CREATING A SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING SYSTEM

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OUR SYSTEM FOR GROWING YOUR BUSINESS

Create Your Strategy

With the right strategy marketing is so much easier.

We’ll help you:

Identify your ideal customer so you can focus on getting more of them
Create a message that differentiates you from the competition
Build the perfect customer journey
Map out your greatest growth opportunities

Build a foundation for success

There are a handful of essential marketing elements you must get right.

We’ll help you:

Build a website that converts visitors to customers
Map out a content plan that attracts only your ideal client
Get Google to love your website

Crank up leads and customers

Once you have a solid strategy and foundation it’s time to ignite your business.

We’ll help you:

Build marketing funnels that automatically grow your business
Turn more customers into raving fans and referral sources
Prove what’s working and what’s not

The lifeblood of every local business is leads, well it’s actually customers, but it starts with leads! In an attempt to generate more leads, you can throw a lot of money at a lot of things these days – online ads, social media, radio, and the next new thing that the internet comes up with.

It’s frustrating, to say the least.

But here’s the good news. All you really need is a proven marketing system.

Below are the 7 essential elements we go to work on to grow your business.

1. Create a core message and strategy of difference

Finding a way to stand out in the mind of your ideal customers, something differentiates your business from every other business that seems to provide the same products and services as you, is hard work, but it might be the most important discovery you can make.

To help discover the perfect strategy for your business we’ll:

Define your ideal customer using what you know about your current customers
Discover the characteristics of your most profitable customers that already refer
Interview your current customers to discover the problems you really solve for them
Scan your reviews to find even more clues about what your customers think
Create a core message that targets the problems your ideal customers want to solve

Marketing lives and dies by developing “Strategy Before Tactics” – We think this step is so important that we start every engagement here with something we call Strategy First – In fact, this can be a stand-alone engagement that leads into the following implementation steps. Click to see full Strategy First details.

2. Build a website that converts visitors to customer

No matter what your business sells today your website is the hub of your marketing. It must be able to tell your story and guide your prospects to take the actions that turn them into customers. To do this effectively, there are certain elements that every small business website must-have.

To help you build a website that drives growth we’ll:

Design a site structure and flow that engages visitors
Create and feature your core message to help you stand out
Feature your ideal customers to help prospects know they are in the right place
Build the content for your core web pages and SEO plan
Add case studies, accomplishments, and testimonials that help build trust
Tell the full story of your products, services, and mission
Integrate video content for trust-building and engagement
Audit, organize and refresh your existing content

3. Master everyday SEO to help prospects find you

People turn to search engines when they want to find something. In fact, that’s the #1 way local businesses get noticed today. If you’re not showing up on the maps and organic listings you are at a huge disadvantage. SEO isn’t that complicated, but it must be done in a strategic manner, integrated with your content and website structure.

To help you create an everyday SEO plan we’ll:

Create a website structure built for Google
Optimize all of your current pages
Get your Google My Business page producing results
Make sure that your data is correct and complete across directories
Acquire links back to your content from related websites

4. Let your customers talk about how great you are with reviews

Since commerce began people have asked their friends for the names of businesses that can help them solve a problem. A good review from a friend went a long way. Today, we turn to review sites like Google and Yelp to find businesses and rely on reviews, good and bad, from strangers to provide information and proof that a business is one we can trust.

To help you maximize reviews we’ll:

Make sure that your profiles on reviews sites are optimized
Create a funnel for reviews that makes it easy for fans to share
Create a process that allows you to get reviews with every new customer
Find ways to highlight your great reviews on your website.

5. Use social media to create awareness and build trust

Social media platforms offer many new ways to create awareness for your business, but they can also be a distraction if you don’t have a plan to use them strategically. Millions turn to social media sites every day so tapping this behavior is key.

To help you get the most from your social media we’ll:

Tune up your profiles on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram
Create a plan to focus the right message on the right plan
Teach you how to capture those personal brand moments that create engagement
Integrate your content, sharing, and paid social efforts

6. Capture leads ready to buy now with online advertising

Pay-per-click advertising or paid search as it is called today offers some tremendous benefits. It’s also a place where you can potentially waste a great deal of money. That’s why it’s so important that you work with a marketing professional who understands how to implement effective Google Ads campaigns that are aligned with your overall strategy.

To help you get the most from your PPC efforts we’ll:

Develop a list of high purchase intent keywords for your campaigns
Create targeted audiences based on your ideal customer
Build campaign-specific landing pages for high conversion
Create ads and campaigns focused on generating business

7. Access real-time reporting to see what’s working and what’s not

The rise of digital marketing gives us more ways to collect and track data than ever. We can now know what the exact return on just about any campaign is, but we can also get flooded with useless data. The key is to establish a handful of useful metrics and use them to help inform marketing decisions.

To help you get the most from your overall marketing efforts we’ll:

Help you construct a Lifetime Customer Value metric
Develop conversion goals around your marketing campaigns
Create a reporting dashboard so you can monitor the progress of your marketing
Install tracking tools that allow you to see where your best leads come from

7 Steps to small business marketing success

Learn more about the 7 key steps to an effective, affordable marketing system and how to put them to work growing your small business. Download our free ebook.

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