Optimizing Your Marketing Funnel: Part 2

Posted by Mary Planding on Thu, Feb 14, 2013

Optimizing your marketing funnel continues ... with intelligent lead nurturing and analytics.

In my last post on optimizing your marketing funnel, we went over the first 4 steps where you:

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Tags: analytics, content marketing, lead nurturing, marketing funnel, optimize marketing funnel, optimize internet funnel, tracking

How to Optimize Your Marketing Funnel: Part 1

Posted by Mary Planding on Thu, Jan 17, 2013

Optimizing your marketing funnel starts with mapping content. 

STEP 1 - Understand your buyer persona's decision process. Who's involved and what role do they play?

Get to really know your buyer persona. Interview customers who fit that particular persona, talk to the sales reps who closed the deals. Figure out what information the customer was looking for initially and how and why her information needs changed over time. Assuming you have the proper analytics in place that have tracked your customer's actions on your website from day 1, and how she responded to your lead nurturing efforts, you should be able to easily glean the details of her quest for information, the timing — all the different steps she went through and why.

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What Is A Marketing Funnel? What's A Sales Funnel?

Posted by Mary Planding on Thu, Jul 19, 2012

A marketing (or sales) funnel is a concept used to show how a marketing and sales team will guide an individual, who has expressed a problem / need, to choose a specific solution. 

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Tags: Lead conversion, marketing automation software, lead nurturing, sales funnel strategy, return on marketing investment, marketing funnel, sales funnel

Where's Your Internet Marketing Funnel?

Posted by Mary Planding on Mon, May 14, 2012

One of the most effective ways your business can increase sales is to create and follow a disciplined sales and marketing process.

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Tags: Social Media, Lead conversion, social marketing, marketing automation software, lead nurturing, marketing and sales process, sales funnel strategy

Help My Business Grow - 6 Tips to Effective Marketing Online

Posted by Mary Planding on Thu, Apr 05, 2012

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Tags: analytics, Social Media, Lead conversion, helping businesses grow, ways to grow business online, lead gen, lead nurturing