Creating a great marketing strategy is as important as executing that strategy. This presentation walks through how to look at the big picture of marketing and then samples how to utilize personas, inbound marketing and conversion optimization to drive revenue.
16. Buy – Beg – Bug Earn
Shouting your message
out, and hoping your
customers hear it.
Creating something that
draws the customer to you.
The shift from outbound to inbound
17. Content
PROVIDE VALUE!
It’s not your job to sell me anymore, instead...
Tell me a story
Teach me something new
Help me solve a problem
Show me something I’ve never seen before
Make me laugh, or cry, or cheer
23. Nurture Leads
Recycle people back into your sales funnel.
Lead nur tur ing emails get 4-10 times the
r es pons e r ate of s tandalone email blas ts .
50% of leads are qualified but are not ready to buy
This is a high level view that focuses on your marketing strategyI’m at WordCamp, because we use primary WordPress and the core of any marketing strategy is a great site setup to drive the campaigns you create.Feel free to ask questions.
CEO24 peopleClevelandWork with mid-market and fortune 500Full service agencyI don’t code or design now, but I started the agency by myself 11 years agoI know how to code php, js, html, css and am a pretty decent designer
It’s all about the end result. Which many times at the very, very end of our funnel we have leads and sales.Whether you have clients, employers or spouses – I am sure there is an expectation to earn money.Asked my clients to pay me to just play on their site, but it doesn’t go over well
Marketing is a funnel.We start wide trying to get a large group and people that stay to the end our leads and salesA website is typically in the middle of this funnel today and an integral part of increasing revenueOur goal is to continually figure out how to get more of the right people in the top and how to stop people from falling out.
FirehouseHow do we choose and fit everything togetherWithout wasting time and money that turns into nothing
One of the biggest things I see is that people do not have any plan.The approach is to go with what the last person told them about or the latest article they readThat’s not good enough and the numbers prove it effects you
Two ways we work to increase leads
Bounce rate, key messages, easy navigation, etc.
ExperientialCreate value. Value is the core of what we do.Value builds a relationship with your audience of trustValue will increase sharing and linking which impacts seoValue gets e-mails openedValue converts ppc visitors into leads
BUT, create value based on what your audience wants …facebook image example
Understanding how content and messages impact visitorsThis goes back to knowing your audience and the persona.My persona will help define where I am on the scale and what content my audience responds to best
What scares me is the amount of people who visit our site because we are first for the query ‘best place to hide a dead body’
So, how do we close?
Remember in our revenue map, that there were nurture points and conversion pointsFew people buy on their first interaction