How to generate leads to your business?
Talk of leads is something that comes very much from more traditional businesses settings. A ‘lead’ is a term that specifically comes from sales and marketing and generally describes a contact that a business is going to call or email in order to try and encourage sales.
But today a lot of business is conducted online. As such, leads take on a slightly different form and although the basics are still true, the way you interact with these potential customers will be different.
For example, a
cold lead someone who fits your target demographic but hasn’t had any
interaction with you yet is normally someone whose number a business has
bought and who they are then going to try and contact by cold calling. If your
business is online though, then that cold lead is more likely to be someone who
has just landed on your website. When you use SEO
(search engine optimization) to promote your site, you are trying to get that
site to rank for a particular key phrase. Depending on the key phrase you choose,
you may be able to attract pre-qualified sales to your site.
How does this
work? Simple: if your key phrase refers to buying a product (‘buy hats online’)
and that is what you want to sell, then the people coming to your website are
demonstrating an interest in buying your wares. This is the definition of a
qualified sale and that means you can very likely convert those leads into
paying customers with just a little more effort. Conversely, if
you get someone to your site using Pay Per Call marketing on Facebook, then they are going to be
cold leads. But not all cold leads are made equal and you can make the argument
that these are particularly desirable cold leads in that they’re going to be
highly targeted. That’s because you can use the filtering on Facebook to show
your ads only to people that precisely match your target audience. Conversely,
Ad Words allows you to target specific keyword searches in Google meaning you
can bring in qualified sales. Better yet, using re-marketing you can target people
who have been to your site and actually viewed your products!
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