A Proven Process for Generating Repeatable Results
If you have been struggling with your marketing, it's because you don't have a system designed to produce repeatable results.
Here's Why Your Marketing Is Not Working
You go build a website. You spend a lot of time designing and building it. Then you launch it. Nothing happens. Google and Facebook don't exist to send people to your site. You have to pay for it. Either in time (content marketing) or money (paid ads).
The problem is that paid ads won't work on a simple website. The return won't be there. And the content marketing takes a long time to build up. That is why marketing is so hard.
We have built a 4-step System to help you successfully launch your marketing funnel.
The reason your original marketing strategy didn't work was because you skipped the most important step. The first thing we do for our clients is make them go through an exhaustive strategy process.
Once you have this strategy, you have a real chance of succeeding in the next steps of 2) Building your funnel, 3) testing it with paid traffic, and 4) building a long-term brand with content marketing.
Step 1 - Strategy
The first part of success in marketing starts with building a real strategy. This doesn't mean writing some mission statement. It's far more in depth than that. Most business owners never take the time to do detailed strategy work before they start their business.
No matter where you are in your business right now, you can always benefit from stopping to do a thorough strategy review to launch or re-launch your digital marketing strategy.
Step 2 - Designing and Building Your Funnel
Websites are great. You certainly need one. But these days a website is not enough. The world is more sophisticaed now online. What you need to do is build a story-based funnel that recreates the buying experience that always works the best - when you, the founder sell it to someone 1-on-1. This is always what works best. You have the passion for the product. So why not recreate and scale that passion online?
This is where the power of video comes in. Building a funnel that really works
Websites are great. You certainly need one. But these days a website is not enough. The world is more sophisticaed now online. What you need to do is build a story-based funnel that recreates the buying experience that always works the best - when you, the founder sell it to someone 1-on-1. This is always what works best. You have the passion for the product. So why not recreate and scale that passion online?
This is where the power of video comes in. Building a funnel that really works
Step 3 - Launching your Funnel with Paid Traffic
Once you build your funnel, you have 2 choices to get traffic. You either spend money (on paid traffic) or Time (through content marketing). There is nothing quick or easy about getting 'free' traffic with content marketing. But you can quickly get high quality, targeted traffic for paying for it. And this is the key.
If you can't get your funnel to at least cover the cost of your ad spend with revenue back in, then you need to rebuild or optimise your funnel. That is the beauty of a paid ads strategy.
Step 4 - Building a Long-Term Brand with Content Marketing
Paid traffic is great. But here's the problem. You have to pay for it! Once you successfully launch your funnel with paid traffic, it's time to take your online business and branding to the next level.
Content marketing is the way to depend on your connection with your audience throughout the buying process. And content marketing is not quick or easy.
Quality matters. No content is better than low-quality content. You the founder must lead this and make it great. This is where a podcast, a YouTube Channel, or a Medium series can take your business to the next level. But it has to be in your voice and of the highest possible quality.
Paid traffic is great. But here's the problem. You have to pay for it! Once you successfully launch your funnel with paid traffic, it's time to take your online business and branding to the next level.
Content marketing is the way to depend on your connection with your audience throughout the buying process. And content marketing is not quick or easy.
Quality matters. No content is better than low-quality content. You the founder must lead this and make it great. This is where a podcast, a YouTube Channel, or a Medium series can take your business to the next level. But it has to be in your voice and of the highest possible quality.
Building a real digital marketing strategy comes down to understanding three things.
1) Who are you trying to help?
2) What is the better future they are they dreaming of?
3) How can you show them a bridge that they will trust to walk towards their better future?
Strategy at its core is simple. But building a real strategy is hard work.
And if you don't have a system, it will never work.
Step 1 - Who is Your Hero?
Your ideal client is a real person. They are walking around telling themselves a story about why they can't have a better future. The foundation of our strategy work is a series of 5 exercises we use to understand the ideal client.
Step 2 - Writing Your Hero's Journey
Your ideal client has a better future they desperately want. But they problem is they are scared. They don't think they can get this better future. We use a series of exercises to help you re-write the ideal client's better future with a detailed worksheet. Then we show you how to map out your free and paid offers to help them achieve this better future. Creative work is hard, but we have a process for helping you do it easily.
Step 2 - Writing Your Hero's Journey
Your ideal client has a better future they desperately want. But they problem is they are scared. They don't think they can get this better future. We use a series of exercises to help you re-write the ideal client's better future with a detailed worksheet. Then we show you how to map out your free and paid offers to help them achieve this better future. Creative work is hard, but we have a process for helping you do it easily.
Step 3 - Mapping Your Hero's Digital Journey
Mapping Your Hero's Digital Journey - Once you understand your ideal client's better future. Exactly what they need to believe to get the result (the story) they want in life. Now it's time to map it out in extreme detail. That means every single page, email, video, and Facebook ad. All mapped out in excruciating detail.
When we build a strategy for a client, we spend over 40+ hours doing the hard strategy work...
This is why we have designed the StoryTelling in the Digital Age MasterClass.
In this MasterClass, you will learn exactly how to build your strategy and get everything you need to build a strategy with the StoryMatters Method.
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Elanity Network
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YUMIWI
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Dynamic Dental
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S.C.O.R.E© Selling System
Having it all laid out for you. You can just see how effective it was. I loved it!"
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Wandalicious
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Peter Schröder
Elanity Network
It changed my thinking about marketing ... The StoryTelling MasterClass result is just really, really good."
German Coppola
YUMIWI
It completely redefined what marketing is for me ... I'm really excited to get back to the office and make it happen."
Michele Wyngaard
Dynamic Dental
I made a really good investment in myself and the benefit that I will gain from that in the future"
Jack Vincent
S.C.O.R.E© Selling System
Having it all laid out for you. You can just see how effective it was. I loved it!"
Wanda Nowak
Wandalicious
No matter where you are in your business, the StoryMatters system has something for you."
Hugo Feenstra
Vincent Mock
I would highly recommend the StoryMatters system. It is the best value for money I have ever experienced in my life"
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