How Competitive Research Fuels Lead-Generation Recent surveys put lead generation at the highest priority for SMB, with the greatest degree of difficulty. A critical issue. Michael Stricker, US Marketing Director SEMrush, demonstrates how competitive research can fill your pipeline with great leads, and how that same information can be used to build persuasive proposals. These immediately useful methods have been proven to work. Compete to win with several tools and resources revealed during this demonstration of SEMrush data in lead generation and selling, for higher conversions and revenue.  During this webinar, Wednesday, July 15 at 2:00 pm EDST, you'll learn:  • How to use Competitive Intelligence to Sell ?????  • Compare and Contrast with Purpose  • 5 Charts that Graphically Drive Prospects into Your Arms  • Listen - Why It's Better to Help than to Sell  • How to Inject Reputation, Local and Mobile into Proposals  Attendees will be given access to a FREE 30-Day Trial of SEMrush Guru Plan to help them put these pointers into practice.  

1. How Competitive Data
Fuels Your
Lead-Generation
#onlineBusiness

2. Michael Stricker
U.S. Marketing Director, SEMrush
• Leading competitive research tool for digital marketing
• Agency, sales support and digital marketing consultant
• 100s of successful digital marketing campaigns
• 1,000,000s of impressions for web-based businesses
• Speaker: ClickZ Live, HEROconf, Etail, SMX East.
• Author: blogs CIO.com, Business2Community, SEMrush.com
Publications Philadelphia Inquirer and Philly Ad News.
• Consulted: Enterprise Brands 2Modern, AeroPostale, BET,
GolfSmith, HomeFirst, RedCats, RE/MAX, The-House, Toshiba

3. We'll show you how
Competitive Research
drives lead-generation and
helps you build killer proposals.
We'll demonstrate how to use SEMrush in the
lead generation and selling process for
higher conversions and revenue.
(Stay to the end! Attendees got a free SEMrush 30-day trial)
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4. Competitive Research for lead-gen and killer proposals
• How to use Competitive Intelligence to Sell
• Compare and Contrast with Purpose
• 5Charts that Graphically Motivate Prospects
• Listen -Why It's Better to Help than to Sell
• Inject Reputation, Local, Mobile into Proposals
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5. • How to use Competitive Intelligence to Motivate Prospects
Photos of Really, Really Scared People |© 2014 Colossal www.thisiscolossal.com

6. Competitive Research for lead-gen and killer proposals
Motivate Prospects Using Competitive Intelligence to
Sell Digital Marketing and Design Services
2. Desire
• Success (Mate)
• Eat (Consume)
• Novelty (Play)
1. Fear
• Competition (Get Eaten)
• Shifting Markets (Get Lost)
• Outmoded (Disappear)
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7. Competitive Research for lead-gen and killer proposals
Identify Prospects Using Competitive Intelligence
Look-Alike Marketing: Search –Paid and Organic
• Domains
(many Shared Keywords)
• Brand terms and Product Names and SKUs (PLA)
(find competitors using other brand names in ads and content)
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8. Competitive Research for lead-gen and killer proposals
Identify Prospects Using Competitive Intelligence
Look-Alike Marketing: Search –Paid and Organic
• Keywords
(a semantic method of detecting similarity AND Content Superiority)
• Niche
(related by keywords SimilarWeb, SEMrush, others)
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9. Competitive Research for lead-gen and killer proposals
Motivate Prospects Using Competitive Intelligence
Search –Competitive Landscapes
• Motivate by Traffic
(Traffic Share for high-monthly-volume Keywords)
(Results-based technique: who is most effective competitor?)
• Motivate by Organic Traffic Cost
(Cost of Traffic if Paid)
(Results-based technique: who is most efficient competitor?)
• Competitors using their brand name in ads and content
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10. Competitive Research for lead-gen and killer proposals
Identify &Motivate Using Competitive Intelligence
Paid Search, Smart Marketers
Budget VS Traffic
(Smart marketers: cost/traffic unit to measure effectiveness and efficiency,
look for keywords up, traffic up, spend down)
Overall Budget
(Biggest AdWords spenders in a category, region, industry, overall, or
rapidly increasing budgets)
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11. Competitive Research for lead-gen and killer proposals
Identify &Motivate Using Competitive Intelligence
PLAs –Google Shopping Ads (Paid)
The highest-converting paid ads for merchandisers
(WalMart shifted 80% of their ad budget to this vehicle)
Some etail competitors invest in this, exclusively, and so their scale of
operations, number of products / keywords might escape notice
Filter by Brand, Product Name, features
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12. Competitive Research for lead-gen and killer proposals
Identify &Motivate Using Competitive Intelligence
Local SEO / Mobile Search
Position Tracker
Ranking, volume and traffic for domains and their competitors by:
Location (national, state or city level);
Device (smartphone, tablet or desktop; trends starting at inception, over
time) Detect even national firms that dominate local ad markets with
spending very difficult to detect at the national level.
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13. Competitive Research for lead-gen and killer proposals
Identify &Motivate Using Competitive Intelligence
Social
Networks of value (business type, market demographics; Topsy,
SocialMention, Mention, SocialCrawlytics, SocialBakers.com)
Networks of scale (Followers and growth rates; Radian6, Sysomos,
Meltwater)
Engagement (activation including sharing, RTs, conversations;
FollowerWonk, SocialCrawlytics, new Bitly Audience Metrics, BuzzSumo)
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14. Competitive Research for lead-gen and killer proposals
Identify &Motivate Using Competitive Intelligence
Content Types
Form –
(what formats are attracting the most shares? BuzzSumo)
Headlines --
(what titles are commanding the highest CTR and readership?
BuzzFeed, Mashable, HuffPost)
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15. Competitive Research for lead-gen and killer proposals
Identify Prospects Using Competitive Intelligence to
Sell Digital Marketing and Design Services
Custom Reports
CUSTOM REPORTS –Derive bigdata
• SEMrush
• entire industries, product or brand names,
• every single keyword for which Amazon ranks;
• every non-branded keyword invested by WalMart;
• every single AdWords spender in a given nation with budget >$X?

16. Competitive Research for lead-gen and killer proposals
Identify Prospects Using Competitive Intelligence
Appending Contacts
Enables you to import contact data from webpages or Email into the CRM.
KiteDesk ZoomInfo
Fliptop Full Contact
Netprospex Nimble
Email Hunter BuzzStream

17. Compare and Contrast with Purpose
DON’T…
INSULT CURRENT VENDORS
OVERSELL
OVERSTUFF
PACKAGE

18. Compare and Contrast with Purpose
DO…
SCARE WITH SHARE
TEACH WITH REACH
TALK CORNER OFFICE TALK
TELL A STORY IN PICTURES

19. Compare and Contrast with Purpose
1. DO… SPEAK SUCCESS IN THE VOICE OF OTHERS

20. 5Charts Graphically Drive Prospects into Your Arms
1. Overview
2. Domain VS Domain
3. Organic, Paid Ads Competition
4. PLA
5. Winners/Losers; Chart

21. 5Charts Graphically Drive Prospects into Your Arms
1. Overview Organic

22. 5Charts Graphically Drive Prospects into Your Arms
1. Overview

23. 5Charts Graphically Drive Prospects into Your Arms
1. Overview Paid

24. 5Charts Graphically Drive Prospects into Your Arms
2. Domain VS Domain

25. Identify &Evaluate Paid Competitors
Common Keywords = Battle Zone
Common, Strong Competitors =Sweet Spot

26. Identify &Evaluate Paid Competitors

27. Identify &Evaluate Paid Competitors

28. Identify &Evaluate PLA Competitors –All Keywords

29. 5Charts Graphically Drive Prospects into Your Arms
5. Won/Lost Keywords; Winners/Losers

30. Listen -Why It's Better to Help than to Sell
1. Outbound -
Cold-calling, gatekeepers, lukewarm response,
blocking
INTRUSIVE, IMPERSONAL, INTERRUPTIONAL,
HIGH-BUDGET AND LABOR-INTENSIVE

31. Listen -Why It's Better to Help than to Sell
1. Inbound -
Issue/Problem, Search, Website/Blog,
Content/Nurturing, close
HELPFUL, RELEVANT, INTERCEPTION,
RELATIONSHIP- OR PERMISSION-BASED,
24/7/365, LARGELY AUTOMATED
CHEAPER, MORE PRODUCTIVE

32. Offer
FREE Trials of SEMrush
FREE Demonstrations Available
http://semrush.com

33. Questions?

34. Thank you!
Michael Stricker
U.S. Marketing Director, SEMrush
@radioms