The fastest-growing B2B software companies are betting onrevenue marketing

Here's why.

Written by Tim Rath
Hamburg, February 28, 2025

A letter from our Founder

Dear Reader,


The “growth at all costs” era is over. The smartest B2B tech companies are ditching wasteful spending in favor of sustainable, scalable growth.

The key? Revenue marketing. It’s not just about more leads; it’s about the right leads, long-term customers, and a predictable pipeline.

If you follow me on LinkedIn, you already know this. But many B2B SaaS companies are still grappling with the fallout, unsure how to adapt and stay competitive.

These challenges are exactly why my dad, Christian, and I built YOYABA: To help B2B software companies worldwide master revenue marketing and modernize their go-to-market strategies.

But to make that happen, we need a shared understanding of what modern revenue marketing really is. Its core principles, values, and goals.

So let’s take a quick look at the macroeconomic shifts shaping our work as marketers today.

The big shift in B2B SaaS & Tech

On December 3, 2021, DocuSign’s stock crashed 40% overnight—a wake-up call for the entire industry.

The golden age of boundless growth was over.

Suddenly, it wasn’t just about chasing volume, ramping up output, or maximizing growth rates. For the first time, the cost of acquiring new customers became impossible to ignore.

Go-to-market efficiency became the new mantra.

This shift made traditional B2B marketing playbooks obsolete.

Go-to-market is the new differentiator

The “Golden Era” sparked the SaaS Boom—and with it, increased competition. At the same time, AI was born. People used to say, “SaaS is eating the world.” Now, some claim, “AI is eating SaaS”.

When every product looks the same, features alone won’t set you apart. What was once a USP is now table stakes.

That’s why go-to-market strategy and flawless execution matter more than ever. It determines who reaches their ICP at the right time, wins them over, and turns them into long-term customers.

And with that, new challenges emerge…

Low-quality leads and poor conversion rates

Gated content was once the go-to tactic for capturing leads. But the reality? Most weren’t genuinely interested—let alone ready to buy.

Data from 100+ B2B SaaS CRM accounts shows an average lead-to-customer conversion rate of under 1%. That makes the traditional lead gen playbook unsustainable.

Rising lead costs and higher sales team salaries are adding pressure

Rising competition has sent lead generation costs soaring. Since 2018, the cost per lead (CPL) has skyrocketed, while salaries for the same talent have nearly doubled.

B2B buying behavior has fundamentally Changed

Matthis and I talk about this all the time on our podcast and on LinkedIn. It’s a shift no one in B2B can afford to ignore.

We’re in a buyer-led economy. Buyers, not sellers, call the shots. They decide what, where, and when they engage.

And the data proves it

The Challenges

On the market

Companies still need growth, but not at any costs

Competition is rising, and products are becoming harder to differentiate

Brand, marketing, and GTM are now the key competitive advantages

For companies

Misaligned teams and KPIs (plenty of leads but little pipeline)

Long sales cycles and high customer acquisition costs

Slow inbound pipeline growth and inefficient spending

Für Marketing Teams

Lack of expertise on modern revenue marketing

No operational resources for paid ads, creative, organic, and RevOps

Old tactics don’t work & new inspiration is missing

The solution?
Rethinking go-to-market and marketing strategies from the ground up.

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Here's how we see the new era of Go-To-Market

Traditional Marketing
Revenue Marketing by YOYABA
Philosophy
Growth at all cost
Efficient growth
Mindset
Sellers have the power
B2B buyers have the power
Mentality
Marketing serves sales
Marketing & Sales build revenue
Strategy
Lead Generation
Revenue Marketing
Objectives
Generate as many leads as possible
Generate more pipeline from leads

To stay future-proof and drive real revenue impact, marketing and sales must share responsibility not just for acquisition, but for retention and expansion, too.

This isn’t just a mindset shift; it’s a full reset of metrics and processes. Lead-based KPIs like MQLs won’t cut it anymore. The focus needs to be on pipeline and revenue.

There's where Revenue Marketing comes in

With three clear objectives:

Demand Creation

Be top of mind when your buyers are ready. Create demand with content that speaks to their pain points and put it where they already spend time.

Demand Capture

When buyers are ready, your brand should be impossible to ignore. Paid and organic growth must work together to capture demand across search, social, and beyond.

Demand Conversion

To turn prospects into customers, sales and marketing must be fully aligned. Focus on high-value deals, shorten sales cycles, and maximize win rates.

Traditional lead gen marketing

Modern marketing

Our 5 Principles of Revenue Marketing

But for this to work, we need more than just a problem to solve. As I mentioned earlier, it takes buy-in for shared principles. A common foundation that aligns teams and drives real impact.

Buyer-led
Economy
Buyers hold the power.
We serve them.
Radical Revenue
Focus
Every initiative must drive pipeline and revenue, not vanity metrics.
Understand Modern Buying
The journey isn’t linear, and dark social matters.
Use Hybrid
Attribution
Only a hybrid model reveals what truly works.
Education-Driven Demand
Teach first, and the right buyers will come to you.

These five principles are the backbone of our work. They shape every strategy, every decision, and every action we take.

How we bring Revenue Marketing to life

Our services – Paid Growth, Organic Growth, and Revenue Operations – combine everything you need to succeed in today’s competitive landscape.

We tailor the right mix of strategies to fit your goals. The result? A stronger inbound pipeline and no more wasted time on unqualified leads.

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Demand Creation
Blue circle
Demand Capture
Blue circle
Demand Conversion
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Paid Growth

Catch your ICPs attention and turn it into pipeline with hyper-relevant content on paid social (LinkedIn, Meta, etc.) and high-intent campaigns on paid search channels like Google.

Organic Growth

Create seamless user experiences at every buying stage and conquer the top google rankings with convincing organic content to generate and capture demand.

Revenue Operations

Create a fine-tuned revenue engine by implementing and harmonizing efficient processes, optimized workflows, human collaboration as well as a powerful tech infrastructure.

Revenue Marketing Outcomes

With the right strategy and a shared understanding of modern go-to-market, the results speak for themselves:

A high-quality pipeline filled with ICP-fit buyers who are ready to act fast.

Predictable revenue through clear attribution, data-driven forecasting, and optimized ROI.

A growing inbound pipeline with shorter sales cycles, higher win rates, and lower acquisition costs.

In the end, this means faster company growth, millions in added enterprise value, and often, well-earned job promotions across the revenue team.

Here's what Revenue Leaders are saying

Ambitious Sparring Partner

"For our GTM strategy in DACH, we needed an ambitious sparring partner. And we certainly found one in YOYABA. The energetic and professional support of the Organic Growth team has enabled us to increase the number of opportunities generated via organic search in DACH by 25%."

Sarah Stott-Taylor
Sarah Stott-Taylor
CMO
,
Haiilo
Their creative approach is highly valuable to us

“YOYABA is excellent at research & creative strategy – especially in analyzing the whole buyer experience from top-funnel to conversion. Their creative approach of deeply immersing into the minds of our customers and then coming up with new ideas for formats and ad creatives in such a fast pace is highly valuable to us. This approach showed us a new process of continuously creating new ad creatives.”

Jaime Santafé Martínez
Jaime Santafé Martínez
Global Head of B2B Marketing
,
USC
Overcoming Operational Challenges

"YOYABA helped us overcome some of our toughest operational challenges. Their comprehensive approach to redesigning our CRM systems and processes has improved our internal efficiency and enhanced the customer experience. The integration between our CS and Finance teams and the automation of our renewal processes have been particularly impactful. Their dedication and expertise have positioned us for sustainable growth."

Michael Blazek
Michael Blazek
Chief Revenue Officer
,
Humanoo
Tailored RevOps Support Segmentation and Custom CRM Enrichment

"YOYABA understood our business context quickly. Their RevOps Team provided valuable expertise in refining our segmentation and lead routing processes. They helped us facilitate Marketing activities and even wrote a completely custom web scraping script for us that now continuously enriches our CRM database."

Nick Bhutani
Nick Bhutani
VP of Marketing
,
proofserve
Voller Fokus auf echte Kundengewinnung

“YOYABA hat ein super Verständnis für B2B SaaS und optimiert nicht nur auf Leads, sondern auf tatsächlich gewonnene Kunden. Dabei bringen sie immer wieder neue Ansätze, die es braucht, um im kompetitiven ERP-Umfeld zu bestehen.”

Jörg Hipper
Jörg Hipper
Head of Marketing
,
Xentral
I've never experienced that at an agency

“Every single point of contact with anyone at YOYABA is a 9.5/10 across the board and I have never experienced that with an agency. Probably not even 1% of all agencies can do that.”

Julius Komp
Julius Komp
Founder & CEO
,
Exporto
With 1 euro, we generated 4 euros in turnover

“By switching to the YOYABA Demand Gen. framework, we have significantly higher quality leads in the pipeline. ”

Markus Bimüller
Markus Bimüller
Head of Growth
,
Workist
You only get one chance to make a great first impression on a market

"I knew we couldn’t afford to make a bad one with the DACH market, and that’s where the YOYABA team truly helped. There are very few demand generation agencies operating at the high level of sophistication we need in a partner, and that’s where YOYABA thrived. From meeting that high bar we have and being able to do it in a very professional manner is going to make it hard for us to ever want to use any other agency."

Sam Kuehnle
Sam Kuehnle
Vice President of Marketing
,
Loxo
No mediocre marketing

"We don't want to do mediocre marketing and YOYABA is exactly the right partner for this. YOYABA understands our target group and creates campaigns for us that stand out in a sea of boring B2B ads and position us as a thought leader."

Mika Leicht
Mika Leicht
Head of Marketing
,
Instaffo
Deep understanding of our target group

"YOYABA always manages to create new relevant creatives through a really deep understanding of our target group - often with a creative twist. By continuously optimizing the messaging, we have been able to keep improving the very good results. I am particularly enthusiastic about the video ads and always look forward to the filming days at the YOYABA office."

Markus Bimüller
Markus Bimüller
Head of Growth
,
Workist
Impressive project management and hands-on mentality

"Without YOYABA, we would still be aimlessly tweaking our website with little to no effect. What the team achieved in just a few months is extraordinary. Their comprehensive expertise and dedication to SEO and content, combined with professional project management and a flexible, hands-on mentality, impressed us greatly. Thanks to YOYABA, we are now well-positioned to generate sustainable revenue with our website."

Olena Sychenko
Olena Sychenko
Head of Marketing
,
Zeotap CDP
Consistently straightforward, professional and eye-to-eye

"The collaboration with YOYABA was consistently straightforward, professional and eye-to-eye. Communication was fast and easy. The Organic Team reliably delivered high-quality content, thought ahead, developed ideas, and demonstrated initiative. For me, that's what makes a great partnership!"

Anna Nguyen
Anna Nguyen
Content Marketing Manager
,
onlyfy by XING
Now we can steer our marketing & sales activites

"The biggest added value for us is the topic of attribution. Thanks to the adjustments we have made together with YOYABA, we can now drill down into channels and make direct connections to revenue metrics. Therewith, we can better evaluate and steer our marketing & sales activities."

Moritz Hofmann
Moritz Hofmann
Founder & CEO
,
Clockodo
Scalable processes to manage the entire customer journey

"YOYABA helped us create scalable processes to manage the entire customer journey, from lead to retention. The new data structure gives us better insights, allowing us to improve our go-to-market strategy."

Franz Tauber
Franz Tauber
CGO
,
Tidely
We better understand how channels and campaigns perform

„With YOYABA’s attribution system, we collect more data pointsand better understand how well channels and campaignsperform. This helps us to make good decisions for the future.”

Benny Hahn
Benny Hahn
Managing Director
,
ZEP by provantis
Collaboration as partners

"With YOYABA, we’ve built our performance marketing from the ground up. What we especially enjoy is the collaboration on equal footing. Together, we first developed our LinkedIn strategy, and now we’re tackling search engine advertising as the next step."

Laura Blauschmidt
Laura Blauschmidt
Head of Marketing
,
Brainsuite
Tripled the number of opportunities in just 6 months.

“Through YOYABA, we were able to triple the number of opportunities within only 6 months, but most importantly, we were able to build a comprehensive set-up for further scaling. For the first time, we have a planning capability that also makes our investors happy.”

Dr. Thomas Cann
Dr. Thomas Cann
CEO & Co-Founder
,
Fyrfeed
The collaboration with YOYABA goes far beyond the classic agency-client relationship.

“YOYABA is not only an execution-driven performance marketing partner for our primary channels Google & LinkedIn, but also continuously delivers fresh ideas and valuable approaches to scale and internationalize our inbound marketing. As a fast-moving SaaS startup, I appreciate the agile, honest and uncomplicated collaboration with the entire team, in addition to the performance marketing competencies.”

Thomas Peham
Thomas Peham
VP Marketing
,
Storyblok
50% of total pipeline through LinkedIn Ads

“LinkedIn had little impact on the pipeline before we started working with YOYABA. Now we generate about 50% of our total pipeline through LinkedIn Ads.”

Moritz Stern
Moritz Stern
Head of Strategy & Marketing
,
Operations1
Excellent Execution

“In my opinion, YOYABA is not a classic agency, but rather an indispensable partner that sees itself as part of our marketing organization and acts as such. The constant new input at strategic and operational levels, the high level of product understanding and the excellent execution have meant that we have been able to increase the value of our inbound pipeline tenfold in just a few months.”

Patrick Hollenbeck
Patrick Hollenbeck
Head of Marketing DACH
,
PlayPlay
We finally found the complete package

“Before YOYABA, we tried two other agencies, but our traffic and sign-ups kept dropping. With YOYABA, we finally found the complete package: a motivated team that works on our level, knows our product inside and out, and delivers the results we need. We were able to recover our most important traffic and get back on track with the website conversions. Overall, we can always rely on the Organic Team to deliver with precision.”

Torben Simon Meier
Torben Simon Meier
Founder & Managing Director
,
Raidboxes
High flexibility and outstanding content quality

“YOYABA really understands our product and delivers first-class content pieces. Besides the strong content marketing expertise, I also appreciate the flexible strategic support and the honest, uncomplicated exchange with the entire organic growth team. All in all, we could significantly increase our online visibility since we started collaborating.”

Joel Schneider
Joel Schneider
Co-Founder & CMO
,
Mooncamp
They work with the best of the best in the B2B SaaS scale-up space.

“The sparring and exchange with YOYABA is particularly valuable, you really notice that they work with the best of the best in the B2B SaaS scale-up space. This is something I notice in every jour fix.”

Philipp Ströhemann
Philipp Ströhemann
Founder & CEO
,
ComX

One thing is clear: the last few years were just the beginning.

Our mission is to keep expanding our impact, helping B2B software companies across EMEA (and beyond) scale efficiently and set new benchmarks for growth.

That means building a revenue marketing engine where paid growth, organic growth, and RevOps work in sync, like Swiss clockwork, to drive real revenue.

Our world-class team is already breaking records month after month, and we’re just getting started. As we grow, we’ll keep bringing together the best minds to make revenue marketing the gold standard for B2B.

I'm thrilled for what’s ahead. Let’s go!

Tim Rath
Founder & CEO

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