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We just covered a whole lot of
information, so let's recap.
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[SOUND] Our goal in marketing is to focus
on inbound marketing strategies.
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Inbound marketing focuses on creating
quality content that
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pulls people toward your company and
product, where they naturally want to be.
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By aligning the content you publish with
your customer's interests, you naturally
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attract inbound traffic that you can then
convert, close, and delight over time.
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Acquisition strategies through inbound
marketing can be
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broken down into the following sections.
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[SOUND] Content marketing, through
activities like blogging or podcasting.
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[SOUND] Social media, where our goals are
to share great content that provides
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a valuable information to our customers
and engage with our customer base.
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[SOUND] And search engine optimization,
crafting our content to
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increase the chances that our customers
can find us around the web.
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Once these visitors are aware of us, we
need to activate them, guide them to
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conduct an activity that allows us to
slowly convert these visitors to leads and
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then customers over time.
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These include strategies like,
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[SOUND] calls to action, where our goal is
to get our customers' contact information.
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A call to action does not have to be a
traditional sign-up form.
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In exchange for this information, we can
give our customers something in return,
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like valuable content in the form of
e-books, downloadable assets, and so
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on, depending on what is useful for your
target audience.
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[SOUND] We can also use landing pages.
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When a user clicks a call to action,
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they end up on a landing page where they
submit information that we can use.
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We need to optimize these landing pages to
convert our visitors to leads, and
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we do that by using [SOUND] forms.
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To make it super easy for our customers to
give us their information,
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we need to optimize our forms to make the
conversion process as smooth as possible.
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With content marketing, we want to provide
our audience with
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content they find useful, engaging, and
interesting.
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You [SOUND] should have a content
marketing strategy and
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try to publish on a schedule.
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Share this content often and engage with
your customers.
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Like content marketing, social media is
another avenue through which we
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can engage with our customers and build
our reputation as thought leaders.
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[SOUND] Like any marketing activity,
figure out your goals for social media.
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How will you communicate and influence
your customers?
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How will you outdo your competitors?
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And how will you align these activities
with your business goals?
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Regardless of your strategy with social
media,
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you should always remain positive,
professional, and be polite.
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Once we're on a regular schedule with our
content marketing and
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we're consistently engaging with our
customers,
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we need to think about how we can best
show this content around the web.
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One of the tools that we have at our
disposal is search engine optimization.
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SEO is the practice of optimizing your
webpages so
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that they show up higher on search
rankings.
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SEO boils down to three main things,
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[SOUND] great content, use of relevant
keywords, and links.
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[SOUND] Use links to create a site map of
your website so
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that search engines can effectively crawl
it and know you exist.
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Build great [SOUND] content so that you
bring in visitors often and
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search engines will reflect that in the
ranking of your site.
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And finally, [SOUND] use tools like Google
Analytics and
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Webmaster Tools to really hone in on your
SEO efforts,
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as well as to understand how customers
engage with your site and your content.
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Finally, make every effort to activate
these visitors by
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providing clear calls to action that lead
to great landing pages.
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[SOUND] Create landing pages that appeal
to a specific need or
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goal, both of the users that visit the
website and where it lives.
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To me, [SOUND] both means provide
compelling content, clear calls to action,
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and wrap it all up in a trustworthy
design.
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[SOUND] Make sure to outline the benefits
of your product or service.
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Include testimonials from customers and
any relevant data.
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Once [SOUND] on the landing page,
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allow users to evaluate your product
through the use of free trials or demos.
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[SOUND] Use clearly designed forms to
capture visitor information so
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that you can convert them from visitors to
leads, to customers over time.
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That is the marketing process in a
nutshell.
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Each of these activities has its own
strategies and methods.
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Now, while it too in-depth for an overview
course like this,
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we have plenty of other courses to really
dig into it.
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Marketing is one of the more important
activities you can engage in
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when starting a business, so
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pay attention to a lot of the tasks you
have to undertake in this process.
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