By now, we've all heard how valuable—even essential—inbound marketing can be for growing sales and finding new customers. Whether your current sentiment leans more toward enthusiasm or trepidation, there's no way around the fact that inbound marketing is far more complex field than it first seems.
Diving in without a sense for what it's like can be overwhelming, and building a marketing strategy that provides real value takes both savvy and hard work, but fear not—we're here to help!
Are you struggling to create content that engages your audience? Content marketing success relies on your ability to understand and target the customer context. This guide helps you do just that.
How To Grow More Website Traffic With Growth Hacking & Inbound MarketingKennedy Andersson AB
If you want to upgrade your company’s ability to get found, get leads and close sales, then this guide should open up your
mind to consider all the elements of a comprehensive inbound marketing programme.
Using Growth Hacking & Inbound Marketing To Grow On A BudgetKennedy Andersson AB
Low cost & high impact inbound marketing can ignite growth on a limited budget, if you a start-up or feel like giving-up there are opportunities with a comprehensive inbound marketing program to grow your leads and business.
Modern marketing - what's changed and what can we do about it? This guide looks at the most effective B2B marketing strategies in today's business climate.
The Seer Agency - Transformational Marketing eBookThe Seer Agency
Transformational Marketing - it's time to re-think tactical marketing planning and start bringing together insight, audience understanding, creativity, content and measurement.
Are you struggling to create content that engages your audience? Content marketing success relies on your ability to understand and target the customer context. This guide helps you do just that.
How To Grow More Website Traffic With Growth Hacking & Inbound MarketingKennedy Andersson AB
If you want to upgrade your company’s ability to get found, get leads and close sales, then this guide should open up your
mind to consider all the elements of a comprehensive inbound marketing programme.
Using Growth Hacking & Inbound Marketing To Grow On A BudgetKennedy Andersson AB
Low cost & high impact inbound marketing can ignite growth on a limited budget, if you a start-up or feel like giving-up there are opportunities with a comprehensive inbound marketing program to grow your leads and business.
Modern marketing - what's changed and what can we do about it? This guide looks at the most effective B2B marketing strategies in today's business climate.
The Seer Agency - Transformational Marketing eBookThe Seer Agency
Transformational Marketing - it's time to re-think tactical marketing planning and start bringing together insight, audience understanding, creativity, content and measurement.
The Ultimate Guide to Creating Inbound Marketing Buyer PersonasSmartBug Media
Personas are the anchor or any inbound or content marketing campaign. With this guide you will learn 75 questions to accelerate and refine your persona develop, and you help you start marketing smarter.....faster!
The B2B Marketer's Lead Generation Field GuidePascal Bourhis
To learn how to track and identify your ideal buyer, amplify your efforts across multiple channels, and work with sales to capture different types of leads.
How to Create Relevant Marketing Content for B2B MarketingMLT Creative
Content is a key part of the foundation to becoming an effective B2B inbound marketer. Combine great content with SEO, social media, lead nurturing, measurement, and analysis to get the job done for your business!
Traditional lead generation has undergone substantial changes in recent years, thanks to new online and social marketing techniques. In particular, the abundance of information readily available online has led to the rise of the “self-directed buyer” and the emergence of new ways to develop and qualify potential leads before passing them to sales.
In the age of the self-directed buyer, marketers need to find new ways to reach their potential customers and get heard through the noise. Instead of finding customers through mass advertising and email blasts, marketers must now focus on being found, and learn to build enduring relationships with buyers. This massive shift has sparked a huge transformation in marketing.
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Today, marketing is more than simply about doing some communications and throwing leads over the wall to sales. It is a discipline that touches every part of the sales cycle – attracting new customers, making them sales-ready, helping close the deal, converting new customers into advocates, delivering long-term repeat sales.
How does Marketing Strategy Create Value for Customers Journey?PPCexpo
Dow does Marketing Strategy Create Value for Customers Journey?
The opening passage of Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities paints a reflection of pre-revolution Paris and London. It is also a reasonably accurate description of the state of marketing in the Digital Age.
Performance Marketing is evolving into a multi-channel discipline. Advertisers and media partners need more advanced tracking and reporting to ensure the efficiency and performance of their campaigns and Users/Customers.
Compelling content is at the heart of every successful marketing strategy today, the fuel for your Demand Generation engine. Learn how to create it and where to put it.
The Ultimate Guide to Creating Inbound Marketing Buyer PersonasSmartBug Media
Personas are the anchor or any inbound or content marketing campaign. With this guide you will learn 75 questions to accelerate and refine your persona develop, and you help you start marketing smarter.....faster!
The B2B Marketer's Lead Generation Field GuidePascal Bourhis
To learn how to track and identify your ideal buyer, amplify your efforts across multiple channels, and work with sales to capture different types of leads.
How to Create Relevant Marketing Content for B2B MarketingMLT Creative
Content is a key part of the foundation to becoming an effective B2B inbound marketer. Combine great content with SEO, social media, lead nurturing, measurement, and analysis to get the job done for your business!
Traditional lead generation has undergone substantial changes in recent years, thanks to new online and social marketing techniques. In particular, the abundance of information readily available online has led to the rise of the “self-directed buyer” and the emergence of new ways to develop and qualify potential leads before passing them to sales.
In the age of the self-directed buyer, marketers need to find new ways to reach their potential customers and get heard through the noise. Instead of finding customers through mass advertising and email blasts, marketers must now focus on being found, and learn to build enduring relationships with buyers. This massive shift has sparked a huge transformation in marketing.
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Today, marketing is more than simply about doing some communications and throwing leads over the wall to sales. It is a discipline that touches every part of the sales cycle – attracting new customers, making them sales-ready, helping close the deal, converting new customers into advocates, delivering long-term repeat sales.
How does Marketing Strategy Create Value for Customers Journey?PPCexpo
Dow does Marketing Strategy Create Value for Customers Journey?
The opening passage of Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities paints a reflection of pre-revolution Paris and London. It is also a reasonably accurate description of the state of marketing in the Digital Age.
Performance Marketing is evolving into a multi-channel discipline. Advertisers and media partners need more advanced tracking and reporting to ensure the efficiency and performance of their campaigns and Users/Customers.
Compelling content is at the heart of every successful marketing strategy today, the fuel for your Demand Generation engine. Learn how to create it and where to put it.
The Definitive Guide to Engaging Content MarketingĐức Lê
Content Marketing has become an increasingly important part of a successful and strategic marketing mix. Today, marketers can become their own content publishers and develop audiences to attract attention. This benefits them in three key ways: it builds brand awareness, creates brand preference, and expands the brand’s reach to more buyers and potential customers at a much lower cost.
In this comprehensive, 110+ page guide, we cover topics from getting your content marketing program started to writing, publishing and promoting. Loaded with checklists, charts, and thought leadership from content marketing experts, The Definitive Guide to Engaging Content Marketing will teach you how to execute an amazing content marketing program.
You'll learn how to:
Identify and map your buyer personas and journeys
Develop your brand voice and style guide
Optimize your content mix and create an editorial calendar
Resource your team and extend the shelf life of your content
Measure and optimize your content
The Definitive Guide to Engaging Content MarketingAutonomy Hub
Content Marketing has become an increasingly important part of a successful and strategic marketing mix. Today, marketers can become their own content publishers and develop audiences to attract attention. This benefits them in three key ways: it builds brand awareness, creates brand preference, and expands the brand’s reach to more buyers and potential customers at a much lower cost.
In this comprehensive, 110+ page guide, topics from getting your content marketing program started to writing, publishing and promoting. Loaded with checklists, charts, and thought leadership from content marketing experts, The Definitive Guide to Engaging Content Marketing will teach you how to execute an amazing content marketing program.
You'll learn how to:
Identify and map your buyer personas and journeys
Develop your brand voice and style guide
Optimize your content mix and create an editorial calendar
Resource your team and extend the shelf life of your content
Measure and optimize your content
Customer Journey Maps and Buyer PersonasGoodbuzz Inc.
Today’s buyers have more ways to interact with businesses than ever, but this increase in communication channels and platforms doesn’t necessarily translate to a positive customer experience: Only 22 percent of consumers say the average retailer understands them as an individual, and only 21 percent say the communications they receive from the average retailer are “usually relevant.”
Learn how demand generation differs from lead generation, and how demand gen can help businesses build loyalty, reach new audiences and increase conversions.
Lead nurturing is an essential aspect of any successful marketing strategy. In today's digital age, consumers have access to a wealth of information at their fingertips, making it important for businesses to generate leads and nurture them until they are ready to purchase. By building relationships with potential customers through valuable content and personalized interactions, businesses can increase conversion rates, improve customer retention, and better understand their target audience. In this article, you will learn everything about Lead Nurturing—keep reading.
This process of building relationships with potential customers provides them with valuable information and guidance to turn them into paying customers. Today, consumers have access to a wealth of information at their fingertips, making it important for businesses to generate leads and nurture them until they are ready to make a purchase. Here’s a simple list of ways you can cultivate strong customer relationships and turn them into long-term customers.
1. Understand Your Target Audience
Before you begin any lead nurturing activities, you must have a vivid understanding of your target audience. What are their pain points? What are their interests? What motivates them to make a purchase? By answering these questions, you can create content that will directly speak to their needs and interests. You can also tailor your lead nurturing activities to their specific needs, increasing conversion chances.
2. Create Valuable Content
Creating valuable content is one of the most effective ways to nurture leads. Content marketing involves creating and sharing relevant, informative, and engaging content for your target audience. This can include blog posts, whitepapers, videos, webinars, and more. By providing your leads with valuable content, you can position yourself as an industry expert, build trust with your prospects, and keep them engaged throughout the buyer's journey.
Evolution Digital discuss how content plays a huge role in generating website traffic and increasing your sales at eCommerce Expo Ireland 2016 on April 19th in Dublin, Ireland.
Overview of developing and creating a lead management programme along with a clear content marketing solution integrated with possible automated marketing solutions
Content Marketing: A definitive guide for 2022steeve jonsons
By using content marketing, you can win the hearts of your audience.
Create an immersive experience for potential customers so they can see
how your product or service solves their problems or fulfills their desires.
Do this, and you'll get more sales.
Buyer personas are a useful tool to have in any marketer’s toolbox, as they help you understand your customers better. However, many marketers don’t know how to develop a buyer persona or even how to get started.
This article will provide you with an overview of what a buyer persona is, and outline the basic steps needed to develop a buyer persona.
Similar to RiseFuel's Beginners Guide to Inbound Marketing (20)
Core Web Vitals SEO Workshop - improve your performance [pdf]Peter Mead
Core Web Vitals to improve your website performance for better SEO results with CWV.
CWV Topics include:
- Understanding the latest Core Web Vitals including the significance of LCP, INP and CLS + their impact on SEO
- Optimisation techniques from our experts on how to improve your CWV on platforms like WordPress and WP Engine
- The impact of user experience and SEO
A.I. (artificial intelligence) platforms are popping up all the time, and many of them can and should be used to help grow your brand, increase your sales and decrease your marketing costs.In this presentation:We will review some of the best AI platforms that are available for you to use.We will interact with some of the platforms in real-time, so attendees can see how they work.We will also look at some current brands that are using AI to help them create marketing messages, saving them time and money in the process. Lastly, we will discuss the pros and cons of using AI in marketing & branding and have a lively conversation that includes comments from the audience.
Key Takeaways:
Attendees will learn about LLM platforms, like ChatGPT, and how they work, with preset examples and real time interactions with the platform. Attendees will learn about other AI platforms that are creating graphic design elements at the push of a button...pre-set examples and real-time interactions.Attendees will discuss the pros & cons of AI in marketing + branding and share their perspectives with one another. Attendees will learn about the cost savings and the time savings associated with using AI, should they choose to.
For too many years marketing and sales have operated in silos...while in some forward thinking companies, the two organizations work together to drive new opportunity development and revenue. This session will explore the lessons learned in that beautiful dance that can occur when marketing and sales work together...to drive new opportunity development, account expansion and customer satisfaction.
No, this is not a conversation about MQLs and SQLs. Instead we will focus on a framework that allows the two organizations to drive company success together.
Digital Commerce Lecture for Advanced Digital & Social Media Strategy at UCLA...Valters Lauzums
E-commerce in 2024 is characterized by a dynamic blend of opportunities and significant challenges. Supply chain disruptions and inventory shortages are critical issues, leading to increased shipping delays and rising costs, which impact timely delivery and squeeze profit margins. Efficient logistics management is essential, yet it is often hampered by these external factors. Payment processing, while needing to ensure security and user convenience, grapples with preventing fraud and integrating diverse payment methods, adding another layer of complexity. Furthermore, fulfillment operations require a streamlined approach to handle volume spikes and maintain accuracy in order picking, packing, and shipping, all while meeting customers' heightened expectations for faster delivery times.
Amid these operational challenges, customer data has emerged as an important strategy. By focusing on personalization and enhancing customer experience from historical behavior, businesses can deliver improved website and brand experienced, better product recommendations, optimal promotions, and content to meet individual preferences. Better data analytics can also help in effectively creating marketing campaigns, improving customer retention, and driving product development and inventory management.
Innovative formats such as social commerce and live shopping are beginning to impact the digital commerce landscape, offering new ways to engage with customers and drive sales, and may provide opportunity for brands that have been priced out or seen a downturn with post-pandemic shopping behavior. Social commerce integrates shopping experiences directly into social media platforms, tapping into the massive user bases of these networks to increase reach and engagement. Live shopping, on the other hand, combines entertainment and real-time interaction, providing a dynamic platform for showcasing products and encouraging immediate purchases. These innovations not only enhance customer engagement but also provide valuable data for businesses to refine their strategies and deliver superior shopping experiences.
The e-commerce sector is evolving rapidly, and businesses that effectively manage operational challenges and implement innovative strategies are best positioned for long-term success.
In this presentation, Danny Leibrandt explains the impact of AI on SEO and what Google has been doing about it. Learn how to take your SEO game to the next level and win over Google with his new strategy anyone can use. Get actionable steps to rank your name, your business, and your clients on Google - the right way.
Key Takeaways:
1. Real content is king
2. Find ways to show EEAT
3. Repurpose across all platforms
Search Engine Marketing - Competitor and Keyword researchETMARK ACADEMY
Over 2 Trillion searches are made per day in Google search, which means there are more than 2 Trillion visits happening across the websites of the world wide web.
People search various questions, phrases or words. But some words and phrases are searched
more often than others.
For example, the words, ‘running shoes’ are searched more often than ‘best road running
shoes for men’
These words or phrases which people use to search on Google are called Keywords.
Some keywords are searched more often than others. Number of times a keyword is searched
for in a month is called keyword volume.
Some keywords have more relevant results than others. For the phrase “running shoes” we
get more than 80M relevant results, whereas for “best road running shoes for men” we get
only 8.
The former keyword ‘running shoes’ has way more competition from popular websites to
new and small blogs, whereas the latter keyword doesn’t have that much competition. This
search competition for a keyword is called search difficulty of a keyword or keyword
difficulty.
In other words, if the keyword difficulty is ‘low’ or ‘easy’, there won’t be any competition
and if you target such keywords on your site, you can easily rank on the front page of Google.
Some keywords are searched for, just to know or to learn some information about something,
that’s their search intention. For example, “What shoe size should I choose?” or “How to pick
the right shoe size?”
These keywords which are searched just to know about stuff are called informational
keywords. Typically people who are searching this type of keywords are top of a Conversion
funnel.
Conversion funnel is the journey that search visitors go through on their way to an email
subscription or a premium subscription to the services you offer or a purchase of products
you sell or recommend using your referral link.
For some buyers, research is the most important part when they have to buy a product.
Depending on that, their journey either widens or narrows down. These types of buyers are
Researchers and they spend more time with informational keywords.
Conversion is the action you want from your search visitors. Number of conversions that you
get for every 100 search visitors is called Conversion rate.
People who are at different stages of a conversion funnel use different types of keywords.
How to Run Landing Page Tests On and Off Paid Social PlatformsVWO
Join us for an exclusive webinar featuring Mariate, Alexandra and Nima where we will unveil a comprehensive blueprint for crafting a successful paid media strategy focused on landing page testing.With escalating costs in paid advertising, understanding how to maximize each visitor’s experience is crucial for retention and conversion.
This session will dive into the methodologies for executing and analyzing landing page tests within paid social channels, offering a blend of theoretical knowledge and practical insights.
The Pearmill team will guide you through the nuances of setting up and managing landing page experiments on paid social platforms. You will learn about the critical rules to follow, the structure of effective tests, optimal conversion duration and budget allocation.
The session will also cover data analysis techniques and criteria for graduating landing pages.
In the second part of the webinar, Pearmill will explore the use of A/B testing platforms. Discover common pitfalls to avoid in A/B testing and gain insights into analyzing A/B tests results effectively.
The session includes a brief history of the evolution of search before diving into the roles technology, content, and links play in developing a powerful SEO strategy in a world of Generative AI and social search. Discover how to optimize for TikTok searches, Google's Gemini, and Search Generative Experience while developing a powerful arsenal of tools and templates to help maximize the effectiveness of your SEO initiatives.
Key Takeaways:
Understand how search engines work
Be able to find out where your users search
Know what is required for each discipline of SEO
Feel confident creating an SEO Plan
Confidently measure SEO performance
AI-Powered Personalization: Principles, Use Cases, and Its Impact on CROVWO
In today’s era of AI, personalization is more than just a trend—it’s a fundamental strategy that unlocks numerous opportunities.
When done effectively, personalization builds trust, loyalty, and satisfaction among your users—key factors for business success. However, relying solely on AI capabilities isn’t enough. You need to anchor your approach in solid principles, understand your users’ context, and master the art of persuasion.
Join us as Sarjak Patel and Naitry Saggu from 3rd Eye Consulting unveil a transformative framework. This approach seamlessly integrates your unique context, consumer insights, and conversion goals, paving the way for unparalleled success in personalization.
Most small businesses struggle to see marketing results. In this session, we will eliminate any confusion about what to do next, solving your marketing problems so your business can thrive. You’ll learn how to create a foundational marketing OS (operating system) based on neuroscience and backed by real-world results. You’ll be taught how to develop deep customer connections, and how to have your CRM dynamically segment and sell at any stage in the customer’s journey. By the end of the session, you’ll remove confusion and chaos and replace it with clarity and confidence for long-term marketing success.
Key Takeaways:
• Uncover the power of a foundational marketing system that dynamically communicates with prospects and customers on autopilot.
• Harness neuroscience and Tribal Alignment to transform your communication strategies, turning potential clients into fans and those fans into loyal customers.
• Discover the art of automated segmentation, pinpointing your most lucrative customers and identifying the optimal moments for successful conversions.
• Streamline your business with a content production plan that eliminates guesswork, wasted time, and money.
5 big bets to drive growth in 2024 without one additional marketing dollar AND how to adapt to the biggest shifting eCommerce trend- AI.
1) Romance Your Customers - Retention
2) ‘Alternative’ Lead Gen - Advocacy
3) The Beautiful Basics - Conversion Rate Optimization
4) Land that Bottom Line - Profitability
5) Roll the Dice - New Business Models
Digital marketing is the art and science of promoting products or services using digital channels to reach and engage with potential customers. It encompasses a wide range of online tactics and strategies aimed at increasing brand visibility, driving website traffic, generating leads, and ultimately, converting those leads into customers.
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When most people in the industry talk about online or digital reputation management, what they're really saying is Google search and PPC. And it's usually reactive, left dealing with the aftermath of negative information published somewhere online. That's outdated. It leaves executives, organizations and other high-profile individuals at a high risk of a digital reputation attack that spans channels and tactics. But the tools needed to safeguard against an attack are more cybersecurity-oriented than most marketing and communications professionals can manage. Business leaders Leaders grasp the importance; 83% of executives place reputation in their top five areas of risk, yet only 23% are confident in their ability to address it. To succeed in 2024 and beyond, you need to turn online reputation on its axis and think like an attacker.\
Key Takeaways:
- New framework for examining and safeguarding an online reputation
- Tools and techniques to keep you a step ahead
- Practical examples that demonstrate when to act, how to act and how to recover
1. Introduction
Welcome to The Beginner's Guide to Inbound Marketing. Whether
you're new to inbound marketing or just looking to close a few
knowledge gaps, we're glad you downloaded our guide.
By now, we've all heard how valuable—even essential—inbound
marketing can be for growing sales and finding new customers.
Whether your current sentiment leans more toward enthusiasm or
trepidation, there's no way around the fact that inbound marketing
is far more complex field than it first seems.
Diving in without a sense for what it's like can be overwhelming,
and building a marketing strategy that provides real value takes
both savvy and hard work, but fear not—we're here to help!
We hope you'll find this to be one of the most helpful inbound
marketing resources available.
2. What are we waiting for? Let's dive in!
Tony Shannon
President, RiseFuel
The Beginner's Guide to Inbound
Marketing
Everyone seems tobe talking about inbound marketing. If you’re just
getting your feet wet, you may wonderif it’s worth thetime andresources
to learn this methodology and apply it toyour marketing.
Inbound isn’t anything exotic or complicated.
In fact, you have probably been exposedto anumber of inbound
marketing strategies andtactics under a variety of circumstances.
3. According to Hubspot, an authority in theindustry, inboundmarketing
focuses on attracting customers through relevant andhelpful content.
Potentialcustomers comeacross such content andfind you through
channels like blogs, search engines, and social media.
Thecontent adds valueat every stagein your customer's buying journey,
building trust andrelationships along theway. It takes them from being a
4. visitoron yourwebsiteto apaying customerand even an advocate for your
brand.
You have experienced inbound in action if you have engaged with a brand
by reading a blog post, sharing contact info todownload a piece of
content, or clicking through amarketing email.
Unlike outboundmarketing (e.g., cold calling, spam emails), inbound isn’t
about fighting for potential customers’attention.
5. With inbound, you attract high-quality leads and turn them intocustomers
by building trust andcredibility for yourbusiness using content designed to
address theproblems andneeds of yourideal audience.
Most important of all, inbound is aboutcreating marketingthatpeople
love.
6. Chapter 1: Why Inbound?
Whetheryou’re selling B2Bor B2C, you’ve probably noticed that today’s
buyers are in thedriver’s seat.
They don’t like being sold toand they want tobe empoweredwith the
right information to make their purchasing decisions.
They tend to do quitea bit of research online before engaging with a
vendor andyou want to“catch” them early on in this process by getting
found.
Inboundis about creating a customer-centric experience tosupport this
buying process. It’s about winning overcustomers by pulling them in and
empowering them with theright information.
7. From thedollars andcents perspective, inbound marketing is also more
cost-effective than outboundmarketing:
46%of marketers have reported higher ROI with inbound
marketing, comparedto 12%foroutbound.
8. 59% of marketers said inboundproduces higher quality leads, vs.
16%for outbound.
Businesses that rely on the inboundmethodology save morethan
$14 forevery newly acquired customer.
Inboundleads cost 61%less on average than outboundleads.
Chapter 2: The Essentials of a
Successful Inbound Strategy
Inboundmarketing consists of four stages –attract, convert, close, and
delight.
It’s acustomer-centric frameworkthat helps orchestratemultiple touch
points and organize your content production and promotion efforts.
9. Later in this guide, we’ll look into each ofthesestages in detailand how
to optimize your strategies.
Right now, just keep in mind that at each stage, your goal is toprovide
value through high-quality, educational content –in the right place at the
right timeand with theright messaging –tobuild trust andrelationships
with youraudience sothey’ll progress tothenext stagein the customer
journey.
Inboundmarketing has asystematicapproach and is proven toworkfor a
wide variety of businesses andindustries.
Although its flexible frameworkallows you tocreate a strategy that’s
uniquetoyour needs, there are somefundamental components you need
in order to succeed in inbound marketing.
10. After youhave these foundationalelements naileddown, you’ll be able
to create effective and sustainable results:
1. Buyer Persona
Since inboundmarketing is a customer-centric approach, thebuyer
persona is the foundation that will inform subsequent strategies and
decisions.
It helps you define whoyour ideal customers areso you can drive high-
quality traffic to yourwebsite, attracting visitors whoare most likely to
become leads and turn into happy customers.
According to Hubspot, abuyer persona is a semi-fictional representation of
your ideal customerbased on market research and real dataabout your
existing customers.
11. It shouldinclude information about customerdemographics, behavior
patterns, challenges, motivations, andgoals.
A detailed buyer persona will give you the structureandinsight tohelp you
determine where tofocus your marketing resources, how totailor your
messaging, what kindof content tocreate, and how toposition your
offerings soyou can attract the most valuablevisitors, leads, and
customers.
To create a buyerpersona, you needto:
Research your past/current customers andprospects. Askquestions
about their demographics, goals, challenges, etc.
12. Remember tofocus on their motivations, not just theiractions.
Identifytrends in your dataand look for commonalities and
similarities among the answers you’vegathered.
Based on the trends, create persona profile stories that contain
information about your ideal customers in a way that relates toyour
products or services.
Take this opportunity to uncovercommon objections they may
have. Makethe personarelatable by using real quotes you’ve
gathered from interviews to understandhow they talk about their
goals andchallenges in their own words.
Youmay have a few types ofcustomers (e.g., differentstakeholders in
a B2B purchasingprocess) and in thatcase, you’ll have to create
multiple buyer personas to address the differentaudience segments.
13. 2. Buyer’s Journey
Thebuyer’s journey illustrates the active research process that prospects
go through before making apurchasing decision.
It’s madeup of three stages – awareness, consideration, and decision.
They illustrate thebuying process from your customers’perspectiveand
help you identifythe kind of content andmessaging best suitedfor the
audience:
Awareness stage – theprospect is experiencing the“symptoms” of their
problems or opportunities.They’redoing research to betterunderstand the
issue, frame theproblem, and giveit a label.
Consideration stage – the prospect has identified theproblemor opportunity
and is researching about possiblesolutions.
14. Decision stage – the prospect has identified asolution strategyand is compiling
a list of availablevendors so theycan make a decision.
3. Content Map – Content + Context
A content map combines buyer personas and buyer’s journey tohelp you
decide what content tocreate at each stageandthe best channels through
which to promoteyourcontent.
It gives context to thecontent pieces soyou can effectively position and
promotethem tomaximize their impact.
15. 4. Content Promotion and Distribution Strategy
After you’veinvestedthe timeand effort tocreate a piece of content, you
need to make sure yourtarget audience will consumeit.
Identify the right distribution techniques and appropriate channels so you
can reach your ideal customers at theright moment.
16. Chapter 3: Driving Traffic and
Attracting Prospects
You need different strategies during thefour stages of inbound marketing
to deliver the right messagetothe right audience.
At the “attract” stage, focus on capturing yourtarget audience’s attention
and driving traffic toyour website.
17. Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
SEO is essentialfor generating high-quality traffic toyour websiteat the
attract stage.
When you optimizeyour websitefor keywords that yourideal audience will
enter intothe search engine regarding thetopic of yourexpertise, it’ll show
up in the search results andyou’re more likely toget found.
18. Since thesepeople “raise their hands” and want to learn about thetopic,
they’re more likely tobecome high-quality leads that will turn into
customers.
SEO can be a big hairy topic and thanks totheever-changing algorithms,
it’s a moving target.
As search engine algorithms become moresophisticated, SEO is way more
than just “stuffing” keywords.
Search engines look for relevant anduseful content that readers spend
timereading.
19. A well-designed and engaging userexperience that encourages visitors to
explore your websitesignals tosearch engine that it’s relevant.
In order tocreate content that is attractivetoyourideal customers, you
need tostart with research.
Revisit your buyer persona(s), put yourself in their shoes, andlist out
keywords or phrases that they’d usein online searches.
Pay attention tohow they framethe problem or ask the questions. Refrain
from using labels and jargons that visitors in the“attract” stagearen’t even
aware of.
20. Usethis list of keywords or phrases toinform your on-page SEO, making
sure they’re included in page titles, descriptions, headings and content,
image title andalt text, as well as URL.
In addition, search engines determine a webpage’s relevance by evaluating
theamount and quality of internal and externallinks in the content. You’ll
get extra “SEO juice” if you havelinks from authority sites pointing back to
your pages.
If you’re a brick-and-mortar business, don’t forget tooptimize for local
SEO, which helps you rank high in local searches and get the attention of
people looking forproducts or services in your geographic location.
21. ForeCommerce merchants, listing products on Google Shopping is a great
way toget in front of shoppers whoare already searching for theproducts
you offer.
Content Marketing
Sharing relevant and valuable content is a critical component in inbound
marketing.
No matterhow goodyour strategies are, they won’t serve their purposes if
you don’t have a meaningful messagetodeliver toyour visitors, leads,
customers, andpromotion partners.
22. Content is what allows search engines tofind you, attracts people to your
site, turns them intoleads, converts them intocustomers, and turns them
into advocates.
Even though blogging is themost common form of content marketing, it’s
not theonly format.
You can deliver content in manyways, such as emails, landing pages, social
media posts, infographics, videos, eBooks, Kindle books, and online
courses.
Content has a very important role in inboundmarketing. It builds trust and
relationships while using appropriate calls-to-action tomoveprospects to
thenext stagein the buyer’s journey.
During the attract stage, content is likely tobe delivered in theform of
blog posts orvideos, optimizedfor SEO and promotedvia social media.
23. In the convert stage, you can use a“lead magnet” togenerate leads.
Visitors will provide you with their contact information in exchange for a
piece of valuable content.
During the close stage, you’dnurturerelationships with your subscribers
via email marketing toturn them into customers.
Last but not least, you’dcontinue todelight your customers andturn them
into advocates using high-quality personalized content and outstanding
customersupport.
Keep in mind that content marketing is a long game. You have toput in
consistent efforts overtime for it towork foryour business.
24. Even thebest content marketers need 6 – 12 months to seeresults.
However, when you’vegained traction, theimpact will grow exponentially.
Your content is your business’s asset that continues to workyearafter
year. A lot of seasonedcontent marketers are still driving a large portion of
traffic totheir websites with blog posts they created years ago.
If you’re just starting out with content marketing effort, keep yourother
promotionaltactics, e.g., paid advertising, anduse them todrive traffic to
your content soyou can gain traction more quickly.
How to Create Effective ContentThat Converts
TheInternet has changed how people engage with brands. Just being the
biggest and loudest won’t win you customers.
25. Instead, you need tocapture readers’ attention by creating content that’s
relevant and valuable to a specific audience.
First, consider thepurpose of the content –what business objectiveis it
fulfilling? E.g., drive traffic toyourwebsiteor turn visitors into leads.
Next, what format will you use? E.g., blog post, casestudy, video,
infographic, whitepaper, calculator or worksheet, webinar, checklist,
template, eBook, research report, andslide deck.
26. Choosea format that’s best suited for yourmaterials, your distribution
channels, and resources available at yourdisposal.
Most important of all, consider how youraudience prefers toget their
information. After all, your content won’t serveits purposeif it doesn’t get
consumed.
Your audience is busy somake it easy for them to take action on the
content. A 300-pageeBook may look impressive(andstroke yourego!) but
it won’t doanygood if it’s collecting dust on yourprospect’s hard drive.
Make surethe format is delivering your content in an accessible and
digestible way tailored toyour audience’s preferences.
E.g., if they are visuallearners, or if they favor Pinterest, an infographic
could be a great choice. If they prefer toread, blog posts or eBooks could
workwell.
27. Of course, you have to choose the right topic to create content
for.
Remember thecontent map we talked about earlier? When you put your
buyer personas and their customerjourney together, you’ll come up with
topic ideas that are relevant to their needs and meet them where they’re
at.
28. Great content is insightfuland educational. It helps solve youraudience’s
problems andchallenges. It’s solution-based, not product-based. It’s
helpful, not sales-y.
Thefocus of your content alsodepends on the stages of the buyer’s
journey you’re targeting:
Awareness stage: focus on the problem or opportunity faced by your
prospects. It shouldbe informativeand educational.
Consideration stage: focus on the solution totheproblem.
Decision stage: focus on the specific products or services that will
deliver thesolution.
29. ContentDistribution and Promotion
When you hit publish, your workisn’t done. In fact, it’s just getting started!
Most seasonedcontent marketers spend20%of their timecreating
content and 80%of their time distributing andpromoting the content to
ensure that it gets in front of theright audience and drives quality traffic to
their websites.
Revisit your buyer personas and consider where they get their information.
Focus on sharing yourcontent on thosechannels toget the most exposure
to your target audience.
There are manyways to distributeyour content and here are afew ideas:
Send an email toyour list.
Post multipletimes on social media andtest different copy.
Syndicate content on authority sites.
Reach out toinfluencers.
30. Submit posts tocontent community (e.g., inbound.org,
growthhackers.com.)
Make it easy for readers toshare your content (e.g., Click toTweet,
“Pin It” button.)
Usepaid ads andremarketing.
Repurpose content on platforms such as LinkedIn Pulseor Medium.
Don’t forget toanalyze your traffic sources tofind out which ones are most
effective in attracting visitors that engage with yourcontent.
You can easily doso by going toyour Google Analytics dashboard and
pulling the referral sources report.
Content distribution helps you maximizethe “shelf life” of yourcontent –
extending its reach, amplifying its impact, and increasing engagement.
Chapter 4: Turning Visitors into Leads
31. At the “convert” stage, visitors arechecking out yourwebsiteand content.
Take this opportunity tocapturetheir information so you can continuethe
conversation tobuild trust andrelationships with them.
Lead Magnet
Back in the days, you can simply say, “sign up for ournewsletter!” and
people would happily handover their email addresses.
Not anymore – nobody wants morerandom newsletters in their already
cluttered inboxes!
Nowadays, you’d have tooffer something of value toentice visitors to
share their contact information.
This kind of content is often called a “lead magnet”.
Lead magnets can come in manyshapes and forms, such as eBooks,
checklists, video training, email series, guides, templates, original dataor
research, whitepapers, SlideShare presentations, podcasts, infographic,
and webinars.
32. To generate high-quality leads, a lead magnet needs toaddress the
particular problem or challenge you can solvefor your prospects.
You don’t haveto cover alot of ground. Instead, focus on one aspect of the
issueyou can solve with onedigestible piece of content soyour prospects
can experience theresults you can create for them.
Choosea format that suits yourmaterials andthe learning styleof your
audience –the presentation shouldbe professional but it doesn’t have to
be complicated.
Don’t forget toinclude a call-to-action totake your leads furtherdown the
buyer’s journey.
33. Just like any piece of content, if you build it they probably won’tcome! You
need toput your lead magnet in front of your prospects in as manyplaces
as possible:
Featureit on your homepage.
Put it on yourwebsite’s sidebar.
Installa lead capture mechanism, such as alight box (pop-up), scroll
box, “hello bar,” orexit intent toshow theopt-in offer at strategic
times and locations.
Promoteit inline within a blog post. If you have a particularly popular
post, you can create a “content upgrade” togenerate leads more
effectively.
Mention it on your social media profiles.
Create dedicated landing pages, which is one of themost effective
ways toget visitors tosign up for yourlist.
Landing Page
A landing page is designed to accomplish one objective andone objective
only – toturn a visitorintoa lead.
34. Visitors are directed tofocus on the only action they can takeon thepage –
signing up for thelead magnet –without otherdistractions (e.g.,
navigation elements, othercalls-to-action.)
If you’re doing paid advertising totarget multiple audience segments with
different messaging, you can create a series of landing pages each with
slightly different copy to match themessageon theads.
Manybusinesses havemultiple lead magnets andlanding pages that allow
them todeliver a seamless userexperience by showing themost
appropriate messaging tovisitors.
In fact, aHubSpot research has foundthat companies with 30 or more
landing pages generate seven times more leads than companies that have
less than 10 landing pages.
Thecenterpiece of a landing page is a form for gathering information from
your visitors.
35. Generally speaking, you want tomakeit easy for visitors tosign up so the
less information you ask for, the higher the conversion rate.
However, there are somegood reasons to request more information,
depending on yourbusiness objectives.
Formany B2Bmarketers, there’s tremendous valuein getting additional
information on a prospect’s role or company size for effective
segmentation.
In that case, a couple of extra fields can help set you up for success down
theline.
36. Besides a form, there are other essential components of asuccessful
landing page:
Write aclear, concise, and action-oriented headline.
Include a clear explanation of theoffer with an emphasis on the
value or benefits.
Removeall navigation elements or links toother pages/sites.
Make surethe form length (i.e., number of fields or details required)
mirrors thevalue of youroffer.
Include a relevant imageor short video.
Make sureyour call-to-action button is prominently displayed.
Add social sharing icons.
Thank You Page
After yourprospects have signedup for yourlead magnet, they’ll be
directed toa “thankyou” page.
37. This page gives you a great opportunity topresent the next step tothe
newly converted leads while they’re excited about your products or
services.
Although somewebforms allow you toset up an inline thankyou
message, it’s often not as effective as re-directing visitors toathank you
page on which they can get additional content and information about your
business.
Here are someessential components of an effective thankyou page:
Deliver promised content offer and restatethevalue of this offer.
Display navigation elements – it couldbe yourwebsite navigation
menu or specific links to pages you want tohighlight.
Provide additional content that moves new leads intothe next stage
of thebuyer’s journey.
Include social sharing options.
Chapter 5: Closing the Deal
Ultimately, you need tobe making sales in order tobe in business. That
means turning your leads intocustomers.
38. Theleads you’ve generated sofar have optedin to hear from you, so now
is thetimeto show up, reach out, andcultivate that relationship.
Keep in mind that first and foremost, you should be adding value every
step of theway.
Email Marketing
We hear this a lot: isn’t email dead?
Well, wouldyou consider a marketing strategy that can generate a 4,400%
ROI dead?
That’s right, email marketing easily has thehighest ROI among the many
inboundmarketing tactics.
We aren’t talking about spamming people or buying lists. We’re talking
about sending emails to people whohave optedintoyour list and using a
series of emails to nurturetheseleads.
Here are someemail marketing stats you can’t ignore:
77% of consumers prefer email for marketing communications.
91%of consumers check their email daily.
76% of marketers say they useemail more than they have in the
past.
Thekey to effective email marketing is sending theright email tothe right
person at theright timeby:
39. Determining your audience.
Segmenting your contact database (e.g., by role, companysize,
email opens, past engagement.)
Sending the right content that corresponds totheir interaction with
your brand or their customerjourney.
Determining the goal of theemail and including an appropriate call-
to-action.
Encouraging engagement and interactions.
Focus youremail marketing on nurturing yourleads. When you help them
grow or do something better, they’re more open to buying from you or
having aconversation with yoursales reps.
Besides “how-to” content, you can alsoshare customertestimonials, case
studies, ornew product features to push your “hot” leads over thefence.
Don’t forget toanalyze your metrics and A/B test youremails tofind out
what works best foryour audience.
40. Omnichannel Personalization
You can now usepersonalization technologies toleverage thevast amount
of customerdata available toyou and deliver themost relevant content or
offers toyourprospects and customers.
41. A single customerview is the foundation of omnichannel marketing.
It enables thedelivery of a seamless andpersonalized experience across all
customertouch points, such as email, social media, website, mobile app,
call center, andphysical location in real-time.
Each customerinteraction with yourbrand informs the kind of content or
offer you can deliver totake the prospect another step closer to
conversion.
Here are someideas forusing omnichannel personalization toclose the
deal:
Usepersonalized websitecontent to show relevant products a
prospect has viewedor may be interestedin.
Segment your email list andsend content or offers most relevant to
a specific user group. According to HubSpot, personalized emails
improve click-through rates by 14%and conversion rates by 10%.
Usetriggered email campaigns tofollow up with your prospects
based on their interaction with your brand.
42. Useremarketing campaigns or Facebook retargeting ads toshow
prospects products they have viewedor content they’d be most
interested in.
Useemail retargeting to follow up with subscribers whohave
engaged with your email campaigns.
Chapter 6: Cultivating Loyalty and
Advocacy
Formost businesses, thecost of acquiring new customers andclients is
often much higher than that of retaining existing ones.
Inboundmarketing, with its focus on building trust andrelationships
through consistently delivering high-value content, is well suitedto
maintaining and augmenting customerrelationships.
(That’s why SaaScompanies, which rely heavily on customerretention to
be profitable, are big fans of theinboundmethodology.)
Loyalty and advocacy are built on innovation, communication, and
education.
43. It’s critical to deliver an outstanding customerexperience by listening to
your customers, innovating yourproducts andservices, letting them know
about theimprovements, andproviding valuable content.
Customer-Exclusive Content and Offers
Make yourcustomers feel special by sending them exclusivein-depth
content or inviting them tocustomer-only webinars.
In addition, sendthem emails about exclusive offers, discounts, oraccess
to new products that are relevant to them.
44. Customer-Only Communities
You can set up groups on social media foryour customers toconnect and
share information with each other.
Thesecommunities not only foster loyalty but also allow you tolisten in
and gain insights on how you can improve yourproducts and dial-in your
messaging.
45. In addition, someactive communities can double-duty as customer
support. Loyalcustomers often jump in toanswerquestions andoffer
suggestions.
You do need to monitortheseinteractions to makesure questions get
answeredaccurately.
Customer Reviews
88%of consumers trust onlinereviews as much as a personal
recommendation while conversion rate increases as the numberof reviews
goes up.
46. Getting reviews from your customers not only helps deepen their
relationships with yourbrand but also provides you with theuser-
generated content that helps engage visitors.
You can send triggered email campaigns tocustomers whohaverecently
made a purchaseand askthem to leave a review.
Some brands offer a loyalty point system toreward customers fordoing
so.
47. Customer Support
Simply having acontact form or a 1-800 numberon yourwebsiteis no
longer enough.
Customers expect toget support from touch points of their choice
whenever they need it.
In addition, manypeople switch channels (or “screens”) halfway through a
taskand they expect to pick up where they’ve left off when interacting
with brands.
48. Thesingle customerview that makes omnichannel personalization
possible can alsohelp you deliver an omnichannel customercare
experience.
Some common touch points through which you can offer customer
support include live chat, social media, phone, email, in-store, and mobile
app.
“Self-service” is anothercustomerservice trend – people like tofind
answers totheir questions wheneverandwherever they want without
waiting for someonetoget back tothem.
Creating content such as FAQ or knowledge base will allow you to provide
a frictionless customerexperience tothese customers.
Chapter 7: A Timeless Principle
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49. We’ve talked about manystrategies, tactics, andtools in this guide.
New marketing technologies are emerging every day and it can be
overwhelming at first when it comes to implementing the inbound
methodology.
But don’t worry. The inboundmethodology isn’t about using a specific
piece of softwareor implementing one immutabletactic.
Theguiding principle is actually quitesimple – to create marketing that
people love.
It starts with atool weall have – empathy.
50. It’s built on something weall know how todo – relating toothers and being
helpful.
Unlike traditional marketing, inbound marketing is agile and measurable.
51. John Wanamaker once said, “Half themoney I spendon advertising is
wasted; thetrouble is, I don't know which half.”
With inboundmarketing aided by today’s technologies, wecan put this
quotetorest.
Thewell-structured inbound methodology takes the guessworkout of
manymarketing activities. You don’t have towonder what todo first and
what todonext.
You can track (almost) all yourmarketing dollars. Thedata and analytics
give you valuable insights tofine-tuneyour strategies soyou can create
messaging andcustomerexperience that are both on-brand and effective.
Not tomention, the inboundmethodology is very scalable. You can start
small andwork yourway up as you grow, using datagathered along the
way to improve yourstrategies and maximize yourROI.
Depending on your budget, you can gradually build a team or workwith an
agency toget access to experts whoare up-to-the-minutewith thelatest
and greatest in thediscipline.
Inboundmarketing is only going to become moreeffective, now that more
businesses haverecognized its effectiveness and are investing more
resources tofine-tune themethodology.
Don’t miss theboat… Hop on board now and find out how inbound
marketing can impact yourbottom line.
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