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Feature Aiming Again: How Retargeting Can Radically Boost Your Website Conversions Some popular sales techniques preach that conversion - transforming an interested prospect into a readily paying customer - is purely a numbers game. If you simply pitch your wares to enough people, the thinking goes, sooner or later someone is bound to buy. Behind this idea is another one: that if this prospect doesn't want to buy, you should cut your losses quickly and go on to someone new. While there may be some truth in that philosophy, the unfortunate end result for many businesses is a lot of wasted efforts, and depleted resources spent fruitlessly on the constant and neverending search for new prospects. But is there a better alternative to the grind of endlessly hunting down cold prospects? What about those website visitors who came and left again - but now may be more willing to buy? Market retargeting - also called remessaging, or remarketing - is the art of reapproaching the prospect who got away. This marketing technique recognizes that your best prospects aren't the result of random chance, but are in fact those people who already know you. They may have visited your website. They may have browsed your offerings but simply never converted the first time around. And they represent your best chances for converting an almost-sale into a loyal customer. We at Lounge Lizard consider options for retargeting strategy in most long term interactive marketing campaigns we manage. For best results, we recommend the following tactics to our clients. Distinguish between different segments of your nonconverts. Implementing a detailed website analytics package will help you distinguish between very important segments of your unconverted visitors. How many visited your site briefly, never to be seen again? How many nonconverts got as far as to fill their shopping cart before leaving? Analyzing your user behavior can reveal important things about your marketing needs - while empowering you to automatically adapt your online sales content to segmented cross-sections of your prospect base. Vary your offer in creatively subtle ways. An effective retargeting campaign aims to approach website visitors again with a subtly varied approach, extending a better offer under terms that they will hopefully find more attractive. Combining a retargeting strategy with modern analytic and adaptive online content technologies, your website can automatically shift strategy in order to find the sales message most likely to connect with visitors. Consider retargeting marketing options that extend beyond your own website. A variety of digital media options exist for the enterprising marketer, such as online advertising networks designed to accommodate retargeting campaigns. One might be the perfect marketing solution for your business. Think beyond the banner ad. When most marketers talk about retargeting, they refer to media buys and banner ads. But with the right developmental strategy, your website can deliver retargeted sales content to returning users on an adaptive basis. Consider how your website application can shift its normal operation in ways that recognize user behavior, quickly adapting with presentations specifically catered to a retargeted website visitor. Plan carefully and early - don't improvise. Market retargeting is all about intelligence: gathering accurate data, and extracting useful, effective market information in a manner that can be used to enrich and extend your prospect base. Don't embark on that task unprepared, or without a well considered plan based on sound market reasoning and accurate data. The more control you have at the beginning, the better results you will achieve in the end. Retargeting gets results. Don't let your past prospects vanish into the distance, leaving you to continue blindly aiming for a new shot at the numbers game. With the right marketing strategy, you can quickly gather and use the intelligence you need to finally hit the bullseye - and win over more loyal customers. Lounge Lizard Worldwide builds strategies that get results. Call our offices today! 1-631-581-1000 |
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Last Call Building Better Outreach Summer is at an end. With the latter half of 2009 comes fresh thinking, revised buying cycles, and another chance to reconsider decisions made in months past - or decisions not yet made at all. Are you doing enough to make the most of your website traffic? Or are you ready to extend and enrich your sales outreach to capture those prospects who got away? Lounge Lizard Worldwide builds the interactive marketing strategies and tools that deliver real results, using sound thinking and sophisticated market planning. Ask us today how we can help you build a better outreach - and to develop the marketplace to help your business thrive. Would you like more information about anything you've read in this newsletter? We would love to hear from you - give our offices a call at 1-631-581-1000 today.
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