The online world is jam packed with traffic of a number of brands and businesses making it a challenging task to make a mark; nonetheless it is a pertinent area to manifest efforts to generate leads in the online zone and shine brightly amidst the competition. The business website, continuous customer interactions, content marketing and social media are the key areas where the businesses can put efforts to arouse maximum customer attention as also keep adding to the bottom-line. In today’s world, old school methods of getting flyers or just networking are not enough for any professional business. The faster online world is here to rescue to help increase visibility, build relations and get better number of leads giving a global outreach. This can be done with b2b marketing efforts syncing in the right direction.

Focussed targeting

All marketing strategies must be pre-planned to reduce cost and increase effectiveness.  Greater revenue generation for the businesses is possible if ads are directed to the explicit target audience wisely selected based on the various criteria’s like age, gender, industry. This is especially true for the pay per click ads. The cost per clicks increases when ads are aimed at an indifferent lot of traffic.

Increasing interactions with live chatting options

The smartphones are the handiest and evergreen devices found ubiquitously around the world. The websites, applications of the business now need to be more organised and mobile friendly. Mobile responsive apps and sites must be configured with zoom features, must be secure with easy payment system for making sales transaction on the go.  Without a question, there is a need to be a little more digitally oriented. Use of artificial intelligence for making customer interaction live with Chat bots can do wonders for the businesses’ rapid growth. Chatbots interact with the customers on one to one basis; provide a chance for personalised advertising and for solving any queries of the customers on real time basis during service delivery. The businesses progress multi-fold when they remain in touch with the customers. The mobile messaging applications like Whatsapp are also ideal chat options which allow group chats and video discussions for real time problem solving during the product delivery process. These can be used for broadcasting new products and services by making groups of the relevant customers interested in your products. This works great for local sales generation. 

Social media- Yardstick of business generation

The popularity and bulk of orders can be received by just adding business accounts on social media applications like Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter. This is becoming a mandatory fact for sound business marketing plan. 

• Focus on content

Every post on the social media gets indexed on the search engine. Hence, the content on it must not only be original but also have an entertaining, emotional or attention seeking quotient to capture the eyes of maximum traffic.

• Quality propaganda with webinars

Webinars on social media or on sites give a positive outlook to the business as it helps in showcasing the quality of the product to newer prospective customers and increase sales. Digital Advertising on the social network, making attractive business pages with subscription blogs back linking the coveted websites can effectively pave the way towards lead generation.  

• Continuous customer correspondence

Tweeting, messaging builds up a dialogue mode and also leads to exchange of ideas wherein the customers can offer reviews, also divulge all their problems to seek a positive solution or recommendation for the required product purchase in a candid interaction with the business itself. Thus, the customers get personalised services which in turn ameliorate the trustworthiness of the business. 

• Fetching Upbeat Customer reviews and referrals

 Good product and service quality cannot be undermined along with the on-going marketing efforts. This can help fetch positive remarks from satisfied customers who will post it on the business pages on the social media or the review section on the business website. This can build a chain of positive reactions from the viewers of this feedback thus, increasing loyalty, trust catapulting into higher sales. 

Pulling the Website ranking up with SEO

Shining and standing tall amidst the competition online requires the businesses to provide the information hungry buyers the right content. With the help of exceptional quality content blogs, informative or instructional videos containing the most hunted keywords and also links landing to the business websites can mean the job is half done. Guest blogging in other larger websites brings in more visibility, creates higher sales possibility. Keyword stuffing, however, is also big no-no as it sounds very clichéd and leads to aggressive marketing acting as a turn off for most readers. The more content marketing with blogs having backlinks to website are read, the more the chances to shine on the first page of the search engine result pages. Repetitive, old content in the blog form can become boring and humdrum hence, needs to be deleted and transformed into refreshing, stimulating and thought provoking content or video ads which are faster in terms of recap value, are attention grabbing as also are more responsive. 

Content marketing definitely needs to be vouched for over traditional marketing as it has the capacity to generate 3 times the leads at half the cost. 

Augmenting website magnetism

The website visitors also need to get a splendid experience during surfing of the site. The higher the number of visitors diverted to your website, the more the requirement to furnish a well organised, secure website with a number of web pages and an attractive home page. The more website needs to be optimised time and again with the latest information. 

Recall with emails

The customers have a short memory span hence; marketing is about concentrated efforts on retargeting the leads generated frequently. Posted business promotion emails though can go into trash for the new traffic, but can be used by the regular customers to get updates about their favourite brands. Emails can also be used to get higher subscriptions for the written blogs.