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by Charlie Cook
©2006 In Mind Communications, LLC, all rights reserved.
Debra emailed me in response to last week’s
ezine. Her niche coaching site has top placement in Google, gets thousands
of visitors a day and is providing her with a steady stream of clients.
Despite her success, she wanted to know if she could be doing
better and if anything is missing in her internet marketing.
Could she be closing even more sales?
Most people are mystified by internet marketing. It’s
still a relatively new and very unique medium. You hire a web designer;
you give them your marketing brochure or similar information about
your company, and they create a web site for you. And then… more
often than not, nothing happens. If you’re lucky, you get a
handful of visitors, but very few contact you, much less buy from
you.
It quickly becomes obvious that your web site isn’t
working. It’s not generating leads or sales. Of course, if you
knew where or what the problem was, you’d fix it. But that’s
the most frustrating part of it; you’re stumped.
How can you tell what’s missing from
your internet marketing? And how do you fix it?
Think of your website marketing as a large water
main or pipe connecting a gigantic reservoir to your business. The
reservoir is overflowing with prospects and your goal is to get as
many relevant prospects as possible down through the pipeline to your
business.
The web marketing pipeline has three valves; one
for visitors, one for relationships and one for sales. Most websites
are built with all three valves shut, blocking prospects from rushing
to your site and keeping profits from flowing into your bank account.
In most cases, even after months or years, these valves continue to
restrict the flow of business so that only a small number of prospects
ever make it to the point of sale.
To fix your website, you need to open all three
valves. You need visitors, prospect relationships and sales in order
to put money in the bank.
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Opening Your Web Marketing Pipeline
Visitors
Take the following three steps to get more qualified
visitors to your site:
1. Build incoming links from other sites. Writing
and distributing articles is the fastest and most effective way to
generate the type of links to your site that attract visitors and
that help your ranking in the search engines. It’s effective
and essentially free.
2. Sign up for Google Adwords. With a couple of
attention-grabbing words, your pay-per-click ad is a quick way to
attract site visitors while you’re working on improving your
search engine positioning.
3. Help the search engines find your site and give
it a top ranking. Make sure you know which words your prospects use
when searching for your site and include them throughout your copy.
And, of course, submit your site to the most popular search engines.
Relationships
The more people that read your web page and contact
you, the more prospect relationships you’ll have and
the greater chance of generating a sale. Your site should prompt
5 to 20% of visitors to contact you. If it doesn’t, take
the following three steps to open the relationship valve.
1. Use your page design to lead people through the
information in the sequence you want them to follow, and lead them
to the steps you want them to take.
2. Grab your prospects’ attention with your
web copy by focusing on their concerns. Speak to their interests.
3. Give prospects a compelling reason to give you
their contact information. Offer a free report that solves their problems
or run a contest offering a prize they’d love to have.
Sales
20% of your sales can come directly from a prospect’s
first visit to your website. What most people forget is that
80% of your sales come from your follow-up systems. Check to
see that at a minimum you are doing all of the following:
1. Set up your email system so that prospects automatically
receive a sequence of messages prompting them to take the next action
you want them to take.
2. Use a weekly or monthly ezine to share ideas,
success stories or case studies with qualified prospects. Pose problems
and include links to your solutions.
3. When people sign up online for your free offer,
be sure to collect information about what they want and need so you
can follow-up with a phone call.
Marketing is all about percentages. Open the visitor
valve by 25%, the relationship valve by 25% and the sales valve by
25% and your sales will increase by almost 100% (1.25 X 1.25 X 1.25).
Leave them alone and sales will stay the same.
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