Posts Tagged ‘lead generation’

Focus on Marketing Channels that Work, Not the Hype

Thursday, December 1st, 2011

Being a Digital Marketer is not easy and constantly evolving with the addition of new websites trying to vye for your marketing dollars. Stick with what you know that works for your lead generation target goals and don’t get caught up in the hype, but test the new marketing channels with $1,000-$5,000, so you don’t lose out on any potential new lead gen goldmines. For example, Google +, although many critics are calling it a dud, may help for companies looking to improve their SEO by building a brand page within Google +. The Google + Brand pages are integrated with Google Search and will help company ranking in organic, thus helping to generate new targeted leads.

Choose SEO First When Starting Your Online Lead Strategy

Monday, June 1st, 2009

Develop an online marketing plan with Search Engine Optimization (SEO) as your starting point, comparatively to other lead generation channels, such as Search Engine Marketing (SEM), affiliate marketing, email marketing or media buys.

SEO, for all the newbies out there, is the organic listings that appear on the left-side of Google’s search results. It is free to appear in Google’s organic listings, which is how 75% of online users will find content. Also, 85% of Google Search users tend to click on organic listings compared to paid advertising links that appear at either the top or right-side of Google’s results. Although free to appear, it is not easy to get your website listed on the first page of the organic search, which is primarily where you want to appear, since most people tend not to go past the 1st page of the listings. So, how do you begin to make your site SEO-friendly?

Start with the title of the web pages. Name the title tags with 3-4 keywords that are relevant to the information on the page.  Next, make sure that your information on the web pages are specific to the keywords.  Lastly, get as many external links that go to your website.  The more links you have, the more it will help in the popularity of your site, which will drive your site up in the rankings of the organic search.

Using Social Media Twitter for Lead Generation

Monday, May 4th, 2009

There’s been a lot of noise about Twitter today, but what good is it for online marketers? For B2C marketers, Twitter can be a powerful lead generation marketing tool, which can send out real-time information to Twitter ‘followers’. For example, an eCommerce site can send out last minute sale information via ‘tweets’ to move inventory quickly on limited items. By sending out a ‘tweet’ to followers on a 24-hour sale, can increase traffic to a site tenfold.