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Welcome back to the All New Digital Rage.
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It's really not new at this point.
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I think we're on episode 24, but I am Jeff, the producer here at Byer Company.
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This episode we clarify our tagline here at Byer Company, which is your digital growth partner.
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What does it really mean?
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How we define it and how we execute growth and partnership strategies in the real world.
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Let's check it out.
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Ever scroll through a company's website and see phrases like innovative solutions or
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synergistic partnerships?
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And you just think, "Oh, good, but what does that actually mean?"
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Oh, absolutely.
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We're all kind of swimming in business buzzwords, aren't we?
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Trying to figure out the real substance behind the language.
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Right.
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And we're all looking for clarity.
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So today, we're zeroing in on one specific phrase that's popping up more and more digital
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growth partner.
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It's definitely a term gaining traction.
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But what one company means by it might be quite different from another.
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Understanding the real offers is pretty crucial.
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Yeah, especially if you're thinking about getting some external help for growing your
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business digitally.
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And that brings us nicely to our source for today.
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It's an article called "Your Digital Growth Partner," what the phrase really means.
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It's by Jeff Byer, published on the ByerCompLog last year May 2, 2025.
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And what's interesting, like you said, is it's not just marketing fluff.
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It actually goes into detail about their philosophy, how they see that partnership working.
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Exactly.
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So our mission today, really, is to unpack what ByerComp means by digital growth partner.
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What are the pieces?
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What are they promising?
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Just getting some clarity for anyone maybe considering this kind of relationship.
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Sounds good.
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Let's get into it.
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Okay, so first things first.
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The article kicks off by drawing a line in the sand.
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It contrasts a digital growth partner with a planal marketing vendor.
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What's the core difference they're highlighting there?
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Well, it really blows down to the level of engagement, I think.
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And responsibility.
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They paint a vendor as someone who basically executes tasks you give them.
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Like run this ad campaign or build this landing page.
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Exactly.
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You define the task, they do it.
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But a partner in their view is much more invested.
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They share your actual business goals.
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And importantly, they help figure out the strategy to get there.
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So it's less order taker and more strategic collaborator.
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That's a great way to put it.
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It's about shared objectives, shared thinking.
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The article even hints at, you know, shared risk and reward, which is a big shift from
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just paying an agency for hours worked, regardless of the outcome.
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It suggests a deeper commitment.
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That makes a lot of sense.
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It's not just doing stuff, but doing the right stuff together.
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So ByerComp lays out three core characteristics for their definition.
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First up, integrated teams.
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What does that actually look like in practice?
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This is about working really closely together.
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They talk about their people becoming almost like an extension of your own internal teams,
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marketing, sales, even leadership.
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So not just weekly check in goals.
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Apparently not.
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The goal is seamless communication, making sure everyone's aligned on the priorities, the
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goals, breaking down those silos you sometimes get between, say, marketing and sales or the
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client and the agency.
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It sounds potentially much more effective, less stuff falling through the cracks.
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Second characteristic, a holistic tool set.
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Sounds like they bring a lot to the party.
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It does suggest that, yeah, they mentioned using a really wide range of resources, everything
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from like the foundational stuff, technical SEO audits, making sure Google can find you properly.
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Right.
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The base all the way up to more advanced things like AI-driven automations.
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But the key point they make is that it's tailored.
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They pick the tools and tactics based on your objectives, not just a one size fits all
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package deal.
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Gotcha.
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Customized approach.
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And the third characteristic, mutual accountability.
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That sounds pretty fundamental for any real partnership.
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Absolutely critical, I'd say.
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And this goes beyond just delivering the work.
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It means they work with you to define what success actually looks like from the start.
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Setting the goals together.
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And then being totally transparent with reporting and constantly refining those success metrics
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as you go, they explicitly state their core principle.
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Biroco only succeeds when their clients do.
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That alignment is key.
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Succeed or fail together, essentially.
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That's the idea.
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It really underpins the whole partnership concept they're selling.
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Right.
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So that clarifies Biroco's definition pretty well.
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Now, the article also makes a really important point.
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Global growth isn't just one single thing, it looks different for different companies.
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Exactly right.
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I mean, what counts as growth for a startup just trying to get noticed is totally different
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from, say, a big company trying to crack a new market segment.
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Makes sense.
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And this is where they introduce their framework of four growth levers.
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These levers help clarify what kind of growth you're actually aiming for right now.
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Let's break those down.
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The first lever is traffic.
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What's the main focus here?
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traffic is all about the top of the funnel.
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Just getting more people, more eyeballs onto your digital doorstep usually your website.
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So pure volume of visitors.
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Pretty much.
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The KPIs they mentioned are things like organic sessions, people finding you through search
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without you paying directly for the click and paid clicks from ads.
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It's about expanding that initial reach.
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We've all seen those vanity metrics though.
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Website visits up, but doesn't mean anything.
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That's a fair point.
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And it leads perfectly into the next lever, which is leads.
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How is that different?
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Question.
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So leads are about quality over just quantity, right?
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Attracting people who've shown some actual interest.
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Qualified prospects.
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Exactly.
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You're moving down the funnel.
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The KPIs here are things like contact form fills, demo requests or MQL's marketing qualified
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leads.
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Prospects that marketing thinks are ready for a sales conversation.
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So more about pipeline building.
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Definitely.
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It suggests a higher intent, a better chance of eventually becoming a customer.
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Then the third lever is visibility.
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This feels a bit broader than just website hits or form fills.
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It is.
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Visibility is more about your brand's overall standing and trustworthiness in your industry.
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It's a longer game.
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Like building reputation.
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Building authority.
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Think metrics like your share of voice on search engine results pages how often you show
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up versus competitors or how often your brand gets mentioned online.
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It's about presence and credibility.
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And the final lever, maybe the most obvious one for many businesses is sales.
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Right.
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At the end of the day, that's off in the bottom line.
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This lever is purely focused on turning all that marketing activity, the traffic, the leads,
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the visibility into actual revenue.
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So we're talking close deals.
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Close one deals.
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Absolutely.
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But also looking at the efficiency like your customer acquisition costs, the CAC.
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How much it costs to get a customer versus their lifetime value, the LTV.
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How it's revenue they bring in over time.
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It tells you if your growth is actually profitable and sustainable.
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It's really useful how they break down growth like that.
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So the takeaway seems to be, if you're looking for a partner, step one is getting clear
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on which of these levers matters most to you right now.
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Absolutely.
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That self-assessment that clarity on your priorities is crucial.
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It means any partnership starts off focused on the right things for your business.
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So buyer code doesn't just talk theory.
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They then detail the specific growth solutions they offer to actually pull these levers.
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Let's touch on a few.
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They start with SEO.
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Right.
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Search engine optimization.
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This is foundational for driving that organic traffic and boosting long-term visibility.
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They mention things like technical audits, on-page optimization, making sure your content
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matches what people search for and link building.
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All aimed at getting higher rankings in search results without paying per click.
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Sustainable traffic.
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And there's PPC, paper click.
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PPC ads.
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This is often about getting quicker results, driving targeted traffic and generating leads
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faster.
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Usually at a cost you can control more directly.
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The focus is on precise targeting and ads designed to get conversions like signups or
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purchases.
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Makes sense.
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They also highlight content marketing.
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Content.
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This is huge for nurturing prospects along their journey.
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Think blog posts, ebooks, videos, stuff that provides real value.
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And helps build that visibility by establishing you as an expert and it definitely helps generate
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qualified leads.
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And what about social media in their model?
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Their approach seems to be about platform specific strategies.
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So not just blasting the same message everywhere, but building communities and amplifying reach
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on the networks where your audience actually hangs out.
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Good for visibility.
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Maybe some lead gen too.
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Now things get a bit more techy.
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AI automations.
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How does that fit in?
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This is where they leverage artificial intelligence for efficiency and scale.
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Creating things like chat bots for instant engagement.
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247 responses.
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Exactly.
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Or predictive leads scoring to help sales focus on the best prospects or creating personalized
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journeys for users.
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It's about doing more, engaging better without just hiring more people.
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Impacts leads, sales, even customer experience.
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Interesting.
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CRM integration is another one.
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Why is linking up the customer relationship management system so important?
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Ah, connecting marketing and sales.
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Crucial.
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Connecting your CRM ensures that leads generated by marketing flows smoothly to the sales team.
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It gives everyone that single view of the customer and helps shorten the sales cycle.
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Directly impacts sales growth.
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Right.
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Avoid that disconnect.
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They also list ERP data connectivity.
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Sounds a bit more back office.
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It can be, but it's about alignment.
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ERP is enterprise resource planning.
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Connecting marketing data to your ERP and other systems ensures your campaigns line up with
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reality, things like inventory, pricing, ability to fill orders.
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You don't want marketing promising something operations can't deliver.
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Effects sales ultimately.
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Good point.
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And the last one mentioned is automated agents, different from AI automations.
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Seems like a specific application.
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These are tools providing like 204/7 support or handling basic sales questions automatically,
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capturing opportunities even when your human team is offline.
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So again, supporting leads and sales.
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That's quite a comprehensive toolkit.
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It makes sense that they'd mix and match these based on those growth levers we talked about.
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That's exactly the idea.
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Custom strategy.
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Not a fixed menu.
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Selecting the right combination based on the client's specific goals and budget.
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We get what the definition, the levers, the solutions, but how do they actually put this into practice?
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What's their engagement model?
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They lay out a five step partnership model.
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Step one is discovery and alignment.
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Sounds like the initial getting to know you face.
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Pretty much, but deep.
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In-depth sessions to really get under the hood of the client's business pain points, competition,
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revenue targets.
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They stress this foundational understanding is vital.
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Can't build a strategy without it.
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Step two, strategic road mapping.
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What's involved there?
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This is where they create the actual growth plan, but crucially, it's collaborative.
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Not just them presenting a plan, but building it with the client.
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It includes clear milestones, timelines, and how success will be measured.
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So a shared blueprint.
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Then step three is implementation, doing the actual work.
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That's it.
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They talk about using cross-functional sprints.
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They're specialists working side by side, essentially, with the client's teams to execute
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the plan.
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That whole integrated teams idea really comes alive here.
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Right.
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Step four is optimization.
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Sounds ongoing.
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Very much so.
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Regular reviews they mentioned weekly, looking at the analytics, the data to see what's
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working, what's not.
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Identifying quick wins and making those iterative tweaks to improve performance continuously.
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Visual approach.
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Always learning, always adjusting.
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And the final step, step five, scale and innovate.
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What happens then?
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This is about building on success.
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Once initial goals are being met, they look at expanding into new channels, maybe automating
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things that are working well to make them more efficient, or scaling up successful programs.
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It's about maintaining momentum and finding the next growth opportunity.
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It sounds very structured, but also flexible enough to adapt.
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Okay, one really critical piece is measurement.
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How do they track if all this is actually working?
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Yeah, they're big on measurement.
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Their mantra is, what gets measured?
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Gross.
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So identifying and consistently tracking the right KPIs is central to their approach.
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And what kind of metrics are we talking about?
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What do they typically track?
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They list quite a few things like organic traffic growth, keyword ranking improvements, the
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basics, but also cost per lead, cost per acquisition, the efficiency metrics.
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How much is spending to get resolved?
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Exactly.
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And crucially, marketing attributed pipeline and revenue, trying to directly tie marketing
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activities to sales outcomes, plus that CagVers' LTV ratio we mentioned and engagement rates
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on content and social media.
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It seems like a solid mix looking at activity, but also the business impact.
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Yeah, it's balanced.
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And they emphasize not just tracking it, but transparent reporting and regular strategy
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reviews quarterly.
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They suggest to keep everyone focused on the numbers that actually drive the business
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forward.
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So based on this deep dive into their article, what are the main reasons Bioco gives for
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why a business should choose them as their digital growth partner?
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They boil it down to a few key things.
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First, their proven track record.
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They mentioned over 20 years of experience, specifically helping companies in tech, cybersecurity,
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and B2B sectors grow.
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That history matters, experience counts.
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What else?
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Their full funnel expertise.
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The idea that they can optimize things at every single stage.
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From someone first hearing about you, right through to them becoming a loyal customer.
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They're not just, say, an SEO shop or a PPC agency.
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A holistic approach.
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Then there's customization over templates.
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They make a point of saying they build tailored plans for your specific situation, your market,
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your tech stack, your goals, no cookie cutter solutions.
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That personalization feels important.
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Anything else.
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The final point kind of brings it all together.
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Their culture of collaboration.
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They position themselves as easy to work with, responsive, and genuinely invested in seeing
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their clients succeed.
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That partnership by again.
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Right.
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It circles back to that core idea.
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So, if we were to sum up this whole exploration of the Bioco article, a digital growth partner,
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at least by their definition, is way more than just hiring someone to run your ads.
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Definitely.
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It's about a much deeper, more integrated relationship.
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It's goal-oriented, focused on specific outcomes, and built on that idea of mutual accountability.
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A strategic collaborator, not just a vendor executing tasks.
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That's a perfect summary.
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Moving from transactional to truly strategic.
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So for you listening right now, the question really becomes, does that model resonate with you?
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Does that level of integration share goals and accountability align with what you're actually
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looking for to drive your digital growth?
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It's a different way of working than maybe traditional agency relationships.
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Could that more collaborative and bedded approach be what you need to reach that next
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level?
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Something to think about.
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And if this Bioco approach does sound interesting, they suggest booking a discovery call via
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their website to explore it further.
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