Over the years, marketing techniques have increased in their sophistication and effectiveness. Rather than contacting complete strangers via cold calling or mass emailing to purchased lists of email addresses, you can draw leads to your landing pages with enticing content.
From there, you can slowly nurture them until they’re ready to buy. Techniques such as list segmentation and personalized emails dramatically increase conversion rates. However, there is one problem with this kind of marketing. It’s both labor intensive and time-consuming. If you can agree with any of the following, then you need automated marketing:
You’re Overworked and Exhausted
You find there isn’t enough time in the day to get your marketing work done. Even with help, you can’t stay on top of your social media, email, and search engine marketing campaigns. You know what needs to be done, but your to-do list has become an unfulfilled wish list. Perhaps you have lots of good leads, but their numbers (and your limited time) prevent you from following up with all of them.
You Use the Same Marketing Message With All of Your Leads
This is symptomatic of not having the time to properly segment your leads and personalize your communication with them accordingly. That is, you’re resorting to the mass marketing techniques of the past out of necessity.
You Do Too Much Repetitive Marketing Tasks
If most of your marketing work makes you feel like a robot and leaves you with too little time for planning and creative work, you need to turn the work over to automation software.
You’re Using Too Many Tools That Don’t Work Together
Perhaps you have tools for your different marketing tasks, but they don’t “talk” to each other. This requires you to take the output of one and manually input it into another tool. This in itself is time-consuming and prone to error because of all the manual data entry you’re doing. What you need instead is a single automated marketing software that performs all the tasks you do with your different tools.
Too Few Leads Are Converting
Because of your manual methods, you can’t keep up with, and properly nurture all of your leads. This causes too many to lose interest and move on.
If any of the above points sound familiar, consider using automated marketing and CRM software for your inbound marketing. It allows you to work on your business rather than in it. For more information on this, please contact us.