<img height="1" width="1" style="display:none;" alt="" src="https://dc.ads.linkedin.com/collect/?pid=731202&amp;fmt=gif">
Blog

4 Tips to Generate Leads and Build on Your Current Marketing Strategy

Monday 11 January 2016

5 minute read

By Thrive HQ

Lead generation should be the main goal of most business marketing strategies. However, generating a nice flow of warm leads can be hard, which is why it's important to keep building your strategy to suit your buyer personas.

Here are some of our favourite ideas to improve our marketing strategy, with the aim of helping your business generate more 'high quality' leads...

1. Make sure you know your buyer personas

Not knowing your buyer personas means that you can not be using your marketing efforts correctly. If you don't know your buyer personas then how can you be sure that you are creating the right content or targeting the right audience?

Understanding who your customers are makes it easier to create content that they will read, it will help you to put your content in places that they will find it and it makes it easier to generate warm leads.

2. Don't discredit modern marketing methods

Some businesses don't implement modern marketing methods like social media, blogging and email marketing simply because they don't understand them or how they can generate leads. By not implementing these methods, those businesses could be missing out a big percentage of their potential audience and generating leads.

Make sure you are not one of those businesses - look at all of the options available and learning a little bit more about those methods you don't quite understand so that you can make an informed decision when it comes to updating your marketing strategy.

3. Know the importance of a strong brand

It's no secret that trying to be everything for everyone doesn't work. Businesses with a clear consistent message are more likely to become a source of knowledge for their audience.

Make sure you are sending out a consistent message throughout your marketing efforts to try and develop that positive reputation that can help to generate more leads for your business.

4. Keep improving and updating your content

Content that you made for your website three years ago is not going to be as engaging as it once was. So make sure that you are always looking for ways to improve your current content and making new engaging content as regularly as you can. If you blog, make sure you update it regularly with original content. 

Try to keep your social media messages new and exciting instead of overused and repetitive, to try and drive more traffic to your website and generate more leads.

It is important to keep trying new things in your marketing strategy to see what generates leads and what doesn't. The more you try the more leads you are likely to generate and ultimately gain more customers!

If you want to know more about the topics in this blog, feel free to arrange a chat with our team. The kettle is always on, so call 0845 838 7517 or email hello@thriveability.co.uk and we'll be happy to arrange a get-together!

If you're looking to embark on a website build project, whether it's completely from scratch or a site refresh, our ebook will give you the knowledge to make your project as stress-free as possible.

The Website Design Handbook for Businesses

You may also like to read...