For your business to be able to take full advantage of the Internet, you first need to establish an online presence and start attracting qualified traffic. Affordable Lead Generation is the first step of our ABCs of Internet Marketing Success.
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One of the core foundations of an effective internet marketing campaign is an efficient lead generation program. Business owners must understand where leads come from to accurately target their lead generation program. Internet leads originate from three sources:
1. People who know you and are looking for your brand;
2. People who find your internet properties (website, blog, articles, social media content) when they are searching for goods and services, and
3. People who are linking to your internet properties from other credible sites.
As a rule, these channels are most cost-effectively managed using Search Engine Optimization. For most companies SEO is the best method of establishing and maintaining an attractive and easily found web presence, but a long term commitment and significant investment is required to make it work.
How to make your investment effective!
So what’s the key to choosing the right search terms (words or phrases that people use when searching for your goods and services) to spend your internet marketing dollars on? It’s important that you:
1. Work with a professional on keyword research to discover candidate terms that you can afford to compete on;
2. Validate that these terms are relevant to your business and will generate leads;
3. Apply your Search Engine Optimization strategy - build high value content to attract your audience, and
4. Continuously develop your web presence and conversion strategies.
Keyword validation is critical; failure to validate the terms and lead generation strategies is gambling with your SEO dollars. Typically, your SEO portfolio will include at least two internet properties (micro-sites, blogs, and social media presence). It’s vital that these assets have high quality content that your prospects will find valuable. Your internet properties will be promoted using article writing and publication, proactive link building and highly ranked directory listings. Done properly, SEO is hard work, and it takes continual commitment (not cheap, especially if you’re learning on the fly) – so use a professional to get the right terms right from the start!
Effective validation of search terms requires testing using paid advertising, advisably both local banner advertising and remarketing (getting your brand back in front of people who have visited your website or other online properties). While you generate traffic with this program, you can also optimize your conversion outcomes and gain the absolutely crucial validation that the search traffic on the words and phrases you are using is relevant to your offering.
Use best practices and get those leads!
Following these tested lead generation strategies; building and continually improving your web presence, identifying and validating successful search terms, and conversion strategies, will certainly lead to improved results and return on your internet marketing budget. If you want your business to see roi from your internet marketing campaign, connect with your WSI Internet Marketing Consultant to develop an affordable lead generation program.