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How to efficiently convert the visitors to customers in a short time?

Is website failing to produce significant new leads and clients? This is a typical case of website “non-performance syndrome.” Many websites today suffer from this condition but your website doesn’t have to be one of them. How to efficiently convert the visitors to customers in a short time?

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Utilize social media to promote your small business. The process requires a front-end loaded investment in time, but it is well worth the effort when using free or very low cost utilities on the Internet. The return may surprise you.

Set up a free Google or Word Press blog as an extension of your web site. A blog is quite different from a web site. Provide good, solid information free of charge and use blog searches for synergistic businesses to team with. Back link your web site to your blog articles.

Be prepared to provide information, samples and valuable service gratis as a marketing tool. Introduce yourself and then immediately engage the client or potential teaming partner with your presentation tools available to bring your expertise to whatever topic they are interested in.

Let them take you where they want to go with their concerns and their needs. Apply your presentation tools and expertise dynamically The idea is to refer clients to article links at your web site and your blog to avoid having to repeat yourself over and over in new business marketing, thereby keeping yourself available for specific inquiries and closing deals.

Link everything together and begin answering questions as well as registering at many of the free applications for networking web sites on the Internet to see how that can benefit your product and services. Utilities like Twitter, Alignable, Pinterest and About Me will serve your site well.

You may wish to consider Google Ad Sense for cash flow. It is free and could supplement your income with ads in the margin of your blog.

Integrating and networking platforms together is the best approach. Most of the free applications of the type discussed here have profile features to link back to your blog and many will automatically publish your content on their site, once linked.

Content is king and the queen is a hub of strong useful information with spokes emanating from it like those of a wheel to many free social networking platforms where your brand, your consistency and your offerings drive the engine that is your enterprise.

Please see the below link at the free web site I maintain as an extension of my volunteer work for an example of how the above principles have achieved.

https://www.smalltofeds.com/2015/05/why-social-network-to-promote-your.html

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  1. Implement Live Chat The last few years have seen the adoption of live chat by both companies and consumers expand exponentially. Why? Consumers love it because they can get their questions answered almost immediately, with minimum hassle.

Companies love it because it’s so cost-effective.

Live chat is an excellent tool for turning visitors into customers, primarily because it allows you to intervene before an undecided customer abandons their purchase.

A key feature of most live chat software is page tracking, which enables you to create “triggers” that will initiate the conversation with a customer when their activity signals they’re having a problem with the site or their purchase.

  1. Offer Something for Free We get it – you started your company to make money, so it might seem counterintuitive to give away something for free.

But if your business is built on a subscription model, offering a freebie could be what’s needed to give your visitors the confidence to become customers.

A free trial achieves two things:

Answers those questions that a customer might not think to ask, but that are preventing them from buying. Demonstrates the confidence you have in your product or service – a confidence that will rub off on potential customers. Implement Signs of Social Proof 3. Implement Signs of Social Proof People like to follow the herd. If they think plenty of other people are buying your product, they’re more likely to do so as well.

Testimonials are an excellent form of social proof because not only do they show that yes, other people are buying this product, but they show how wonderful other people think the product is too.

If you can bag a testimonial from a well-known face, do so (perhaps by giving free samples to industry bloggers). But even a glowing review from an average Joe will still have a positive impact.

In B2B companies, displaying the logos of your current clients shows potential new clients that they’ll be in good company. Make sure to seek permission from any clients whose logos you wish to use, of course.

  1. Create Product Demo Videos Selling and marketing online can be difficult, especially compared to selling in a brick-and-mortar store. Technology is helping us to bridge some of the gaps – live chat allows us to emulate the effect of helping a confused-looking customer in a store.

One issue that can’t be mimicked, however, is the ability to pick up and closely observe a product. Product images are a key part of this – especially if they’re large and allow the customer to zoom in on points of interest.

InlineVision says, “the single most important part of any product page is the product image,” further arguing that “great product images can increase your ecommerce conversion rate by as much as 30%.”

Of course, creating a product video will come at an expense. Ideally you’ll want to:

Hire a professional company to shoot the videos. You might think any video is better than no video at all, but a poorly-made video could actually hurt your conversion rate. Show the product from every angle and make sure to highlight its best features. Employ someone to actually be in the video and talk the customer through the product. 5. Leverage Your Visitor’s FOMO FOMO, or the “fear of missing out” is that nagging feeling that if you don’t do something, you’ll miss out on something great.

To buy or not to buy

There are lots of reasons a customer might choose not to buy, but a big one is because they say, “I’ll do it later.” In theory, that’s absolutely fine. I don’t care whether a customer makes their purchase now, tonight, tomorrow, or next week.

The problem is that – a lot of the time – later never comes.

We simply need to show the customer that if they don’t complete their purchase now, they might miss out on the chance to complete their purchase at all, (or, at least, at that price).

Let’s take a look at an example:

Amazon shows you how long you have to order if you want to receive your purchase by a particular date:

  1. Implement an Exit Overlay Exit overlays are those messages that pop up as you try to leave a website. Chances are, you’ve been annoyed by them. Chances are also that you’ve been intrigued by the message displayed and have converted.

The reputation these pop-ups hold for being intrusive and annoying means that many site owners are afraid to use them. They’re missing out though, because the data shows that they do work.

There are a few different ways an exit overlay can be used to do this…

Grow your email marketing list:

Or offer a freebie:

  1. Steal Your Competitors’ Customers with a Comparison Page If you’re in a competitive market, your potential customers are already comparing your product against your competition before making their purchase.

By creating a landing page that’s specifically designed to capture “you versus them” related search terms, you can show potential customers why they should choose you over your competition.

Pages that are optimized for your competitors’ brand names could actually drive up SEO results from potential customers that weren’t initially searching for you.

Some ways you can implement this strategy are:

With a comparison blog post With a comparison chart, similar to this example from Formstack: With a “price comparison calculator,” like the example below from SugarCRM:

A price comparison calculator only compares products based on price. Most consumers will be swayed by much more than just price, so use this calculator as part of a multiple-pronged comparison page.

  1. Redesign Your “About Us” Page for Conversions Most about us pages feature jargon-heavy blurbs about what the company does, alongside a series of staff profiles. If this description hits too close to home for your website, you’re missing out on a big opportunity.

Check out this page from Lateral!

There’s so much more that can be achieved with an about us page. Namely, you can use it to sell.

In addition to the obvious – your company story, mission statement, and team profiles – you could also include:

Statements that illustrate why you’re the best CTAs and/or an opt-in form 9. Track Your Visitors Movements Don’t worry, this isn’t as creepy as it sounds. It involves using a tool like CrazyEgg to track how your visitors move around your website – primarily, what they click on and what they ignore.

The insights gained from this tactic can be priceless and lead the way to changes that can drastically up the rate at which your site converts.

Conversion Rate Experts let their visitor’s movements drive changes to the site and saw the conversion rate of their online store and saw a 25.9% increase in opt-ins.

  1. Always Be (A/B) Testing A/B testing is one of the easiest ways of identifying what changes you can make to your website to turn more of your visitors into customers.

An A/B test involves pitting two slightly different versions of a webpage against each other – for example, version A might have green CTAs, while version B might have red CTAs.

You’ll then send 50% of your visitors to version A, and 50% to version B.

Before long, you should be able to identify which version of the page results in more conversions.

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