How the Service Industry Can Use the Web to Drive Leads and Sales - Air Conditioning Contractors of...

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This presentation: How the Service Industry Can Use The Web to Drive Leads and Sales was prepared for the Kansas City Chapter of the Air Conditioning Contractors of America (ACCA Kansas City). The audience was comprised of business owners selling direct to consumers as well as to HVAC industry partners who focus on the B2B audience. The presentation was designed to take an audience who had mostly relied on Yellow Page advertising and other types of traditional advertising through the process of understanding what digital marketing is - and illustrating the financial benefits of shifting your business focus to inbound marketing tactics as opposed to limiting your marketing efforts strictly to outbound marketing channels. Some of the things we cover are: The benefits of branding yourself and owning knowledge - and the value of Content Marketing; The value of integrating Video and YouTube into your online marketing efforts; Understanding the importance of, and the value delivered by focusing on Local SEO strategies; The importance of Mobile Technology to businesses today and how to integrate a mobile mindset into your overall marketing efforts; Why Social Media matters and how businesses - both B2B and B2C, are using social media marketing today; And the fact that all of the foregoing starts with a website that's built by someone who knows how to do it correctly. A well-designed website has the right content, is SEO optimized, has regular, fresh content being contributed and is working for you - 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. If you're trying to figure out what to do next to get your business headed in the right direction and maximizing the potential of the Internet, this presentation might help.

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Your Customers Shelly Kramer, V3 Integrated Marketing

@ShellyKramer

Who Am I? Shelly Kramer

CEO, V3 Integrated Marketing @shellykramer

Vision + Voice + Value

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Understand The Web of Today

Traditional Marketing

Digital Marketing

Print Ads Television Ads Cold Calling

Yellow Pages Direct Mail Email Blast

Traditional Marketing

Blogs Ebooks

White Papers Videos SEO

Social Media Webinars

Feeds, RSS

What Is Digital Marketing?

Why This Matters

26%

44%

2009 2011

Don’t Take My Word For It

Source: Hubspot: State of Inbound Marketing Report - http://bit.ly/kumlrs

Channel Critical or Important

24%

44%

2009 2011

Facebook

Source: Hubspot: State of Inbound Marketing Report - http://bit.ly/kumlrs

They Really Like It.

Channel Critical or Important

21%

38%

2009 2011

Twitter

Source: Hubspot: State of Inbound Marketing Report - http://bit.ly/kumlrs

I Mean It!

Channel Critical or Important

It’s really all about just one thing …

Back to Inbound Marketing

Inbound Marketing Costs Less

Source: State of Inbound Marketing Report - http://bit.ly/aewfHr

Outbound Ave. Cost Per Lead

$332 Inbound

Ave. Cost Per Lead

$134

Inbound is

60% lower per lead

Where do leads come from?

More Budget Dollars Being Allocated to Corporate Blogging

2009 2010 2011

48%

Source: Hubspot: State of Inbound Marketing Report - http://bit.ly/kumlrs

61% 65%

Source: Data from over 1,500 small businesses - http://bit.ly/XDkQV!

increase in website pages indexed by Google for companies that blog over companies that don't blog.!

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Why Does This Matter?

It’s Money, Plain and Simple

More Indexed Pages = $

Companies with more indexed pages on Google, Yahoo and Bing generate more sales leads.!

Every 50 to 100 incremental indexed pages can mean double-digit lead growth.!

Growth in new leads accelerates significantly once websites achieve 300+ pages indexed by Google

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I’ll Say It Again: Inbound Marketing Works

Let’s Talk Content

27 Million Pieces of online content are shared daily!

1 in 5 Social media messages include links to content!

60 Percent of content-sharing messages specific to an

industry mention a brand or product by name!

Who’s investing in this?!

Let’s Talk SEO + Content

Let’s Talk SEO + Soc Nets

Let’s Talk

Friends

Source: Data from over 1,500 small businesses - http://bit.ly/XDkQV!

Of people trust recommendations from peers.!

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Source: Data from over 1,500 small businesses - http://bit.ly/XDkQV!

Of people trust advertisements.!

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So … How Do I Do This Crap?

1 Things You Can Do

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Brand!

If they can’t find you on the web, they can’t become your customers.

Yourself !!

OWN!!Knowledge!

Provide News, Information, Services, Content, Training, Entertainment …. PROVIDE VALUE!!

2 Video Services

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Search Engines

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Help Customers Get to Know You

Set up a YouTube Page for your Company and Create Video

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Videos can also be created for a print and online

“Ask the Expert” program.

Videos can be archived online and promoted in a print edition,

association newsletter or

corporate website or blog.

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aren’t you?

3 Local SEO Services

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Owning the Local Market is a Big Deal

Learn this, Live it …

Is Your Client…

Your Online Identity?

Your Google Image is?!

Claim It

When they “Google It” who do they find?

When they “Google It” who do they find?

Local and Industry Directories?

Are you listed in local directories? If not, why not? Directories help people find you. It just makes

sense.!

Resources!

Resources!

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Smartphone penetration continues to rise in all categories

of businesses have mobile enabled websites

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Most websites look fine on a desktop computer…

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Most desktop websites were not designed to be viewed on the small screens of mobile devices.

Fonts can be too small, images are too small, navigation can be clunky, Flash won’t work, lengthy page loads, and the list goes on and on.

Can you see this?

More importantly, can you use it?

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And here’s someone doing it right …..

Percentage of Smartphone owners accessing the Internet or email

Mostly go online using their phone

2011 - Pew Research Center Internet & American Life Project.

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Tactics to find new customers

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Company Blog

Facebook

Twitter

LinkedIn

Social Media is for Leads and Sales

Source: State of Inbound Marketing Report - http://bit.ly/aewfHr

Percentage of companies that have acquired a customer from:

63% 39% 67% 53%

Understand the Fundamental Truth: Your #1 Client Is

6 Your Website….

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There’s a right way. And a wrong way to build them. Which one is yours?!

Here’s Why HubSpot’s Tools Rock

June 2011

October 2011

Install Your Analytics, Then Read The #$@ Things!

Oh, the stories they tell …

Old World Way to Reach Customers

Banner Website

Call Center

Sales Rep

Phone

Lead Gen

Direct Mail

Search

Phone

Old World Way to Reach Customers Direct Marketing = Fire Hose

New World Way to Reach Customers!

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ROI?!

The Key is BENEFITS

Short vs. Long

Financial vs.

Non-Financial

Before ROI, You Get This

•  Increase in site traffic •  Increase in time spent on site •  Views of a specific landing page, blog post

or offer •  Increased follower/like/friend base •  Increase in Share of Voice •  Increase in Positive Sentiment (this means

they like you) (more)

And the Payoff …

•  Increased revenue •  More leads •  Shorter sales cycles •  Lower customer acquisition costs •  Lower customer service costs •  Lower customer retention costs

(Are You Happy Yet?)

Scorecard Have Revenue/Profits increased? !Financial

Financial

Brand

Digital

Risk Management

Have Costs decreased? !

Have consumer attitudes about the brand improved? !

Better prepared to find/respond? !

Has the company enhanced it’s assets? !

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.”

- Charles Darwin

Stalk Me … I don’t bite (normally)

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