BrainSell’s second installment of a 4 part series on inbound marketing. Jim Ward, BrainSell CEO, and Sonja Fridell, BrainSell GM, discuss the best methods of creating leads with inbound marketing.
Making Money with Inbound Marketing: Part 2 (Creating Leads)
1. How to Make $ With
Inbound Marketing
Part 2: Creating Leads with Inbound Marketing
Sonja Fridell
Jim Ward GM, BrainSell Technologies
President, BrainSell Technologies
3. The Series
5/16: Part 2 of 4: Creating Leads with Inbound
Marketing
6/6: Part 3 of 4: Leveraging Social Media with
Inbound Marketing
6/13: Part 4 of 4: Converting Leads with Inbound
Marketing
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4. Is your website pushing or pulling?
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5. Do 3 things...
1. Start a blog
2. Create compelling content
3. Track your progress
*And stop obsessing over the way your website looks
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6. ● Choose a platform you like
● Make it VISIBLE
● Enable RSS Feed
● Encourage Comments
● Distribute (linkedin, twitter)
● Add CALLS TO ACTION
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7. ● Write on Google terms (headlines matter)
● But "Don't fight with Ninjas" - D. Shah
● Create Calls to Action!
● Be conversational and to the point
● Frequency (at least once a week)
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8. Track your progress
● Use Google analytics
● Spreadsheet your reach (subscribers, followers, links,
traffic)
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10. Free Tools
● Hoot Suite (twitter and FB)
● Google Analytics
● Google Reader
● Google Marketplace
● Google Docs (forms)
● www.google.com/addurl
● Feed Burner
● Wordpress, Blogger
● Weebly (site builder with forms)
● Mail Chimp (outbound, newsletters)
● Inbox25
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11. In Closing
● Start a blog
● Create valuable content
● GET FOUND
● Become a trusted resource
● Gain a following
● Measure progress
● Automate when it's time
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12. Two more parts left!
6/6: Part 3 of 4: Leveraging Social Media with
Inbound Marketing
6/13: Part 4 of 4: Converting Leads
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