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Customer feedback isn’t just a support ticket or a survey score. What it really is is a direct line to what your market actually wants. 

Get it right, and you can use it to improve your product, optimize your messaging, boost every type of conversion, and even shorten your sales cycle.

The key? Knowing which types of feedback to pay attention to and how to turn those insights into action.

What is customer feedback, and why does it matter?

Customer feedback is any insight a user shares about their experience with your product, service, or brand. It comes in several different forms, from direct complaints and survey scores to offhand comments in support tickets or social media posts. It’s raw, unfiltered data from the people who use your product or service daily.

Every piece of customer feedback is a window into how your customers think, what they need, and where you’re falling short. It validates what you’re doing right and surfaces gaps you didn’t know existed. That’s why it’s so important.

It’s also one of the fastest ways to grow organically. When you listen closely, you can:

You have to ACT on feedback, not just collect it.

The real benefit of feedback isn’t in having a pile of survey results, it’s in making meaningful changes based on what customers say. Whether that’s fixing a broken feature, simplifying a confusing process, or reshaping your support team’s tone, action is what builds trust.

That means:

  • Tagging feedback to specific themes (pricing, UX, support, etc.)
  • Prioritizing fixes and feature requests based on customer impact
  • Letting customers know when you’ve acted on their input

When you do this, it gives you a competitive edge. Customers stick around and tell others about you when they see their input leads to change. That’s something no competitor can take from you.

How feedback can influence product, support, and branding

Most companies treat feedback like a bug tracker. Useful, but reactive. The smarter play is to use it to shape strategy, not just patch holes. When you put 2 and 2 together by looking at patterns across channels, customer feedback enables you to make smarter bets on where to build, how to serve, and what story to tell.

Product: Prioritize what moves the needle.

Your roadmap shouldn’t come only from your internal wishlist. Feedback helps you build what the market is already asking for.

But don’t chase every request. Instead:

  • Identify repeat patterns across segments
  • Filter by customer value (what are your best customers asking for?)
  • Also look at customer impact (what are most of your customers asking for?)
  • Tag insights by funnel stage (some features close deals, others retain users)

The key here, though, is to treat feedback as a starting point. Customers surface problems but they don’t always know the best solution, which is why the biggest mistake you can make is assuming it means “build this exact feature.”

That’s why you need to ask “What’s behind this request?” If a user says, “We need a dashboard,” what are they trying to track? What’s hard to see right now? Is this about visibility, control, or speed?

Support

When customers complain about slow responses or confusing workflows, those are points of friction that quietly kill your retention. Support-related feedback gives you a peek into how users actually experience your business in the wild. 

It shows you:

  • Where onboarding breaks down
  • What features cause confusion
  • Which parts of your UI generate the most tickets

Feedback can help you improve the support experience itself as well. Send a quick survey after every resolved ticket asking about tone, speed, and helpfulness. Look for patterns across agents, times of day, or issue types. You’ll spot weak links fast, and you’ll know what “great” actually looks like from the customer’s point of view.

Branding

Brand is perception, and for those who are already your customers, perception is shaped by experience. Feedback highlights the gap between what you intend to communicate and what actually lands.

It shows you:

  • Which parts of your messaging customers actually repeat
  • Where tone or behavior contradicts your brand values
  • What experiences trigger trust, advocacy, and churn

Instead of guessing what your brand stands for, use feedback to map reality back to your strategy. If customers consistently describe you in a way that doesn’t match your positioning, adjust. Either the experience is off or the messaging is.

In this way, customer feedback is a branding calibration tool. It tells you where to amplify, where to clean up, and where to focus on engaging your audience.

But it doesn’t stop there. Your customers are your marketing. When they leave a glowing review, post a screenshot on LinkedIn, or tell someone else about your product, that’s branding in motion. Customer feedback helps you identify your champions and gives you the raw material to turn them into case studies, testimonials, and UGC.

Collecting customer feedback: the right methods for the right insights

To get insights you can actually use, you need to meet your customers where they are, time it right, and make it easy to be honest.

Use in-app surveys for real-time product feedback, post-support surveys for service insights, and email or CRM-based check-ins for deeper qualitative input. Social listening and review sites can also surface unfiltered opinions.

The best times to ask are after key moments like after onboarding, support resolution, and major product updates. That’s when it’s clearest in the customer’s head and therefore most actionable for your team.

Tools and platforms for customer feedback management

Collecting feedback is only half the battle. To turn it into action, you need systems that help you organize, analyze, and scale what you’re hearing.

Deeto.AI is built for customer-led growth; it helps you centralize all your feedback in one place. And with our new Imported Contributions feature, it pulls in feedback from external sources like G2, survey tools, and support chats, so you never miss a valuable insight just because it lives outside your forms.

To make sense of what you're collecting, you need structure:

  • Categorize and tag feedback consistently. Group comments by topic: product, feature, bug, service.
  • Establish a tagging system your whole team can follow. Vague tags like “issue” or “suggestion” won’t help you later.
  • Use hierarchical categories to go from big-picture (“Onboarding”) to specifics (“Onboarding email delay”).

Once feedback is sorted, you can actually analyze it. Quantitative feedback like NPS, CSAT, and frequency of specific complaints is the easiest place to start. Take that insight and identify trends and patterns over time. What’s rising? What’s resolved? What’s linked to churn or conversions?

Then, visualize it. Dashboards and heatmaps make it easier to spot priorities at a glance and communicate them across teams.

Acting on feedback: from insights to improvement

The most successful companies treat feedback like a roadmap instead of a report card. It guides everything from product improvements and feature development to UX/UI changes, customer support process enhancements, pricing or policy adjustments, and even internal training and enablement updates.

Use feedback frequency and customer value to prioritize what ships next.

If users consistently ask for better customization and more metrics, that might mean building configurable dashboards.

Track surveys, reviews, and behavioral feedback to find design issues.

If users keep missing a key button or drop off mid-flow, that’s not user error. Small tweaks like changing button placement or adding in-app guidance can reduce friction and cut support tickets.

Improve your customer support process.

If people say they can’t stand repeating themselves across channels, consider integrating your helpdesk with your CRM so agents have context from the start. Or if “slow response times” are trending, set up auto-triage or expand your support hours.

Make pricing and policy adjustments based on product value.

If feedback shows your free trial is too short for users to see value, consider extending it or adding onboarding support during the trial window. On the flip side, if people are confused by your pricing tiers, it’s probably time to simplify your plans or improve the way they’re presented.

Develop training and enablement resources to strengthen your team.

If feedback reveals inconsistent experiences across sales reps or support agents, that’s a signal to tighten internal playbooks or run targeted training. Even feedback about tone or attitude can be turned into roleplay exercises or coaching opportunities.

Create marketing collateral with feedback and UGC.

You might not realize it, but your customers play a foundational rule in several types of marketing collateral. Case studies are the obvious ones, but you can drive web conversions with all sorts of social proof content. Stats and testimonials on your commercial pages. User stories to reinforce your articles. The list goes on and on.

Deeto makes it easy to collect, organize, and activate customer feedback at scale. And our new Imported Contributions feature lets you bring in external reviews, surveys, social mentions, and success stories from any source, then turn them into usable social proof assets inside your sales and marketing motions.

Using feedback to drive customer loyalty

Loyalty comes from feeling seen. When users take the time to give you feedback — good or bad — they’re opening the door for you to build that emotional connection. The nuance most businesses miss is that it’s not necessarily about fixing everything instantly, but rather about making customers feel like they’re part of the journey.

If you want to turn feedback into loyalty, start here:

1. Show them they’ve been heard ASAP.

Don’t wait for a feature launch to acknowledge the feedback they’ve left. Even a short, personal reply like “Thanks, this is on our radar and we’re working on it” builds trust. Use automated flows (email, in-app messages, chatbots) to close the loop at scale without sounding robotic.

2. Create micro-moments of recognition.

Most companies are so focused on acquiring users, they forget to make their current ones feel like insiders.

Spot a user who left a thoughtful comment or uncovered a bug? Shout them out in release notes. Give them early access. Send a thank-you. It doesn’t have to cost anything. Just show them they matter.

3. Personalize your engagement based on feedback signals.

If someone leaves positive feedback after onboarding, trigger a loyalty sequence: invite them to your referral program or ask them to share their story. If someone flags a frustrating issue, route them into a proactive check-in workflow. Maybe even offer white-glove support.

This is where AI helps. With tools like Deeto or CRM-connected triggers, you can scale this without hiring a team of 50.

Turning happy customers into brand champions

The customers who love your product the most are already your best marketing channel. You just need to give them the tools and structure to step up.

Start by identifying your promoters. Use NPS or other sentiment signals to find your superfans. The moment someone gives you a 9 or 10, there’s your cue. From there, invite them to join your customer advocacy program.

With Deeto, that’s easy. Customers self-onboard through a simple guided flow and set their preferences, whether they want to leave a written testimonial, hop on the occasional reference call, or just provide feedback for internal use. It’s advocacy on their terms, which means you get higher participation and better content.

Once you’ve built that pool of advocates, repurpose that feedback into different kinds of content across all your marketing channels:

  • Use testimonials and reviews on your site, landing pages, email flows, and paid ads
  • Create high-impact case studies that map to verticals, use cases, or deal blockers
  • Launch referral or ambassador programs that reward loyal users for spreading the word
  • Encourage UGC and video reviews by offering branded merch, spotlighting users on social, or running contests like “show us your workflow” or “why I switched.”

When future buyers see people like them getting real results, trust goes up and friction goes down, so your goal is to get as much credible content as possible. 

Common mistakes to avoid in your feedback strategy

If you don’t execute the above correctly, though, you’ll increase churn, misalignment, and wasted spend. Not to mention, you’ll waste your customers’ time.

Here are the landmines to avoid if you want to build a feedback engine that actually drives results:

Treating all feedback as equally important

Not every comment deserves a roadmap slot. Prioritize input from power users, high-value accounts, and repeat themes across a significant portion of your ICP. If you chase every one-off suggestion, you’ll end up with a Frankenstein product that serves no one well. That’s the opposite of product-market fit.

Acting without validating

One person says “your onboarding is terrible,” and you immediately redesign the whole flow. That’s a panic move. Always validate feedback patterns before allocating resources. Look for data to back it up, like conversion drop-offs, activation gaps, and ticket spikes.

Asking for feedback at the wrong moment

Timing matters. Ask too early and people don’t have enough context. Ask too late and they might’ve lost interest. The sweet spot is right after a clear outcome: completed onboarding, resolved support issue, or new feature used.

Burying feedback in silos

If your product team has no idea what sales or support is hearing and vice versa, they won’t actually know how to act on the data they’re getting. Integrate feedback loops across your CRM, helpdesk, product analytics, and marketing ops.

Over-automating the human touch

Yes, AI and workflows help you scale. But if every response feels templated, you’re killing the relationship before it has a chance to deepen. Nowadays, most people can spot AI-generated responses from a mile away.

You can automate while still being authentic if you use it primarily for basic tasks like instant-response triggers, content segmentation and distribution, and feedback analysis. But don’t inject it into the complex sales and CS processes that necessitate the 1:1 interaction.

Failing to close the loop

This one’s a silent killer. If customers give thoughtful input and hear nothing back? You’ve lost trust—and probably future feedback too. Always follow up, even if it’s just to say “we heard you, and here’s what we’re doing.”

Deeto is the platform leading the way.

Deeto is a cut above the rest because it takes an advocate-first approach. It’s built for companies that don’t just want to collect feedback, but want to turn their best customers into growth engines.

With Deeto, you can:

  • Personalize your advocacy efforts based on customer preferences, sentiment, and behavior
  • Collect feedback across multiple channels and touchpoints—automatically
  • Engage and nurture satisfied users so they become your most valuable storytellers
  • Segment and distribute content like reviews, success stories, and testimonials at scale

It’s one of the only end-to-end customer marketing and advocacy platforms designed to help you unlock the full power of your user base.

Want to see it in action? Request a demo to see how it works.

What to Do with Customer Feedback: From Insights to Customer Activation

What to Do with Customer Feedback: From Insights to Customer Activation

Turn customer feedback into action. Learn how to gain insights and drive engagement from every response.

Growth
Strategy

In B2B, your long-term success depends on how well you build and maintain trust with your customers. You aren’t just making one-off sales. That means keeping communication open, adding value at every stage, and showing up when it counts.

This is where customer relationship marketing comes in. It’s not just about marketing to people, it’s about marketing with them in mind, long after the initial sale.

In this guide, I’ll give you my seven best marketing strategies to strengthen customer relationships and keep them engaged for the long haul.

What is a customer relationship strategy?

A customer relationship strategy is essentially your game plan for building long-term, loyal connections with your customers. It focuses on how you’ll nurture relationships during and after the sale through communication, support, education, and added value.

The goals: retention, trust, and brand advocacy.

In B2B especially, where deals are high-stakes and long-lasting, relationship marketing helps you stay top of mind, reduce churn, and turn satisfied customers into repeat buyers or even champions of your brand.

Think of it as shifting from “How do I sell to them?” to “How do I support them so well they never want to leave?”

Why a strong customer relationship strategy matters more than ever

Customer expectations have evolved. They want more than just a product, they want a partner. A strong customer relationship strategy helps you deliver on that expectation and unlock real business value in return.

Increased customer retention and loyalty

It costs 5-7x less less to keep a customer than to win a new one. A solid relationship strategy helps you stay engaged, proactive, and relevant. That leads customers to stick around longer.

Higher CLV

When you consistently deliver value, your customers are more likely to upgrade, expand, or renew. That means more revenue per account without increasing your sales effort.

Lower CAC

Happy, loyal customers reduce your need for aggressive acquisition spend. You’ll spend less time filling the funnel and more time growing the value of the base you already have. You’ll also have better reviews and more referrals, both of which reduce your average acquisiion cost.

Word-of-mouth marketing and advocacy

Great relationships turn customers into champions. Whether it’s referrals, reviews, testimonials, or even customer references, your best marketing comes from the people you’ve already helped succeed.

Gaining a competitive edge in your SaaS market

In most SaaS categories, switching costs are only getting lower and features are only becoming more commoditized. One thing your competitors can’t replicate, though, is the one-to-one relationship you’ve built with a customer. Relationship marketing gives you staying power.

Challenges and opportunities in customer relationships

The relationships you have with your customers evolve as your product, market, and user base mature. And while growth introduces complexity, it also opens the door to deeper, more strategic engagement.

Building trust in complex AI solutions

If you’re selling or rolling out AI, you're not just offering a tool. What you’re really doing is asking customers to trust an opaque system to make decisions for them. The opportunity: turn that fear of adoption into confidence through transparency.

Show your work. Offer “explainability” features, share real-world use cases, and give your customer success team the ammo they need to educate, not just support. The best companies turn AI from a black box into a competitive differentiator by bringing customers into the loop, not keeping them out of it.

Managing ongoing subscriptions and renewals

In a subscription model, the sale is never really over. Every billing cycle is a new opportunity to prove your worth.

Automate the boring stuff — billing reminders, usage summaries, renewal notices — but don’t automate away the relationship. Use product usage data to trigger human check-ins. If someone’s slowly using your platform less and less or hitting their limit, that’s your cue to step in with tailored guidance or an upsell offer that actually makes sense.

Leveraging data for proactive engagement

You’re already sitting on a goldmine of customer data. Usage patterns, support tickets, and feedback loops are all at your disposal. Most companies leave it untouched (or at least don’t do as much as they could with it).

The smart ones connect the dots. If a customer hasn’t touched a new feature, queue up a guided tour. If they’ve opened three support tickets this month, escalate their success plan. Proactive outreach rooted in behavior is what turns your relationship from reactive to irreplaceable.

Scaling relationships as your user base grows

The bigger you get, the easier it is to treat people like numbers. That’s where you lose them.

But scale doesn’t have to mean impersonal. Build segmentation that goes beyond industry and job title; group users by goals, engagement level, or specific feature adoption. Then serve each cohort with relevant content, personalized onboarding, and targeted success playbooks.

You can also use AI to facilitate personalization at scale. Create triggers for when customers view certain content, use certain aspects of your product, and respond to certain campaigns. And use an AI-powered platform like Deeto to collect and analyze UGC and customer insights.

3 pillars of a winning customer relationship strategy

Every strong customer relationship strategy is built on three key pillars:

  • Customer understanding and segmentation
  • Consistent and valuable communication
  • Exceptional customer service and support

Deep customer understanding and segmentation

You can’t build a relationship with someone you don’t understand. And in B2B, where buyer journeys are long, layered, and involve an average of 13 different decision-makers, “understanding” goes way beyond name, job title, and industry.

You need profiles rooted in real behavior, including why they buy, how they buy, and what success looks like for them after they buy. You’ll have to interview customers, analyze journey data, and loop in your sales and success teams to capture additional insights. Consider decision influence, internal politics, procurement blockers, and what drives urgency on their end.

Your CRM, product analytics, customer support logs, and VoC data are all pieces of the puzzle. When you connect them, patterns emerge: what successful customers do early on, where drop-offs happen, and how different segments behave over time. Use that to tailor onboarding, predict churn risk, personalize communication, and even inform future product development. 

Deeto helps turn this segmentation into action. By identifying your best-fit customers and surfacing their success stories in real time, Deeto enables peer-driven content, referrals, and insights you can’t get from analytics alone. It bridges the gap between knowing who your customers are and activating them as part of your growth strategy.

Consistent and valuable communication

Strong relationships are built through ongoing, meaningful communication. Your messaging needs to be intentional, personalized, and delivered in the right context, at the right time.

Start by developing a multi-channel communication strategy. Customer relationship marketing is all about meeting your customers where they are and creating a seamless experience across all your digital touchpoints:

  • In-app
  • Email
  • On socials
  • Through webinars
  • Via customer success check-ins

And message personalization is no longer optional. A generic blast might get you an open, but it won’t build trust. Use your purchase history, feature usage, and industry trends data to tailor your messaging. Even small personalization tweaks (like referencing recent activity or highlighting a relevant use case) make a huge difference in perceived value.

Content marketing plays a key role here. But instead of writing about your product, show customers how to be more successful with it. Share playbooks, customer success stories, and best practices rooted in your expertise.

This is where Deeto shines because it turns your most successful customers into credible voices who can tell your story more persuasively than any sales deck (and gives you the tools to reupurpose their feedback for marketing). When prospects and customers hear from real users solving real problems, they’re more likely to stay engaged.

Exceptional customer service and support

What sets you apart in this category is proactive support. That could mean flagging an issue before the customer notices, offering solutions based on their specific setup, or looping in the right expert before escalation is needed.

Self-service also matters. A well-organized knowledge base, video walkthroughs, and AI-driven chat give customers the resources to solve problems on their own. But don’t hide behind automation; real humans should still be easy to reach when it counts. Self-service just acts as a filter for the basic stuff.

In my experience, the best support teams always partner with success teams. They learn from issues instead of just solving them. Trends in support tickets can inform product improvements, trigger customer education efforts, or spark outreach from your account managers.

7 best customer relationship marketing strategies in 2025

Once you’ve built the foundation by understanding your customers, communicating consistently, and supporting them well, you can finally amplify those efforts. These seven relationship marketing strategies help you deepen loyalty, drive repeat business, and turn satisfied customers into your strongest growth engine.

Strategy 1: Hyper-personalization at scale with AI

I’ve already touched on this one a bit, but let’s dive a little deeper. True personalization is about delivering the right message, experience, or resource to the right customer at exactly the right time, and AI is what makes that scale possible.

Use a tool like Mixpanel, or your own product analytics to capture behavioral data from logins, feature usage, support tickets, webinar attendance, and NPS scores. AI can process these signals to update customer profiles in real time.

From there, you can trigger precise messaging:

  • If usage is high, send a power user guide or an upgrade CTA.
  • If usage is low, send a re-engagement campaign with help docs or a check-in from success.
  • If a user has opened multiple support tickets, escalate them to a human touchpoint with a proactive outreach sequence.

And the beauty of AI is it learns. Feed it outcome data like who churned, who expanded, and who referred, then let it refine your targeting logic over time.

Strategy 2: Building a customer feedback loop

A feedback loop closes the gap between what your customers say, what you do about it, and how you communicate that back to them. To build one, embed feedback opportunities throughout the customer journey:

  • In-app prompts after key actions
  • Post-support ticket follow-ups
  • NPS and CSAT surveys tied to milestones
  • Quarterly business reviews (QBRs) for larger accounts

You can use Deeto to make feedback collection feel natural and timely.

Route all feedback to a single source of truth — your CRM, product board, or customer engagement platform (like Deeto, using our new Imported Contributions feature). Tag it by category (e.g., feature requests, UX issues, support gaps) so you can spot patterns fast.

Act on what you learn, then close the loop with communication back to them (“We heard you. Here’s what we improved.”). That’s where it becomes a relationship marketing strategy.

Strategy 3: Developing customer loyalty and customer activation programs

You don’t just get loyalty, you earn and reinforce it. And customer activation is the first step in that process.

Now… you can’t expect loyalty from a customer who’s barely touched your product. Activation means helping them reach their first “win” quickly. To show users the right market content, you first have to identify when customers are stuck or disengaged, then intervene by surfacing help content, triggering a check-in from CS, or guiding them toward unused features.

Once you’ve activated your base, loyalty and activation programs help lock in value and use your customers for organic growth. But you have to engage them.

You can reward repeat behavior (renewals, feature usage, or referral marketing) with exclusive perks like priority support, early access, discounts, and invites to beta groups. But the best loyalty strategies aren’t always transactional. They’re about recognition. A customer who feels appreciated is far more likely to stay and advocate for you.

Strategy 4: Proactive customer success and value realization

Your customers don’t automatically realize the full value of your product just because they’ve signed a contract. Marketing has a critical role to play in making that value obvious, visible, and repeatable.

That’s why every company needs to create success-driven content. Your product team builds features, but your marketing team translates those into real-world outcomes. Use customer stories, tactical how-to content, and value-focused playbooks to show how others are winning, and make it easy for customers to replicate that success.

Think:

  • “How [Customer] Increased Retention by 27% Using [Feature]”
  • “3 Ways to Automate X With Our Platform—In Under 30 Minutes”
  • “What High-Performing Teams Do Differently With Our Tool”

Then, use segmentation and automation to deliver the right content at the right time. If a customer just activated a feature, queue up a short tutorial. If they’ve been quiet for weeks, send a case study to reignite interest.

You’ll help your success team market internally, but this kind of behavior-based marketing supports them and keeps the product’s value front and center without needing a CSM on every account.

Strategy 5: Leveraging AI-powered predictive analytics

AI can analyze behavior patterns like declining usage, slow response to outreach, and drop-offs in engagement, then flag customers who are likely to churn before they actually do it. But here’s where marketing steps in:

  • Trigger re-engagement campaigns personalized to their context (e.g., “We noticed you haven’t explored [Feature X] yet — here’s a quick win.”).
  • Deliver helpful content targeted to their pain points, based on support tickets or usage data.
  • Collaborate with success teams to add a human touch where automation won’t cut it.

It also surfaces accounts that are ready to expand based on signals like feature usage, team growth, and product limitations they’re reaching. Rather than hand that list straight to CS or account managers, smart customer relationship marketers run nurturing plays:

  • Send targeted case studies showing how similar customers leveled up.
  • Invite them to a “next-level” customer webinar that introduces advanced features.
  • Share a value calculator that shows the ROI of upgrading.

Strategy 6: Omnichannel customer engagement

Omnichannel engagement means orchestrating touchpoints across the platforms your customers already use, in ways that feel coordinated and relevant. It’s the most critical strategy in your entire relationship marketing playbook because if you’re not showing up where your customers actually are, you’re not building a relationship.

Most B2B customers expect email as the baseline. That’s your foundation for updates, onboarding, and routine engagement. But you’ve also got to consider…

  • LinkedIn for thought leadership, product announcements, and founder content.
  • In-app messages or invites to a product community for power users.
  • Forums, developer communities, or vertical-specific groups

Pro tip: Your customer marketing and advocacy efforts should be just as personalized. Not every customer wants to participate in a case study or get on a reference call. Use Deeto to match contribution to comfort across your entire customer base.

Strategy 7: Content marketing for relationship building

If there’s any one thing you should be getting from this article, it’s that content isn’t just for lead gen. For customer relationship marketing content, the key is to stop thinking about it as a traffic play, and start thinking of it as a trust-building strategy.

Create resources that help them do their job better, get more out of your product, and look good to their boss.

  • Role-specific playbooks (“How RevOps Teams Scale Onboarding With [Your Platform]”)
  • Use-case guides and tutorials for advanced features
  • Customer success stories that show real outcomes, not fluffy quotes
  • Industry trend analysis that positions your brand as a strategic advisor

And remember that consistency is what builds trust. A single killer ebook won’t drive long-term engagement. A steady cadence of relevant content delivered via email, shared on social, and embedded in your product is what keeps the relationship active and value-focused.

Customer relationship KPIs to track

Tracking the right KPIs helps you understand not just how satisfied your customers are, but how engaged, loyal, and valuable they are over time.

Here are the key metrics to keep an eye on:

  • Net Promoter Score (NPS): Gauges customer loyalty and likelihood to recommend
  • Customer satisfaction score (CSAT): Measures short-term sentiment after key interactions
  • Customer lifetime value (CLV): Total projected revenue from a customer over time
  • Customer retention rate: Percentage of customers you keep over a given period
  • Churn rate: Percentage of customers who cancel or stop using your product
  • Product adoption rate: Tracks how actively customers are using core features
  • Expansion revenue: Revenue growth from upsells, cross-sells, or account upgrades
  • Advocacy actions: Number of referrals, testimonials, case studies, or reviews generated
  • Support ticket volume and resolution time: Helps identify friction and relationship risk
  • Engagement metrics: Email open rates, event attendance, content consumption, community activity

Deeto is the customer relationship platform of the future.

Deeto helps you capitalize on loyalty by making it easy for happy customers to leave reviews, refer peers, and share their success stories exactly how they want to. That’s why it’s the clear-cut winner for customer advocacy.

Ready to see it in action? Request a demo and discover how Deeto turns customer love into growth.

7 Effective Customer Relationship Marketing Strategies

7 Effective Customer Relationship Marketing Strategies

Explore 7 effective customer relationship marketing strategies to boost loyalty, engagement, and long-term growth.

Strategy
Marketing
Growth
Business development

Your customers receive hundreds of marketing messages every day. Most of them get ignored, deleted, or forgotten within seconds.

But some messages break through the noise. They spark conversations, build relationships, and turn prospects into loyal advocates.

The difference? Customer engagement marketing.

Instead of broadcasting one-way messages, engagement marketing creates two-way conversations. It focuses on building meaningful connections that keep your audience coming back for more.

What is customer engagement marketing?

Customer engagement marketing is an approach that focuses on creating meaningful interactions between your brand and your customers. Instead of pushing generic messages, you invite customers to participate in conversations, experiences, and relationships.

You build these connections through interactive content, personalized communications, and community-building initiatives. This turns marketing from a one-time transaction into an ongoing relationship.

Why is engagement marketing so important today?

Winning a customer is just the beginning. The real growth happens after the sale, when you turn customers into loyal users, advocates, and repeat buyers.

That’s the role of customer engagement marketing. It’s how you nurture relationships, deliver ongoing value, and deepen trust after someone’s already using your product.

There are a few reasons to invest in engagement-first customer marketing, specifically:

Building brand loyalty

Engagement marketing transforms customers from passive recipients into active brand advocates. When you consistently provide value and foster genuine connections, customers develop emotional attachments to your brand.

These relationships run deeper than transactional exchanges. Engaged customers become invested in your success because they see you as a partner, not just a vendor.

They're more likely to recommend your services, defend your brand against competitors, and give you the benefit of the doubt when challenges arise.

Facilitating customer advocacy

Customer marketing is one of the best levers for new customer acquisition. In fact, more than 90% of today’s B2B buyers trust peers in their industry, while fewer than 1 in 3 trust company sales reps.

The faster you can activate more of your customer base, the more deals you’ll close, which is why a personalized, engagement-first approach is so critical here.

Driving retention and reducing churn

At the same time, engagement marketing is a solid retention lever because buyers have more options, shorter attention spans, and higher expectations than ever before. In most categories, product features are somewhat to entirely commoditized, so your main differentiators are (a) the customer experience you deliver and (b) your direct relationship with each customer.

Acquisition costs continue to rise across industries (2-12% in 2024 alone). Keeping existing customers costs several times less than finding new ones.

Engagement marketing strengthens the bonds between you and your current customers. You stay top of mind when they face new challenges. You position yourself as their go-to resource for solutions. And they don’t even think about exploring alternatives.

Increasing CLV

When customers are loyal, they’re more likely to upgrade services, purchase additional products, and renew contracts. Not to mention, they’re 31% more likely to pay a higher price.

When customers feel valued and understood, they view your products as investments rather than expenses and see the long-term benefits of maintaining the relationship. Meanwhile, you generate more revenue from each customer relationship while reducing the pressure to constantly onboard new accounts.

Preparing for a cookieless future

Although Google keeps pushing the timeline back, third-party cookies are definitely disappearing. Privacy regulations are tightening. Traditional tracking methods are becoming obsolete. Those trends aren’t going to revert.

Engagement marketing is the alternative path forward. Instead of relying on external data, you build direct relationships with customers who willingly share information. Customers engaging with your content and communities give you first-party data, which is more accurate, relevant, and actionable than cookie-based insights.

Traditional marketing vs. engagement marketing: what’s the difference?

Traditional marketing follows a broadcast model. You create messages and push them out to large audiences through channels like email blasts, display ads, and cold outreach.

Engagement marketing flips this dynamic by creating opportunities for two-way conversations. Customers become active participants who shape the experience.

With traditional marketing tactics, you’re treating customers as passive recipients. You talk at them, hoping something sticks. Success gets measured by impressions, clicks, and immediate conversions.

Instead of interrupting people with your message, engagement marketing is about providing value that draws them in. You focus on building relationships that generate long-term results rather than quick wins.

Traditional marketing Engagement marketing
Broadcasts the same message to everyone Personalizes interactions based on individual needs and behaviors
Measures success through vanity metrics like impressions and reach Tracks meaningful metrics like time spent, repeat interactions, and relationship depth
Aims for immediate sales Nurtures prospects through longer buying journeys with consistent value delivery
Treats customers as targets to be captured Treats customers as partners to be served

The benefits of a strong engagement marketing strategy

When you implement engagement marketing effectively, you create a win-win scenario. Your business achieves better results while your customers receive superior experiences.

The benefits compound over time. Each positive interaction builds on the last, creating momentum that drives sustainable growth.

Benefits for your business:

Increased sales and revenue

Engaged customers convert at higher rates and spend more per transaction. They trust your recommendations because you've consistently provided value. When they're ready to buy, you're their first choice.

Improved brand reputation

Satisfied customers become vocal advocates. They share positive experiences with peers, leave favorable reviews, and refer new prospects. Organic word-of-mouth marketing is more credible and cost-effective than traditional advertising.

Better customer insights and data

Active engagement generates rich behavioral and Voice of the Customer (VoC) data. You learn what content resonates, which channels work best, and what product-related challenges your audience faces. These insights inform product development, marketing strategies, sales workflows, and business decisions.

Competitive advantage

While competitors focus on features and pricing, you differentiate through relationships. Engaged customers are less likely to switch providers because they value the connection beyond your core product or service.

Benefits for your customers:

Personalized and relevant experiences

Customers receive content, recommendations, and communications tailored to their specific needs and interests. This relevance saves them time and helps them make better decisions.

Feeling valued and understood

Regular engagement demonstrates that you care about their success, not just their wallet. This emotional connection builds trust and loyalty that transcends business transactions.

Seamless customer journeys

Engagement marketing creates cohesive experiences across all touchpoints. Customers can easily find information, get support, and take action without friction or confusion.

4 pillars of an effective engagement marketing strategy

Building a successful engagement marketing strategy requires you to focus on several core elements at once. These four pillars work together to create meaningful connections that drive results.

Master these fundamentals, and you'll have the foundation for sustainable customer relationships that fuel long-term growth.

1. Personalization

Personalization transforms generic experiences into tailored journeys that feel crafted specifically for each individual. Your existing customers have already shown trust in your brand, now you need to honor that trust with relevant, meaningful interactions.

You can start by:

  • Segmenting customers by product usage patterns, tenure, and industry
  • Tailoring onboarding, training, and feature adoption paths
  • Personalizing email campaigns based on in-app behavior and lifecycle stage
  • Using account data to suggest upsell opportunities or relevant add-ons
  • Using dynamic content in your emails and web pages (a personal microsite, maybe?)

Pro tip: Use a platform like Deeto to personalize your customer advocacy experience as well. Customers onboard themselves, choose their communication and contribution preferences (e.g., testimonial vs. case study vs. reference calls), then the platform connects them with advocacy opportunities that align with those preferences.

2. Authenticity

Customers want real, consistent communication from a brand they trust. The way you communicate through content, campaigns, and conversations should reflect your company’s values and your commitment to your customers’ success.

You can master authenticity by…

  • Being transparent about product updates, changes, and even setbacks
  • Sharing success stories and lessons learned, not just polished marketing claims
  • Using human, conversational language in all customer-facing channels
  • Highlighting voices from your community — customers, partners, employees — not just brand messaging.
  • Offering real value in every interaction, whether or not it drives immediate revenue.

3. Two-way communication

Feedback loops are the “engagement” half of customer engagement marketing. This is how you create an open dialogue with your customers, then implement the marketing and product changes they’re looking for. If you want users to actively participate in your brand, you need to participate with them.

To intentionally create opportunities for dialogue:

  • Send regular surveys to capture feedback on product experience, support, and content
  • Create customer councils, user groups, or beta programs that give your power users a voice
  • Actively monitor customer forums, social media, and communities and engage in the conversation
  • Use in-app feedback widgets to capture insights in the flow of use
  • Close the loop by sharing back what you learned and what actions you’re taking

You can also repurpose customer feedback into additional marketing content, like social proof for your website or UGC for your socials.

4. Continuous value delivery

“Continuous value delivery” means using what you learn from your customers to keep helping them succeed long after the initial sale. If they’re hitting adoption roadblocks, you address them. If they’re asking for more advanced use cases, you show them the way. It’s an ongoing cycle of listening, improving, and delivering more value over time.

  • Improve onboarding and training materials based on common pain points
  • Build targeted content (videos, guides, templates) to drive deeper product adoption
  • Launch customer education programs or academies to help users master advanced features
  • Offer tailored success check-ins or QBRs for large accounts
  • Continuously update your roadmap and share progress on customer-requested features

To them, this solidifies that your product and your team will keep growing with them, which turns them into long-term advocates and partners.

Essential customer engagement marketing strategies

The pillars we’ve just covered give you the foundation. Now, it’s time to bring your engagement marketing to life through the tactics you use every day.

The goal is simple: keep delivering value, deepen relationships, and create moments that make your customers want to stay connected with your brand.

Here are some of the most effective customer engagement marketing strategies to help you do just that:

Omnichannel customer experiences

Your customers interact with your brand across email, in-app, social, events, and tons of others. They expect a seamless experience, no matter where they engage.

An omnichannel strategy ensures your messaging, tone, and value delivery stay consistent everywhere. This builds trust and makes it easier for customers to stay connected with you on their terms.

Pro tip: Map your customer touchpoints and identify gaps or inconsistencies. Then unify your messaging and personalization across channels.

Interactive content

Static content only goes so far. If you want to boost engagement, make your content interactive.

Think interactive product tours, quizzes, assessments, calculators, and clickable onboarding guides. These experiences pull customers in, encourage exploration, and drive stronger adoption and retention.

You can even use interactive content to guide customers toward the next step in their journey, whether that’s discovering a new feature or realizing the ROI of what they already use.

Community building

Communities (online forums, Slack groups, in-person events) give your customers a space to connect with each other, share ideas, and build loyalty to your brand, not just your product.

To win in the “community” category, facilitate peer-to-peer connections on your website, highlight top contributors, and stay active in the conversation to show you’re invested in the community’s success.

User-generated content campaigns

Your customers are your best marketers. Encourage them to share their stories, use cases, or creative ways they leverage your product. Then amplify that content across your marketing channels. It builds trust and inspires other customers to engage more deeply.

Find out how Deeto makes UGC easy to create, submit, and distribute.

Referral and loyalty programs

Referral programs turn your happiest customers into advocates, while loyalty programs incentivize continued engagement and repeat purchases. Design a simple, clear program with rewards your customers actually want, and use a customer engagement platform (like Deeto) to make it easy for them to participate.

Customer feedback loops

We touched on this earlier, but it’s worth reinforcing here. Beyond one-off surveys, create a consistent system for capturing customer input, sharing what you learned, and visibly acting on it. This shows customers that their voice matters and builds deeper trust.

To maximize the impact of customer engagement, close the loop publicly when you implement customer-driven changes. This way, feedback turns into a visible, positive story.

Real-time chat and AI assistants

Real-time chat (live chat, in-app messaging) and AI-powered assistants help you meet customers where they are. It’s useful for answering FAQs, guiding them through onboarding, and suggesting next steps. Use it proactively to support feature adoption and reduce friction points in addition to reactive support.

Gamification techniques

Gamification taps into basic human motivators: progress, achievement, and competition. Adding game-like elements to your product experience (badges, progress tracking, leaderboards, milestones) encourages them to keep advocating and deepen their product usage.

Deeto: A practical example of engagement marketing

Deeto helps companies turn their happy customers into advocates who can influence prospects through trusted peer recommendations.

The core idea is to embed customer voices into your marketing and sales processes, making it easier for new prospects to trust and convert while simultaneously deepening your relationship with existing customers.

This covers all four engagement marketing pillars flawlessly:

  1. Personalization: Deeto lets you surface highly relevant peer references and testimonials based on the exact persona, use case, or stage of the prospect, which are far more targeted than a generic review or case study.
  2. Authenticity: With Deeto, real customers advocate for your product. You can embed video testimonials, written endorsements, or peer introductions into your sales funnel and dynamically within website content.
  3. Two-way communication: You can invite happy customers to participate in activities (reviews, references, case studies, peer calls), then gamify advocacy with recognition and rewards for customers who participate.
  4. Continuous value delivery: Your advocates have a way to gain visibility, network, and strengthen their relationship with your brand. And with everything centralized in Deeto’s repository, you can make tangible improvements to your product, marketing, and CX.

Engagement marketing in B2B vs. B2C

Engagement marketing looks different in B2B and B2C because the customer journey, expectations, and relationship dynamics are fundamentally different. But the core goal is the same: build deeper, lasting relationships with your existing customers.

B2B engagement marketing

Longer relationships, deeper trust required.

B2B buying cycles are a lot longer (several months), and products normally require ongoing customer success. Engagement marketing in B2B focuses on turning customers into long-term partners and advocates.

Common strategies include:

  • Customer advocacy programs (like what Deeto facilitates)
  • Exclusive customer communities
  • Executive briefings and roundtables
  • Continuous onboarding and education (content, events, webinars)
  • Feedback loops with product teams
  • Loyalty programs based on account health, not just purchase volume

The main priority is to increase trust, reduce churn, and turn customers into high-value advocates who influence new buyers.

B2C engagement marketing

Faster cycles, emotional loyalty wins.

B2C brands generally have larger customer bases with lower CLV and shorter buying cycles. Engagement marketing here focuses more on emotional loyalty, lifestyle alignment, and repeat purchases.

Common strategies include:

  • Gamification and reward programs
  • Interactive content and UGC campaigns
  • Personalized product recommendations and experiences
  • VIP/early access programs
  • Social media community building
  • Real-time chat and AI assistants for fast engagement

The goal is to keep customers coming back and to amplify word of mouth through shareable experiences.

Tools and platforms for engagement marketing

Now… great marketing of any kind is about execution. And to execute well, you need the right tools.

The right platforms can help you personalize interactions, automate engagement at scale, and turn your customers into advocates. They also give you the data and feedback loops you need to keep improving.

These are the four essential categories of tools to support your engagement marketing efforts:

Customer engagement platforms

Customer engagement platforms give you a centralized way to manage interactions across the entire customer lifecycle. They help you track product usage, trigger personalized messaging based on behavior, and orchestrate campaigns that drive retention and expansion.

Look for one that integrates tightly with your CRM and product data, so you can act on real-time customer signals.

CRM systems

Modern CRM systems like Salesforce, HubSpot, and Pipedrive allow you to track customer interactions post-sale, segment your customer base, and coordinate personalized outreach across teams (marketing, success, support).

Your CRM should integrate with practically every other touchpoint, so you can build a holistic profile of each customer. Enrich your CRM with product usage and support data to drive more relevant engagement at every stage.

Automation tools

Automation is what makes engagement marketing scalable.

With tools like marketing automation platforms (Marketo, HubSpot, Customer.io), you can create personalized journeys based on customer behavior — onboarding flows, feature adoption nudges, win-back campaigns, and dozens of others.

Of course, you have to balance automation with authenticity. The goal is to scale relevant, helpful engagement, not generic messages.

Social proof and referral platforms

Your customers’ voices carry more weight than your marketing ever will. That’s why social proof and referral platforms are so powerful.

Deeto helps you operationalize advocacy. It turns customer reviews, testimonials, referrals, and success stories into usable sales and marketing assets that drive further engagement and growth, both for program participants and the prospects in your pipeline.

To get the most out of these tools, don’t just collect social proof. Make sure to weave it into your marketing, onboarding, and sales processes to continuously reinforce trust and drive product value.

How Deeto supports customer engagement marketing

Deeto helps you turn your best customers into your most powerful marketing engine, all while deepening engagement and loyalty among your existing customer base.

By making it easy to capture authentic customer stories, drive referrals, and embed social proof across your entire customer journey, Deeto keeps your brand human and your customers actively involved.

It’s a simple way to amplify the impact of everything you do in engagement marketing.

Want to see Deeto in action? Request a demo today.

Customer Engagement Marketing: Definition, Strategies, and Tips

Customer Engagement Marketing: Definition, Strategies, and Tips

Discover what customer engagement marketing is, why it matters, and explore strategies with practical use cases.

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The B2B buyer’s journey isn’t a straight line. It’s a complex, multi-stage process that involves research, collaboration, risk assessment, and (often) a long list of decision-makers.

Unlike in B2C, where a single person can make a spontaneous purchase, B2B buyers move through stages with intent, deliberation, and internal consensus. They’re not just buying a product but investing in a solution that impacts their team, budget, and business outcomes.

If you want to sell to other businesses effectively, you need to understand how your buyers think, what they need at each step, and who’s influencing their decisions behind the scenes.

In today’s guide, we’ll go over all of that and more.

What is the B2B buyer journey?

The B2B buyer journey is the path your B2B customers take from the moment they realize they have a problem to the point where they choose a solution (ideally, yours). It encompasses multiple stages and touchpoints across several decision-makers, and it takes weeks or even months.

Compared to B2C, B2B buying is:

  • Collaborative. Unlike a consumer purchase, B2B buying usually involves a team—IT, finance, operations, leadership. Everyone wants different things, and everyone has a say.
  • Informed. Business buyers do their homework. By the time they talk to sales, they’ve read whitepapers, compared competitors, watched demos, and spoken with peers.
  • High-stakes. A bad decision could cost millions, disrupt operations, or hurt the purchasing company’s reputation. That’s why trust and clarity matter at every step.

For businesses, purchase decisions are about solving a business challenge, reducing risk, and aligning with internal stakeholders. As a vendor or seller, your job is to understand it well enough to support your buyers every step of the way.

What makes the B2B buyer journey different in 2025?

The B2B buyer journey in 2025 looks nothing like it did ten years ago. Today’s buyers are independent, digital-first, and harder to reach through traditional channels.

Buying is more self-directed, digital, and decentralized.

Buyers don’t wait for a sales call to get answers, they go get them themselves.

From start to finish, data from Gartner shows that B2B buyers spend only 17% of their total purchase journey talking to sales reps. That’s split between all vendors, so your company’s individual impact is actually less than 5%.

According to 6sense’s 2024 Buyer Experience Report, the typical buyer is ~70% through the decision-making process by the time they reach out, and 8 in 10 buyers initiate contact with a vendor, not the other way around.

Buying committees are also bigger and more cross-functional. A marketing director might start the search, a procurement officer joins halfway through, and a C-level exec signs off at the end. 6sense’s report revealed that the average buying group now has 11 people.

Buyers use communities, peer advice, and dark social.

Not every step leaves a data trail. Buyers now rely on what we call “shadow channels” — places like Slack groups, LinkedIn DMs, Reddit threads, private WhatsApp chats, and niche professional communities.

You won’t see these interactions in your CRM or website analytics. But they’re powerful.

A buyer may ask for honest feedback about your product in a RevOps Slack community. That word-of-mouth matters more than your website or ad copy, and you’ll never know it happened unless someone tells you.

AI tools and privacy expectations are shifting control to buyers.

AI helps buyers move faster, analyze more options, and customize their research. Tools like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and buyer-focused comparison engines let users summarize pages of research in minutes.

At the same time, growing privacy regulations and tools like email blockers or cookie restrictions mean less visibility for you, the vendor. Anyone can now research anonymously, and you may not even realize they’ve engaged with you until they’re ready to talk.

For instance, a VP of Sales could generate a vendor comparison table with ChatGPT, read anonymized G2 reviews, and only reach out once they’ve narrowed their list to two options, without ever downloading a whitepaper or filling out a lead form.

Core stages of the B2B buyer journey

To understand how to sell better, you need to think like your buyer. Every B2B purchase follows a general path from first recognizing their problem to becoming a loyal advocate. Each represents real shifts in mindset, behavior, and internal discussions happening behind the scenes.

1. Awareness

The Awareness stage begins when something triggers your buyer to recognize a problem or opportunity.

Maybe their team is wasting hours on manual reporting. Maybe their old vendor just raised prices. Maybe they read about a competitor adopting new tech. Whatever it is, it sparks curiosity, and then research.

Buyers start Googling, reading blog posts, asking peers, and exploring industry forums. They're not looking for you yet, but they are looking to define the problem and understand what’s possible.

2. Consideration

At the Consideration stage, the buyer knows what kind of solution they need. They’ve named the problem and are narrowing their options.

This is when they compare categories (e.g., custom development vs. no-code tools), gather peer input, and begin to understand how different vendors solve their problem in different ways.

This stage is all about education and validation. Buyers here will…

  • Download product comparison guides
  • Watch explainer videos or attend webinars
  • Read reviews and customer stories
  • Loop in colleagues for feedback

A RevOps leader evaluating CPQ tools might compare DealHub, Salesforce CPQ, and PandaDoc based on features, usability, integrations, and customer support.

3. Decision

By the time a B2B buyer reaches the Decision stage, they’ve made a shortlist. Internal alignment becomes the priority.

This is where trust, clarity, and support matter most. Buyers will…

  • Request a demo or trial
  • Conduct ROI or cost-benefit analysis
  • Hold internal approval meetings
  • Review legal and procurement terms

Even if the primary buyer loves your product, they still need buy-in from finance, IT, legal, and sometimes the C-suite. Expect pricing conversations, security reviews, reference calls, and a lot of back-and-forth. 

Successful sales reps use a methodology like MEDDIC to adapt to each buyer’s needs here.

4. Post-purchase

The journey doesn’t end when the contract is signed. Your buyer now becomes a user, and your job is to help them succeed. Onboarding, product adoption, and ongoing support determine whether they’ll renew, upgrade, or churn.

This stage is your best chance to turn customers into long-term advocates. They’re going to measure the product’s impact against expectations. If the value is there, you can get them to recommend your product to others.

How to map the B2B buyer journey, step by step

You can’t improve the buyer journey if you don’t understand it.

Mapping the B2B buyer journey means breaking down how prospects actually experience your brand, from the first moment of awareness to becoming a customer (and beyond). It’s the foundation of effective marketing, better sales alignment, and a smoother customer experience.

Here’s exactly how to do it, step by step:

1. Collect qualitative data.

Start by talking to real buyers. You need their perspective, not just your assumptions.

Set up structured interviews with recent customers, lost deals, and long-term users. Focus on uncovering their actual thought process. What triggered their search? What confused them? What built trust (or broke it)?

Ask open-ended questions like:

  • “What was going on in your business when you started looking for a solution?”
  • “What other options were you considering?”
  • “What made you choose us or someone else?”
  • “Who else was involved in the decision, and what were their concerns?”

Track product adoption as well, and survey/interview your customers after they’ve been using your product for about three months. That’ll reveal the real value your product delivers (which is often different from what you market) and what onboarding friction they experienced.

Pro tip: Review transcripts with an AI tool like Grain, Gong, or Fireflies.ai to surface patterns in objections, language, and turning points. You’ll uncover what humans miss, like emotional cues or timing gaps.

2. Map all digital and human touchpoints.

Now, trace every single interaction a buyer has, all the way from when thye’re doing anonymous research to when they sign the deal.

Look at both digital and human touchpoints. Track website visits, ad clicks, downloads, webinar attendance, emails opened, and chatbot conversations, as well as sales calls, Slack intros, LinkedIn DMs, and in-person meetings if there are any.

Plot this out chronologically using a tool like Lucidchart or Miro to visualize the flow.

Make note of:

  • What content or channel brought them in
  • Where handoffs happen (e.g., from marketing to sales)
  • Points of friction (e.g., slow follow-up, unclear pricing, too many approvals)
  • Where dark social or shadow research likely took place (even if it’s invisible)

Certain aspects still might not be clear, so it’s a good idea to reverse-engineer closed-won deals in your CRM. Identify which paths are most common for high-LTV and high-CVR customers. You may find your best buyers never click ads, but often attend events or come via referrals.

3. Align journey stages with relevant content and messaging.

This is where most companies fall flat. They have great content, but it's not aligned with where the buyer is mentally.

Each stage of the journey demands different types of messaging:

  • Awareness: Educational, pain-aware content. Blog posts, checklists, industry reports. The goal is to help buyers name their problem.
  • Consideration: Solution-aware content. Product comparisons, expert webinars, ROI calculators, “Why Us” pages. Here’s where differentiation matters.
  • Decision: Trust-building assets. Case studies, demos, security docs, pricing pages, reference calls. Make it easy for buyers to say yes internally.
  • Post-Purchase: Customer marketing and adoption-focused collateral. Onboarding guides, video walkthroughs, support resources, a newsletter, and customer communities. You’re shifting from selling to enabling.

Since you probably already have existing content, audit it and tag each asset to a journey stage. You’ll likely find gaps (e.g., lots of top-of-funnel blog posts but no decision-stage material). Fill them strategically with the format and channel your buyers prefer.

4. Use Deeto to insert peer proof and advocacy early.

Forrester data reveals something we’ve known for what feels like forever: most B2B buyers (90%+) trust peers in their industry, while almost none (29%) trust vendor sales reps.

That’s why customer advocacy software is such a game-changer. Deeto lets you bring the Voice of the Customer into the buyer journey earlier through embedded customer stories, testimonial carousels, and even on-demand reference calls.

Use it to:

  • Collect, organize, and distribute social proof assets
  • Highlight relevant customer use cases within product pages
  • Automate warm intros to customer advocates at the consideration stage
  • Replace static case studies with dynamic peer-driven conversations
  • Build social proof into every surface: emails, demos, even in your onboarding flow

On top of that, Deeto’s AI-powered smart-matching and dynamic display algorithms allow you to dynamically serve social proof by industry, company size, or buyer role. This makes every interaction feel personalized, even before sales gets involved.

Common challenges in the B2B buyer journey

Even if you understand the buyer journey inside and out, executing against it is a different story. Modern B2B buyers are unpredictable, independent, and skeptical, so some businesses struggle to keep up.

Here are four of the most common challenges we see even experienced teams get tripped up by:

Attribution is messy — buyers don’t follow a linear path.

Your CRM might tell you a lead came from a demo request. But the buyer? They first heard about you in a Slack group, Googled you a week later, lurked on your founder’s LinkedIn posts for a month, clicked a retargeting ad, and then filled out the form.

Linear attribution models (like first-touch or last-touch) miss this completely.

Solution: Shift your mindset from precision to pattern recognition. Use blended attribution models and supplement with qualitative inputs.

  • Ask "How did you hear about us?" in forms, and make it a required free-text field.
  • Use tools like Dreamdata, HockeyStack, or Mutiny to stitch together cross-channel behavior.
  • Encourage reps to probe during discovery: “What caught your attention about us?” or “What stood out in your research?”

Internal misalignment between Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success

Your buyer is on one journey. But too often, your teams act like they’re on three different ones.

Marketing optimizes for leads, sales pushes for pipeline, and CS handles the post-sale. A disconnect leads to drop-offs, mixed messages, and frustrated customers.

Solution: Build your buyer journey together, and operate around shared goals.

  • Define journey stages collaboratively, with input from every function.
  • Align KPIs by stage: e.g., awareness = engagement, consideration = qualified pipeline, decision = conversion rate, post-purchase = NPS or expansion.
  • Implement regular syncs between teams to share insights (e.g., common objections, content gaps, onboarding issues).
  • Use a unified tool (like HubSpot, Salesforce + Gainsight, or a RevOps platform) to create visibility across handoffs.
  • Centralize customer-led marketing content using a customer engagement platform.

Lack of personalization and trust

Today’s buyers expect tailored experiences, with 86% showing preference for 1:1 marketing. But lots B2B interactions still feel generic: same emails, same decks, same pitch.

That’s a trust killer.

If a FinTech CMO sees the same pitch as a Head of Ops at a logistics startup, they’ll both tune out.

Solution: Inject personalization and proof at every stage.

  • Use Deeto’s AI-powered widget to dynamically display social proof content across your website, tailored to the user.
  • Use our smart-matching algorithm to instantly connect prospects with customer references for their use case or industry.
  • Arm your sales team with industry-specific decks, use cases, and customer stories.
  • Train sales reps to personalize emails and CTAs based on company size, industry, or buyer role.
  • Incorporate peer-led trust signals like testimonials, community quotes, customer video clips early and often.

Overreliance on gated content and vendor-led communication

If every helpful resource is locked behind a form, you're slowing down the journey.

Modern buyers don’t want to talk to sales before they’re ready, and they’re skeptical of anything that looks like a trap (like requiring an email just to read a pricing doc). So, if all your content is gated, you’ll all but guarantee it won’t get read.

Solution: Collect emails for high-intent bottom-of-funnel content (e.g., a “free site audit” offer). Un-gate the rest.

  • Make high-value content (case studies, technical guides, calculators) freely accessible.
  • Use conversational tools like Drift, Chatbase, or Intercom to answer questions instantly, without a form fill.
  • Build product tours or “try before you buy” experiences where possible.
  • Create free tools buyers can use to sell themselves (think: Ahrefs’ Keyword Generator).

One of the biggest mistakes we see companies make in B2B sales and marketing is treating the buyer journey as though it only concerns that specific team.

In reality, the buyer journey touches every team: marketing, sales, customer success, product, even finance and support. If each department is using its own version of the journey, the buyer ends up experiencing a fragmented, confusing process.

To fix that, you need tight alignment. That starts with shared visibility and continuous feedback.

Use one unified customer journey map across all departments.

Don’t build five versions of the journey. Build one.

Your single journey map should outline:

  • Key buyer stages (awareness → consideration → decision → post-purchase)
  • Buyer goals and questions at each stage
  • The internal owner of each touchpoint (e.g., marketing owns nurture emails, sales owns demos, CS owns onboarding)
  • The content, tools, and metrics tied to each step

This map becomes your company’s shared source of truth. Everyone—from your SDRs to your onboarding specialists—knows where they fit and how their actions impact the buyer experience.

Build feedback loops between departments.

Alignment doesn’t happen through documentation alone. It’s built through ongoing, structured communication around what’s happening with buyers.

Broadly speaking, this is what strong feedback loops look like:

Leveraging customer advocacy to accelerate the B2B buying process

Trust is the biggest barrier in B2B sales, and customer advocacy helps you break through it.

When a buyer comes through a cold channel, they need to verify everything. Is this the right kind of tool? Will it integrate with our stack? Do others like us use it? Can we trust this company to follow through?

But when a prospect enters your funnel via a referral or peer recommendation, they already have those answers. They've skipped the doubt. They've skipped the skepticism. And often, they've skipped the first few micro-stages of the buyer journey altogether.

They already know:

  • The problem is real
  • Your product solves it
  • People like them have used it successfully

That means you can bypass early education and move straight to relevance. You can tailor your content and conversations toward ROI, implementation, and decision-making, because the "should we trust this brand?" conversation is already handled.

Deeto-powered advocacy makes this fast and scalable.

Instead of hoping someone mentions you in a Slack group or refers you over coffee, Deeto turns social proof into a proactive part of your go-to-market strategy.

It helps you:

  • Embed persona-specific peer testimonials directly into your website
  • Offer on-demand customer references as part of your natural sales flow
  • Incentivize referrals and build customer-led lead gen into your post-sale strategy
  • Insert real voices early, whether it’s a quote on a pricing page or a quick story inside a nurture email

Want to see it in action? Request a demo and we’ll show you how it fits into your buyer’s journey.

B2B Buyer Journey 2025: Full Guide to Mapping & Optimization

B2B Buyer Journey 2025: Full Guide to Mapping & Optimization

Explore the 2025 B2B buyer journey, key stages, mapping steps, and trends to align your GTM teams and boost conversion.

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Today is a milestone moment for Deeto. We’re thrilled to announce our $12.5 million Series A, led by Jump Capital with participation from UpWest, TAL Ventures, Mertor, TAU Ventures and a group of forward-thinking partners who share our belief: that the most powerful growth engine isn’t your product, pitch, or pipeline — it’s your customer.

At Deeto, we’re on a mission to turn authentic customer voice into structured, scalable, and revenue-driving insights. And now, with fresh capital and expanding momentum, we’re doubling down on building the future of how businesses earn trust, convert buyers, and inform innovation.

Why Now: Why Authentic Truth Has Become the New GTM Currency

Buyers have changed. They don’t want vendor-sourced promises. They want voices they can trust. They want to learn from people who’ve done it before them — on their own terms, in their own time.

But while buyer behavior has evolved, most go-to-market systems and processes haven’t. Static case studies, manual reference processes, siloed single point-in-time NPS scores, and customer stories buried in decks just aren’t enough anymore.

What today’s buyers need is the real truth, delivered in real time.

That’s why Deeto exists. We’ve built the only AI-native platform that helps companies activate the voice of their customers across every stage of the buyer and customer journey. And we’re only getting started.

What We Do: Turn Customer Voice into a Growth Engine

Deeto transforms how businesses collect, manage, and activate customer voice. Using our platform, companies like Atlassian, Dropbox, Klaviyo, Bloomreach, and 6Sense are able to:

  • Capture what matters — quotes, insights, references, and stories — without the manual chase
  • Turn it into impact — automatically package content into personalized microsites, social proof, and sales-ready materials
  • Put it to work — deliver the right voice, at the right moment, across websites, campaigns, sales cycles, and more

The result?

  • 20–30% faster sales cycles
  • 15–25% higher win rates when Deeto is active in a deal
  • 34%+ lift in conversion on Deeto proof-enhanced web pages


What's Next: A Sneak Peak at Deeto 2.0

With our Series A, we’re accelerating into our next chapter: Deeto 2.0.

Deeto 2.0 isn’t just a new version of our platform — it’s a reimagined foundation for how companies scale trust, truth, and relationships in a post-AI, post-hype world. We’re moving from proof points to customer intelligence infrastructure.

To support this evolution, we’re introducing a new layer to our platform: Deeto AI Agents — purpose-built intelligence that helps teams go from insight to action without adding headcount.

These agents aren’t just automation for automation’s sake. They’re about scaling what’s real — the voices, insights, and stories that actually influence how businesses grow.

In a world where AI-generated content is flooding every channel, the only voice that cuts through is the one that’s real. The lived experience of your customers isn’t just a nice-to-have. It’s your most defensible advantage.

With this funding and momentum, Deeto is here to make that advantage accessible, scalable, and felt — everywhere it matters.

Stay tuned for more on the Deeto 2.0 front.

To our customers, partners, and new believers: thank you for trusting us to build something bold. If you’re ready to turn your customer voice into a competitive edge, reach out or follow us as we shape what’s next.

The future is customer-led. Powered by Deeto.

Backed by $17M in Funding, Deeto Is Scaling Customer Voice Into a GTM Powerhouse

Backed by $17M in Funding, Deeto Is Scaling Customer Voice Into a GTM Powerhouse

We're building the infrastructure to turn customer voice into a dynamic engine for trust, growth, and innovation.

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“Content is king.” And in 2025, it’s the entire front half of your sales engine.

Last year, 6sense studied B2B buying behavior and released their 2024 Buyer Experience Report. In it, they revealed that buyers increasingly value autonomy in their purchasing process.

  • The average buyer makes it through 70% of their buying process before engaging a vendor.
  • 80% initiated the first contact, not the other way around.
  • 81% already have a preferred vendor in mind by the time they have their first touchpoint with a sales rep.

So, in most cases, the entire first half of the sales cycle happens before your sales reps can get a word in. Outbound alone won’t work. You need web content.

In today’s article, I’ll break down exactly which types of marketing collateral every B2B company needs to stay ahead this year.

What is marketing collateral?

Marketing collateral is any branded asset, digital or printed, that you use to promote your products or services and move prospects through your funnel. Examples include web content, social media posts, e-books, case studies, and demo videos. 

There are a four main reasons to create and distribute marketing collateral:

  • Educate potential buyers
  • Reinforce your brand’s authority
  • Overcome objections
  • Accelerate decision-making

Now, this isn’t just about making case studies and writing blog posts based off of a keyword list. It’s dynamic, digital, and strategically aligned with your customer journey. Every asset should serve a clear purpose: to move prospects closer to a “Yes.”

The role of marketing collateral in the sales funnel

In B2B, single-person deals hardly exist. The average buying group includes 10 people, each of whom has their own priorities and pull in the decision-making process.

  • Some care about technical specs.
  • Some care about ROI.
  • And some just want to know it’ll make their lives easier.

But, like I’ve already pointed out, most of their decision-making happens without you. Your sales rep won’t be in the room when they’re Googling solutions, comparing vendors, or presenting your pricing to the CFO.

That’s why your marketing collateral isn’t just support, it’s strategy.

Full-funnel. Multi-persona. Always on.

B2B sales cycles can stretch from a month or two (for simple SaaS products) to 12+ months (for enterprise deals). That means you need a library of collateral that works at every stage of the funnel and speaks to every type of buyer.

  • Top of the funnel (TOFU): Here’s where you attract attention from technical researchers, analysts, or ops leads who are exploring options. You’ll use blog posts, SEO-driven landing pages, one-pagers, and infographics to show up early in their journey.
  • Middle of the funnel (MOFU): At this point, you’re engaging stakeholders doing deeper due diligence, like product managers, department heads, or power users. So you offer explainer videos, product walkthroughs, comparison sheets, and downloadable guides that prove your value.
  • Bottom of the funnel (BOFU): By now, decision-makers like CFOs, CTOs, or the full buying committee are involed. You need business case decks, ROI calculators, case studies, and security whitepapers to close the gap between interest and approval.

When you aren’t showing up, someone else is.

Marketing today is zero-sum. When a buyer searches, only one brand gets clicked. If your content doesn’t rank, isn’t visible, or fails to answer their question, guess what? Your competitor’s does.

So your job is twofold:

  1. Create strategic content that helps prospects sell your product internally, even if you’re not in the room.
  2. Distribute that content smartly through search, social, email, and your website, so the right people find it exactly when they need it.

7 types of marketing collateral you can’t grow without

We’ve made it clear: your buyers are doing the research with or without you. That means every piece of content you put out needs to work hard, speak clearly, and support different decision-makers across the funnel.

Strategically distribute enough of these seven kinds of collateral, and you’ll have a never-ending stream of MQLs that actually align with your ICP:

1. Branding collateral

Before you impress anyone with your pitch deck or case study, your brand needs to look and feel consistent everywhere. That’s where your logos and brand guidelines come in. This is what guides everything from your sales PDFs to your LinkedIn graphics.

When done right, they:

  • Create trust
  • Build recognition
  • Present you as professional
  • Make every asset feel cohesive, no matter who’s viewing it

Good news is, you don’t have to overcomplicate this. Even a basic brand kit (logo files, color codes, typography, and tone-of-voice guide) goes a long way.

✔️ Branding collateral checklist
⬜️ High-resolution logo files (PNG, SVG, JPEG)
⬜️ Brand color palette with HEX/RGB codes
⬜️ Font styles and usage rules
⬜️ Logo usage guidelines
⬜️ Tone of voice guide with examples
⬜️ Templates (decks, proposals, one-pagers)
⬜️ Shared brand folder (Google Drive, Notion, etc.)

2. Sales enablement collateral

Sales enablement collateral is the content your team uses to move prospects from "interested" to "ready to buy.”

  • Sales decks and presentations
  • Case studies
  • One-pagers
  • Product sheets
  • Testimonials and review assets

These are the materials your reps share with prospects to help them make the right purchase decision.

But they’re not just for your sales reps. They’re for your buyers as well. They’re the ones forwarding your deck to their boss. They’re the ones pulling up your case study in a budget meeting. They’re the ones pitching your product for you.

You need to give champions inside your prospect’s company the tools to sell on your behalf. That means collateral that’s simple, skimmable, and laser-focused on value.

3. Digital marketing collateral

Digital marketing collateral is any visual or written content you use to promote your brand online and drive inbound traffic. It’s what fuels your demand gen engine and captures attention across social media, email, and paid ads.

Social media graphics stop the scroll and reinforce your brand on LinkedIn, Twitter, and even Instagram (yes, even for B2B). They reinforce your social proof and marketing content through short-form posts. Your employees should also use it on their profiles.

Email campaign templates are layouts you can use across newsletters, product updates, and nurture sequences. They should be mobile-friendly, skimmable, and designed to convert clicks.

Digital ads like banner ads, retargeting visuals, and paid search graphics are similar to social media graphics, and they need to be tightly aligned with your landing pages to drive conversions.

For instance, this ad I just got for a new Qualtrics X Forrester report…

…matches Qualtrics’ website aesthetics perfectly.

4. Print marketing collateral

Even in a digital-first world, print still plays a role. You’re still showing up at events and in-person meetings, and print collateral is perfect for when you want to leave something behind that doesn’t get lost in someone’s inbox.

Today, though, most of your information is online. So it’s less about bulk brochures and more about high-impact, well-designed assets that feel intentional.

  • Business cards
  • One-pagers and leave-behinds
  • Event signage and booth materials
  • Sales packets and folders

Keep these things short and visual, and include a QR code where your prospects can learn more.

5. Content marketing collateral

This is the part of your marketing that people are actually reading. The things prospects find on Google or ChatGPT, bookmark, forward to colleagues, and use to justify buying your product. In fact, you’re reading ours right now.

Content marketing sits at the core of your demand gen, lead gen, and conversion strategies. Some of it’s TOFU. Some of it’s BOFU.

  • Blog posts (for SEO)
  • E-books and whitepapers (for lead capture)
  • Infographics (for shareability)
  • Landing pages (for conversions)
  • How-to guides and paybooks (for authority)
  • Interactive tools (e.g., ROI calculators to show results)

A healthy mix of each will help you pique interest at the top of the funnel and nurture high-value leads up until they’re ready to book a call.

6. Event and trade show collateral

Event and trade show collateral is the physical and digital material you use to attract attention, communicate your value fast, and leave prospects with something they’ll actually keep.

It includes:

  • Booth design assets
  • Promotional giveaways
  • Banners and signage
  • Interactive demos
  • Branded swag

Just like with digital collateral, brands that blend bold visuals with clear messaging win.

7. Internal marketing collateral

Internal marketing collateral is the behind-the-scenes material that ensures your team knows how to talk about your product, share your message, and deliver a consistent experience, whether they’re in sales, support, or engineering.

A few of the things you’ll develop:

  • Internal brand guide for new hires and cross-functional teams
  • Messaging playbooks to clarify positioning, product benefits, key talking points, and objection-handling language
  • Launch kits explaining upcoming campaigns, product releases, or rebrands
  • Internal FAQs and cheat sheets for your team to use in calls, emails, and meetings.
  • All-hands and sales kickoff slides that rally the team, share progress, and preview strategic moves

This kind of content helps you train, align, and activate your entire org so everyone’s pulling in the same direction.

How to create great marketing collateral

Most marketing teams crank out assets just to “check the box.” They know they need it, so they post a few below-average blog posts, put up a few testimonials, and call it a day. Then they wonder why they don’t rank or convert.

If you want collateral that drives pipeline, closes deals, and makes competitors irrelevant, here are our six best tips:

Build for the buyer’s conversation, not yours.

Don’t just talk about features, reverse-engineer your content from the actual buying journey.
Ask: What’s happening in the buyer’s head at this exact moment?

  • Early stage: They’re asking, “Is this even worth my time?”
  • Mid-stage: “Is this better than what I’m using now?”
  • Late stage: “Can I justify this to my CFO and team?”

Use real call transcripts, objection logs, and buyer enablement data to craft collateral that answers their internal questions within your content.

Create once, slice a dozen ways.

Smart marketers don’t make 100 new things. They make one killer asset and spin it 12 different ways.

Let’s say you write a whitepaper. From that, you can extract:

  • A short webinar for prospects
  • 3-5 different blog posts
  • A sales deck slide or two
  • A teardown-style LinkedIn post
  • An internal FAQ for reps
  • A one-pager summary
  • Email drip content

You can also repurpose customer feedback for marketing content. Using a platform like Deeto, you can collect input from your customers in the form of testimonials, product feedback, and results (e.g., ROI or a % increase in sales).

From there, our generative AI builds full case studies and clips use cases and testimonials you can distribute across your website and socials.

Map every piece of collateral to a revenue goal.

Too many marketers create for vanity. Real growth comes when every asset ties to one of three things:

Before you make anything, ask what metric it’ll move, then track it. If your new case study didn’t get shared by reps or downloaded by buyers, figure out why that type of content isn’t making a difference and what might be more effective.

Personalize your highest-impact pieces.

You don’t need to personalize everything, but you should absolutely personalize the stuff that touches money.

  • Create 3 to 4 versions of your sales deck by industry or persona.
  • Swap out vertical-specific stats in your one-pagers.
  • Let reps plug in custom ROI data into calculators or proposal templates.
  • Tie everything to an outcome, don’t just talk about features.

Buyers will always respond better to something that feels like it was made for them.

Design for skimmers, not readers.

No one is reading your 20-page PDF cover-to-cover. Design for skimming.

That means:

  • Strong subheads that tell a story without reading paragraphs
  • Visual cues and icons to guide attention
  • Quotes, stat blocks, and micro-copy that cover key points
  • CTA buttons that don’t hide in footers

Remember: formatting is part of storytelling. Bad design makes good content invisible.

Run content like a product: with version control.

Great collateral evolves. A few simple habits, like setting quarterly reviews for core sales materials and centralizing everything in one source of truth (Deeto does this) makes all the difference.

Deeto helps you store and share marketing collateral from one place.

It’s one thing to create great collateral. It’s a whole other to actually use it consistently, correctly, and across teams that rarely sync. Deeto simplifies that. It’s the platform you’ll use to activate your customer base, and it gives your entire team a single, organized place to store, manage, and share customer marketing content.

You can upload any type of file - PDFs, decks, videos, UGC, case studies, and tag it by persona, industry, or funnel stage. Built-in search and version control mean sales reps aren’t sharing outdated content, and marketing isn’t chasing down files before a launch.

  • Need a case study for a healthcare CTO you just logged in your CRM? Deeto pulls it in seconds.
  • Need a testimonial to drop into a new landing page or LinkedIn post? Marketing has it ready to go, filtered, approved, and pre-formatted.

It also makes collaboration easier. Sales, marketing, customer success, and product teams access the same library, and role-based permissions keep the system clean, and updates happen in real-time.

And with built-in AI tools, you can repurpose, distribute, and personalize marketing assets across your whole funnel without starting from scratch every time.

Want to see it in action? Request a demo today.

7 Types of Marketing Collateral B2Bs Need Today

7 Types of Marketing Collateral B2Bs Need Today

Discover must-have marketing collateral types and how Deeto helps store, organize & manage all assets in one smart place

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Your customers are saying incredible things about you on G2.
Now, you can turn that praise into pipeline – automatically.

We're excited to announce a powerful new integration between Deeto and G2, launching as part of G2’s June 2025 Innovation Release. This partnership allows mutual customers to seamlessly bring their G2 reviews into Deeto, connect them to reference profiles, and publish them across marketing, sales, and customer advocacy channels – with full control.

Deeto helps turn customer voices into a strategic growth engine – by unifying reviews, references, testimonials, and customer stories in one platform. Now, with this new G2 integration, your best G2 reviews can automatically fuel every stage of the buyer journey – from discovery to deal close.

What’s New: Sync G2 Reviews Into Deeto

The Deeto + G2 integration makes it easy to:

  • Import verified G2 reviews directly into your Deeto workspace
  • Assign each review to a customer reference or advocacy profile
  • Use that content across microsites, campaigns, and embedded widgets
  • Filter by star rating, keywords, and reviewer type
  • Control which reviews are activated, and where

It’s advocacy, made scalable – and deeply personal.

Why It Matters

In today’s B2B landscape, buyers trust customers more than brands.
Yet most teams still struggle to bridge the gap between G2 reviews and their GTM strategy.

This integration solves that.

  •  Faster Content Activation: Surface and deploy real reviews without hunting for screenshots or quotes.
  • Unified Advocacy Strategy: Use G2 reviews alongside your reference content, video testimonials, case studies, and more- inside one platform.
  •  Increased Reach & Conversion: Bring a trusted voice into every sales interaction, website experience, and follow-up.
  • Customer-Controlled: You choose which reviews are activated and how they’re used.

Who This Is For

You’ve worked hard to build a strong presence on G2. This integration helps ensure those great reviews reach their full potential across the entire buyer journey. Here’s why this matters — for every part of your GTM team:

Customer Marketing
You already know the power of advocacy — but it’s time to scale it.
With this integration, you can easily turn G2 reviews into dynamic content across your programs: nurture streams, community content, reference hubs, and more — without manual work or copy/paste hacks.

Product Marketing
G2 reviews are packed with customer language and proof points.
Now, you can seamlessly bring them into your product marketing narratives: reinforce positioning, enrich launches, support competitive plays, and arm sellers with proof that resonates.

Sales Enablement
Buyers trust peers — but sellers often struggle to bring authentic customer voice into live deals.
This integration lets you surface the right G2 reviews at the right moment — personalized for deal stage, industry, or persona — to drive conversion and speed sales cycles.

CMO
You’ve invested in building customer trust — it’s time to turn that trust into pipeline and revenue.
This is an easy lever to expand your advocacy strategy, improve content ROI, and align marketing and sales around real customer proof — activated everywhere buyers engage.

You already earned your customer’s love.
Now, Deeto + G2 lets you fully leverage it.

How It Works

  1. Opt In
    Contact your Deeto CSM to enable the integration. You’ll share any preferences (e.g., only import 5-star reviews, specific product lines, etc.).
  2. Activate
    Deeto will coordinate with G2 to verify your license and configure your access.
  3. Import + Match
    Reviews appear in your Deeto dashboard. Choose which ones to import, and match them to reference profiles.
  4. Publish
    Use G2 reviews across:
  • Deeto Microsites
  • Website & campaign Widgets
  • Buyer-specific Advocacy Experiences

All while keeping full control over what goes live and where.

Ready to Get Started?

This integration is available to mutual G2 and Deeto customers starting June 2025.

If you’re already a Deeto customer: Reach out to your CSM to activate — it’s quick and easy to enable. Available to G2 customers on Review Growth+Core, Growth+Core+BI, Growth+Core+Content, or those licensing G2 Content via Extra Impact. If you're unsure about your eligibility, we're happy to check with G2 on your behalf.

If you’re new to Deeto: Let us show you how Deeto + G2 can turn customer voice into your most powerful revenue driver. Book a demo here.

Your customers have already spoken on G2.
Together, we’ll help you make sure their voices are heard — and drive your next wave of growth.

Turning Reviews Into Revenue: Deeto + G2 Integration Is Here

Turning Reviews Into Revenue: Deeto + G2 Integration Is Here

Your customers are saying incredible things about you on G2. Now, you can turn that praise into pipeline– automatically.

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Your customers are always talking. They’re constantly leaving reviews, replying to surveys, and commenting on social media.

But plenty of companies stop after collecting this information. And in doing so, they miss a major opportunity.

Your customer feedback isn’t just social proof. It’s content.

You can repurpose it into emails, ads, landing pages, videos, social media posts — any point in the purchase funnel where you need to build trust and drive decision-making.

In today's guide, you'll learn the what, why, and how of repurposing customer feedback into high-impact marketing content that works across every channel.

Customer feedback is a goldmine for marketing content.

When potential customers see someone else solve the exact problem they’re facing, they lean in. It gives them confidence. It reduces friction. It answers the question: “Will this work for me?”

That’s what moves people from "maybe" to "I'm in."

You don’t need to hire a copywriter to guess what your audience cares about, though. Your customers are already spelling it out for you. You just need to capture it and turn it into content.

  • A bold headline pulled from a glowing review
  • A social ad with a quote about a user's transformation
  • An onboarding email that echoes a customer’s first big win
  • A product page with mini testimonials next to each key feature

This is exactly why customer feedback is the most powerful tool in your marketing toolbox. When you start treating it as raw marketing material instead of something that's just "good to know," you create a consistent stream of trust-building, conversion-boosting content — content you can use to drive web conversions.

Why repurposing your customer feedback is so important

Repurposing your customer feedback is important because it turns real customer experiences into powerful, trust-building marketing content. It gives you credible, conversion-driving language straight from your audience, helps highlight what actually matters to your buyers, and keeps your messaging fresh without the guesswork.

It’s more credible than anything you could write yourself.

In Neilsen's recent study of 40,000+ buyers across 56 countries, 88% said they trust customer feedback and recommendations over any other form of marketing messaging. After seeing a trustworthy review, 92% of B2B buyers are more likely to buy that product.

The reason is simple: When you use real quotes, language, and outcomes, you're not just telling people your product works, you’re showing them that it already has.

It speaks directly to future buyers.

Your best customers say things in ways you never would’ve thought of. They describe pain points, benefits, and breakthroughs in the exact words your next buyer is probably already thinking. When you echo that language across your site, ads, and emails, it feels more personal.

It’s fast, free, and already happening.

You don’t need to start from scratch. Customer feedback is already flowing into your business through reviews, emails, support tickets, social posts, surveys, and calls. This makes it one of the lowest-effort ways to improve your content.

It highlights what actually matters to your audience.

You might think people buy your product for Feature A. But what if your top customers all rave about Feature C?

Repurposing feedback forces you to zoom in on what your audience cares about, not what you think is important. That insight sharpens your messaging, your positioning, and your future product decisions.

It helps your team speak with one voice.

Sales, support, and marketing teams all talk to customers differently. But when everyone pulls language and messaging from the same source (your customers), you create brand alignment. That means smoother pitches, stronger emails, and less “reinventing the wheel” across departments.

It keeps your marketing fresh and dynamic.

Stuck on what to post next on social? Need a new angle for your next ad campaign?

Customer feedback gives you an endless stream of ideas, quotes, and stories that are relevant, sharp, and close to the voice of your market. It’s like a living, breathing swipe file that updates itself.

5 types of customer feedback you can repurpose

To actually reap those benefits, your first step is knowing where to look. Here are five high-impact sources of customer feedback, and how you can turn each into marketing gold:

1. Online reviews

Sites like G2, Trustpilot, and Google Reviews are the easiest sources of social proof to pull from, and they're some of the most powerful. They’re publicly available, and often written in your customer’s raw, unfiltered voice.

If you're using Deeto, our new Imported Contributions feature lets you push reviews across personal microsites (another Deeto feature for your sales team), G2 (via integrating the two platforms), and on-site widgets in seconds, without manual copy-paste.

2. User testimonials and case studies

Testimonials and case studies are deeper, more structured stories. They're perfect for turning one win into dozens of content pieces.

From a single testimonial or case study, you can extract:

  • Short quotes for social media
  • Video snippets for YouTube or TikTok
  • Story-driven blog content
  • “Before and after” visuals
  • Email campaign material

Deeto’s AI-powered extraction feature makes the process easy. Upload a case study, and it automatically pulls out key moments, quotes, and summaries you can reuse instantly across channels.

This is how you scale social proof without creating from scratch every time.

3. Social media comments and mentions

When people tag you in a win, drop a comment about your product, or post a screenshot of their results, you’ve got powerful, organic validation.

Repurpose these into:

  • UGC-style ads
  • Instagram and LinkedIn carousels
  • Customer shout-outs in newsletters
  • Proof points in pitch decks or demos

Bonus tip: You might be able to turn positive DMs into anonymous quotes if you can’t get public approval.

4. Support tickets and customer success stories

When someone messages support to say, “I finally figured this out—it saved me 4 hours,” that’s a conversion-ready quote.

Use those moments to:

  • Highlight pain points in your copy
  • Build micro case studies or quick-win stories
  • Create “objection-crushing” FAQ sections
  • Humanize your product in onboarding flows

To get these kinds of insights, talk to your support and success teams.

5. Survey responses and NPS feedback

NPS responses tell you why people love you (or don’t). Surveys reveal what’s working and what’s missing. For your marketing content, look for recurring phrases, surprising praise, and moments of delight.

Repurpose that into:

  • Value-focused product messaging
  • "Voice of the Customer" slides in sales decks
  • Long-form blog insights or quote roundups
  • Feature highlights with real-user impact

Best ways to repurpose customer feedback into marketing content

Customer feedback is incredibly versatile. One piece can be turned into multiple marketing materials, and you can even use it to address concerns or highlight benefits that are relevant to a specific segment of your target market.

Below, we'll explore four of the most effective ways to turn the feedback you've collected from the sources above into content that drives conversions.

Create social media content.

Social is one of the easiest places to inject real customer voices.

Start simple:

  • Turn standout reviews into bold quote graphics.
  • Post customer wins as short-form video clips or animated stories.
  • Create carousel posts that walk through before-and-after transformations.
  • Share DM screenshots or tweets (with permission or anonymized) as proof.

Then, go beyond the usual:

  • Run polls using actual customer language to validate new angles.
  • Use feedback to start conversations—“Do you relate to this pain point?”
  • Turn one customer response into a recurring content series: “Customer of the Month,” “This Week’s Win,” or “From Frustrated to Thriving.”

This is lightweight, high-impact content that builds trust in your feed daily.

Integrate it into your website and landing pages.

Social proof works best when it’s placed where decisions happen.

Use it strategically:

  • Drop testimonials next to CTAs to increase clicks.
  • Highlight quotes that overcome common objections on pricing or feature pages.
  • Build a “Why Customers Love Us” section right on the homepage.
  • Place short, bold quotes next to buttons or in opt-in forms.
  • Add a dynamic testimonial slider or customer spotlight widget (especially if you're a SaaS or ecommerce brand).

If you want to go further, use heatmaps and scroll data to place testimonials where people hesitate most. Then, A/B test quotes with different tones (e.g., emotional vs. ROI-driven) to see what converts the best.

For a more detailed look, check out my guide showing how three different companies use customer feedback to drive web conversions.

Repurpose it into blog posts and case studies.

Since customers' success with your product is so closely intertwined with your USP, it only makes sense to let it drive parts of your content strategy. By incorporating real-life examples of how your product has helped customers, you differentiate your content from others, and you place your product as the solution to the problem you're solving with your content.

  • Turn customer interviews or surveys into story-driven blog posts.
  • Use real quotes to highlight specific problems and outcomes.
  • Build full case studies from your feedback that walk through the challenge, solution, and result (Deeto's generative AI can do this automatically).
  • Pair a case study with a “What We Learned” companion post that offers lessons your audience can apply themselves.

One idea is to use multiple feedback sources to write a trend piece: “5 Things Our Power Users All Have in Common.”  To increase adoption, share that piece with all your new users (particularly those with low engagement rates) to show the value of your product.

Leverage AI for content repurposing at scale.

AI makes it effortless to turn one piece of feedback into ten different assets.

  • Use AI to extract insights, summarize long feedback, and tag key themes.
  • Automatically convert testimonials into ad copy, captions, headlines, and summaries.
  • Feed your feedback into AI and ask it to generate FAQ pages, email sequences, or quote libraries.
  • Use AI to create personalized content by segmenting testimonials by use case, industry, or buyer type.

With Deeto's centralized customer content repository, it's easy to organize, structure, access, and publish content across multiple marketing channels.

How to measure the impact of repurposed content

To know whether you're actually turning that customer feedback into sales revenue, there are six key metrics to pay attention to:

Conversion rate

This is your most direct signal. Are pages or campaigns with testimonials, quotes, or customer stories converting better than those without?

Test it by A/B testing landing pages with and without social proof, measuring lead gen forms, CTAs, and demo requests after adding feedback-based content, and tracking product page conversions post-implementation.

Click-through rate (CTR)

Are people engaging with the content you’ve created from feedback?

Watch how repurposed reviews perform in:

  • Email campaigns
  • Social media posts
  • Ads and retargeting creatives
  • Buttons and call-to-action blocks with embedded quotes

Higher CTRs mean the message resonated.

Customer engagement

Feedback-based content is supposed to feel more human and relatable. If it's succeeding in that department, it should also boost engagement.

Measure engagement with your content by looking at:

  • Likes, shares, and comments on social posts
  • Watch time or click depth on testimonial videos
  • Scroll depth on landing pages with case studies

Customer acquisition cost (CAC)

If your feedback-rich campaigns convert better, your CAC should decrease over time. Watch for changes in CAC across paid channels, email funnels, or website segments where social proof was added.

Lower CAC = higher efficiency.

Sales velocity

Although it's " for marketing," customer feedback and other user-generated content are used throughout the sales cycle to build credibility, handle objections, and drive faster decision-making.

Deeto centralizes your content, so you can equip your SDRs and AEs with customer success stories, quote libraries, and case studies specific to each prospect's use case.

To understand how effective this is for your business, look at:

  • Time-to-close before vs. after using that content
  • Deal stage conversion rates
  • Rep-reported effectiveness of using testimonials in pitches

Attribution and assisted conversions

The average B2B sale requires more than 40 touchpoints. Use tools like Google Analytics, HubSpot, or your CRM to track where repurposed content shows up in the buyer journey (Deeto can help with this, too).

Did a blog post featuring a customer story bring in qualified traffic? Did someone convert after clicking an ad using a testimonial? Are your most engaged prospects reading case studies?

Look at assisted conversions, not just last-click attribution.

Transform your customer feedback with Deeto’s AI-powered content repurposing tools.

Deeto's AI-powered platform simplifies the entire process of collecting customer feedback, organizing it, turning it into content, and distributing it across your entire company — Marketing, Sales, Product, and Success.

  1. Customers onboard themselves.
  2. They share their feedback in a guided workflow.
  3. Deeto's AI organizes the content, so your marketing team can easily access it and use it in their campaigns.

Request a demo to see how Deeto's platform helps companies fully leverage the power of their customers' voices.

How to Repurpose Customer Feedback into Powerful Marketing Content

How to Repurpose Customer Feedback into Powerful Marketing Content

Learn how to turn customer feedback into powerful marketing content. Discover strategies for repurposing reviews and UGC

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Marketing usually focuses on getting new customers through the door. But what happens after they buy?

That's the part that gets overlooked.

Yet your existing customers are your most valuable asset. They’ve already said yes. They know your product. And if you do it right, they’ll buy again, refer others, and become your loudest supporters.

Customer marketing is the way to nurture those relationships.

In today's guide, we'll break down what customer marketing is and how you can use it to grow faster, retain more customers, and turn your brand into a movement.

What is customer marketing?

First, a quick definition:

Customer marketing is the practice of marketing to or with your existing customers, not just to sell more, but to build loyalty, increase retention, and turn happy customers into brand advocates.

It’s different from traditional marketing, which focuses on acquiring new leads and closing sales. Customer marketing is about deepening relationships with people who already use your product or service.

It includes things like:

  • Customer newsletters
  • Loyalty and referral programs
  • Exclusive product updates
  • Community-building efforts
  • Advocacy strategies

It's powerful because it taps into trust. Your customers already know you deliver. That makes it easier to cross-sell, upsell, or invite them to share their experience with others.

Why customer marketing matters in B2B

Buying decisions are long, complicated, and full of noise. Prospects are bombarded with ads, sales pitches, and cold emails all day, every day.

But a warm referral or glowing testimonial? That cuts through.

According to data from Forrester, more than 90% of today's buyers trust their industry peers. The least trusted group? Salespeople. Less than one-third of study participants said they trusted sales reps at all.

Social proof is something you can use to drive more web conversions with your marketing content, and it's something your sales reps can use to become more credible.

On top of that, most B2Bs are retention-focused, either because they're a SaaS company with a recurring revenue model or another type of company with high-value, multi-year contracts.

Customer marketing provides a clear pathway for both customer-retaining engagement and customer-getting social proof, at scale.

Who owns customer marketing? Marketing, Sales, or Customer Success?

Here’s the short answer: Customer marketing should be owned by marketing, but powered by everyone.

Let’s break that down.

Marketing leads the strategy.

Customer marketing is still marketing. It requires messaging, segmentation, campaigns, and content. That means it should live under the marketing team’s umbrella, with a clear owner responsible for execution.

They’re the ones best equipped to turn customer stories into case studies, build email nurture flows, launch referral programs, and manage brand experience post-sale.

Sales provides insight.

Sales teams have direct lines into what prospects care about and what wins deals. That insight is gold for shaping customer marketing content.

  • What case studies help close enterprise deals?
  • What product benefits are most compelling?
  • What objections come up most often?

Customer marketers can use that intel to craft high-impact campaigns that speak to future buyers using the voice of current customers.

Customer Success builds the relationships.

CS is on the front lines. They know which accounts are thriving, who’s ready for a case study, and where upsell opportunities exist. They’re also the bridge to turning satisfied users into advocates, community members, and referral partners.

If they’re looped into customer marketing efforts, they can flag champions before anyone even raises their hand.

The goals of customer marketing

Customer marketing isn’t just about sending a few newsletters or posting a case study. It's a start, but the real focus is on how you can turn your existing customers into long-term growth drivers.

Boosting customer retention

Keeping customers happy keeps revenue stable. And customer marketing reinforces the value of your product long after the sale. It helps you stay top of mind, share helpful resources, and build stronger relationships through personalization.

This is also a way to bring acquisition costs down. Retention is, on average, up to five times more cost-effective compared to acquisition.

Increasing CLV

Customers who feel connected to a brand are worth 306% more over their lifetime. And loyal customers are 5x more likely to make repeat purchases and 4x more likely to refer your brand to others.

In SaaS, the longer someone stays subscribed, the more they're worth by default.

By consistently engaging users and educating them on new features and use cases, you prevent churn, which, by extension, makes every customer worth several times more.

Driving advocacy and referrals

Customer marketing gives you a way to generate those referrals at scale. When a happy client shares their story on LinkedIn or brings you up in a Slack group, it carries real weight. No ad can compete with that.

Tapping into upselling and cross-selling opportunities

When a customer already trusts you, it's easier to expand that relationship. Customer marketing helps your CS team highlight new offerings and additional features that align with what they’re already using.

Making growth scalable

You can’t rely on 1:1 relationships forever. Customer marketing gives you the systems to engage hundreds (or thousands) of customers with the same level of care. Whether it’s through automation, content, community, or all of the above, the right strategy lets you scale without sacrificing quality.

The tangible benefits: Why invest in customer marketing?

In general, a customer-led growth strategy yields growth, profitability, and long-term sustainability in a way other strategies cannot. Because your customer is at the center of both your marketing and your overall experience, you can innovate for them faster and differentiate yourself from the pack.

Customer-led marketing tactics are a critical aspect of this because (a) they engage your existing customers through personalization while (b) getting them more involved with your brand via advocacy and (c) making it easier to bring in and close new business.

There are several benefits to this:

  • Higher close rates
  • Shorter sales cycles
  • Lower acquisition costs
  • More predictable revenue
  • Long-term sales, marketing, and CS efficiency
  • Stronger brand reputation (and eventually brand equity)

Customer marketing also gives you a competitive moat. Anyone can copy features or undercut you on price. Nobody can (easily) replicate a loyal customer base that’s actively talking about how much they love your product.

The pillars of an effective customer markeitng strategy

If you want results, you need structure. These five pillars are the operational backbone of high-performing customer marketing strategies:

Customer segmentation

Don’t treat your entire customer base the same. Build segments based on behavior, product usage, lifecycle stage, industry, or account value. Then map specific marketing actions to each.

  • High-value but low-engagement accounts? Trigger re-engagement campaigns.
  • New customers? Serve onboarding content at specific product milestones.
  • Power users? Invite them into your advocacy program.

Use tools like your CRM, product analytics, and NPS responses to continuously refine your segments. Segmentation is useless if it doesn’t drive specific action.

Personalized engagement

Use the data you have (purchase history, usage patterns, support tickets, product interest) to deliver 1:1-feeling messages at scale.

Examples:

  • Trigger a feature-specific guide when a user hits 70% usage of a core tool.
  • Send upgrade prompts only to accounts consistently maxing out their current plan.
  • Launch customer-specific QBR recaps through automated video or email templates.
  • Remind users of important upcoming deadlines or changes that involve your product.

Personalization is timing, relevance, and context. Creating triggers based on these kinds of identifiers makes your communication feel natural, even though it's going out to thousands at once.

Customer feedback and insights

Customer marketing listens as much as it speaks. Build feedback loops into your strategy:

  • Use CSAT and NPS to identify promoters (for referrals or case studies) and detractors (for churn prevention).
  • Pipe feature requests into your roadmap content.
  • Interview happy users and turn their quotes into marketing collateral.

Then act on the data.

Community building and loyalty

Communities build trust and stickiness. Set up forums, user groups, or a Slack/Discord channel where your customers can connect with each other and your team.

To make it work:

  • Seed the community with content, prompts, and discussion.
  • Highlight top contributors.
  • Share sneak peeks, private betas, or early access opportunities.

Notion is a great example of a company that does this better than its competitors. Their ambassador program, local meetups, online forums (Notion Communities), and content hubs increase product stickiness, generate organic UGC, and drive serious word-of-mouth.

Bonus: Customers will often answer each other’s questions faster than your support team can. That’s scalable support and marketing in one.

Customer education and enablement

More education = more value = less churn. Don’t assume customers know how to use everything they’ve paid for. Create a structured path to mastery.

Build content based on real usage patterns and friction points:

  • Short videos on underutilized features
  • Webinars targeting advanced use cases
  • Playbooks tailored to verticals or roles
  • Reminders and alerts for important info

Tie every piece of education to business outcomes, and connect the how to the why.

Essential customer marketing tactics and channels

Tactical execution across the right channels is how you win the customer marketing game. The best programs use a mix of personalized communication, educational content, and community to engage users and drive long-term value.

Personalized communication strategies

It should feel like a conversation, not a campaign. That means personalization at every level, especially when it comes to email and CRM.

Email remains one of the highest-leverage channels for customer engagement. But blasting everyone with the same newsletter won’t move the needle. Instead, build sequences around key customer moments like onboarding, product milestones, inactivity triggers, or renewal windows.

For instance, Intercom sends emails like these to make sure ever user finishes onboarding:

Your CRM already holds the insights you need: feature usage, support tickets, expansion readiness, satisfaction scores. Use that data to create meaningful interactions.

For example, if a customer is close to hitting their usage limit, trigger an upsell campaign before the friction. If someone gave you a 9/10 NPS score, invite them to join a referral or advocacy program right away (you can set this up with Deeto).

Content for every stage of the post-sale

Most customers only use a fraction of your product. Close the gap with deep-dive guides and advanced strategies tied to real business problems.

For instance, a database/PM tool like Airtable might send vertical-specific playbooks that show exactly how to use it in marketing ops, product launches, or inventory tracking, depending on the user profile attached to the email.

Product update announcements are another big one. Every month, Slack sends out an admin update talking about new features. For big changes, they send a notification out immediately.

And remember that your customers often create better content than you do. UGC is one of the most effective ways to drive deal closure, so you need to make it easy for them to share how they use your product.

  • Reviews
  • Testimonials
  • Product tutorials
  • Live use cases and demos
  • Short-form clips on TikTok and Reels

The more you can get people talking about your product and using it in front of others, the better.

Community building platforms

Online communities give users a place to ask questions, get feedback, and share ideas.

Webflow’s community forum integrates docs, discussions, and a wishlist voting board to make customers feel heard and involved.

Adobe’s Creative Cloud hub mixes tutorials, peer content, and design showcases to inspire and educate.

Live events are another great idea, whether in-person or virtual. They create powerful loyalty loops because you're giving your customers a stage, not just a seat.

Gong hosts customer-led roundtables where revenue leaders share real-world tactics. And Atlassian goes even further: their “ACE” (Atlassian Community Events) program lets customers run events in their own cities, with Atlassian supporting behind the scenes.

That’s community-led scale.

Key customer marketing metrics to track

Maybe it goes without saying, but you can’t improve what you don’t measure. Tracking the right metrics guarantees your efforts are driving real value across retention, revenue, and advocacy.

Net Promoter Score (NPS)

NPS measures how likely a customer is to recommend your product to others. It's a direct indicator of satisfaction and loyalty and a strong predictor of organic growth.

  • Track NPS by customer segment to find your top promoters.
  • Use promoters as fuel for referral campaigns, testimonials, and case studies.
  • Use detractors as early churn signals and route them to Customer Success.

A rising NPS usually means your customer marketing is resonating. A declining one signals gaps in value delivery or communication.

Customer retention rate

Retention is the backbone of customer marketing. It tells you how many customers are sticking around over a given period and how well your efforts are reinforcing product value.

Tie retention changes to marketing campaigns. Did a recent onboarding series reduce early churn or increase product adoption?

Then, break it down by segment to see where you're winning or losing.

Customer churn rate

This is the inverse of retention, and it's just as important to monitor. High churn often points to gaps in education, onboarding, or ongoing engagement.

  • Monitor churn at key lifecycle stages (e.g., first 90 days, post-contract renewal).
  • Analyze exit survey data and close the loop with targeted campaigns.

If churn is creeping up, your customer marketing efforts aren't focused where they should be.

Customer lifetime value (CLV)

CLV tells you how much revenue the average customer generates over the course of their relationship with your business. Customer marketing is all about retaining users longer, increasing upsells, and keeping them engaged enough to stay and grow with you. All these things increase CLV.

Start by segmenting CLV by customer type to identify your most valuable personas. Then, use that insight to tailor content, rewards, and outreach where you see the biggest opportunities and which will have the biggest overall impact (e.g., "Basic" users upgrading to your "Pro" tier that's 2x the cost).

Referral rate and customer advocacy score

Your customers should be your best sales channel. These two metrics help you track how often that’s actually happening.

  • Referral rate measures how many customers are actively referring others.
  • Customer advocacy score looks at the number of case study participants, community contributors, or social sharers.

With a platform like Deeto, it's easy to track your referral program's performance. Who’s sending leads? What’s the conversion rate? It'll tell you everything you need to optimize your referral strategy.

You should also measure how many customers are taking advocacy actions after key milestones (e.g., feature adoption or positive NPS).

The Role of customer marketing in product-led growth (PLG)

In product-led growth, your product is the main driver of acquisition, activation, and expansion. But even the best product can’t speak for itself; your customers have to.

Turning users into evangelists

In PLG, your most valuable growth asset is a happy, active user. Customer marketing helps identify those users and turn them into loud supporters through case studies, testimonials, reviews, social proof, and, most importantly, user-generated content.

Example: Figma’s superusers are creators inside the Figma Community and on their own respective social media profiles, They share templates and show off designs that inspire others to sign up.

Driving word-of-mouth growth

PLG relies on virality: one user gets value and brings in others. But this doesn’t happen automatically.

Customer marketing accelerates word-of-mouth with:

  • Referral programs tailored to power usersa
  • Public recognition (badges, features, social shoutouts)
  • Campaigns that give users tools to share their success

Example: Notion turns everyday users into ambassadors by showcasing their workspace setups, templates, and productivity tips across YouTube, Reddit, and Twitter. They're even allowed to monetize their expertise by selling Notion templates on its marketplace.

Using advocates for GTM motions

Go-to-market is like any other sales strategy in the sense that advocates who've already proven your product's value are a critical driver across sales, onboarding, and expansion. In fact, with new products that haven't hit the market, even more so.

Customer marketing provides Sales with:

  • Real-world case studies tailored to each use case
  • References and intros from existing champions
  • Community-driven momentum that lowers friction during the buying process

Example: Deeto's users use Deeto's AI-powered widgets and smart-matching algorithms to present prospects and sales reps with the most relevant references and social proof content at any point in the sales cycle.

Tools and technologies used in customer marketing

Of all the things you can't miss, technology has to be the most critical. Manually managing these things will all but guarantee you stay disorganized and fail to execute consistently across hundreds (or thousands) of users.

CRM and marketing automation platforms

These are your backbone. They hold all your customer data and communication workflows. You'll use them to centralize customer profiles and activity, trigger personalized campaigns based on behavior, and align Customer Success, Marketing, and Sales around a single source of truth.

Tools worth checking out: HubSpot, Salesforce, Customer.io

Analytics and feedback tools

These are the platforms you'll need in order to track NPS, CSAT, and feature adoption. They're also how you'll identify promoters and churn risks and collect insights that shape campaigns and content.

Tools worth checking out: Pendo, Hotjar, Delighted, Mixpanel

Email and engagement software

You need consistent, personalized communication to stay top of mind and drive value post-sale. An email software will automate the process of sending lifecycle emails, feature tips, and upsell offers. You can create journeys based on user behavior, and even blend email, in-app messaging, and SMS if you need to (with the right platform).

Tools worth checking out: Klaviyo, Iterable, Customer.io

Customer advocacy platforms

Advocacy is where customer marketing compounds. These tools help you turn satisfied users into active promoters.

Deeto is unique in this category because it helps you scale word-of-mouth by turning customers into on-demand advocates. You can invite users to share feedback, join reference programs, refer new leads, and take part in case studies, all from one dashboard.

That same platform presents segment-specific content to your marketing and CS teams and prospect-specific references to your sales team. And generative AI allows you to repurpose and share content across your entire ecosystem almost instantly.

Want to see it in action? Request a demo and we'll show you how it works.

What Is Customer Marketing? Your Complete Guide

What Is Customer Marketing? Your Complete Guide

Learn what customer marketing is, why it matters, and how to build strategies that drive retention, loyalty, and growth.

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