{"id":1795,"date":"2013-02-07T13:14:29","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T20:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.salesjumpstart.net\/blog\/?p=1795"},"modified":"2013-02-07T13:17:46","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T20:47:46","slug":"seo-programs-needs-laser-target-prospects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salesjumpstart.net\/blog\/2013\/02\/07\/seo-programs-needs-laser-target-prospects\/","title":{"rendered":"SEO Programs Need Laser Target Prospects"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 75px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Glaskugel_CrystalBall.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-img-inserted zemanta-img-configured\" title=\"Crystal ball Fran\u00e7ais : Boule de cristal\" alt=\"Crystal ball Fran\u00e7ais : Boule de cristal\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/6\/6b\/Glaskugel_CrystalBall.jpg\/75px-Glaskugel_CrystalBall.jpg\" width=\"75\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 0.8em;\">Sales\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><span style=\"line-height: 17px;\">Crystal<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 0.8em;\">\u00a0Ball<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>One of the largest mistakes you can make when you are starting your SEO (Search Engine Optimization) process is skipping identification of your most likely prospects.<\/p>\n<p>Almost all SEO&#8217;s will start with a Keyword\u00a0analysis, but far to many don&#8217;t think about where these prospects can be found. \u00a0As a easy example, if you are selling Insurance and do nothing but a key word analysis, \u00a0you may have a good idea of what your best prospects will\u00a0type\u00a0into the search box, but you are still a long way away from providing a high ROI laser targeted SEO program.<\/p>\n<p>When we provide a sales\u00a0crystal\u00a0ball program to a client, it starts with the following pages. \u00a0By reading this you can get a much better idea of how to create a laser targeted SEO campaign. \u00a0If you think of that Insurance program I mentioned above, why would you not want to know\u00a0specifically the locations, incomes, and why customers buy the insurance before you start.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a good way to start developing a laser targeted profile. It&#8217;s generic, and can be customize to SEO or any marketing and sales programs.<\/p>\n<p><b>Overview of Commonalities<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Identification and the analysis of what traits your best customers have in common is the foundation of developing a laser targeted list of new prospects. Without this information companies will waste both time and money marketing and selling to prospects who are unlikely to buy from them, and if sold may become a low quality customer.<\/p>\n<p>With a laser targeted list provided through the Crystal Ball process your sales and marketing will be far more productive. You will spend your time and money attracting better clients while maintaining your current marketing budget. The combination of spending targeted dollars on better prospects will lead to your business selling faster and more in a shorter period of time.<\/p>\n<p>Your Crystal Ball program is designed to fine tune and pinpoint three areas that are the basis for any marketing campaign.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;&gt; Laser targeted List<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:SuperTarget2006PNG.PNG\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-img-inserted zemanta-img-configured \" title=\"SuperTarget logo, 2006\u2013present.\" alt=\"SuperTarget logo, 2006\u2013present.\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/4\/46\/SuperTarget2006PNG.PNG\/300px-SuperTarget2006PNG.PNG\" width=\"180\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;&gt; Compelling message<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b id=\"internal-source-marker_0.10544333513826132\"><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;&gt; Reach tactics<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p>In our process, we have identified the commonalities that are shared between your best customers. We then apply our years of experience in business analysis and marketing to establish not only mathematically what the highest scores are in each trait, but also to assess the value of that trait for your marketing. A simple high percentage of total score in a trait does not in and by itself mean that trait has high value.<\/p>\n<p>As an example, many \u00a0Crystal Ball clients will score high in their best clients utilization of social media. But, even though there may be a very high \u00a0percentage of your best clients using Social Media to promote their services, it won\u2019t cause a high overall score based on the fact that we would expect the normal percentage in this area to be around 70%. So in fact, although there is a very high percentage as a \u00a0total of your best customers, the percentage is normal, and does not produce a high score unless other unique attributes can be assigned to this trait.<\/p>\n<p>To determine the overall scores on a trait we look at three areas.<\/p>\n<p>1.) Is the number of customers to the total high. \u00a0For example, if 17 of 20 customers have the same trait, \u00a0that would be a 8.5 \u00a0baseline score. That by itself is a very high score.<br \/>\n2.) Is it unusual to see this percentage in this trait considering your industry. Using the social media example above the answer would be no, and the score is adjusted to represent that depending on the exact percentage score and the normalcy of this trait percentage.<br \/>\n3.) And then, how pertinent is it to the identification of your laser targeted list. During the analysis we may find several areas that have a high percentage of total, and are unusually, but in fact, based on years of experience \u00a0we know \u00a0that this particular trait is not worth focusing on.<\/p>\n<p>As you can see, with some solid research, and\u00a0analytically\u00a0assessments you can find a Gold mine of information that will help you as a business or an SEO as a vendor provide a\u00a0true\u00a0laser targeted list of prospects.<\/p>\n<p>By Mike Bayes<\/p>\n<p>See more about the Sales Crystal Ball <a href=\"http:\/\/salesjumpstart.net\/Sales-coach-for-Colorado-businesses.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_h.png?x-id=967b73db-76df-4eac-a64b-f10185fdafd0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tweetthis\" style=\"text-align:left;\"><p> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"tt\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=SEO+Programs+Need+Laser+Target+Prospects+http%3A%2F%2Fsalesjumpstart.net%2Fblog%2F%3Fp%3D1795\" title=\"Post to Twitter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"nothumb\" src=\"http:\/\/salesjumpstart.net\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/tweet-this\/icons\/en\/twitter\/tt-twitter.png\" alt=\"Post to Twitter\" \/><\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"tt\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=SEO+Programs+Need+Laser+Target+Prospects+http%3A%2F%2Fsalesjumpstart.net%2Fblog%2F%3Fp%3D1795\" title=\"Post to Twitter\">Tweet This Post<\/a><\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the largest mistakes you can make when you are starting your SEO (Search Engine Optimization) process is skipping identification of your most likely prospects. 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