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What Is Inbound Marketing?
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What IsInbound Marketing?
Traditional Marketing
Marketing has been trapped in The Matrix – an outbound system controlled by a few media owners and based on paying for eyeballs. They create reality.
Outbound is broken!
Every traditional marketing and advertising channel is being replace or compromised by disruptive technologies.
People are getting better and better at avoiding your messages.
Draw a crowd
Inbound Marketing
What if instead of interrupting people, you could pull them to your website instead?
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
The Internet is offering you a red pill – Inbound Marketing. You can unplug yourself from The Matrix.
Power Shiftfrom owners to users
PowerShift:Moore’s Law accurately predicted that the number of transistors per chip would double every 18 months.
The result has been that the cost of storage and bandwidth are approaching zero. This is what makes Web 2.0 sites like YouTube, Twitter and Facebook possible. Democratization
PowerShiftEnabled by low cost storage and bandwidth, social media sites make everyone with a computer both a consumer and producer.
“It’s as if when you bought a book, they threw in the printing press for free.”- Clay Shirky
Web 2.0
PowerShiftThe Internet is a near-perfect democracy; every user has one vote and every vote counts once. In pure democracies, trust is the coin of the realm.
Where credibility can be bought, trust must be earned.
Trust
New Rules
A new ecosystem brings new rules
New RulesBusinesses are used to operating under purely economic norms. Social media is ruled by social norms.
Mixing norms results in conflict.
Mixed Norms
New RulesWhen you’re invited to someone’s home for the first time, what’s customary?
The most effective common means for humans to establish trust is though gift giving.
Gift Economy
Search EvolutionWired magazine’s “The Web is Dead, Long Live the Internet” article discussed how apps and APIs are replacing pure HTTP (web) traffic.
The end result is that less and less traffic is visible to search engines.
Search Evolution
Now what?
Solution
Create remarkable content
Solution
Spread ideas via social media
Solution
Convert visitors to customers & measure everything
Inbound Marketing
Inbound Marketing Create
Optimize
Promote
Convert
Analyze
Five Steps
Inbound MarketingThe playing field has been leveled and marketing success is no longer a slave to advertising budgets.
Wits vs. Wallets
Inbound MarketingHubspot reports their customers have realized a 60% reduction in average cost per lead.
Lower Cost Per Lead
Step One:ContentRemarkable means something worthy of being shared. Be generous.
Readable means short words in short sentences in short paragraphs with concise and interesting titles.
Shareable means including buttons to easily Tweet, Like, Digg, etc…
Remarkable
ReadableShareable
Blogging = perfect content machine
Step One:Content
Value vs. Volume
Step Two:OptimizeOrganic search rankings are approximately 65 percent based on inbound links.
Page URLs and titles account for another 24 percent.
Inbound Links
URL
Page Titles
Other
SEO Factors
Search Engine Optimization
Step Two:Optimize
Popularity vs. Payola
Step Three:PromoteThe Internet is not a single, giant blob of homogenous people. It’s a series of interconnected groups.
Ideas spread from group to group, not person to person. Focus on them to expand your online influence.
Social Media
Step Three:Promote
Selfless vs. Selfish
Me
MyselfI
Step Four:ConvertLanding Pages are the key to converting visitors to leads.
They begin with a clear and compelling call to action.
The conversion form must be as “frictionless” as possible.
Landing Pages
1) Call to action
2) Conversion form
Step Four:Convert
Clear vs. Confusing
Step Five:AnalyzeFocus on measuring desired outcomes on your website and not just ordinary metrics like page views.
Analytics
Structure
Sitemaps
Crawl errors
Keywords
Traffic
Metrics
Visits/visitors
Time on page/site
Bounce/exit rate
Conversion rate
Engagement
Analysis
Segmentation
A/B testing
Competitive Intelligence
If it can’t be measured,it can’t be managed.
Step Five:Analyze
Data vs. Dice
More Information
Email:[email protected]
Blog:domesticatingit.com
Twitter:@JonDiPietro
Free Evaluation:http://www.domesticatingit.com/free-inbound-marketing-evaluation/
