How To Use Your Website as a Marketing Tool | Kyle Bailey

Published on Nov 19, 2015

To get the most out of your website, you must understand its function in the marketing process. This presentation is built to start you on the journey to do just that.

By equipping you with the understanding of how different tools and tactics work in your website marketing, you'll be able to make massive change in your website and your marketing.

More info at http://frontburnermarketing.net

PRESENTATION OUTLINE

How To Use Your Website as a

Marketing Tool

First, Definitions

and Framework
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How do YOU Define Marketing?

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Marketing: Tools and Tactics that

Deploy your Value Proposition
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Value Proposition:
Proposing that a Product or Service is worth more than the money in my pocket.

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How do YOU define your Website?

WRITE THIS DOWN

How does your IDEAL PROSPECT define your website?

SPEND A LOT OF TIME ON THIS.
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This Gap can tell you

EVERYTHING.
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Lists of 5

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NOT Exhaustive

good starting place, but...

5 Things You Want Your Site To Do

  • Inform
  • Sell
  • Define into Baskets
  • Tell your story
  • Define what makes you unique

What 5 Things your PROSPECT wants

  • Educate - What DON'T I know?
  • Give me all the info
  • Show me where to go
  • Help me make a good decision
  • Show me others like me you've helped
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FRAMEWORK: "Since I UNDERSTAND X,

and THEREFORE I DO Y"
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Since I understand that the narrower my

funnel, the more SPECIFIC my info has to be....

I will build a succession of

pages that get more specific, then...
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ASK FOR THE SALE

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Most websites never do.

Very sad.
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You're selling:

  • Fill out contact form
  • Call
  • Answer Poll question
  • Tell us why you didn't buy
  • Actual purchase (more rare, but don't fear it)
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Do you fear "IT"?

OFFLINE OR ONLINE

TRUTHS
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Marketing:
The exposure of your Core Ideas

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What are your Core Ideas?
Hint: Limit to 3-5, no one can absorb more

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When a Purchase happens, your Buyer is "Fellowshipping" with one or more of your Core Ideas

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Your Core Idea(s) can't be "We sell this stuff and that stuff"

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But Instead:

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"We believe in a, therefore we only do b, and love giving that to our customers"

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"We provide the best x service, based on a unique, proprietary process, makes your life better by doing y for you"

"I live here, I give here"

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People don't buy Things, they buy States: state of being stress free, happy, fulfilled, etc...

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Your Product/Service supplies some state, and that's what your customer buys

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"We sell (x state)" = Core Idea

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Your Marketing then exposes that/those ideas to prospects, in this case, on your website

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Your website should take your customer from one idea to another, becoming more specific as you go

Blogging Framework

  • 5 Tips about Core idea #1
  • 5 problems that Core Idea #2 fixes
  • 5 fears that Core Idea #3 protects you from
  • 5 things going on in the world about Core Idea #1
  • 5 ways this industry news event affects Core Idea #2

Your Customer has to perceive a path to purchase. Does your website have one?

Path Example:

  • I have a problem
  • I search Google
  • Your site comes up, I click
  • The first thing I read from that click should address my problem
  • Same page should have my next step
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Your entire website MUST OBEY this process

CALL TO ACTION IS INDISPENSABLE!

INESCAPABLE RULE #1:
The bigger the problem you solve, the easier your sales process will be

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INESCAPABLE RULE #2:
The closer your "solution" is to a commodity, the harder your sales process will be

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Be as Unique as Possible; Solve Big Problems

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Don't be afraid to abandon a bad idea - Every. Successful. Person. Has.

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Kyle Bailey 512-876-9111

@thekylebailey on everything, Kyle Bailey Austin