Your Atlanta Business Coach Talks about Lead Generation
How to Generate More Leads for Your Business
By now, you probably realized that lead generation plays a significant role in the success of your business. Flashy advertisements and aggressive sales pitches may have been effective a few years back but they no longer mesmerize customers. Those days are gone forever.
Many small business owners have come to me and ask about what they should do if these tactics no longer work. As a seasoned Atlanta business coach, my answer is: Focus on lead generation.
What is Lead Generation?
In a nutshell, lead generation is the process of providing prospective customers what they need to know about your product or service. Basically, you want the right people to find your content, sign up for your mailing list, and follow you on social media.
You want them to know about your brand, what you stand for, and what you have to offer.
You want them to give you their contact information so you can nurture the relationship and increase the chance that they’ll end up being your customer for life.
With an effective lead generation strategy, you will get all these – and more.
How Can You Generate Leads?
- Provide unique, engaging content. Attract your desired customers by providing relevant, well-researched, and thought-provoking content. As a bonus, these types of content can help your website rank higher in the search engines!
- Offer value. Aside from publishing blog posts, consider providing lead magnets or gated content (where potential customers will provide their contact information to access the content) in the form of ebooks, whitepaper, in-depth studies, and videos. Offering discounts and coupons also drive hordes of new leads.
- Create and refine your conversion funnel. Understand how your website visitors are converted into paying customers. Once you understand the process, do what you can to improve that flow.
- Be social. Be where your target audience is and start posting useful and interesting content. You don’t have to be all over the place. One to three platforms would be enough. The key to success in social media is interaction and engagement. That’s all you need.
- Balance your marketing mix. Different strategies work for different audiences so throw in a healthy mix of SEO, pay-per-click, email marketing, and social media marketing to reach a bigger audience and get more leads.
Admittedly, generating new leads can be a lot of work but the results are definitely worth it! However, if you don’t have the time or the energy to do all these by yourself and would rather have a trusted professional do it for you, you may Contact Me for a complimentary marketing strategy session. As an experienced business coach who also runs an award-winning marketing agency, I can help you generate more leads and bring your business to success.
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