A lead is a person who showed interest in your business in one way or the other, either by giving you their contact, personal data, signing up to your business website or given you the permission to contact them through email.
Lead gerationon is a means of making consumers to be interested in a product or services with the aim of converting their interest into sales.
This is a medium for transmitting information to people about a product or service offered by a business organization to attract and take hold of their interest. This helps in increasing the number of leads in a sales channel.
STRATEGIES FOR LEAD GENERATION
This is anything that motivates someone to give you access or permission to reach, contact, and marketing your products or services to them.
The truth is that there is no general formula for growing a business but if you want to grow faster than others, you need to make your lead generation strategies your priority and use the ones we are about to show you to get more qualified prospects into your sales channel.
Prospects are people regarded as likely to succeed or as a potential customer, client, etc.
It isn’t a must for you to try all the strategies given below but one or two of them can work for your business as long as it suits your marketing goals, resources and revenues because it’s better to try than never.
No one sits with his or her hands crossed, and expect success. You go for it! You work it out! These are some of the means pray strategies for lead generation.
CREATE A FREE DOWNLOADABLE PDF GUIDE
People submits their contact or personal data while going to read the guide, thereby making you to generate leads into your sales channel and helping them to get the products and services of their interest.
For a example, offer a free trial if you are running a software company, offer a free consultation if you are a plastic surgeon, offer a free tutorial if you are a teacher.
DRAW PEOPLE TO YOUR WEBSITE
You can generate lead by attracting people to your website either by providing a quality content like ebook or uploading a catchy posts on social media. Always post or offer something that catches their interest.
MAKE THE PROSPECTS CHOOSE YOU
Give them reasons to prefer your products or services to others by offering free demos, assessment and unique products. People want to see something different from the ordinary. Don’t be a copycat, make your products special and compelling in a way they can’t resist it, by doing so, you them with no option than to choose you.
TAKE CARE OF THE LEADS AT HAND
There is popular saying that says ‘a bird at hand is better than a thousand in the bush’. While fighting or striving to get more leads, try not to neglect the ones you already have at hand. You need to keep giving them reasons to stay because once you take your eyes off them, they are gone. People look for where they will be given maximum attention in the are of their interest, not where they will be neglected or abandoned. The fire burning by giving them more contents such as buying guides.
TURN EVERY BLOG POST INTO AN OPT IN PAGE
Feed them with recipes, PDFs of your post, worksheet and guides to your resources. Make a pop up propelling them to make a decision, either by saying yes or no. Whichever one they choose, is their but make sure you try your best in your posts to convince them to say yes.
GIVE ROOM FOR ADVICE
No man is a monopoly of knowledge. You can get advice from others who has made it in your line of business. But before you take those advice and put it to work, make sure to check if it is in line with your business goals. Also check the images, headline, button copy and concreteness.
MAKE YOUR BUSINESS VIDEOS CLEAR AND SHORT
Time has gone when people donate so much of their time in watching videos for a whole day. Create 3 to 4 minutes video with a quality and clearer pictures/images which is easy to download. While doing so, make sure you are still on point.
TAKE REMARKETING SERIOUS
One of the easiest way to generate leads is to take remarketing serious. This enables you to tag those who visits your site, feed and update them on your business while they are busy going through their daily view or search on YouTube, Google, hanging out with friends on Facebook or checking their email. This will help in bringing back their interest in your business if they have lost it.
10 CHANNELS FOR LEAD GENERATION
These are some of the channels through which you can generate leads:
- Content marketing
- Social media
- Organic search
- Brand partnership
- Networking events
- Paid search
- Webinars
- Display Ads
- Giveaways.