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12+ Tips for Turning Your Digital Marketing Efforts from a Liability to an Asset Patty Cisco, MBA, Principal

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12+ Tips for Turning Your

Digital Marketing Efforts from

a Liability to an Asset

Patty Cisco, MBA, Principal

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“The website traffic

is too low”

“There are not enough leads from the

online campaigns”

“People can’t find us!”

“Our SEO isn’t working!”

“I don’t know what ‘good’

conversion looks like”

“Why aren’t visitors

converting?”

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Data drives your digital strategy

Content attracts, captures and converts leads

Pitfalls of haphazardly managing your online brand

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Meet Mark & Joan

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“29% went to the websites

that came up in the search

at the top of the list.”

-Caring.com

59% of seniors report they

go online to search

-Pew Research

“People view less than 2% of

searches below the top five

results on the first page.”

-Google

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“60 percent of American

adults use smartphones and

tablets when searching

online for information on local

products and services.”Source: Local Search Association (LSA)

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Evaluate:What is Inbound Digital Marketing?

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Evaluate:Ideal Sales Funnel

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Too Many Leads

Low SQL Conversion Not Enough Visitors

Not Enough Leads

Visitors

Visitors Visitors

Visitors

Leads

Leads Leads

Leads

Opportunities

Opportunities Opportunities

Opportunities

Customers

Customers Customers

Customers

Evaluate:Reality

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DATA DRIVEN STRATEGY

TIPS

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% of Sessions

52%

43%

4%

1% 0%

Direct

Organic Research

Referral

Social

Email

Evaluate:Website Visitors: Channels

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Evaluate:Marketing Dashboard

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Evaluate:Content Performance Dashboard

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Website: User Experience (UX)

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Google AnalyticsEvaluate:Google Analytics

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Google AnalyticsEvaluate:CRM: User Behavior

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When talking Strategy

TIPS

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Evaluate:

Goals

PersonaChannels

Content

Strategy

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GOALS

• Brand awareness

• Quality leads

• Lead conversion (nurturing)

• New customers

• Customer retention

• Revenue

• New service roll out

• Entering a new market

MAKE THIS SLIDE LOOK LIKE THE OTHERS

Evaluate:Goals

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Evaluate:Personas

“Mary”Behaviors• Has a housecleaner

• Busy take-away 3 nights/wk

• Frequently feels

overwhelmed when she

“forgets” something

Demographics• Working mom

• 34 years old

• Lives in Reading, works in

London

• Married, 2 kids

• Household 125K/yr

Needs & Goals• Help! Running errands,

managing kids, keeping

things running

• Time for her girlfreinds

• To feel like she “has it sorted”

• “To clone herself

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Traffic, referral sources, brand reach and growth, engagement, keyword performance & ranking, CTR

Leads, Form fills, visitor to lead conversion rates,

Marketing Qualified Leads

Sales Qualified Leads

Loyalty-Retention rate, customer lifetime value, CTR, Email sharing, Reviews

Key Performance Indicators

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ADJUSTMENTS• What strategy tweaks are needed?

• What tactical tweaks are needed?

• What’s shifted with the outbound

plan?

STRATEGY• Which actionable tasks

will yield the highest conversions?

• Are the tactics relevant to the goals?

RESULTS• What does the

user data tell us?• What worked?

• What didn’t?

• Why/Why not?

• What’s next?

GOALS

• What is the focus that will yield

the highest conversion?

• What will be measured?

• What will be tested?

Evaluate:Continuous Improvement Data Driven Cycle

CUSTOMERFOCUSED

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Tips for

Tactical

Execution

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• Website• Social Media• SEO• Blogging• PPC

VISITORSTop of Funnel

Awareness Stage

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Delivering an Amazing UX

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Target Personas

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Navigation

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Messaging

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Call to Action

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Website Copy55% OF WEBSITE VISITORS SPEND LESS THAN 15 SECONDSACTIVELY READING CONTENT ON A PAGE.SOURCE: HUBSPOT

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SEO

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Keyword Average Position Global Searches SEO Difficulty

twin towers cincinnati 1 480 50

twin towers senior living community 1 40 35

Dayton OH Twin Towers cars 11 0 46

villa homes 13 590 34

twin lakes jobs 14 50 44

retirement homes Cincinnati 14 10 47

assisted living cincinnati ohio 15 40 42

cars Dayton OH Twin Towers 15 0 44

assisted living cincinnati oh 16 20 42

assisted living Cinn OH 17 0 43

assisted living in Cincinnati Ohio 18 30 40

assisted living facilities in cincinnati ohio 18 20 43

assisted living in Cinn OH 18 0 43

Cinn Ohio assisted living 18 0 39

Cinn OH assisted living 18 0 39

assisted living cincinnati 19 210 41

Cincinnati OH assisted living 19 0 39

nursing homes in cincinnati ohio 20 260 50

senior residential living 20 50 31

Cinn assisted living 20 0 41

Keywords

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Errors:

Warnings:

Passed:

04

16

B

Website SEO Score: 84/100

SEO SCORE

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LOAD TIME

1.98SECONDS

PAGE SIZE

1.9MB

REQUESTS

43

SPEED SCORE

76

Website Speed Score: 76/100

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Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Google+

TOTAL NUMBER OF TIMES PEOPLE HAVE SHARED Client.ORG ON SOCIALCHANNELS.

Total Media Shares Summary

Total Shares: 72

Pages Scanned: 158

Facebook: 44 (61.1%)

Twitter: 4 (5.6%)

Linkedin: 22 (30.6%)

Pinterest: 0 (0%)

Google: 2 (2.8%)

72 TOTAL

SHARES

Social Shares

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Social Cannels

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43% of social media users

share pictures

Social Content

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• 55% of customers will come to yoursite through your blog.

• Businesses acquire new leads and customers byproviding them with quality content.

• Companies that blog gain 80% more visits than those who don’t.

BlogBlog

Source: Hubspot.com

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INFOGRAPHICS ARE LIKED AND

SHARED 3X MORE THAN OTHER

CONTENT

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• Videos increase the likelihood of yourvisitors purchasing your product or service by 64%

• Videos provide anincrease in your visitors understanding of your product or service by 74%

• Videos on landingpages increaseconversions

• by 86%

Videos

Source: fslocal.com

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CONSIDERATION STAGE

• Call to Actions

• Landing Pages

• Thank you

Pages & Email

• Lead nurturing

email workflows

• Videos

LEADSMiddle of Funnel

Consideration Stage

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OF WEBSITE VISITORS ARE

NOT READY TO TALK TO A SALES REP.-KISS METRICS

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Companies that excel in lead nurturing generate 50% more sales-ready leads at 33% lower cost per lead.

(Forrester Research, 2014)

Companies using marketing automation see 53% higher conversion rates (initial response-to-MQL) than non- users, and an annualized revenue growth rate

3.1% higher than non-users. (Aberdeen Group, Marketing Lead Management Report, Jul 2012)

Nurtured leads produce, on average, a 20% increase in sales opportunities versus non-nurtured leads.

( DemandGen Report, 2014)

CONSIDERATION STAGEBenefits of Automated Lead Nurturing

78% of successful marketers state that marketing automationis most responsible for increasing revenue contribution

(2015 State of Marketing Automation)

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START WITH CTA LINK TO A LANDING PAGE

SEND TO A THANK YOU PAGE

FINISH WITH A FOLLOW UP EMAIL

CONSIDERATION STAGEHow does it work?

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DECISION STAGE

SALES QUALIFIED LEAD

Bottom of Funnel

• Schedule a Tour

• Consultation

• Online Chat

• Trial StaySALES

QUALIFIED LEADBottom of Funnel

CONSIDERATION STAGEDecision Stage

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• Email

• Social Media

• Reviews

• Cross Sell/Upsell

• Stay Top of

Mind/Referrals

CUSTOMERS

AND

ADVOCATES

Customers and Advocates

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DECISION STAGECONSIDERATION STAGEEmail

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90% of surveyed respondents who recalled reading online reviews claimed that positive online reviews influenced buying decisions, while 86% said buying decisions were influenced by negative online reviewsSource: -Dimensional Research

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Online reviews impact

67.7% of respondents’

purchasing decisions.”

-Google

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“92% OF PEOPLE

TRUST STRANGERS

OVER BRANDS.”-NIELSEN

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“A HAPPY CUSTOMER WILL TELL 3 PEOPLE ABOUT THEIR EXPERIENCE, AND AN UNHAPPY CUSTOMER WILL TELL GOOGLE.”

-ANONYMOUS

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LOST REVENUE

Organizations risk losing as many as 22%

of leads when just one negative article is

found by users consider their service. If 3

negative reviews pop up in a search query,

the potential for lost customers increases to

59.2% Have four or more negative articles

about your brand appearing in Google search

results and you are likely to lose 70% of

potential leads. (Google)

DECISION STAGECONSIDERATION STAGELost Revenue

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DECISION STAGECONSIDERATION STAGEOnline Directories

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WHY DIGITAL MARKETING

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Inbound

Outbound

What is the investment?

INBOUND MARKETING $143

OUTBOUND TRADITIONAL MARKETING $373

DECISION STAGECONSIDERATION STAGEWhat is the Investment?

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•54% more leads are generated

by inbound tactics than traditional

paid marketing.

•2X as many marketers say inbound

delivers below average cost per

lead than outbound methods.

•$20K is the average companies save

per year by investing more in inbound

marketing vs. outbound.

Source: Hubspot

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