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Atricle Dump - How Full is Your Marketing Funnel?
As a business owner, you’ve got a lot going on. Sometimes it’s hard to know what your top priorities are and where to put your focus. And since there are only so many minutes in a day, you need to find the best way to utilize your time so you can grow your business.Figuring out what your priorities are, and then focusing on them, will require an investment of time. I know, you don’t have any extra time and that’s the whole problem. The fact is,
What’s in your marketing funnel? Take out a sheet of paper, draw a funnel shape, and list the products and services you currently offer. Do you see any gaps in your offerings from free to high priced? Determine how to plug the holes by adding more product and service offerings and a range of pricing options.
Make it easy for prospects to make the decision to buy so your business becomes more profitable and you don’t have to work so hard to make sales.
You absolutely want to put this strategy of The Marketing Funnel into action in your professional service business!
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Copyright 2006 by Jan Marie Dore.
Consumers in the United States spend almost seven trillion dollars each year on consumer goods. In order to tap into this lucrative market, many major companies manufacture their products in exotic locales such as China, India, or other Asian nations due to their cheap labor and lax trade restrictions. Unfortunately, few of the industries that export their capitol across the Pacific realize that they could save more money with one short trip across the s
Many service professionals struggle with converting prospects directly into high paying clients. They make the mistake of trying to sell their high-end services without first developing a relationship with potential clients. The second mistake they make is to offer only a high priced service without any lower priced options.
Marketing experts suggest that we provide an opportunity for people to experience our services and expertise at different price points. The theory behind the marketing and sales funnel - sometimes called a pipeline – is that we offer something free at the top end of the marketing funnel, then a mid-priced option, and finally your highest priced services and products at the bottom of the funnel.
Here’s what you do to implement this marketing funnel strategy:
First, get lots of prospects in the funnel.
If you picture your funnel with the wide end at the top and the narrow end at the bottom, you want lots of prospects at the top of your funnel.
You need to first ‘cast a wide net’ by spreading your message to as many people in your target audience as possible. This would include prospects, current clients and former clients. You want to target your message so that mostly ideal prospects enter the top end of the funnel.
A great way to do this is by offering something for free or extremely low cost, such as an article, an ezine, special report, ecourse, audio download, a talk or a teleclass The purpose is to entice them to allow you to add them to your database and contact them again. This introduces you to prospects and provides an opportunity for you to demonstrate your expertise.
Then, guide them through the funnel.
Once prospects have experienced your expertise and start to know, like, and trust you, they are more likely to open their wallets and spend more money on your services and products. Each level of the funnel as you guide prospects through represents increased familiarity and the potential for increased profits.
You offer your higher priced services and products only after they have sampled the lower priced option. As you provide several opportunities for prospects to sample your skills and knowledge at lower price points, the middle of your funnel starts to fill.
You can make money while earning the trust of clients and prospects by providing low to medium priced options for them to try your services. Examples of mid-priced options would be an ebook, information booklet, workbook, audio program, group coaching program, subscription ecourse, teleclass or in-person group training, or assessments. Only then do you promote your higher end services, for example, your 1-1 services, weekend workshops, or home study program packaged with audio recordings.
What’s in your marketing funnel? Take out a sheet of paper, draw a funnel shape, and list the products and services you currently offer. Do you see any gaps in your offerings from free to high priced? Determine how to plug the holes by adding more product and service offerings and a range of pricing options.
Make it easy for prospects to make the decision to buy so your business becomes more profitable and you don’t have to work so hard to make sales.
You absolutely want to put this strategy of The Marketing Funnel into action in your professional service business!
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Copyright 2006 by Jan Marie Dore. 10 Ways To Bring Out The Entrepreneur In Your Child
1. Take time to engage your children in serious conversation. You will be surprised how easy it is to link their world with yours and, at the same time, to build a relationship of open communication, shared knowledge and sound values.2. Don't lecture them. Let your children provide as much input as possible. Let them talk. Listen. Be their business partner, not their boss. Let them develop their own business ideas - then act as the advisor to help tee at the top end of the marketing funnel, then a mid-priced option, and finally your highest priced services and products at the bottom of the funnel.
Here’s what you do to implement this marketing funnel strategy:
First, get lots of prospects in the funnel.
If you picture your funnel with the wide end at the top and the narrow end at the bottom, you want lots of prospects at the top of your funnel.
You need to first ‘cast a wide net’ by spreading your message to as many people in your target audience as possible. This would include prospects, current clients and former clients. You want to target your message so that mostly ideal prospects enter the top end of the funnel.
A great way to do this is by offering something for free or extremely low cost, such as an article, an ezine, special report, ecourse, audio download, a talk or a teleclass The purpose is to entice them to allow you to add them to your database and contact them again. This introduces you to prospects and provides an opportunity for you to demonstrate your expertise.
Then, guide them through the funnel.
Once prospects have experienced your expertise and start to know, like, and trust you, they are more likely to open their wallets and spend more money on your services and products. Each level of the funnel as you guide prospects through represents increased familiarity and the potential for increased profits.
You offer your higher priced services and products only after they have sampled the lower priced option. As you provide several opportunities for prospects to sample your skills and knowledge at lower price points, the middle of your funnel starts to fill.
You can make money while earning the trust of clients and prospects by providing low to medium priced options for them to try your services. Examples of mid-priced options would be an ebook, information booklet, workbook, audio program, group coaching program, subscription ecourse, teleclass or in-person group training, or assessments. Only then do you promote your higher end services, for example, your 1-1 services, weekend workshops, or home study program packaged with audio recordings.
What’s in your marketing funnel? Take out a sheet of paper, draw a funnel shape, and list the products and services you currently offer. Do you see any gaps in your offerings from free to high priced? Determine how to plug the holes by adding more product and service offerings and a range of pricing options.
Make it easy for prospects to make the decision to buy so your business becomes more profitable and you don’t have to work so hard to make sales.
You absolutely want to put this strategy of The Marketing Funnel into action in your professional service business!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Copyright 2006 by Jan Marie Dore.
Your print ads should do more than just get noticed. Their job is to bring you business, and if all they do is lay around and attract attention, they’re no different from the lazy employee who does nothing all day but look busy.You wouldn’t give him more hours in the hopes that one day something productive will happen. And you shouldn’t keep running those “name recognition” ads in the hopes that one day sales will happen, either. You should fire thoay to do this is by offering something for free or extremely low cost, such as an article, an ezine, special report, ecourse, audio download, a talk or a teleclass The purpose is to entice them to allow you to add them to your database and contact them again. This introduces you to prospects and provides an opportunity for you to demonstrate your expertise.
Then, guide them through the funnel.
Once prospects have experienced your expertise and start to know, like, and trust you, they are more likely to open their wallets and spend more money on your services and products. Each level of the funnel as you guide prospects through represents increased familiarity and the potential for increased profits.
You offer your higher priced services and products only after they have sampled the lower priced option. As you provide several opportunities for prospects to sample your skills and knowledge at lower price points, the middle of your funnel starts to fill.
You can make money while earning the trust of clients and prospects by providing low to medium priced options for them to try your services. Examples of mid-priced options would be an ebook, information booklet, workbook, audio program, group coaching program, subscription ecourse, teleclass or in-person group training, or assessments. Only then do you promote your higher end services, for example, your 1-1 services, weekend workshops, or home study program packaged with audio recordings.
What’s in your marketing funnel? Take out a sheet of paper, draw a funnel shape, and list the products and services you currently offer. Do you see any gaps in your offerings from free to high priced? Determine how to plug the holes by adding more product and service offerings and a range of pricing options.
Make it easy for prospects to make the decision to buy so your business becomes more profitable and you don’t have to work so hard to make sales.
You absolutely want to put this strategy of The Marketing Funnel into action in your professional service business!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Copyright 2006 by Jan Marie Dore.
The environment is the number one change driver; either for your personal change “program” or for organizational moves. The environment brings the necessary conditions for change. There is a paradox behind this relation because the change and especially growth of the same businesses also cause changes to the environment. Companies need more “land” when they extent their operation, to name just one relation.The limitation of space is such an example fits.
You offer your higher priced services and products only after they have sampled the lower priced option. As you provide several opportunities for prospects to sample your skills and knowledge at lower price points, the middle of your funnel starts to fill.
You can make money while earning the trust of clients and prospects by providing low to medium priced options for them to try your services. Examples of mid-priced options would be an ebook, information booklet, workbook, audio program, group coaching program, subscription ecourse, teleclass or in-person group training, or assessments. Only then do you promote your higher end services, for example, your 1-1 services, weekend workshops, or home study program packaged with audio recordings.
What’s in your marketing funnel? Take out a sheet of paper, draw a funnel shape, and list the products and services you currently offer. Do you see any gaps in your offerings from free to high priced? Determine how to plug the holes by adding more product and service offerings and a range of pricing options.
Make it easy for prospects to make the decision to buy so your business becomes more profitable and you don’t have to work so hard to make sales.
You absolutely want to put this strategy of The Marketing Funnel into action in your professional service business!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Copyright 2006 by Jan Marie Dore.
Generally speaking, marketing inefficiencies are due to one or more of three reasons:
1. Lack of interest in – or understanding of – the sometimes fickle customer.
2. Improper blending of the four Ps – caused in part by overemphasis on internal problems as contrasted with a customer orientation.
3. Lack of understanding of – or adjustment to – the marketing environment, especially what competitors do.Perhaps, lack of concern for t study program packaged with audio recordings.
What’s in your marketing funnel? Take out a sheet of paper, draw a funnel shape, and list the products and services you currently offer. Do you see any gaps in your offerings from free to high priced? Determine how to plug the holes by adding more product and service offerings and a range of pricing options.
Make it easy for prospects to make the decision to buy so your business becomes more profitable and you don’t have to work so hard to make sales.
You absolutely want to put this strategy of The Marketing Funnel into action in your professional service business!
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Copyright 2006 by Jan Marie Dore. www.janmariedore.com
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