Inbound Marketing: Lead Generation at 60% Lower Cost
Customers now have the power to screen out cold calls, cold emails and other unsolicited communication, making it harder and harder to get results with outbound marketing. Yet, thousands of companies have proven that you can generate leads and drive sales at a 60% lower cost using inbound marketing to attract customers.
This presentation will include specific tips on using social media, SEO, blogging, lead nurturing, landing pages and analytics together as an inbound marketing strategy for radically better marketing.
* Jeanne Hopkins, Director of Marketing, HubSpot
59. Read the “Inbound Marketing” Book www.InboundBook.com Grade Your Website: www.WebsiteGrader.com Additional Free Resources: www.HubSpot.com/marketing-hubs Suggested Next Steps
This leads to LMS – Lazy Marketing Syndrome, where you don’t focus on building long term assets for your company and instead just keep raising the limit on your company credit card.
Renting leads from other people (buying advertising) is not a long term strategy for lead generation. Renting is OK for experiments, and for transitions, and for testing. But it should not be the centerpiece of your long term strategy.
Instead, think about building a long term asset, just like the machinery in a factory. Build tools that will attract leads at a low cost while you sleep, and without additional cost per lead.
Examples of outbound marketing, or rented marketing are all different forms of advertising that do not help you build an asset that your company owns and controls. Inbound marketing helps you build assets that attract leads to your company at a low cost over time.
BudgetOr Brains? 2 MIN/10 (build slide – cash or brains?)
LET’S TALK -3 MIN/17 MINBlogs are the unsung hero of search engine optimization and there is strong business valueHost a Conversation- to make your site interesting AND sticky so that people come back all the timePromote Yourself in an interesting way “you can be edgy, provocative & sync with current eventsNetwork Online- you can connect with your target demographic in a way that helps them solve a problemNurture Relationships with prospects and customers – talk about issues, get feedback, opinions, ideas
Blogging Benefits 2 MIN/24 Blogs give you a Winning Ticket for the SEO raffle drawing MINIf you have a site with five pages and no blog, you have five chances to rank in search engines. If you have a site with 100 and pages and a blog with hundreds of posts, you have hundreds of chances to rank. Many of the keywords you'll rank for will get you one or two visits a month, but in the aggregate -- as we've seen at HubSpot -- those long tail search querries will account for far more traffic than the high-traffic queries.
The Exponential Effect of Blogs (Build Slide) 2 MIN/26 MIN
Take Comments Seriously (build slide) 1 MIN/52Commenting engine enables you to engage directly with prospects Make sure you comment back and link to your blog or website.
How to Put All the Pieces Together?HubSpot can do it for you.