Phil Lauterjung

Archive for the ‘Integrated Lead Generation’ Category

This is one of those topics that could easily have twice as many posts, but I think that eight is enough.  Hey, that might make a good name for a TV show – oooohhh now I’m dating myself.

One topic in this series that has only received passing mention is email marketing.  That should clearly be a component of any good lead generation program and I have written about in the past – Tips for Effective Email Marketing Campaigns, Email Marketing: Getting & Keeping Subscribers, and Increase Sales with Marketing in Transactional Emails.  Feel free to take a look at those articles.  Read more... (429 words, 3 images, estimated 1:43 mins reading time)

Before we dive into Marketing Automation I think it would be good to clarify a very important point.  Leads are people.  I know that might be stating the obvious, but it is critical that we keep that in mind.

The person at the other end of your electronic piece of information has hopes and dreams, fears and frustrations, goals, maybe a family, friends who like them, etc. – just like you and I do.  Never, ever lose sight of that while you are trying to sell to them.  Marketing Automation is all about developing relationships that will lead to long-term customer relationships.  Read more... (728 words, 1 image, estimated 2:55 mins reading time)

If you’ve been following along in this series (if not, why not?), you have hopefully started what you need to in order to get more leads.

Now you’ve got to decide which are the HOT leads?  Remember, we mentioned before that only 20-25% of your leads will be “sales-ready”.  How do you figure that out?

Start with lead scoring.  A process that should be done before you start getting leads, but if you haven’t yet done that don’t worry.  No time like right now to get it done.  You’ll want to take that exercise you went through earlier in developing a typical buyer profile and use that to develop a lead scoring process.  Read more... (607 words, 1 image, estimated 2:26 mins reading time)

What’s a Landing Page you ask?  Well, if you have done what we’ve talked about in the previous parts of this series you will have people clicking on your listing in the organic search results and/or your pay-per-click ads.  Where are they going when they click?  Do they all go to your home page, or maybe to your “contact us” page?  Why do you want them to go there?  Read more... (673 words, 2 images, estimated 2:42 mins reading time)

I mentioned in the last post, Integrated Lead Generation – Part 3: SEO Basics,  that Pay-Per-Click (PPC) is a cousin to SEO (Search Engine Optimization).  While that is true in one sense they are also very different from each other.  The first major difference is that with PPC you see results sooner than with SEO.  However, over the long term the results will be better with a good, solid SEO program.  Before we get into explaining more of the differences we need to clarify what a potential buyer would see when they start a search.  Read more... (567 words, 2 images, estimated 2:16 mins reading time)

I hesitated to include this subject (SEO – Search Engine Optimization) for a couple of reasons.  One is that this topic that can quickly become complex – after all Search Engine Optimization for Dummies weighs in at 746 pages!  Try summarizing that in a blog post!  Also, I know that there is a wide divergence of opinions on this topic from all different corners of the internet.  So I know I am risking potentially a great deal of criticism.  Oh well, that’s life as a blogger.  Read more... (596 words, 1 image, estimated 2:23 mins reading time)