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Showing posts with label marketing funnel. Show all posts

Friday, 22 December 2017

The Step By Step Guide For Creating a Facebook Sales Funnel

December 22, 2017 0
The Step By Step Guide For Creating a Facebook Sales Funnel

We all keep hoping on a platform popularly called as 'Facebook' be a tiny tot or your old grandpa. But don't you think turning it into a money spinner and a customer converter base will make you super happy.

Alright! That sounds cool but the point is what actually is a sale funnel or digital marketing funnel?
A basic pathway which would give you a profitable business if tracked by the customers; starting from a prospect to lead to the customer to repeat buyers. Every sales model tends to break down the marketing funnel into various steps depending on its requirement.
When you have a specific platform intended for this purpose like Facebook, what matters is how do you use it for remarketing? Instead of feeling frustrated on not getting instant results one should focus on the process step by step.

For the simplest explanation of a Facebook sales funnel, we can think of funnel churning out dollars and dollars, of course by adding the fuel into it. The fuel in this context refers to quality content which can be really good blogs and articles, attractive advertisements, social media which is Facebook itself and the funnel will be all set to promote your business.
Let's go step by step
Content building is the basic and the building block when it comes to opportunity funnel. So focus on videos, blogs, e-books, which are very engaging and are good enough to bind the audience.
Thumbs up to your effective content as that will take you to this point. "Understand your audience." It might sound too easy but it's a process requiring lots of hard work and planning. Chalk down and segregate people on various basis, so that you are aware- on whom to focus. Jump on and find some stuff which people will find cheesy to read, post them on targeted Facebook pages and groups. Is your content able to bring the traffic? Don't stop till you firmly say a big YES.
Now, turn your audience. Oh! How to do that is something tricky, what you can do is -don't end give a closer zip lock to your blogs. Let your videos do that. Let it convey the remaining in an interesting way. In this way, you will bring audience directly to the 'offer' which is included in a nutshell in the video. And now the snake's tail tappers as we move down, you are pushing the audience on to your landing page and then to the product page.
Ahah! Stop not, the goal is yet to be achieved. After doing so much we brought them till this stage, but every one of them will not get converted. So, now lure them simply with discounted offers, free trials, free e-books and many more innovative ideas.
Customers' trust is to be built now from mouth to mouth process, so try to add testimonials. You just need to develop that trust factor.
Finally, that sugar coated remarketing strategy will do the job. But, that is where you need to work according to your specific business in order to drive people to purchase the product at the price decided by you.
Things to remember
While dealing with this, there are few essential things to be kept in mind.
  • Firstly, don't play with the Facebook technologies. If you are not having pixel installation, custom conversion or a tag management, then you are probably inviting trouble for yourself.
  • Try to understand the intention of the audience, somebody is searching for the product that doesn't mean he will buy it as well. So we need to do a research on the mind-set of the customers of the niche.
  • Your content is the tool, use your weapon and develop that desire inside the customer and turn them into a customer. The content, of course, needs to be explanatory and logical one, else you are writing to feed no one's head.
  • Don't lack the trust in Facebook, the platform is going to prove a lead convertor or a lead funnel.
Okay! Now you are good to go.

Give a boost to your business today
Shape your latest and most efficient digital marketing sales funnel today and give a new base to your business, making it more result-oriented.
If you are running a Facebook page for your business, you must be looking for a smart way to use the channel for lead conversion.
Having millions and billions of fans and followers is one thing, but converting them to paying customers is altogether a different ball game. Unless you have a customized sales funnel in place. Do these all effectively and the sales funnel will be all set to promote your business! http://crazydigitalmarketer.com/blog/create-facebook-sales-funnel-step-by-step-guide/





by: 
Aparajita Singh 
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/9727221

Wednesday, 15 November 2017

How I Generated A List of 100k+ Emails Off Facebook

November 15, 2017 0
How I Generated A List of 100k+ Emails Off Facebook

Wednesday, 8 November 2017

Questions To Ask Yourself Before Venturing Into Facebook Ads

November 08, 2017 0
Questions To Ask Yourself Before Venturing Into Facebook Ads

It's no question that a good Facebook ad campaign is a great way for any business to reach what could seem to be the farthest of markets. Apart from that, it could also make potential customers that are actually near you aware of your company, increasing chances of gaining a loyal local following.


Before exploring this complex aspect of the marketing world, it's important for a company to know what it's about and what its goals are with the campaign. With that, here are some questions you may want to ask yourself before committing to a campaign via Facebook Ads.
What Exactly Do You Wish to Achieve With the Campaign?
Answering this question before anything else is crucial because it sets the overall direction of your Facebook Ads strategy. Do need more traffic? More conversions? More sales?
By answering this question, you set the base for everything else. At the first level of setting up your ad, you need to set whether your campaign is for 
  1. Awareness, 
  2. Consideration, or 
  3. Conversion. 
You cannot pick one when you are not sure why you're setting it up in the first place.
Do You Know Your Audience?
Any campaign will require a target audience in order to be established and run properly. You need to know which audience you're going to set your focus on.
Facebook Ads has a feature allowing you to target your desired market based on demographics and interest. You can't provide input unless you have a clear understanding of who you want to sell to. Without this input, you cannot expect a substantial output.
Know the location, gender, age, and language of those you wish to invite to your business. This isn't just for the Facebook feature, either. Knowing these things directs what content you're actually going to put in your ads. Subsequently, you will be able to figure out how, when, and where you're going to post these ads.


How Do You Plan to Warm Up to Your Audience?
With all that cleared, you can now focus on your ads and how you plan to use them to make your intended market ready to transact with you.
Is providing free content for your audience a viable option in relation to the business you're in? If so, along with your ads, you may want to regularly post educational, interactive, and/or entertaining content as well. This is to help establish a connection with them.
Is giving discounts an option? If yes, then it'd be a good idea to lure customers in with promos and favorable deals.
In addition to gaining initial attention (and sales, hopefully), it's important you re-target those who've already visited your page. You already know that they're interested in your business. Their attention plus new visitors' attention all make for a greater chance at profit.
A Facebook ad campaign could be the next big step for your business. If you do it right, could pay off in exposure and customer loyalty. Once you've got those questions answered, the next best step to take is to get a good team of social media marketers to handle your campaign. Work with this team and you're well on the road to success.




by: 
Donald Smithon
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/9785553

Friday, 20 October 2017

October 20, 2017 0

Too often people see the internet as some type of magical, mysterious genie that will give them all the money they need with no work. True, there are many online strategies to make money while you sleep, but the same laws that apply to the rest of the business world apply here, too. 


To illustrate this, we are going to compare the website we are creating with a McDonald's franchise...
Real World Economics
It may seem that the internet lives in it's own bubble. That the money, products, resources, advertisements, etc. are all just "digital" but it is crucial that you understand that the internet is backed by real world products and services preformed by real people. (And when you see the real checks in your mailbox, this will become even more apparent!)

For example, you have a website and Amazon advertises on it. Someone visits your site, clicks on the ad to Amazon and purchases an iPod. The customer receives a real-life iPod, Amazon receives profit from the sale, and you receive a commission from Amazon. Win-Win-Win. 
This entire system was created because a real person bought a real music player. Since you are just getting a commission for showing the ad, it is easy to overlook this process and think that Amazon just paid you for the digital ad space on your site, seemingly for "nothing". In reality, Amazon paid you because you sold an iPod to a real person. The distinction seems minor, but always keep that in mind.
Always remember that you are selling metaphorical hamburgers and french fries to real people in your "McDonald's" on the web. There is no difference.
Supply and Demand
You may be familiar with the idea of supply and demand, and how this affects prices. If your McDonald's restaurant had 100 hamburgers in stock and there was 1,000 people in line, you could charge insane prices. But if you needed to get rid of 1,000 hamburgers and only had 10 customers, you would be practically giving them away.
When supply > demand prices will be low. When demand > supply, you can raise prices higher.


How does this apply to our simple website? The prices your site will earn for each sale or each click will be directly related to supply and demand. Using our last example, when consumers are willing to buy a bunch of iPods, Amazon can afford to pay you much more than when iPods just aren't selling as well.
In a larger sense, there isn't too much you can do about this, but you can position yourself to protect against lower demand. The best way to do this is to ensure that you have multiple streams of revenue (which we will be getting to in the next lessons).
Leverage
Leverage means that you can do a lot with a little. Leverage is the concept that makes the internet an exciting place to make money. Leverage is the reason that I can offer you strategies to make money while you sleep. Let's look at how internet business offers us leverage:
Time leverage is perhaps the biggest advantage. Let me explain how business works online. Because your website is up 24/7, even while you are sleeping, you can profit from it no matter what you are doing with your time. Once your site is up (and you spend minimal time maintaining it), you are free to do whatever you want and your site will continue to profit. If you are ambitious, you can spend your time creating another site, and another, while all of them are making money all the time. See how you can leverage your time? If this was the McDonald's, you would be working 12 hours a day to keep your restaurant in order and when you went home at night, the restaurant would be shut down, unable to make you any money.


A second area of leverage is resources. The system that I am teaching you takes minimal money and minimal skills to create. It is a system that, with a little effort, you can create for under $20 and profit $200 per week or more. Try getting that kind of return with a McDonald's franchise.
The final area of leverage is geography. With our restaurant, we can only serve local customers. With the internet, we can reach billions of internet users world wide. This leverage stuff is powerful and it is the single factor that makes the internet fundamentally different (and in my opinion, better) than the McDonald's franchise.
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by: 
Andrew Olson 
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/4257449

Tuesday, 10 October 2017

How to Build an Email List Fast and for Free — 5 List Building Tips

October 10, 2017 0
How to Build an Email List Fast and for Free — 5 List Building Tips


The Ultimate Value is in Your List!





If you want to create a profitable online business you got to Grow, Grow, Grow that list.

Again it all comes down to Providing Value, Building Trust & Forming Lasting Relationships. 

Do you agree?





Monday, 2 October 2017

How to Build a Marketing Funnel, Data Tracking Is Essential!

October 02, 2017 0
How to Build a Marketing Funnel, Data Tracking Is Essential!

So you've decided to build a marketing funnel. You've mapped out a goal and the various processes along the way to funnel new prospects to that goal. 
Now the most essential step you need in the development of your funnel is tracking the data to determine how well your funnel is functioning.
A word of caution. It's important to remember that every bit of new content you add and every new stage built on your funnel you're generating more data. 


Even though it's all relevant to your sales process in one way or another it's easy to get bogged down in the data and metrics tracked instead of focusing on a few key performance indicators. And that is what will give you the best information you need to make necessary improvements.

Seven essential data tracking resource points:

1. The amount of resource traffic - the Entry Rate refers to the number of resources that are currently in your funnel. Track this rate and see how changes in your marketing strategy impacts it, you'll see positive increases in the number of resources you are able to generate.

2. Your conversion rate - if you're just going to choose a few tracking resources, this would probably be the most important tracking resource to include. Basically, this resource tracks the number of prospects entering your funnel at any point and then the number that are converted into customers. As you make adjustments to your marketing strategy, you will see this number improve or decrease letting you know if you're on the right track for not.


3. Sources of entry - as you monitor the traffic sources from which people are entering your funnel you can have ideas and how to expand the reach of your marketing campaigns. For instance if you see a large percentage of your prospects coming from a single post you did on a blog, then you know that you need to generate more posts building on the information in the original.

4. Time spent in funnel sections - in a perfect funnel your marketing would be so compelling that prospects would jump in at the top and flow to the bottom without restriction in one day. But that's rarely the case, so it's important to know are they are getting stuck in one of your stages. Then you'll know that you need to either add more content, change a page or address some questions that are unique to this area of the final.

5. Possible leaks - along with amount of time spent in a funnel, if you see a large number leaking out of your funnel at a particular point then you will know that you aren't doing enough to answer their questions or desires. You'll know that you need to add more content to build on their needs so they can move ahead.

6. Tracking engagement rates - if you are engaging prospects with calls to action on multiple posts or landing pages you need to know which are sending the most converted customers through your funnel. This will give you the ability to know which one is sending the most converted customers through the funnel. Then you will have the ability to replicate your success with future posts or content.



7. Conversion rate - your conversion rate (or "close rate") is the number of opportunities that turn into eventual sales. If your conversion rate is lower than you expect, look at some of the other resources you are tracking for ideas on how to improve the success rate of your marketing funnel.
These days there are many different tools on the market to help you track the data on your sites, for most marketers Google analytics is probably the most comprehensive, easy to implement and it's free. 
You can use this funnel tracking tool until you determine that you need something more advanced, at which time you can move to a different paid type sales analytic program for tracking or to a complete marketing automation program.
It's important to understand that creating a sales and marketing funnel is no easy task. 
It's not a project you're going to complete in an afternoon or even a day. And setting up a resource tracking system is essential for a functioning marketing funnel.
As an experienced blogger and network marketer I know it's difficult to find training if you would like to have a 14 day 100% FREE training course that would teach you how to develop a funnel system and attract high converting leads then go to Create my Breakthrough. And if you're interested in reading more articles like this in my blog please go to JohnnyStew's Network Marketing Information Blog.



by: 
John D. Stewart 
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/9324539