Marilyn is a psychologist who called \t\t to find out how to increase the \u2018sales\u2019 from her \t\t web site. She\u2019s determined to use her site to \t\t build a tele-consulting business so she can give up the commute \t from New Jersey to her Manhattan office.<\/p>\n
She had a professional-looking web site that \t\t was getting a good number of visitors, but very little lead generation.<\/p>\n
Why not? Why weren\u2019t prospects \t\t visiting her site and then immediately picking up the phone? And \t\t what could she do about it?<\/p>\n
For many it can seem complex and overwhelming \t\t but it\u2019s simply a matter of helping people move from point \t\t A to point B to point C.<\/p>\n
Every web site and business owner wants their \t\t lead generation prospects to become high paying clients, but most web sites don\u2019t \t\t provide prospects with pathways to follow from point A to B and \t\t to C, to become mid-level or super clients.<\/p>\n
Let me explain\u2026<\/p>\n
Imagine that you\u2019re opening a new restaurant \t\t in a three-story building. The first floor is the lobby or waiting \t\t area. Moving up to the second floor, customers can order individual \t\t items from your menu a la carte; the prices range from $5 to $19. \t\t Customers who move up to the third floor can enjoy a spectacular \t\t view and a 4 course, fixed price dinner served with wine for $70.<\/p>\n
You\u2019re ready to open the doors and start \t\t making money. There\u2019s just one problem. The architect for \t\t your building didn\u2019t include any staircases or elevators. \t\t People can\u2019t move from one floor to the next.<\/p>\n
Of course, no one would build a restaurant like \t\t that but in fact, that is how many online and consulting business \t\t are structured. One of the biggest marketing mistakes people make \t\t is not providing prospects with options for moving from point A \t\t to B to C. In many cases the pathways don\u2019t exist or the \t\t doors to the stairs aren\u2019t obvious.<\/p>\n
Ready for your web site marketing to \t\t generate more paying customers and or super clients?<\/strong><\/p>\n Want to make it easy for prospects to become \t\t super clients?<\/p>\n Marketing pundits will tell you that to get prospects \t\t to buy your top end services, you first need to get them to buy \t\t your $29 product, then your $200 product, and then these customers \t\t will be ready to spend thousands.<\/p>\n It\u2019s true you need to create simple and \t\t obvious pathways for prospects to follow to become clients, but \t\t don\u2019t take this linear pathway idea too literally. While \t\t some customers will follow it, others won\u2019t. Give your prospects \t\t multiple ways to try out your products and services.<\/p>\n 1.<\/strong> Your first marketing goal \t\t is to get people in the door so they can get to know you. The best \t\t way to do that is to give something away for free. Offer prospects \t\t something they want. If you are opening a restaurant, free beer \t\t or wine would be a start. Online, free reports, online courses, \t\t or audio and video files can be successful offers. Or if you sell \t\t products, contests, and special offers work.<\/p>\n 2.<\/strong> Once you\u2019ve got a prospect \t\t interested, the temptation is to try to make a sale right away. \t\t Don\u2019t. Take a deep breath and count to three. Rushing the \t\t sale can kill it. Your prospects will become paying clients when \t\t they know you, trust you and are sure you can help them.<\/p>\n You\u2019ve gotten their attention with your \t\t free offer. Now educate them about the core areas where you can \t\t provide assistance. Give prospects a sample of your best goods. \t\t Finally, explain the solutions you offer in terms of their problems \t\t and how you solve them.<\/p>\n 3.<\/strong> Your freebies will attract \t\t three basic types of prospects: people who like freebies and aren\u2019t \t\t buyers; people who have limited budgets but will buy your entry \t\t and mid-level products; and people who have unlimited funds and \t\t may buy one of your entry-level products or may jump right to your \t\t top end services.<\/p>\n 4.<\/strong> You\u2019ll make the most \t\t money from people who buy everything you sell or who spend tens \t\t of thousands of dollars on our services, so how can you get more \t\t people to become these super clients?<\/p>\n Every web site and business owner wants their \t\t prospects to become high paying clients. The more you give away, \t\t the more prospects will move from testing your free stuff to immediately \t\t becoming your best clients.<\/p>\n Imagine if instead of just offering free peanuts \t\t in the lobby of your restaurant, you offered a sampling of the \t\t best appetizers served on the top floor along with wine to match. \t\t More people would be likely to become high-end spenders on their \t\t first visit, assuming your building has stairs or a high-speed \t\t elevator.<\/p>\n Yes, a better freebie will cost you more but \t\t you\u2019ll make a lot more if you can motivate prospects to spend \t\t two to three times more. I’ve spent thousands of hours over the \t\t last couple of years creating free articles, and reports. The result? \t\t Each hour invested has brought me thousands of dollars in profits.<\/p>\n Does your web site marketing provide paths for \t\t prospects to become super clients? Take a minute to answer \t\t these questions:<\/p>\n 1. What do you do to attract prospects, e.g. \t\t to get them in the door?<\/p>\n 2. If you sell pricey products or services, do \t\t you have a low-cost way for people to get hooked on buying from \t\t you?<\/p>\n 3. What pathways do you provide to move first-time \t\t customers to become second time customers and spend more?<\/p>\n 4. Do you provide enough for free to entice some \t\t prospects to immediately become super clients?<\/p>\n Ready to make your web site sell and get all \t\t the super clients you can handle? Ineffective web site marketing \t\t is like throwing money in the incinerator and then suffering \t\t the indignity of watching it burn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Use these 4 simple strategies to get your customers and clients to spend 2-3 times as much so you can maximize your profits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[42],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/ic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/ic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/ic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/ic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/ic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/ic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/ic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/ic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/ic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Structure your marketing pathways with \t\t the following in mind:<\/h4>\n