Lead Gen Template

The best lead generation strategy, as well as your overall marketing strategy, often requires thinking about where clients and users learn about you and what information they receive at each stage.

Identify the channels and strategies you will use to go from “educating users about the problem” to ensure that they buy and recommend your product.

STEP 1: Understand your user, define their journey and select the best strategy

The best lead generation strategy, as well as your overall marketing strategy, often requires thinking about where clients and users learn about you and what information they receive at each phase.

Buyer journey phases 👉 Awareness>Acquisition>Activation…

Identify the channels and strategies you will use to go from “educating users about the problem” to ensure that they buy and recommend your product. Each phase may require different channels. In order to determine which channels would suit your current constraints, ask yourself the following four questions:

1. Does the customer use this channel? Will this channel reach enough customers?
2. Do you have the funds to activate this channel? Do you have the funds to test different ideas and improve your results?
3. Do you have the people and skills to manage this channel?
4. Consider moving the channels and strategies inside the Lead generation triangle if you answered yes to all those questions.

STEP 2

Choose the strategy and the channels

At this step, you will focus on one of the phases from the buyer’s journey and create a plan to ensure users/potential customers move to the next phase.

Marketing and sales will determine how leads are generated, i.e., whether customers find you (inbound lead generation) or you find them (outbound lead generation).

👉Inbound lead generation:

• Content marketing: About 80% of B2B companies use content marketing for lead generation. (downloadable content, videos, podcast, blog posts, etc)

👉Outbound lead generation:

• PPC Advertising: PPC advertising is very effective and can also be a key to massive sales if you use Google Search, ad networks, Facebook, etc.