Tuesday, December 18, 2018

Inbound Marketing – Can your business ignore it?


Inbound marketing is an important tool to any web based business, because it help to attract visitors to your website and consequently turning them into sales.



There are basically three strategies of Digital marketing company and they include; get found, convert, and analyze. We will concentrate on these three strategies to show you how important inbound marketing is for your business, so you shouldn’t for a second think of ignoring it.

Get Found

This strategy is there to help you attract genuine web visitors. Online visitors are very crucial for your web presence and without them you are absolutely nothing on the internet. Visitors make a website popular and successful and if your website don’t have visitors, how then can you make a sale online?
In using this strategy, content is very important and plays a crucial role. The easiest place to start is through Blogging. According to various researches conducted, it have been inferred that companies that are into blogging generates 55% more leads than those who do not. Blogging gives you a platform and opportunity to create and publish authentic and unique contents on a regular basis, which will definitely attract online visitors to your website.



Another method to employ to get found is Search EngineOptimization (SEO). It is now a normal thing for people to search for products or services before buying or subscribing to it. Every day, people search for anything, be it service or a product online using search engines like Google before they can buy it. SEO can help your website get easily found on the internet when anyone searches on these search engines using appropriate keywords which will be based on your business and optimizing your web pages by utilizing them along with your already created quality contents and building backlinks for your website.

Lastly, Social media is another method that can be employed here. Every day, people go online to interact with friends and family by asking or answering questions, sharing contents, pictures and videos. They also like, share and debate on various topic of interest. So, as a marketer, you must see your content as something that must attract people and consequently become a point of discussion. As more people are involved in discussing it, the better for your brand and the more you will gain from such discussions.



Convert

This strategy aim to convert those online visitors visiting your website gained through blogging, SEO and Social media interaction into buying or paying customers. It basically involves three steps and are; calls to action, landing pages and email marketing.

-          Calls to action are buttons which encourages the visitors to take certain action.
-          Landing pages direct your visitors to pages where you talked about your offers by linking them to take an action.
-          Email Marketing; there comes a time when some visitors will engage with your content, products and services without the intention of buying anything at that point. Email marketing is used to regularly remain them of your products and services and gradually build trust.

Analyze

This is very important part of any inbound marketing strategy. Once visitors start coming to your website, you will need to analyze their overall behavior and use the result of this analysis to your advantage.