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What percentage of visitors to your website send you an email or call you? What would it be worth to your business if you could double that number? A lead generator/magnet is a bribe to your website visitors to encourage them to provide their contact details - once they're in your database you can start communicating and building the know, like and trust that will give you the business success you deserve.
A good lead generator will pull leads to your website, engage them and collect their details for your mailing list.
The best lead generators will:
- Be specific, to your ideal client.
You need to appeal directly to your ideal client, if you try to appeal to everyone, you’ll end up appealing to no one. - Be easy to consume
Attention spans are very short online and if you expect your lead to spend more than a few minutes on your magnet you will lose them. - Address your ideal clients pains
The best lead magnets will speak to a pain experienced only by your ideal client – as a result your database will fill with contacts most likely to buy from you. - Offer immediate gratification
Downloads should be instantaneous, consultations should be immediately bookable, tests should provide results quickly - Position you as the expert
Your lead magnet should be based on problems that you can address best. - Have high perceived and actual value
Your lead needs to be grateful to you if you expect them to become a customer later. But don’t give too much away or you might address all of their problems, or convince them that they can solve them without you.
A phenomenal lead generator will do all of the above, but will also give you useful actionable information about your new lead - information that you can use to tailor your marketing.
The range of possible lead generators is as wide as your imagination, but the most common types are:
- E-book
- Test, Questionnaire or quiz
- Report
- Free trial
- Free consultation
- Brochure
See our article "what is the best lead magnet" for an analysis of the the different types available.
If you don't have a lead generator yet then you're attracting clients to your website but losing them, probably for ever! If you already have a lead generator on your website, you should think about adding another, then another - 2 lead generators are better than one, but 5 is better still. A range of lead generators on your website increases the chance that you'll have a magnet that addresses your visitors pains and is of a type that appeals to their personality type.
To see our favourite lead generator in action click here.
I have been very impressed with the final results and have found the process easy and straight forward
Sarah Seagar, Alan Mitchell Financial Recruitment
Stratoworks Ltd
Email. hello@stratoworks.com
Telephone. 020 3920 9032