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Marketing Articles!Filling Your Marketing Funnel by Alexandria K. Brown, "The E-zine Queen" A client of mine, whom I'll call "Mary," is a financial planner. She'd had a Web site for a few years that pretty much served as an online brochure for her. When Mary came to me, she was looking for other ways to generate income besides working directly with clients. During our first conversation I introduced her to the MARKETING FUNNEL. If you picture a funnel, you know it's wide and open at the top, and tiny and narrow at the bottom. At the top of the funnel is where you want to get as MANY prospects in as possible. At the bottom of the funnel is your HIGHEST PRICED service or product. And in the middle are in-between levels of services/ products and prices. So as you go down the funnel, the products are priced higher and higher, and the idea is to keep people flowing down from the top to the bottom. First, Get Them IN the Funnel Offering something for FR*EE is the ideal way to get tons of people into your funnel. Most people collect prospects by giving away something free, such as a report, an e-zine, or a teleclass. When people sign up for these goodies, you get their names and e-mail addresses, allowing you to contact them again. At the top of Mary's funnel was her e-zine. And at the bottom was her pricey one-on-one services. But there was nothing in the middle of her funnel. I see this often with many solo professionals, such as coaches and consultants. There's either free or high-fee. This is the reason many of them have so much trouble converting prospects --- people usually aren't ready to make that big jump from $0 to several thousand dollars! So I helped Mary brainstorm several information products ("info-products") she could quickly create and begin to sell. Info-Products Are Your Solution By packaging your knowledge into info-products, you give your prospects the chance to "sample" you at a lower price, filling the middle of your funnel. Here are a few ideas to get you started:
And don't forget about teleclasses or teleseminars, delivered over the phone, or even Webinars, taught over the Internet. These require your direct involvement, but allow you to teach many people at once. These formats allow you to make much more money per hour, and they give your prospects access to you for a lower fee than hiring you one-on-one. (For help in getting started, see my program "Insider Secrets to Making Money With Teleseminars".) Here's an example of my own product funnel: TOP OF FUNNEL: free e-zine free teleclass MIDDLE OF FUNNEL: teleseminar ($47) home study system ($197) telebootcamp ($497) BOTTOM OF FUNNEL: one-on-one coaching/consulting ($350/hour) Now, your funnel may look entirely different. For example, here's what Mary's funnel now looks like: TOP OF FUNNEL: free e-zine MIDDLE OF FUNNEL: workbook ($29) teleseminar ($49) 2-CD audio program ($69) 4-week tele-course ($149) 2-day live workshop ($599) BOTTOM OF FUNNEL: one-on-one services ($250/hour) personal mentoring ($6,000/year) Take a few minutes right now and sketch out YOUR funnel. See where the holes are, and start thinking about what products you can add to make it easier for your prospects to sample your expertise and buy from you. © 2004 Alexandria K. Brown Online entrepreneur Alexandria K. Brown, "The E-zine Queen," is author of the award-winning 'Boost Business With Your Own E-zine' system. To learn more about this step-by-step program, and to sign up for FREE how-to articles and FREE teleclasses, visit this link: Marketing-Articles Who's The E-zine Queen? Do you know who Alexandria K. Brown is? If you know, write a brief bio of Alexandria Brown in the Content C.20 Comment form here. Hey, you can write about those you know by this name too. Provide full names, professional career insights and work experiences.
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