In an article on the Shopify blog, marketing expert Jacqueline Biggs once talked about the 10% strategy.
The 10% strategy is the process of making small, incremental changes to your marketing plan. These changes can bring in a significant increase in profits or savings over the long term. This strategy is also effective in the lead generation process.
In this article, we will take a look at five simple tricks that can help you add more leads to your sales cycle.
Change Your Bait
Lead magnets are the bait that marketers use to capture the email addresses of their website visitors.
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One study by the Digital Marketing Association found that nearly 61% of visitors sign up to company newsletters to get offers.
Also, consider simply changing your marketing message from “sign up to our newsletter” to “get exclusive discounts here.”
Making this change could have a terrific impact on the percentage of leads you sign up on your website.
Restrict High Demand Content to Registered Users
Do you generate content that is highly unique and is in demand among your visitors? If so, it is a good idea to restrict this content to registered users of your website.
Businesses that publish their own surveys and research reports commonly use this strategy because such content is in high demand among the decision makers in their industries.
This tactic is one that will deliver high quality leads to your company.
Try Before You Buy
Free trials are common among businesses selling online tools and services.
The objective of a free trial is two-fold. One purpose of this type of offer is to let prospective customers test a product to see if it is a right fit for their needs.
But more importantly, a free trial is also a way to capture the contact details of a user who might not otherwise have provided them.
If you are a business selling tangible products, you could replace free trials with free samples. In either case, the objective is to nudge visitors into providing their contact information.
Gamify Lead Generation
Lucky draws work very well for eCommerce businesses in the accessories or apparel categories.
These campaigns are effective because they require very little effort from the user. Just providing an email address is sufficient in most cases. In return, these users stand a chance to win a prize.
Lucky draws are very similar to lead magnets. In both cases, users provide their contact details in exchange for a “gift.” But the chances of “winning” a competition as opposed to receiving an assured gift make lucky draws more alluring.
One word of caution, however: lucky draws are considered a form of lottery in many jurisdictions. As a result, they might be illegal or legally restrictive. Check your local laws before launching this type of campaign.
Less Is More
Reducing clutter on your landing page is by far one of the most underused strategies for improving lead generation.
Each link and line of text on your web page is a distraction that could potentially push your visitors away from signing up.
In order to generate more leads, it is important to reduce clutter and keep the focus of your web page on your sign up form. Less is always more.
Ready to Generate More Leads?
The strategies mentioned here go a long way in increasing the percentage of visitors who convert into leads.
But merely getting hold of contact details does not necessarily provide you with the right to reach out to those users with a sales proposal.
Marketers must ensure that their strategies are in line with the CAN-SPAM Act, or its equivalent in their respective jurisdictions.
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Easily understandable and really informative.
Thanks for highlighting the factors to generate more lead as it is very important for every business.
Great Work!!
Five extremely excellent tips and strategies Aakash!
And consistently implementing any one of them,
will definitely help any profit seeking entrepreneur
move forward!
And your five strategies, are extremely practical and
market tested!Thanks for sharing them!
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Great Tricks for generate more ideas business, Brilliant article and extremely helpful. thank you for share this.
Hi Akash,
If we restrict content to the registered users, aren’t we spoiling our own audience? Though the chances of getting more leads or user registration increases, but it might affect our rankings on Google.
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Hi Vidya,
Not necessarily. This is extremely common among enterprise B2B businesses where access to unique content like research reports, surveys, webinars, etc. are restricted to registered users. Even a lot of media content websites do this. What these websites typically do is put up sufficient amount of teaser content that will still rank on Google, but if you have get anything out of it, you will have to register. For example, research agencies put up press releases stating something like ‘Study shows 7% growth in mobile subscribers’ followed by table of content, summary report, overview, etc. This is enough content to get ranked. But if you want to read anything deeper, you will have to provide your email.
Thanks for your comment.
Informative and easy to understand – very timely for me too! Thanks for this excellent article, We all know that generating leads is very important in any business and having tips like these will help us generate leads faster.
Thank you so much for this informative guide! one of the best article. Super tips for business.
Hello,
A helpful bunch of tips to improve online business efforts.
If one easy with generating leads then there is no stopping for growing our online business.
You have picked the best ones for us.
Thanks for sharing.
Great Stuff.
Regards.
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Super tips for keeping marketing simple and outside the box. We are small life insurance agency looking for tips and appreciate the insights found here on your website. Good luck in 2017!
I’ve just started a startup business and struggled generating leads for it. Your post gave me an idea for generating leads for my business. It was really informative and hope it will help me in increasing the leads for my business.
Regards,
Sanjay
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I’m glad that you found my article useful. Thanks for reading Sanjay.