by Amber Miller | Jun 4, 2018 | Blog, Blogging, Business Development, Marketing
Content marketing is the best way to get information to your clients or customers. This is also the perfect way to gain the trust of your customers and increase your sales.
The problem is choosing the most effective type of content and presenting it in an attention getting manner.
Here are some tips on choosing the most effective content for your content marketing.
- Point out the competition’s mistakes. People, in general, want to avoid painful experiences as much as possible. Pointing out all the ways your competitors fail to make life easier for your potential customers works to your advantage. Top ten lists on this kind of thing such as “10 most common mistakes” or “10 things you don’t want to do” are especially effective in driving people to you, rather than your competitor. I’m not saying you should specify or point fingers at specific competitors here!! That’s not professional (or nice). Instead, use general statements and point out what makes your company better than others.
- Give out industry “secrets.” They are not really secrets but if you let people think they are then their trust in you grows. Create content with bulleted lists showing how to do things faster and easier or how to make something work better. People love lists about things because lists are easy to filter through and pick out those points that pertain to them specifically. They also help people retain the information.
- Organize it for them. One of the biggest hurdles for some people is the organization of certain things. Do the work for them by giving them plans and ways to organize things to make their life simpler. If you can make something straightforward and easy for someone, they will appreciate it and repay you with their business.
- Answer common questions. When you’re discussing a common problem or situation, people tend to have the same questions. By providing the answers before someone even asks the questions, you make them feel more comfortable. It gives them the impression your company truly cares about them and their needs because you’ve taken the time to learn what they want or need.
- Latest trends reports. This is a way to help your clients and customers keep up to date with the latest information from your company. This type of content lists the newest information or technologies and explains them in an easy to understand fashion.
Effective content marketing is all about continually giving the client or customer whatever information they deem useful. It demonstrates to prospects your company is paying attention to the needs of their clients and responding in an resourceful and expeditious manner. If the frequency and/or quality of information begins to slow down, your client base will begin to find another source of information, taking their sales dollars with them.
Making use of a virtual assistant writing service is a good way to fulfill the needs of consistent and effective content writing. By using writers to help create your content, you can easily continue to provide fresh, new content. Once you have the articles, reports and other documents, offer them to your customers freely through email or a blog. Not only will your customers thank you in replies and comments but, more importantly, with their continued loyalty. The Smart to Finish team can help you create content and update your blogs and newsletters. Let’s talk 🙂
by Amber Miller | Jun 30, 2017 | Blog, Infusionsoft
After using Infusionsoft for awhile, you’ll soon learn that to make the most out of the application you’ll need some additional tools. Below are just a few of the add-ons that the Smart to Finish Team recommend and can set-up for you too!
If you need better reporting and quality business metrics, this app is for you. By adding Graphly to Infusionsoft you’ll be able to make better decisions for your business. Here are just some of the reports available:
- Value reports: You can determine how much your new buyers spend and how much you spent to acquire them. You can use this data to ensure you’re getting the right new customers, the right way.
- Lead source: You can see which lead sources generated sales of a particular product and/or view the net income of each lead source. This will help you determine where to spend your time (and money!) marketing.
- Campaign email stats: Easily see the opens, clicks and conversions for every email in a campaign. How nice would it be to see at-a-glance what emails are really driving your conversions?
Imagine having your Infusionsoft dashboard look like this:
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by Amber Miller | Jun 23, 2017 | Blog, Infusionsoft
It’s that time again – the Summer slow down. Many entrepreneurs experience a business slump as their communities take time to relax and vacation with families. It’s tempting to join the lazy days of Summer but now is the perfect time to get your business ready for the busy season right around the corner. Use this time to plan your future launches, tighten your business processes and cleanup your systems. If you’re an Infusionsoft user, it’s the perfect time to tune-up your application so it’s running smoothly and working hard for you so you don’t have to! Take time to perform these 5 tasks so you’ll finish the year strong:
1. Organize Tags
The beauty of Infusionsoft is that it allows you to create as many tags as you want so that you can properly segment your list. The bad thing is that you have most likely created a TON of tags and some you may not even remember why you created them at all! Take time to run a report of all your tags and their categories. Go through the list and delete what you aren’t using. CAUTION: tags can control automation in your application; so don’t delete a tag unless you’re sure it’s not being used to trigger something. The Smart to Finish Team can review and clean-up your tags, perform this task regularly so it’s not a big job and better yet, set-up a tagging structure so your tags are always organized!
2. Update Legacy Items
If you have old follow-up sequences, web forms, and/or campaigns, take time to put those into the new campaign builder. That way your emails will be mobile-ready and you can use new features to further automate your systems. If you want to enjoy your Summer, the Smart to Finish Team can create these updated campaigns for you while you lounge by the pool!
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by Amber Miller | Jun 16, 2017 | Blog, Infusionsoft
Infusionsoft is a leading CRM and email marketing software for small business. It is one of the most popular applications on the market and more and more small business owners are using it to improve their marketing every day. Why is it so popular? Here are 5 reasons why Infusionsoft is good for your business:
1. Email Marketing that Works
Did you know that on average it can take anywhere from 5-12(!) touches from you before a lead turns into a customer? Do you have time to personally email everyone on your list this many times? Of course not! Infusionsoft does this work for you – automatically. Plus, these communications are targeted so your leads and customers are getting the information from you they actually want. This saves you time, helps you build better relationships and prevents the dreaded unsubscribe.
2. Know More About Your Leads
Infusionsoft tracks where your leads are coming from so you can leverage that information. At any time you can run a report to see where your leads originated, how many sales you have from those lead sources and more. For example you may discover the majority of your leads are from Facebook, so you can decide to place more effort on your Facebook marketing and less on a channel that isn’t performing as well. (more…)
by Amber Miller | Jun 12, 2017 | Blog, Infusionsoft, Infusionsoft training
Infusionsoft is an all-in-one marketing solution. It can handle everything from automating your marketing, to taking payments online, and so much more. If you want a software that will help you capture more leads, increase your conversions and take you less time, Infusionsoft is the solution. However, it is not the easiest software to learn. Hiring an Infusionsoft professional will help you leverage all of its capabilities and bring you these three benefits too:
1. Increase Your Revenue: Infusionsoft isn’t “just” a CRM; it’s a marketing tool for small business. As such, you not only need someone to help set things up for you, but also someone who understands marketing. An Infusionsoft professional takes your marketing vision, provides input and advice and then sets everything up the best way for YOUR business. As professional we know the in’s and out’s of Infusionsoft and how to use it to optimize your marketing funnels and create a full automated marketing system that ultimately brings you more revenue.
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by Amber Miller | Jun 2, 2017 | Blog, Infusionsoft, Marketing
If you’re ready to spend more time in the sun this summer, you can transform your business (and life!) by harnessing the power of Infusionsoft, a marketing automation software. Every day there are a ton of details you must manage in your business and Infusionsoft can automate almost all of them. Here are just a few of the ways you can put your business on autopilot:
1.Turn Visitors into Leads
You can use Infusionsoft’s ready-made lead capture forms to collect data on all of your website visitors. Once they sign-up you can automatically send them a welcome email, include a free download, track when your new lead has downloaded their gift, and even remind them automatically if they forget!
2. Engage Your List
In today’s email heavy world, personalization is key to creating a brand your leads and clients want to engage with. Infusionsoft helps you capture important data and then use it to ensure your contacts receive the information they truly want. You can then use these details to segment your list, trigger emails based on email opens, clicks, or payment history, create and send special targeted promotions and more.
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