B2B Lead Generation: Generating High-Quality B2B Leads through Landing Pages
– Using a lead magnet helps you generate quality pipeline for
your B2B SaaS business. When you have a high
converting landing page, it convinces people to
grab your lead magnet. Now, just because someone
downloads your lead magnet doesn't mean they're gonna
become a real opportunity or a real trial user or someone that really, really
activates in your funnel. So, here's a big question. What's broken in your landing
page or your lead magnet? What is stopping people
from actually taking action after they go through your funnel? In this episode, I'm
gonna walk you through the three principles that
you absolutely need to know on how to transform
your current lead magnet and landing page to a high performing one. And when you follow these principles, you will know exactly what
you need to do to accelerate the path to the next stage of
growth for your SaaS business. Intro. (upbeat music) What's up, everybody? Welcome to Unstoppable. I'm TK, and on this channel,
I help SaaS founders like you grow your SaaS businesses faster with an unstoppable strategy.
Now, if you're new to
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part of this community, if you're part of my SaaS
Go-To-Market coaching programs, my people, welcome back. It's really awesome to see you over here. Now, I remember when I was
first starting out ToutApp, that was my last SaaS
business, and we were starting and pioneering the sales
engagement category.
The sales engagement category is today worth about $5.2 billion. But at that time, sales
leaders didn't know they needed an email
automation tool to do outbound. When we approached them, they were like, "Oh, isn't that like a marketing thing? Doesn't marketing,
don't we use Mailchimp?" It's like, no, no, no, no. Your reps need to do outbound. They're not doing it so we
can do it automatically. And we had to teach them this. This is when we created and
I created my first manifesto. It was called How to Write
Kickass Sales Emails. And in that manifesto,
we taught sales leaders on why they needed a
sales engagement platform. We went through a couple
of different names in the early days of sales
automation, sales acceleration, and then finally everyone
settled on sales engagement. But we taught them on exactly
why they needed this platform when they weren't spending money on it. They already paid for CRM and
they thought they were done. This is the power of a manifesto.
This was the power of a landing page. And using this, we were
able to grow ToutApp to over a hundred thousand users and then we sold it to Marketo. And then I worked at Marketo and did a bunch of other crazy things. But here's what I learned. Just because you have a landing page and a lead magnet and
you're generating some leads doesn't mean they're gonna
turn into a real pipeline. Doesn't mean they're going to activate. And I learned the hard way
there are certain key things you have to nail in this three-step funnel to actually generate leads
for your B2B SaaS business. It starts with a landing page, but the lead magnet and
the manifesto matters too. So in this episode, I'm
gonna walk you through the three principles you
absolutely need to know to drive high quality pipeline, to generate leads that
actually talk to sales or start that trial so
it converts to revenue.
And when you follow these pieces, you'll be able to accelerate the growth of your SaaS business. So if you're excited to dig in, go ahead and smash that Like button
for the YouTube algorithm and let's first lay out exactly how this funnel works,
how this lead generation, this pipeline generation funnel works. This is the oldest strategy in the book and it still works really well today. No matter what the gurus are telling you, this is the best way to
generate quality pipeline today for your SaaS business. And it works in three pieces. The first piece, you
have your landing page. This is a page that you link to from, say, an ad or social content or even a blog that says,
"Hey, grab this guide." This is like the offer
that you're giving them, the piece of content that educates them before you sell them on your product. When someone fills out their email and their contact information, then they get your lead magnet. This is essentially a PDF that educates them about your space.
We, on this channel, call this a manifesto because you can have a shitty lead magnet or you can have a manifesto. Manifestos are specifically designed to convince the buyer to
actually take more action. We'll talk more about that in a second. And then finally, the third step in this process is what
would be the next step for the person that put in their email. This could be talking to
sales, this could be a demo, this could be a trial,
any one of these things. This essentially is the
three steps you want folks to go through when they are
hitting your landing page and they're engaging
with your lead magnet. That's principle number one. If you can nail this, where
you start to drive traffic into this landing page from
all different channels, whether it's social, ads,
SEO, events, mailing lists, if you can drive traffic
into this landing page and they actually consume your manifesto and then they take action, you essentially get
money on the other side.
That's it. It's as simple as that. People wanna overcomplicate
it because they're trying to sell you something that you don't need. But this is literally what you need to generate quality
pipeline, especially in your early stages SaaS business,
even in the later stages. I've worked with companies
that pre-revenue all the way up to $500 million in ARR
and this framework works. But here's the question. This is principle number two. How do you know if it's actually working? And what happens most of the times is people create a shitty lead magnet. They have an okay landing page and then it generates some
leads and they maybe spend money on ads or partners and they drive traffic and they get some leads,
but nothing happens. And sales says, "Hey,
those leads were terrible." Or your product-led growth team says, "Hey, all those people are
not really using the product." So you are like, "I don't
know what's going on." And principle number one is
these are the three parts of your funnel that you're looking at including your landing page
to generate quality pipeline.
The second principle you wanna understand is you wanna measure the right things for your landing page
and your lead magnet. Specifically, the first
thing you wanna measure is your conversion rate
from your landing page to your lead magnet. How many people are coming
to your landing page and saying, "Hey, I'm gonna
give you my email address. I really want this piece of content." And then they actually get
into your piece of content, your lead magnet or your manifesto. That's the first thing you wanna measure.
The second thing you
actually want to measure is your activation percentage. And most people don't
measure this, meaning, how many people that actually converted actually looked at the content? What percentage of the
content did they look at? Because here's the thing. If they're not consuming the content, the lead is gonna be useless and they're not gonna take
any further information. This is why people think that the game is to just get their email,
but that's not the game. The game is to actually
give them valuable content that they consume that convinces them to take this next step. And so what you wanna
look at is what percentage of people are actually
getting into the lead magnet, how much of the content
are they consuming, and most importantly, are
they taking that next step? Whether it's learning
more, talking to sales, booking a demo, going into a sales page. You want to measure your activation rate.
When you measure these two things, then you can start to
establish a baseline of, "Hey, for my B2B SaaS business, how is my landing page doing? Is my lead magnet any good? And are they actually
taking the next step?" And when you start to tweak these things, you are able to deliver quality pipeline instead of generating a bunch
of leads that go nowhere.
Now we get into principle number three which is once you start to establish, this is just establishing
the three-step funnel. And the next one is you wanna measure. The third thing becomes
how do you diagnose. And this is what I work
with a lot of founders on because they're like, "Look,
we have a lead magnet," and they call it a
manifesto and it's totally not a manifesto because manifestos are structured a certain way. And they're like, "Look,
we're generating leads. They're not going anywhere, no one cares And people are hitting the landing page and our conversion rate is like 10%." You wanna make sure that
your conversion rate is at least 20% or more. You also wanna make sure
that your activation rate is at least 20% or more. If it's below this, then
there's something wrong. So in principle number three,
I'm gonna walk you through the exact process I use to
diagnose what I need to fix. But before I go into that, let me just pause here for a second. Even with this, are you just starting to see the power in this? Are you starting to see the
power of how you have to think about these three steps,
measure these key metrics? And when you do, you can actually
generate quality pipeline.
And when you actually measure these things and think about it in these three steps, you can actually feel empowered about how you're gonna
generate that quality pipeline. If you're starting to
see the power in this, can I just get a yes in the comments below and also smash that Like button
for the YouTube algorithm? It really likes it when you do that. Also, if you're in this stage
where you're looking to build a scalable go-to-market strategy and generate quality pipeline, if your lead magnet's not working because it's just just
not educating buyers and convincing them, if your
landing page is not working, then I encourage you to check out my SaaS Go-To-Market coaching program. Inside of this program, I work with you one-on-one to actually help you accelerate the growth
of your SaaS business with a differentiated
go-to-market strategy which includes these things. You don't have to go anywhere right now. I'll link to it below. I'll tell you more about it
at the end of this video.
Let's go to principle number three because this is super
exciting and super powerful. And by the way, smash that Like button for the YouTube algorithm because it really likes it when you do that. But let's jump into
principle number three. So principle number three is
once you have these three parts you wanna actually look at this data and understand what you need to tweak and how you need to tweak it. So in order to do this, we've worked with so many SaaS companies
on growing their SaaS business on their go-to-market strategy. We've found that the traditional tools for actually running a landing page, building a landing page, measuring these pieces
of data don't exist. Most of them suck. And I know that's a bold statement, but we're just not getting what we need.
And so we built our own. We built a tool called
Instant, and you can access it. By the way, this is not a sponsored video. I own Instant, the SaaS company and all the people that
I work with use Instant. And so this is not sponsored. I'm literally just giving
you the best tool that I know because I purpose built it myself with my team to give you what you need. So we use Instant to actually diagnose it. To show you what that looks like, and by the way, if you
want to use instant, I'll link to it below. It's just instantlanding.page
and you can check it out. But if you wanna diagnose
exactly how this works, I'm gonna show you exactly
how I do it using Instant because we use Instant to
build our landing pages and show the lead magnet and make sure people take that next step.
Let me show you, I'm gonna switch over to my computer right here. All right, so let me show
you how Instant works and helps you deploy
these exact principles that I taught you right over here, okay? So firstly, I have this lead magnet. It's a manifesto called My
10-Point Landing Page checklist. It's basically the principles
that I cover in this video. And so the first cool
thing about Instant is it helps me design the landing page. And the way this product works very differently is I
don't have to mess around with colors or design or layout. I basically have to answer some questions and it generates the landing page for me. So I can say, is this a
checklist, a guide, or a training? And is it a 10-point or I
can change it to five-point and you'll see everything
updates automatically. You just answer a set of questions and it generates an entire
landing page for me. And because of that,
it creates a much more higher converting landing page because we use algorithms
to actually generate this for you instead of you
having to mess around with things that don't matter.
Let me go to the dashboard because we have the landing page,
we have my manifesto. Now we really wanna see
what the metrics are so I can diagnose. And so I'll go into the
dashboard right over here. And one cool thing about Instant is when I share this manifesto, I can choose to get a
custom super trackable URL. So I can say, "Hey, I'm
sharing this on LinkedIn," or I'm running LinkedIn
ads on it, or Facebook ads. It gives me a different
URL that's super trackable. Because of that, my metrics
are very, very granular. So you'll see over here,
I'm able to go in and see, all right, we've been running some test traffic to this new manifesto. We practice what we preach. We're actually using all
the things that we teach in this channel to grow this product.
And so we have a
manifesto, we have an ICP. And so in these stats we're able to see, all right, we're running
some test traffic. We tested on our mailing
list, we did some organic, we did some Facebook paid, and you can see how the conversion rate is already 57%. That's a very, very high conversion rate. And you might be saying, "Oh, it must be warm traffic from the mailing list." Well, that is true. The mailing list has
a 63% conversion rate, but our LinkedIn post are doing 47% and Facebook paid cold traffic
ads is doing 58% so far. Super powerful. So you can start to understand, all right, is a landing page the problem? The cool thing about
Instant, and by the way, this is not sponsored or anything. I own Instant. It's one of my software companies. So I'm just showing you, we
built this because nothing else in the market does this to
help you do it effectively. So we built this. And so I know that the landing page is converting really well
and I'm not surprised because Instant generates
these landing pages that are high converting
for you and asks you for the right pieces of
information to generate it.
Then we'd look at activation. We're like, "Okay, just
because we're converting doesn't mean they're taking action." So we wanna look at the
quality of the lead magnet. That's the difference between
a lead magnet and a manifesto. Are they actually taking that next step? So in this scenario,
we'll see 77% of people are actually taking that next step. And you'll see at first
it was really high, and then now it's starting to stabilize. And the mailing list is 20%, likely because people
already know about this. But on LinkedIn organic, 63%, and on cold traffic Facebook ads, it's 43% and it actually tracks how much of the lead magnet they're consuming. So on average, 92% are consuming. They're consuming 92% of the lead magnet, whereas before it was 86%. So as we tweak the manifesto, we tweak every manifesto is different and that's why it's nuanced. Every time we tweak it, this
activation rate goes up.
The last piece Instant gives me is, "Hey I may be getting traffic,
but is it ICP traffic?" So we actually tell Instant what our ideal customer profile is, and
it tells us what percentage of the traffic from where is
our ideal customer profile. So mailing list, 70%, no surprise there. 75% of LinkedIn organic, and
we don't have enough data on Facebook yet, but they'll come through and then it'll test whether
it's ICP traffic or not.
So this is the power of actually looking at your landing page and your lead magnet and starting to think about,
cool, what are the metrics? What's the conversion rate
and what's activation rate? And then when you look at it in this data, you can actually say
you can make decisions on where to double down. So if your conversion rate is below 20%, then you know landing page is terrible. If your activation rate is less than 20%, that means your lead magnet is terrible. If you're getting the
wrong kind of traffic, then you need to figure out
where the traffic sources are. And over here I can now say, "Look, I have a 58% conversion rate
and a 43% activation rate. I'm gonna let this run for a lot longer. Maybe another week or two,
and then I'll double down on my spend because I'm
getting quality traffic that's converting from this source.
I can actually make
decisions on what channel to double down on as we start to see these conversion activation rates." That's the power of Instant. That's the power of really looking at these metrics and diagnosing things and tweaking your go-to-market strategy. As you know, for go-to-market strategy, the messaging, the ideal
customers, the manifesto, those are the raw ingredients. And then we put it this in
to run the Broadway show to actually generate quality pipeline. But then we look at
this data to figure out, is the manifesto any good? What do we need to tweak? Is the landing page any good? What do we need to tweak? Is the value prop right? And that's how all these
pieces come together and that's Instant for you.
I'll include a link to Instant
if you're interested in that but I have one more thing
that brings it together. So let's recap everything we've covered in this very in-depth video. All right, so to recap,
number one, you want to actually establish what
your core lead generation pipeline generation funnel
is with your lead magnet. You have the landing
page, the lead magnet, and the next step. Then you wanna measure the key metrics. How much traffic are you
driving and from where? What is the conversion rate from the landing page to lead magnet? And what is the activation rate from the lead magnet to the next step? And then you wanna look at that data and you can use Instant, or
you can use some other tool if that actually presents it that way.
Most don't. And you can use that data to diagnose what you need to double down on. Which traffic source to double down on, if you need to fix the landing page, if you need to make a better lead magnet. You'll know exactly what you need to do which is incredibly powerful. So now you know how to
actually build high quality landing pages and pipeline
generation funnels to drive quality pipeline
for your B2B SaaS business. What you may not know is, "Hey, TK, what should my manifesto be? What are the key pieces I need
to put in my landing page? And when I have these stats,
how do I make it better?" This is exactly why I created my SaaS Go-To-Market coaching program.
Inside of this program, we work together to actually build your
go-to-market strategy and then we take that strategy and execute on it using
a tool like Instant to help you grow your
SaaS business faster. Inside of this program, we flesh out your ideal customer profile,
then we actually build out your manifesto, and then
we run a Broadway show which is a consistent set of
sales and marketing activities like this to bring your
manifesto to your ICP on a consistent basis,
create quality pipeline, and accelerate the growth
of your SaaS business. If you wanna learn more
about working together inside of my SaaS
Go-To-Market coaching program, then just go to tkkader.com/gtm,
tkkader.com/gtm. And over there, you'll
get all of the details about how the program
works, how we work together, what the engagement model
is, and then if this sounds like you actually wanna
do this and you want to take your SaaS business to
that next level of growth, you wanna revamp your
go-to-market strategy and start to execute on it, you know that these
metrics are not up to par so you need to up-level
everything you're doing, then you just fill out a little form, we'll get on a call, better the
fit, the better the results.
So we'll just get on a call
to make sure we're a good fit. If we are, we'll start work right away. On average, founders and CEOs
and leaders are able to launch a new version of their
go-to-market strategy within three weeks of joining. And that's incredibly powerful. And then we iterate from there with you to make sure that you're
set up for success. So just go to tkkader.com/gtm
or just follow the link below. Also, if you want to use Instant, that link is gonna be down below as well. And lastly, if you got
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