One Simple Way to Grow Your Email List and Drive Traffic to Your Website
Using a marketing tactic called a dedicated email drop, has the potential to send a huge amount of traffic to your website or lead magnet offer using someone else’s email list. But how do you get access to someone else’s list? Keep reading to find out… Dedicated Email Drops: What Are They and How Do They Work? The key to understanding a dedicated email drop is to understand that you’re not being sold someone’s list, you’re being sold access to...
5 Ways to Grow Your Business Past the $1 Million Mark
It is a happy day when you cross over the $1,000,000 mark. If you haven’t yet reached that milestone in your business you might be wondering what it will take to hit the mark. The reality is at each stage of business growth you need to prepare for the next stage. Here are 5 things you would be wise to do today to get past the $1,000,000 mark... 1. Set aside a consistent marketing budget We’ve all heard the expression – It takes money to make money. While marketing may seem...
3 Top Factors That Affect Bounce Rate on Your Website
Most business owners or marketers that track their website’s success have probably heard of a term called ‘bounce rate’. Bounce rate measures the percentage of visitors who clicked away from your website back to search or to another website right after they first landed on your website. When you have a high bounce rate and customers ‘click and go’, search engines begin to look at your content’s quality as questionable and your rankings can suffer. With this...
3 Ways to Tell If Your CRM Is Working Optimally
Whether you are a Customer Relationship Management CRM newbie or veteran, a CRM is one tool that can really change the way you do business. What is a CRM? According to TechTarget, a CRM tool is technology that companies use to manage and analyze customer interactions and data throughout the customer lifecycle, with the goal of improving business relationships, assisting in retention, and driving sales growth. The benefits of a CRM include: Organization - Consolidating customer and prospect...
3 Hidden Factors That Might Be Affecting Your SEO
If you’ve decided to read this article, you probably already have some idea of how important search engine optimization SEO is for your website and your business. Despite a huge growth in social media, a ton of people still use search to find solutions to their problems. In fact, the powerhouse that is Google continues to get over 100 billion searches every month. That’s a lot of searching. This drives home the point that although other avenues of driving traffic are becoming...
3 Things Marketers Do That Seem Crazy
Why would a marketer do that? Ever see an ad and wonder, What were they thinking? I know I have. Well, not everything in marketing makes sense until you know the wisdom behind it. Here are three marketing moves that don't appear to make sense... until they do. Why would a marketer spend more on the advertising than they will make on the sale? The reason you would do this is because it isn’t all about the first sale. The number you should focus on instead is the lifetime value of a client...
One Easy Way to Increase the Value of Your Offer
If you have read some of our Tips & Trends articles in the past, you may have seen us refer to Lead Magnets, Tripwires, or Profit Maximizer Offers. These are industry terms for different types of offers that can come from your business. Here is the breakdown of those terms and how they take your customers through your sales funnel. Lead Magnets Lead Magnets are usually the first step in the process to draw in new leads. They are usually free and can include informational or helpful...
How to Capture More Leads with Facebook’s Lead Generation Ads
Updated 4/25/17
These days, people expect to be able to do almost anything and everything from
their phones. Historically, mobile phones were great for discovering new things
or doing research on a business, but it was difficult to capture leads via
mobile.
Facebook’s lead generation ads or lead ads were Facebook’s
solution to that problem.
For the user, Facebook’s lead generation ads are a quick and
privacy-safe way to sign up to receive information from...
Want More Leads? Try Strengthening Your Magnet
Before we show you how to get more leads for your business, let’s take a moment to think about why people would want to give you their information. It’s all about your offer. Why You Need to Think About Your Offer No matter what type of industry you’re in, your customers are searching for a solution to a problem they're facing. And if your business can offer them that first step to a solution, they’re more likely to purchase more from you or purchase a higher dollar...
The #1 Tip For Selling More Products Online
At Sales & Marketing Technologies, we are all about innovation and discovering new digital technologies that can help grow your business. But there’s one simple aspect of marketing that is essential when selling products online – quality product photos. Did you know that 90 percent of all information our brains process is visual? Our brains process visual information no less than 60,000 times faster than text, which is a major reason we tend to remember 80 percent of what we...
ClickFunnels vs LeadPages – Which Landing Page Tool to Use for Your Business
Building beautiful, functional and engaging landing pages is
one of the most important parts of a successful online marketing campaign. Any
savvy marketer knows that once you've done all that hard work to get visitors
to your website, the next big step is to convert them into leads for your
business. You can’t do that without an optimized landing page.
So what exactly is a landing page?
A landing page is a
web page that allows you to capture a visitor's information through...
Top 5 Things to Look for When Gathering Customer Intelligence
When was the last time you talked to one of your customers?
Asking and listening to what your customers say can
give you invaluable insights into their pain points, needs, and the exact language they use to discuss your product or service.
Once you gain their feedback, you can use it to market your
business better by utilizing copy that makes it feel like you’re reading their
minds. But at the end of the day, all these tactics revolve around one thing:
giving your...
7 Ways To Get Your Business Growing Again
Looking for some ways to get your company growing again? Here are the 7 simple ways to get your business back on the growth curve... 1. Talk to Your Customers Talk to your customers. Just making contact can bring you top of mind and cause sales. Ask what they think you do great? Use this in your marketing and anything that could use improvement? Fix it. Ask if they have someone they would like to refer? Follow up on the names given. Let them know what happens. 2. Fix Your Website The website...
Industry Specialization vs. Broad Experience: Which is Better for Digital Marketing?
When it comes to choosing a digital marketing company to
help you create your company’s digital strategy, you may be tempted to choose a
company that specializes in your industry. While this may sound good on the
surface, we’d submit to you that too much specialization can actually cost you.
Many times industry experts can get tunnel vision. They
are so focused on what they already know that they sometimes do not see what is
going on around them.
Every year, Russell...
A/B Testing: What Is It & Why Do You Need It?
How do you know that a piece of your marketing campaign is performing at its best? The truth is that until you start testing various elements of your marketing campaigns – from ads to landing pages to email subject lines – you’ll never know what resonates with your audience the most. A well-planned and executed A/B testing can take your marketing pieces and make them exponentially more profitable. Read on to learn more… Planning an A/B Test Before you start testing...
15 Social Media Usage Stats That Will Blow Your Mind
If you don’t think your customers are reachable via social media, think again. These social media usage stats will blow your mind. If you can’t see opportunity in these numbers, you need to call Sales & Marketing Technologies immediately so we can show you. You can’t afford to be left behind. 1. 22% of the world’s total population uses Facebook. 2. Facebook continues to be the most widely used social media platform, with 79% of American Internet users. 3. Instagram...
How to Succeed at Digital Marketing
Are you responsible for marketing in your business? Are you looking to ways for your marketing team to be even more successful? If so, we've found the fastest way to be more successful is to make sure your marketing team is well trained. People can only do what they know how to do. If you are looking for an affordable way to ensure your team is well trained for today’s digital marketing environment, check out eight marketing courses included in Digital Marketer HQ. Whether your team...
Escape from WordPress
WordPress is one of the most popular Content Management Systems CMS for building websites out there today. But this doesn’t mean it’s for everyone. For that reason, we wanted to share some of the best alternatives for building your website. Keep in mind that each of these alternatives comes with its own set of pros and cons, and some may suit a particular type of website more than others. Wix Similar to SquareSpace, Wix is advertised as a simple solution to creating a website, and...
Launching Something New in 2017? Tips for SEO-Friendly URL Structure
A lot of companies will be launching new initiatives in 2017. Those initiatives may require a new website, or new additions to an existing website. If so, here are some things you should consider when picking a new web address URL or when adding new pages to your website. 1. Keep things simple This is Google’s number one most important advice – a site’s URL structure should be as simple as possible. For your main website URL that means it should be short, memorable and as...