The development of digital transformation has boosted the activity of e-commerce, and has meant a before and after for those companies whose business model is based on the generation of leads as a starting point to achieve sales. How can this acquisition be achieved organically?
A lead is any user who visits our website and who, at a given moment, decides to provide us with their details on a form, thus losing their anonymous visit status and becoming a contact that can be followed up.
It is a user who visits our website in order to cover a need and decides that he/she wants to receive news about our business, so he/she leaves his/her contact details, in order to continue maintaining a relationship with the company.
Lead acquisition is possibly one of the biggest concerns of digital marketers. Good lead acquisition translates into a large number of new contacts for a relatively low investment of resources and time. If we achieve this, we will have a greater chance of meeting the conversion goals and keep the brand growing.
To improve our process of generating leads, we can implement many different techniques and strategies, depending on the brand and its needs. In this post we will teach you how to generate those leads organically with the Inbound Marketing strategy. But first you should know what this strategy is about.
Inbound marketing is a methodology that combines non-intrusive marketing and advertising techniques with the aim of contacting a user at the beginning of their purchase process and accompanying them throughout this journey until the final transaction.
This methodology contacts people who are at the initial moment when they discover your brand. From here, they are accompanied, through the appropriate content for each of the phases, until the final transaction, always in a "friendly" way. And thus achieve loyalty.
Inbound marketing provides advantages to the companies that put it into practice. Among the main ones, there are:
All actions linked to the Inbound Marketing methodology are aimed at capturing leads in a natural way. This type of strategy seeks to combine different channels to attract customers to the brand's website.
Therefore, Inbound Marketing seeks to build a solid base of organic traffic by combining SEO optimisation of the page, through the creation of content marketing together with its dissemination on social networks and lead management through email marketing .
how to convert this organic traffic into leads? In addition to including CTAs that direct to the contact page in blog posts and other relevant URLs, there are three key tactics:
The most important thing is that the leads obtained are qualified, i.e. they are people with a need or interest that makes them require our products or services. In this type of case we have potential as a company or brand because we can be the solution to solve their problem.
To find out if they are qualified, we need to define our buyer persona and learn more about them. To do this, we can not settle for basic data, such as gender or socio-cultural level, we must investigate more specific aspects, for example through surveys to find out their needs and interests:
The true value of a lead is the possibility of working with it and carrying out actions on it that will help us to qualify it and prepare it for purchase.
I am not sure if my leads are qualified, what can I do? These are achieved with two actions: lead scoring and lead nurturing.
With more and more audiences interacting on online channels, brands must adjust their lead acquisition strategies to take advantage of the new possibilities that are emerging thanks to the advancement of digital habits and the main tools.