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When starting a business, you think you need a website…  and maybe a Facebook page, business phone number, and a shared mailbox.

Though what you really need is LEADS and CUSTOMERS!

The Bottom line is though just having a website and a personalized email address will not pay your bills unless they are turning visitors into leads and leads into customers! You have to put in the work digitally and physically. You can market physically through the use of business cards because they never come out of style. All you have to do is to stand out from the rest by opting for metal business cards.

So today, we will discuss some tips on how to use your website and get those LEADS and CUSTOMERS.

Have a Marketing Plan

Your website is your #1 online tool. The goal is for people to find your site online and hopefully become a lead or customer.

In order to do so, you need an Online Marketing plan of some kind.

How are you going to get Traffic to your website? (traffic is the online term for visitors)

Let’s cover a few different ways of getting traffic to your website first. This is what a lot of people need help with.

SEO or No?

SEO – Search Engine Optimization is the process of increasing the quality and quantity of your website’s traffic by increasing the visibility of the website or webpage to its users of a search engine such as “Google”.  Most times this takes time and a lot of work to get that to happen but can really boost your bottom line once you get it there—check domain authority of the website to see the results.

Once your website is on the first page though it can turn into some awesome results. Especially for some industries. Always make sure that your business has network security; for more information visit https://www.fortinet.com/products/network-access-control.

If you decide to go this route though you’ll want to shoot for the first 5 search results on “Google”. In order for that to happen, most successful business in today’s world count on gohighlevel black swan media.

According to Zero Limit Web,  On the first page alone, the first five organic results account for 67.60% of all the clicks and the results from 6 to 10 account for only 3.73%

According to Zero Limit Web, “71.33% of searches resulted in a page 1 Google organic click. Page two and three only get 5.59% of clicks.

So what’s left? A mere 15% of all traffic – Going to the Google Paid Ads (PPC), or trying a different search. Or giving up.

What About PPC?

PPC (Pay Per Click) is usually referring to Paid Google advertising so that when someone searches for your product or service your ad would hopefully be at the top.

But remember.. who likes to click on an ad?

Do you?

Here is an example of an ad on Google when I searched “website design“.

So is PPC going to be worth the money?

That’s for you to decide. I would do some research once or have someone do it for you using the Google Keyword Planner and see how much competition there is for your “keywords”.

What might be a better bang for your buck though is social media advertising.

Social Media Ads..

With the popularity and explosion of a few of the social media platforms out there, it has become a hot market to find and connect with your ideal target market.

Facebook and Instagram have exploded with growth both in users as well as advertisers in the last few years.

We personally love Facebook and Instagram (YouTube is great too) for finding my potential clients and getting customers and I think it is probably the best traffic methods currently for most businesses.

But not just any kinds of Facebook Ads. There’s a method and a strategy that we use that makes all the sense in the world once you understand how it works!

I’ll explain more on that in a later post.

Let’s look at the one piece that ties this all together!

Content Marketing (Blogging)

This is by far going to be your best long term strategy to find and connect with your potential clients and customers.

The goal here is to write articles or blog posts around your product, service, or industry that educate people on how to use your product, or how to get the max results out of it.

For example; Let’s say you were selling a product that helps clean up oil spills. If you were to write a blog post titled “How to clean up an oil spill in your garage”  and then in your post you mention your product and have a link to purchase it. (or become a lead depending on what your goal is)

But first, you educate the reader on how to use it before you try to sell it.

Don’t you think they are way more likely to buy it?

Of course!!

But now guess what…  You just created an awesome piece of content now that the search engines are way more likely to show in the search results! (Think Organic SEO)

Also, a well-written blog post is great to use in your Social Media Ads. If you can couple it with a video you got a killer combination!

The Small Business Marketing Plan

So what all should you be doing?

Some of each if you want max results! I’m sure you understand that it’s going to cost money for advertising in one way or the other.

What we do is;

  •  Content marketing (blogging), some SEO so in the long run we get organic search results (keep in mind this takes time)

  • We run social media ads with content and retargeting being one of our top strategies

  • We also do run PPC ads, a budget is needed beforehand to start (PPC is fairly expensive compared to social media ads)

Just keep in mind that when it’s time to hire a web designer you might want to hire one that can also help you with your marketing! 🙂 But don’t forget that marketing using linear tv never goes out of style. In fact, it’s still one of the must-haves in the world of marketing.

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