Inbound Marketing – the proven methodology for the digital age! Since 2006, inbound marketing has been the most effective marketing method for doing business online. This post will give an insight into how you can start making your website work for you.
Instead of the old outbound marketing methods of buying ads, buying email lists, and praying for leads, inbound marketing focuses on creating quality content that pulls people toward your company and product, where they naturally want to be. By aligning the content you publish with your customer’s interests, you naturally attract inbound traffic that you can then convert, close, and delight over time.
Sharing is caring and inbound is about creating and sharing content with the world. By creating content specifically designed to appeal to your dream customers, inbound attracts qualified prospects to your business and keeps them coming back for more.
Major themes:
- Content Creation & Distribution Create targeted content that answers prospects’ and customers’ basic questions and needs, then share that content far and wide.
- Lifecycle Marketing Promoters don’t just materialise out of thin air: they start off as strangers, visitors, contacts, and customers. Specific marketing actions and tools help to transform those strangers into promoters.
- Personalisation Tailor your content to the wants and needs of the people who are viewing it. As you learn more about your leads over time, you can better personalise your messages to their specific needs.
- Multi-channel Inbound marketing is multi-channel by nature because it approaches people where they are, in the channel where they want to interact with you.
- Integration Content creation, publishing and analytics tools all work together like a well-oiled machine – allowing you to focus on publishing the right content in the right place at the right time.
Attract
We don’t want just any traffic to our site, we want the right traffic. We want the people who are most likely to become leads, and, ultimately, happy customers. Who are the “right” people? Our ideal customers, also known as our buyer personas. Buyer personas are holistic ideals of what your customers are really like, inside and out. Personas encompass the goals, challenges, pain points, common objections to products and services, as well as personal and demographic information shared among all members of that particular customer type. Your personas are the people around whom your whole business is built.
Convert
Once you’ve attracted website visitors, the next step is to convert those visitors into leads by gathering their contact information. At the very least, you’ll need their email addresses. Contact information is the most valuable currency there is to the online marketer. So in order for your visitors to offer up that currency willingly, you need to offer them something in return! That “payment” comes in the form of content, like eBooks, whitepapers, or tip sheets – whatever information would be interesting and valuable to each of your personas.
Close
You’re on the right track. You’ve attracted the right visitors and converted the right leads, but now you need to transform those leads into customers. How can you most effectively accomplish this feat? Certain marketing tools can be used at this stage to make sure you’re closing the right leads at the right times.
Delight
The Inbound way focuses on delivering remarkable content, making your website work for visitors, leads, or existing customers. It’s crucial not to overlook anyone, even those who have already made a purchase. By continuously engaging, delighting, and upselling, you transform current customers into enthusiastic promoters of the brands and products they adore. This approach ensures your website is not just a tool for acquisition but a platform for sustained customer satisfaction and growth.
This is a brief explanation of how you can make your website work for you. If you would like to know more then don’t hesitate to call us on 01702 410663 or email us at info@07hm.co.uk.
