Search engine optimization (SEO) is one of those areas of marketing that still scares quite a few people.
Your social media and digital marketing strategies provide a great way to get potential leads to your website. Once they get there, the website should be structured to capture leads and move them into the marketing-to-sales funnel. As you do this, there are a few key visitor behaviors that will help you categorize leads as accurately as possible.
When we get into conversations about competitive marketing intelligence with our clients, they’ll often say something like, “Nope. No. We don’t need that. We just did that six months ago. We tore through all of the information on our competitor’s solution. Right down to the specifics of the hardware and software and how they’re listed. We know exactly what’s on the market now, and we have a pretty good guess about what competitors are going to bring to the market in the near future.”
It’s Not a Lead If You Don’t Do Something With It
You’ve just been given some draft content to review. You start reading.
So far, it sounds great. But suddenly, you stop reading. Something terrible has happened. There’s a comma, and you’re not sure if it’s needed.
Today’s marketers have a variety of tools to position and promote a company, product, or service. But if marketing and sales efforts are not aligned, market success cannot be achieved.
1. The Core Benefit of Digital Marketing
Think about this:
More than half of the world is online, 53% is mobile, and the digital economy is valued at more than $3 trillion1 — these figures are growing daily.
I was at the wrap-up meeting for a white paper we had just finished for a client.
