The document presents ten tips for improving lead conversion rates through inbound marketing strategies, focusing on tools and processes that help attract and convert website visitors. Key recommendations include utilizing analytics, creating urgency with calls-to-action, and maintaining simplicity in messaging. It also emphasizes the significance of testing and measuring performance to enhance conversion rates.

1. Always Be Testing
10 Tips for Improving Lead Conversion Rate
Dan Zarrellla
Viral Marketing Scientist
@DanZarrella

2. Traditional Marketing (Outbound)
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3. Marketing Today (Inbound)
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4. How Do the Best New Companies Market?
1950 - 2000 2000 - 2050
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5. What Is Inbound Marketing?
Process Website Visitors Tools
Get Found Get F
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• Publish • Content Mgmt
• Promote • Blogging
• Optimize • S i l M di
Social Media
• SEO
Get Found • Analytics
Convert Convert
• Test • Offers / CTAs
• Landing Pages
• Target Convert
C t • Email
• Nurture • Lead Intelligence
• Lead Mgmt
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• Analytics
Customers
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6. Inbound Is Cheaper
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7. Budget vs. Brains
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8. Inbound Gives Leverage
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9. One Way to Feed the Funnel
Blogging SEO Social Media Email Pay-Per-Click
Website Visitors
Get Found
Convert
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Customers
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10. Definitions
D fi iti
What are you talking about?

12. Calls-to-Action
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13. $$$
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14. Testing
$$$ $$$$$$
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15. Create U
C t Urgency
Do it now.

17. START TODAY!
WHILE SUPPLIES LAST
LIMTED TIME OFFER
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18. Use Numbers
U N b
325 Reasons to Use Digits.

20. 98% of People Love Numbers
1. Prices
2. Numbered lists
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3 Statistics
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21. Specific Actions
S ifi A ti
Exactly what you should do.

23. Tell People Precisely What to Do
• Click here
• Sign up
• Contact us
• Tweet this
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24. Images
Show and tell.

26. Bad

27. Good

28. Clickable C ll t A ti
Cli k bl Calls-to-Action
Make sure your visitors know where to aim.

30. Clickability
Get Started Now
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31. Use Color
U C l
Contrasts draw attention

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37. Remember Positioning
R b P iti i
Where is as important as what.

39. Above the Fold is Best
The Fold
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40. Keep it Si l
K Simple
Seriously.

42. Shorter Forms are Better
32%
Conversion 53%
Conversion
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43. Don’t Get T P
D ’t G t Too Personal
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Don’t expect too much on the first date.

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46. Mind Y
Mi d Your Metrics
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Conversion rates are 90% of the battle.

48. Measure Your Performance
PAGE NAME PAGE SUBMISSIONS CONVERSION RATE
VIEWS
Blogging for Business Webinar 3803 2165 56.93%
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49. Performance by Campaign
Referrer Visitors Leads Conversion %
Newsletter #3 512 271 52.93%
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50. Bonus Ti Action.Grader.com
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Self-Learning Call to Action Optimization

53. You’re Welcome
Welcome.

55. http://action.grader.com
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56. Who’s HubSpot?
• Founded in July 2006 from research at MIT
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• Cambridge, MA
• 1400+ customers 85+ employees
1400 customers, 85
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57. What HubSpot Software Does
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58. HubSpot Customers’ Proven ROI
Cilk Arts Increases Leads 500%
Makana Solutions 3x Leads, 2x Conversions
Vocio Pays for HubSpot 30x Over with New Leads
Objective Management Group Grows Leads 360%
Bridge Group Doubles Online Leads
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www.HubSpot.com/ROI
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59. Thank You!
Software: www.HubSpot.com/Trial
Community: www.InboundMarketing.com
Free Tools: www.Grader.com
Dan Zarrella
Marketing Manager @HubSpot
@H bSpot
Twitter: @DanZarrella