The digital era has transformed the way we do business. Gone are the days where promoting your business means taking out a newspaper advertisement or launching a flyer campaign and knocking door to door.
These days, you are able to focus on your target audience and research their habits using various analytics software(s). A bit like using an x-ray machine on your data. You can choose who to hit, when and how – and execute campaigns with extreme precision. This allows you to reverse engineer your campaigns with your starting point being the end goal, the user.
Businesses must keep up and continually adapt to develop their digital marketing strategies. Social media and search engine marketing are synonymous with lead generation. Both play a huge and vital role in getting brands noticed and heard, and set the stage for most marketing campaigns you see online today.
A ‘lead’ is usually someone who has shown interest in your company.
Potential customers are given opportunities to reach out to your business via email, phone calls, or social media channels to open up a communication with your business. One way customers can get more information on your business is by signing up for a trial or offer that you are running, or could call to ask about it.
Direct response lead generation is a far cry from the old fashioned and predictable cold-calling methods that have fallen out of favor.
Let’s say you complete a survey for a brand that you’re passionate about, and in return they give you a promotional voucher for shops in your area. In exchange for the discounted offers, however, they ask for your contact information—likely because they want to stay connected with you or perhaps sell their products to you.
In return for that promotional voucher, you’ve exchange your information with the company and given them an opportunity to sell their product to you. Now they’ve got you a little warmed up to make for a better first conversation.
From the company’s viewpoint, the information you provide in exchange for your promotional voucher is collected and helps to inform more personalised and meaningful marketing communications with you as the potential customer moving forward. This helps the company to limit wastage so they’re not spending much time on prospects that aren’t interested in your services.
Not all leads are equal. There are different types of leads that manifest themselves differently throughout your business, so its best to have a strategy for each type.
Marketing qualified leads are those contacts that have engaged with your marketing assets but aren’t quite ready to get on the phone for a sales call with you just yet. A good example of a Marketing Qualified Lead is a contact who has filled out a form on your landing page to claim an offer, like 10% off or a 30 day free trial.
Sales qualified leads are the contacts that have taken action. This means the users who have indicated a firmer interest in becoming a paying customer to your business. An example of a Sales Qualified Lead would be a contact that has filled out a form on your website to ask a specific question about your product(s) and/or service(s).
Service qualified leads can be categorised as the contacts or customers who have expressed an interest in becoming a paying customer to your customer service team. A good example of this would be a prospect who tells your customer service department that they’d like to upgrade their current subscription with you. In this moment, the customer service representative would connect this customer to the appropriate account manager or sales team representative.
Product Qualified Leads are the contacts who have physically used your product(s) and taken actions that show you a strong level of interest in becoming a paying customer. These types of leads can be easily accessed by companies offering an experiential or digital product trial, such as a 14 day free trial of your software or a 10 day VIP pass to your discounts area on your website. An example of a Product Qualified Lead could be a customer who uses the free version of your product but has frequently been asking about the features that are only available upon payment.
Lead Generation can be broken down into basic sets of marketing activities that correspond with the customer’s buying journey, with the aim to;
You can generate leads from your digital marketing in many ways. This might be through contact forms, someone seeing your logo, hearing you’ve done good business via referral feedback and social media mentions, or subscribing to your newsletter.
To get traffic and generate leads, you can use various channels to promote your landing page(s). Lead generation marketing is the front-end of this process.
Let’s go into detail about this factors and also touch on a few other considerations.
Including CTAs in your content is a great way to lead users toward your landing page. Typically, you create content that provides visitors with useful free information and include CTAs throughout the article.
Maximize your audience’s delight with your content to improve their likelihood of clicking on your call-to-action and moving onto the next part of your landing page.
You can use email campaigns to contact your known contacts and offer them something of interest.
Sending email campaigns is a good way to contact people who already know you and are interested in what you have to offer. You’ll want to use calls-to-action that hook your audience, so consider using compelling copy and eye-catching designs on your CTA buttons.
The sole purpose of an ad is to get a desired action from the viewers. The landing page and offer on the site must match what is advertised in the video, and it’s important that users know exactly what needs to be done.
Marketers often spend a ton of money on an ad and then forget to account for what happens next. Ad copy is only useful if people actually take the desired action.
Social media platforms offer a variety of options for marketers looking to guide customers to take action. You have the choice between promoting your products through social shares and including a call-to-action in your posts, as well as by creating links that can be clicked on from either an Instagram story or a Facebook biography. These are just some of the features available.
Social media platforms make it easy to guide followers to take action, which is why you should promote your offerings on social posts. Here are some of the ways that can happen: in Instagram stories when a user swipes up; in Facebook bios when using bitly links; or mentioning it upfront in Twitter captions by stating “follow us for deals.”
To grow your business, you’ll need customers. Customers come from marketing and advertising. This occurs through the use of digital ads or word-of-mouth on social media.
Once a lead has been generated, it is usually passed to the sales team for them to nurture the relationship and hopefully convert it into a buying customer.
This can be done in many ways, though it’s best to have a robust and reliable system in place so that you can properly monitor things and see what works best in your sales funnel.
By using the latest developments in technology to identify trends and analyse customer habits, it is now feasible to reach a wider audience through social media advertising.
It has never been easier for businesses to target their potential customers with social media advertisement because of changes in data analysis software.
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