The overwhelming majority of our clients are B2B businesses that cannot sell directly online. The sales process just won't allow them to do so, or the dollar amount is not something another business simply swipes their AMEX for.
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The common goal of almost every Inbound Marketing effort we've been involved with is increasing a key metric. Increasing sales, increasing donations, increasing registrations, increasing applicants, etc... In almost every case, we need to first focus on how we turn website visitors into leads. Because so many businesses and nonprofits cannot complete an entire sale online (e.g., ecommerce), we need to focus on starting the conversation with high quality content that attracts your buyer persona(s), and converts them into leads. From there, they can be nurtured and developed into an actual sale. Many businesses, whether they are fortune 500 companies or mom & pop shops, fail at getting the first step right - Attracting your buyer persona(s) with excellent content. This requires a clear understanding of your Buyer Persona(s) and their buyer's journey along with a solid content marketing effort that speaks directly to both. Your content marketing strategy is what will fuel the ...
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Just having a website doesn’t cut it anymore. Those days have been long gone! A website is often the face of the business and the first place that an individual interacts with a business, whether it’s a B2B (business-to-business) or B2C (business-to-consumer) environment. Despite the fact that the first impression of a business is made through the website, there are common business website problems that are constantly occurring.
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Content marketing is more than just, let's write an ebook and toss it on our website. To get the value from your content marketing efforts you must generate leads. To get leads you need traffic...then you need that traffic to convert. On a high level the biggest things involved are blogs, CTAs, landing pages, forms, email, and of course the content marketing offer itself. Blogs help to attract the visitors, CTAs direct those visitors to landing pages, the landing pages "sell" the offer, the forms collect information, and your emails nurture those leads until they become sales.
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If you are a business and you have a website (and you'd better...), your first question should be obvious: How do I turn website visitors into customers? This question gets a little trickier for businesses that don't sell directly online through ecommerce. Companies that sell a service or products that don't lend themselves to being sold online (e.g., custom manufactured goods, high dollar/volume sales, products or services with long sales processes) may be left wondering if there's any hope for generating real customers through their website. The Short Answer... Absolutely-YES! A business that doesn't sell through ecommerce can absolutely turn website visitors into customers. The actual sale won't happen online, but acquiring the initial lead, nurturing them down the sales funnel and ultimately getting them to make a buying decision can absolutely happen online. If you've read many of our posts you've no doubt heard us talk about Inbound Marketing at length. One of the reasons we ...
Read moreContent, content, content! You know you need it, but do you fully understand why? Sure, SEO is one reason, but SEO won't build trust with and convert website visitors! Content is about more than SEO.
Read moreEven though they may have a website and they may have a blog, it is clear that some business owners don't necessarily know the difference between the two. Some websites have blogs and website pages that are more seemless, while other sites have their blog and website pages completely separate. Regardless of how it's set up, pages and blog posts still should be thought of as different from an editorial standpoint. Let's explore..
Read moreContent marketing is a great way to reach your ideal buyers when they are in hunt mode, seeking out a solution to their problem. It also allows you to build trust and generate high quality leads! This short video will give you a brief explanation of what content marketing is, who should use it, when to use it, why you should use content marketing and where to employ the tactic.
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If you are executing digital marketing, congratulations! You are most likely already one step ahead of your competition, and making strides to meaningfully connect with prospects online. But, how do you know if you’re seeing continual success year over year, and improving your metrics?
Without the tools in place to analyze and benchmark your efforts, it is impossible to scale your online marketing and ensure continuous success.
