How to Turn Visitors into Customers by

Fairhead Creative If your website’s visitors leave without doing anything, how are they going to buy your stuff?

Everyone knows: if you increase your website’s conversions, you increase your number of customers.

If you want to turn your visitors into actual customers, read on.

1. Know Your Audience

Most businesses don’t know their audience.

Know why? Because they don’t know how to figure it out.

If you’re like most businesses, you’re eager to please everyone that could use your service. We get it:

why turn anyone away, right?

Because if you sell to everybody, you sell to nobody.

Consider this: when was the last time you felt comfortable in a one-size-fits-all shirt?

Different people buy for different reasons. It’s important to define who you want to connect with, so

you can determine how to best connect.

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1) Why Knowing Your Audience Is The Key To Success (Forbes)

Identifying the influencer, creating a description of that person, and developing a contact plan

are key components in this straightforward strategy.

2) Tools for Getting to Know Your Audience (Moz)

Don’t skimp on the industry research! Paying attention to social media trends is paramount.

Testing brand asset topics and soliciting site feedback are a few ways to collect actionable data.

3) 7 Ways To Learn More About Your Community (AdWeek)

You may be surprised to find that you're not necessarily a part of your target demographic. No

problem.

Learning about social media trends can put you on the fast-track to understanding your ideal

client. Once you're connected, you can conduct surveys to get even more information.

4) How To Define Your Target Audience (QuickSprout)

A big part of building an effective brand is focusing on lasting relationships.

Focusing on what others want from you is a good way to step outside of yourself and sincerely

connect with your audience's needs.

5) Why Knowing Your Audience Is The Key to Conversion Rate Success (InboundPro)

While traffic is important, your first priority should be to map out your ideal customer

acquisition process.

Imagine your business model utopia, and then manifest it! Answer these questions with your

ideal client in mind:

Where do clients come from?

Where are you finding them?

What page do you want them to land on?

What happens after they take action on that page?

What happens after that to get them to buy?

6) Learn the Native Language (DemandGen)

What difficulties do your ideal clients face? What outgoing communication proves that you

understand their information-consuming preferences?

In-depth marketing research can help you answer those questions.

Surveys, comprehensive guides, and white papers reveal everything from general trends in

lead generation to social media effectiveness for a given content medium.

2. Communicate With Empathy

OK. So let’s say you’ve defined your audience. You’ve researched their interests. You’re confident you

know exactly who you want to serve.

Next, it’s time to create value for those people by first communicating with empathy.

See, it’s not enough to have a good product anymore. It’s not even enough to just have a clear

picture of your ideal buyer.

You have to show them that you understand their difficulties, even better than they understand them

themselves.

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1) Question Your Motives (Fairhead Creative)

Honesty time: question the sincerity of your message, by making sure you’re honoring your

audience's time.

Now, we all know you want to make sales. But your message won’t land if your website

doesn’t truly serve from your heart.

2) Be the Best Solution (Content4Demand)

You won’t get traction if you’re not providing quality! You need to communicate your message

in a way that really resonates with your audience.

Investing half-heartedly in superficial content doesn’t work. Provide real solutions. Improve

lives by being the best solution for your specific audience.

3) Show You’ve Thought of Everything (Marketing Charts)

If your audience believes you understand their problem better than they do, they'll

automatically assume you have the solution.

Show your website visitors that you get them. Don’t just solve the symptoms they see, solve

the problems they suffer from.

Let them know you’ve walked a mile in their shoes. Show them that you’re a fully-sympathetic

parter.

3. Test Your Tactics

Is your website perfect?

There’s always room to improve, you know that.

When you’re confident you’ve identified your audience and connected with them empathetically, it’s

time to test your tactics.

From A/B testing to user testing, card sorting to heuristic evaluations, there’s a whole bunch of

techniques your website can benefit from to help increase your results.

Why leave conversions to chance? Eliminate variables and know for sure what works.

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1) Strengthen Connections (DemandGen)

Communicate your message with topics you're sure your ideal client finds engaging, and focus

on lead-nurturing.

Connect to traffic most likely to run through the entirety of your conversion funnel. Both you

and your audience win.

2) Redefining Your Value Proposition to Convey Sincerity (Optimizely)

Does your website’s offer sound 'sales pitch-y' or does it sound like the perfect solution to your

audience’s problem?

Your clients aren't idiots. If you concern yourself with the bottom line alone, your business

won't attract clients worth keeping.

4. Use Data to Iterate

Having tested your website, it's now time to self-reflect.

Look critically at your performance. Did your community embrace your message? Your offer?

Review what you did and then start the cycle with new eyes.

1) Are You Self-Sabotaging Your Sales? (Content4Demand)

Mind the gap! The next logical step is to analyze your content.

What opportunities did you miss to make connections with potential buyers? Where did

potential clients fall off?

Why didn't they connect to your well-targeted content?

What part of your conversion funnels needs to be changed immediately? Develop a plan that

includes a strategy of prioritizing concerns.

2) Keep them Engaged (RealMagnet)

Diversify your content. Delivering multiple kinds of creative content keeps people engaged.

Animated gifs, Infographics, videos, and other interactive content make your content

interesting in new ways.

After spending all that time capturing your well-defined audience, it's important to keep them

engaged. Don't lose them to static content!

Assess your analytics and move forward with improving your communications.

3) You've Mastered the Craft. Now Expand Your Audience (Investopedia)

Consider expanding or honing your audience based on generational-marketing, if your product

lends itself to multiple approaches.

Once you've reached your key audience, your sales could skyrocket with a reassessment of

your pitch, if done carefully!

Personalization and targeted communication will get you your first key group. Use the same

tactic to widen your sales funnel.

4) Be Experimental (DemandGen)

What's hot now? Last year your client was obsessed with webinars. Today their favorite way to

connect could be through podcasts.

The tides of tech advancement and audience preferences demand you be versatile and

dynamic when targeting your audience.

Here’s the bottom line.

You’re right.

There’s a lot of stuff to do to make this work.

A lot of it may be entirely new to you.

You can’t just wing this stuff. Well, you can, but you’ll discover very quickly how ineffective that is.

But if you have all this spelled out for you, step-by-step, you can see exactly how to make this work.

We’ve created that step-by-step guide for you.

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Here’s what NOT to do.

If you’re not sure it’ll be worth it, or if you think it’ll just be one long pitch, that’s understandable.

There’s a lot of that in our industry.

The good news is, it’s not a pitch. It’s a guide.

If you didn’t know already, we’re here to help difference makers make a difference. That’s it.

So download it now, while it’s still available, and let us know if you have any questions. We’re here to

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