterly transparent, glass house dwelling social web.

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Why RedShelf Would Make a Great SaaS Acquisition for LinkedIn

Posted by Bill Colbert on Feb 27, 2016 5:54:00 PM

When I was in school, buying books, not to mention carrying them around campus, was...a painful experience. Worse yet, there were classes where you'd buy the book, but the instructor wouldn't make it a priority to use. In some classes, books were outdated and served as reference points. Or doorstops.

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Topics: Technology

Why Stash Invest Is Winning Fintech While Rebooting The American Dream

Posted by Bill Colbert on Feb 1, 2016 2:03:00 PM

 

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Why Subscription Revenue is The Sleeping Giant of the Uber Pricing Model

Posted by Bill Colbert on Jan 1, 2016 2:00:00 AM

 

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Topics: SaaS, Technology

 

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