You have completely updated your website as part of an effective manufacturing marketing plan; it is mobile friendly, has great images, and is easy to navigate. Now you sit back, and wait for your investment to churn out quality leads left and right. And you wait. All that time and energy and your website is still not generating enough quality leads. Everything you’ve read up to this point has told you – fix the website, and generate more B2B sales. So why aren’t you seeing enough quality leads?
Your website needs to be built with sales-driven design; when it is, your sales and marketing teams are a match made in heaven. If you're marketing for industrial manufacturing, moving beyond a pretty design and into relevancy to build trust and create those relationships is the key.
Let’s take a closer look at how you can make your website an active part of your smarketing plan.
Bring customers to your site through relevant content. Today’s consumers are independent in their search for quality products. You know this from experience; rather than relying on a salesperson to tell you what’s the best of the best, you rely on product reviews, case studies and peer reviews.
Be bold and use a variety of ways to provide relevant content: infographics, video-blogs, traditional written content, presentations, and more - anything that resonates with your audience.
Change what you're selling from a noun into a verb. For example, when you think that your job is to sell "glue" (a noun), you will tend to talk to the customer about product features, such as bonding ability, pressure requirements, adhesion characteristics and so forth. By contrast, if you think your job is to sell "gluing" (a verb), you will want to discover your customer's gluing needs and then show how your glue will fulfill that need. This is consultative selling; it matches inbound marketing in its effectiveness.
Forms are useful to you, but boring to visitors. Keep it short and simple. Use checkboxes, lists and scroll menus to make data entry easier. Focus on the goal, and get rid of the fields that distract from the goal.
Make the sale. You have their contact information, now what? You need to build that trust and engage with them until they are ready to buy. This educational or consultant sales approach provides a personal touch with the customer and builds rapport. Continue the dialogue. Seth Godin says it so well: “Selling to people who actually want to hear from you is more effective than interrupting strangers who don’t.”
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