Our CEO, J.C. Granger, joins host Lois Sonstegard, Ph.D on the Building My Legacy podcast. The podcast, which focuses on leadership, results-driven practices, and showcases emerging leaders, asked J.C. to discuss lead generation on their newest episode.
Building My Legacy, Episode 41
Listen to the full episode if you want to learn more about…
- How to Invest your Marketing Budget During a Pandemic
- Why Long-Term Focus Should be on Marketing Infrastructure
- Networker vs. Spammer
- Automation Tools our CEO Recommends
- How Understanding People Makes You a Better Marketer
Many Companies are Not Optimizing Their Marketing Campaigns
Many companies have excellent websites and a marketing strategy, but they’re failing in one major area. You can run dozens of campaigns and spend hundreds of thousands of dollars, but if your campaigns aren’t optimized, how can you learn which campaigns are generating the most leads or revenue?
Set Up Ad Tracking
Let’s say you’re spending $10,000 a month on ads. If you don’t know which ads are generating form fills however, your future ads budgets won’t be optimized. Why waste money on ads that aren’t converting?
Building infrastructure is essential. Now, imagine that your ad tracking codes are optimized. The tracking data may reveal that 85% of your leads are coming from one ad. With this information, you can focus your budget based on the high-ROI ads in the future.
Making simple tweaks streamlines your lead generation. Not only will your marketing budget be better spent, but you’ll make more money in revenue. It’s a win-win.
Optimize Email Subject Lines
Email marketing drives revenue for so many kinds of businesses. Many companies are content with their email campaigns because they result in revenue. With a few changes, however, that revenue could DOUBLE.
Let’s say you send out an email, and it results in $1,000 in sales. That’s great, but changing just the subject line can be the difference between $1,000 and $2,000 in revenue from a single email. If you begin split testing subject lines, you’d be amazed by how much more successful your email campaigns will be. If your open rate doubles, in theory, your sales will double as well.
This just goes to show that the details matter. Paying attention to them can make you money.
Marketing During a Pandemic
During a pandemic, focus on the near-term. Survival is everything for companies. Based on your industry, there are tangible ways to allocate your marketing budgets during a pandemic.
If you’re spending money on SEO right now, stop. Search engine optimization is a long-game marketing strategy.
The only exception is if your paid ads are limited. This happens for companies in the cannabis and CBD spheres. For these types of businesses, we recommend shifting SEO budgets to email marketing. More specifically, we recommend using a tool called Mail Click Convert, which allows you to purchase and clean existing email lists. Once cleaned, you can ramp up your email marketing efforts, which have generally high conversion rates when optimized.
If you’re in an industry that can do paid ads, these have quick returns during a pandemic; the ability to target specific audiences, and measure Cost-Per-Click is incredibly valuable. Right now, many B2B companies are having huge success on LinkedIn as well.
Make Work Easier: Automations We Recommend
Automation can be tricky. While saving time on everything is tempting, some platforms will “punish” you for using certain plugins (like LinkedIn). Some automation tools, however, make work easier. At Infinity Marketing Group, there are a few tools we use to save time.
For example, Gusto is great for running payroll and saves our leadership team a lot of time. Gusto also integrates if you offer benefits to your employees as well. Having everything in one place is not only useful for your leadership team, but also for your employees.
Trainual is also an excellent tool. If during this pandemic you’ve had to let go of a W2 employee, and have had to hire a contractor, Trainual makes onboarding efficient; you can upload educational videos, quizzes, and even see training progress. With this automation tool, onboarding is simplified.
Time is valuable during a pandemic and some automation tools cut-down on time-consuming processes. Even if you just save one hour a month, turning to technology is worth it.
Digital Solutions by Infinity Marketing Group
Infinity Marketing Group provides B2B tech companies with digital marketing strategies that generate leads. Over the last 9 years, our experts have generated millions of dollars in ROI for our clients. If you’re looking to ramp up your marketing efforts or start from scratch, Infinity Marketing Group can help your company grow.
If you want to talk more about anything you heard on the Building My Legacy podcast or learn more about the digital marketing services we offer, call us at (303) 834-7344 or email us at info@infinitymgroup.com
