Reporting on content marketing results: Quality of Leads

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CMB Partner Office Hours Today’s Presentation: “Reporting on Content Marketing Results” Every Tuesday & Thursday @3pm Eastern

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This presentation outlines the important aspects of "lead quality" that inbound and content marketing agencies should consider when reporting results to client's. This presentation takes place during the Content Marketer's Blueprint partner office hours on January 7th 2014.

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CMB Partner Office HoursToday’s Presentation: “Reporting

on Content Marketing Results”Every Tuesday & Thursday @3pm Eastern

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Today’s Schedule15 minutes: Slide Presentation

45 minutes: CMB Partner Open Q&A

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After the WebinarWebinar recording, slides and blog article

www.contentmarketingblueprint.com

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Today’s QuestionHow to report on quality of leads for

clients?

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Information Qualified◦ Recognizes a problem

Marketing Qualified◦ Considering solutions

Sales Qualified◦ Evaluating options

Opportunity◦ Ready to make a decision

Customer◦ Purchased

#1 Establish the buyer’s journey

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#2 Report on Lead Quality Based on the Buyer’s Journey

Where are the biggest problem areas in this client’s online sales funnel?

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#3 Identify the Source of the Highest Quality Leads

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Continued…

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Lead Quality = Probability of making a purchase.

*The Quality Score is a weighted proportion of how many leads are Marketing Qualified (Good)

and Sales Qualified (Better).  The higher the proportion that are MQL or SQL, the higher your Q-

Score.

QScore = {2*(SQL/(all leads that aren't customers) + 1*(MQL/(all leads that aren't customers)}*100

#4 Establish a Standard Measurement for “Quality”

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#5 Use Quality Score to Compare the Value of Traffic Sources

What traffic source produces the most valuable leads?

What traffic source is most valuable to the company overall?

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#6 Close the Loop: Data Driven Decisions

Observations1. Organic Traffic = Highest

Quality Leads2. Referral Traffic is Under

Utilized

Recommendation3. Increase blogging

activity4. Increase guest blogging

and direct engagement with other thought leaders.

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Results after Recommendation

3% increase in lead distribution from referral (guest blogging)

8% increase in lead distribution from organic (more/better content)

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