This past Monday, our SVP of Marketing, Aaron Dun, was a guest speaker for Demand Gen Report in their Lead Lifecycle Series. He spoke about marketing to the middle of the funnel and how content-enabled campaigns will improve your conversion rates. Let’s take a look at how he compared approaches and offered advice to boost your conversion rates and find those super MQLs!
The Traditional Approach
There Is A Better Way…
Let’s think of it this way – we don’t want to just send more leads over to sales, we want to send better, more qualified leads. “But how do I qualify leads earlier in the funnel?” I’m so glad you asked, curious reader! You accomplish this by having a conversation with your audience. “But how do I have a conversation with them?” Another great question! You have a conversation with your audience by using interactive content and encouraging them to actively engage with you. Interactive content is about creating a dialogue with your audience, rather than a monologue. Remember that ebook we talked about? You can add a piece of interactive content to that campaign to collect valuable data and ask the questions sales would have, just earlier in the lead lifecycle. Let’s see an example…
Influitive has a great selection of ebooks. In an effort to promote them, they created a personality quiz and included it in a blog post. The quiz asked questions like, “What’s the first thing you do when you get to the office each morning”, “You’ve returned from a conference and need to present on what you learned. You share:”, and even, “What’s your favourite way to spend your weekend?”. The point of the quiz was to show users who they matched on a marketing team and then pointed them to an ebook that was not only paired with that personality type, but also gave advice for how to use those skills to take their career to the next level. My result was a social butterfly and I was pointed to the ebook: How Hootsuite Grew its Advocate Program Seven-Fold in Less than a Year!
Another result users could get was content king or queen. Those users were directed to the ebook: The Advocate Marketing Playbook. The point is that Influitive used a fun way to capture detailed information about each user, see who downloaded an ebook after the quiz, and were able to qualify or disqualify leads for their sales team. Influitive got it right because they created something that was engaging, on-brand, and gave their audience something of value.
This is a guest article written by By Kara Widdison.
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