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Can You Convert Traffic into Leads and Sales?

Can You Convert Traffic into Leads and Sales?

Donna Ward
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Social Media Manager, Blog Consultant and Trainer at Ask Coach Donna
Social media training and promotion for entrepreneurs, professionals, and business bloggers.
Certified Business Coach, Intuitive Strategist ~ As a Social Media Manager and Coach, I do the work for you and/or train corporations and small businesses how to set up their blog and a Social Media Marketing Plan around their blog/website as their business hub. As a Social Media Marketing Expert, I teach Relationship Marketing and Social Media Mastery, consulting and speaking services for corporate, business owners, and conscious entrepreneurs around the globe!
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michael hyatt more trafficThere are several types of strategies that are used in order to convert traffic into leads and sales.

But what does it mean to convert traffic into leads and sales, and why does it matter?

One of the more vital things to a business is generating leads (building your list) and future sales.

Say, you’re not in business?

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Creating Blogs That Drive Clients to You

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Social media training and promotion for entrepreneurs, professionals, and business bloggers.
Certified Business Coach, Intuitive Strategist ~ As a Social Media Manager and Coach, I do the work for you and/or train corporations and small businesses how to set up their blog and a Social Media Marketing Plan around their blog/website as their business hub. As a Social Media Marketing Expert, I teach Relationship Marketing and Social Media Mastery, consulting and speaking services for corporate, business owners, and conscious entrepreneurs around the globe!
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bees attracted to honeyDo you have marketing strategies for your blog to drive clients to you?

Great!

I’ll bet, if you’re like me, you always like talking and learning a bit more about how your blog can drive clients to you, or just targeted traffic to your site.

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Want More Than an Outstanding Blog Post?

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Social Media Manager, Blog Consultant and Trainer at Ask Coach Donna
Social media training and promotion for entrepreneurs, professionals, and business bloggers.
Certified Business Coach, Intuitive Strategist ~ As a Social Media Manager and Coach, I do the work for you and/or train corporations and small businesses how to set up their blog and a Social Media Marketing Plan around their blog/website as their business hub. As a Social Media Marketing Expert, I teach Relationship Marketing and Social Media Mastery, consulting and speaking services for corporate, business owners, and conscious entrepreneurs around the globe!
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outstanding-blog-postYour dream of an outstanding blog post, could go like this…

You finish off what you know is a great and outstanding blog post, hit publish and sit back and wait for your traffic stats that show thousands of visitors read your post, commented, shared, and are opting into your email list.

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Can You Hook Your Blog Audience?

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Social Media Manager, Blog Consultant and Trainer at Ask Coach Donna
Social media training and promotion for entrepreneurs, professionals, and business bloggers.
Certified Business Coach, Intuitive Strategist ~ As a Social Media Manager and Coach, I do the work for you and/or train corporations and small businesses how to set up their blog and a Social Media Marketing Plan around their blog/website as their business hub. As a Social Media Marketing Expert, I teach Relationship Marketing and Social Media Mastery, consulting and speaking services for corporate, business owners, and conscious entrepreneurs around the globe!
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hook-your-blog-audienceYES You Can!

You can hook your blog audience with power words that are so juicy that in your first couple of sentences you’ve grabbed your reader’s attention.

The way to hook your blog audience is to be so incredibly interesting or mysterious, that they just have to keep reading more.

What makes your readers want to read more of your blog posts?

Well…I’ve read that:

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Got Share Worthy Content? 

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Social Media Manager, Blog Consultant and Trainer at Ask Coach Donna
Social media training and promotion for entrepreneurs, professionals, and business bloggers.
Certified Business Coach, Intuitive Strategist ~ As a Social Media Manager and Coach, I do the work for you and/or train corporations and small businesses how to set up their blog and a Social Media Marketing Plan around their blog/website as their business hub. As a Social Media Marketing Expert, I teach Relationship Marketing and Social Media Mastery, consulting and speaking services for corporate, business owners, and conscious entrepreneurs around the globe!
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share-worthy-contentIt’s a big question, and the reality is that there are many ingredients to having share worthy content.

You already know that in the world of blogging, competition is fierce, no matter what you blog about.

Not only do you need to stand out from the crowd of bloggers similar to you, but you also have to find new and meaningful ways to shine in the eyes of your readers.

The practical way is to have share worthy content creation.

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Are You Ignoring Your Community?

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Social Media Manager, Blog Consultant and Trainer at Ask Coach Donna
Social media training and promotion for entrepreneurs, professionals, and business bloggers.
Certified Business Coach, Intuitive Strategist ~ As a Social Media Manager and Coach, I do the work for you and/or train corporations and small businesses how to set up their blog and a Social Media Marketing Plan around their blog/website as their business hub. As a Social Media Marketing Expert, I teach Relationship Marketing and Social Media Mastery, consulting and speaking services for corporate, business owners, and conscious entrepreneurs around the globe!
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You could be ignoring your community!

ignoring-your-communityWhat if you didn’t know your community, who they are, what they want, and what they need from you? 

Remember the reason they joined your community…

  • They saw a spark of hope that you shined as you were telling them you were the one able to help.

And now. just maybe, your ignoring your community.

Why would you want to ignore your community when you’ve worked so hard to attract them?

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Promote Your Blog to The Most Qualified Audience

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Social Media Manager, Blog Consultant and Trainer at Ask Coach Donna
Social media training and promotion for entrepreneurs, professionals, and business bloggers.
Certified Business Coach, Intuitive Strategist ~ As a Social Media Manager and Coach, I do the work for you and/or train corporations and small businesses how to set up their blog and a Social Media Marketing Plan around their blog/website as their business hub. As a Social Media Marketing Expert, I teach Relationship Marketing and Social Media Mastery, consulting and speaking services for corporate, business owners, and conscious entrepreneurs around the globe!
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promote-your-blogIt’s no surprise that the Internet and your blogging power has shifted to your audience and new ways to promote your blog!

Being smart about branding means more than accepting that.

It means that you’ll be focusing your promotional energies on producing content your community bookmarks, downloads and shares.

Planning (it’ll be your creation) and implementing (putting it into action) a content marketing plan means:

  • Stronger audience connection with your brand when they understand that you are genuinely trying to help them instead of just pushing your product
  • You’ll get a well-earned reputation as a thought leader in your field.
  • You want and will see increased traffic to your site through higher SEO rankings, inbound links and social shares.
  • Educated and inspired repeat readers that may turn into clients, who become brand ambassadors.
  • More opportunities to engage with your prospects working at helping them educate themselves about their buying decisions.

The goal of YOUR content marketing is to promote your blog and turn your ideal prospects into clients. Building a more loyal and meaningful relationship with your existing clients and readers on your blog.

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Do You Know What Bloggers Need To Know?

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Social Media Manager, Blog Consultant and Trainer at Ask Coach Donna
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Certified Business Coach, Intuitive Strategist ~ As a Social Media Manager and Coach, I do the work for you and/or train corporations and small businesses how to set up their blog and a Social Media Marketing Plan around their blog/website as their business hub. As a Social Media Marketing Expert, I teach Relationship Marketing and Social Media Mastery, consulting and speaking services for corporate, business owners, and conscious entrepreneurs around the globe!
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know-what-bloggers-need-knowWhat bloggers need to know is that blogs need to be found by an interested audience, and then share expertise offering solutions and ideas in what that audience wants to know more about.

You as a blogger, business or otherwise, want to attract a large and dedicated audience that can respond to you immediately.

  • Then you need to share what will help solve their problem they need you for.

==> You’re blog is you sharing your thoughts, expertise, and creativity.

So what other reason would your blog be significant on the web and be found by your readers?

No matter what you are writing about, it is a crowded web out there. Read more →

Do You Understand Your Online Marketing?

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Social Media Manager, Blog Consultant and Trainer at Ask Coach Donna
Social media training and promotion for entrepreneurs, professionals, and business bloggers.
Certified Business Coach, Intuitive Strategist ~ As a Social Media Manager and Coach, I do the work for you and/or train corporations and small businesses how to set up their blog and a Social Media Marketing Plan around their blog/website as their business hub. As a Social Media Marketing Expert, I teach Relationship Marketing and Social Media Mastery, consulting and speaking services for corporate, business owners, and conscious entrepreneurs around the globe!
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As a small business person, or a blogger, you are your own Marketing Manager!

understand-your-online-marketing

That means you need to understand your online marketing strategies.

As your own Marketing Manager, one of your jobs is getting high-quality leads onto your list so that you can share more fabulous information about what you offer.

But how can you do that if you don’t know your answers to:

★ What keywords to use for your content marketing? ★

By now we all know how to enter the words for things we are searching for online. These are the keywords that the search engines like Google, Bing, and even the Social Media sites use to find what you are looking for online.

Keyword research and strategies are about finding out the words that your target audience types in to look for what you have to offer. Read more →

Be Persuasive With Your Content Marketing

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Certified Business Coach, Intuitive Strategist ~ As a Social Media Manager and Coach, I do the work for you and/or train corporations and small businesses how to set up their blog and a Social Media Marketing Plan around their blog/website as their business hub. As a Social Media Marketing Expert, I teach Relationship Marketing and Social Media Mastery, consulting and speaking services for corporate, business owners, and conscious entrepreneurs around the globe!
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persuasive-with-your-content-marketingYour goal with your content marketing is persuasion.

How can you be persuasive with your content marketing?

==> Being cautious and fearful or pushy and unpleasant are not the ways for today’s business to be persuasive with any kind of marketing!

Finding your own path of connecting, engaging, with assertive and conversational sales language is your goal.

Whew!  So… Content marketing is engaging your prospects.

There are ways to help you be persuasive with your content marketing.

What’s that, you say?

How do you find more of the clients you love to work with being persuasive with your content marketing?

–          You are growing your business and your brand.

o   You’re the one responsible for revenue, the income that keeps your business moving forward.

–          The success or failure of your business depends on quality and quantity of the leads you bring in when you are persuasive with your content marketing. Read more →