Use These Automated Tools to Convert Visitors to Customers

Invest in Nurturing
For Email Marketing Brilliance
Shopping Cart Abandonment
Before You Go

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You’ve got site visitors. You deserve the highest of fives. That’s a serious accomplishment. And now that you have site visitors, you need to convert them from an interested but suspicious lurker to a completely convinced customer. But how?

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If this question keeps you up at night, you’ve come to the right place. I’m about to blow your mind with some of the best automated solutions and strategies for lead conversion. Consider yourself warned.

Here’s a list of additional automated tools to help you convert visitors into customers.

Invest in Nurturing

Your product is awesome. That’s a given. But most people will not buy your product (no matter how awesome) during their first interaction with your brand. Statistically speaking, less than 10% of people make an immediate purchase.

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Most of us are equal parts of procrastinator and commitment phobe. We tell ourselves that we want to mull it over. Do our research. Compare prices. Yadda, yadda, yadda. But in actuality, we’re just not willing to make the commitment to buy.

Respect that, and don’t push it.

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Instead, activate “nurture” mode. With nurturing, you can take your time to educate your audience on why they need your product or service.

Let’s take a step back and talk about funnels. It’s all about funnels.

At the top of the funnel, there’s lead generation. You’ve already generated leads through SEO, paid ads, social media, guest posts, and also maintaining a killer blog.

Next, there’s lead nurturing. This is where you need to focus your efforts. From free trials and case studies to email courses and ongoing newsletters, lead nurturing is all about educating the visitor and turning them into customers. Generating leads is definitely easier than turning them into customers.

But fortunately, you can automate a lot of your nurturing.

Before we automate, let’s get clear about who qualifies for lead nurturing. Here’s a partial list:

Visitors who’ve clicked through and read your blog. They may have arrived from social media or search engines (top of the funnel), but actually reading your blog qualifies them for the next step of lead nurturing.

Visitors who’ve decided to subscribe to your mailing list. Perhaps they really wanted your lead magnet, or maybe they’re genuinely interested in keeping up with your brand.

Visitors who’ve attended your webinars. They’re interested in your content, and perhaps your product/ service, but they’re not willing to pull the trigger just yet.

Visitors who’ve participated in your contest. Assuming you were giving away a brand-related product or service and not a generic prize, like an Xbox, these visitors are sincerely interested in what your brand can do for them.

I could go on, but you get the idea. You need to nurture the people who’ve taken an interest in your brand or offerings, but just haven’t actually purchased yet. It’s an uphill battle because they’re suspicious. They don’t know you. And they don’t know whether or not you deserve their hard earned money.

So, to get them to invest in you, you’ve got to invest in them. But, I get it. You don’t have the bandwidth to hold the hands of every single visitor and convince them. That’s why you should consider the following automated tools:

For Email Marketing Brilliance

Let’s start with email opt-ins, shall we?

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As they say, the money’s in the list. You need to build your email list, and it’s never too late to start.

There are several options available to you:

Upgrading content is one of the my favorite conversion methods. It’s a stellar way to turn visitors into subscribers and eventually customers.

What is a content upgrade? You may ask.

A content upgrade is an extra resource that’s located behind an email opt-in gate. In order to receive this “free” goodie, the visitor must sign up for your email list. It’s a win-win because both you and the visitor gets something of value.

Now, let’s discuss event-based email marketing. This is when a user’s behavior on your site triggers an email. In other words, if “a” happens —> there’s an email for that.

Once you have an email address, it’s so much easier to convert visitors into customers.

Here are some examples of event-based email marketing:

A customer abandons a cart —> A cart abandonment email is delivered within minutes (more on that coming up in the next section).

A visitor signs up for your waiting list —> Visitor receives a “welcome to my list” email and a placed on an automated path to receive a series of emails to keep them engaged.

A visitor starts your free trial —> Visitors receives a “Here, grab my hand. Let’s walk through this step-by-step guide to getting started” email.

You notice that your subscriber hasn’t checked your site in a while —> You send a “we miss you” email with an awesome, irresistible offer.

A visitor attends your webinar —> You send a “Here’s the instant replay” with a special offer email.

A visitor downloads an ebook —> You send a series of emails with related content that the new subscriber is sure to love.

A visitor signs up for a contest but loses —> There are no losers in your contest, so you provide them with an expiring discount code and an incentive to buy now, not later.

A subscriber opens a ton of your emails —> You reward them with an exclusive goodie that motivates them to continue.

As you can see, email marketing is perfect for lead nurturing. You can constantly keep subscribers on the hook and engaged with your brand.

Here are the Best Email Marketing Services to Consider:

Shopping Cart Abandonment

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Have a plan in place for shopping cart abandonment. The Internet is full of virtual “window shoppers”. Visitors who may or may not be interested in your product but are definitely not interested after attempting to checkout. Perhaps your shipping cost scared them away. Perhaps they were just comparing prices. Perhaps they were hoping to trigger a coupon.

Give the people what they want.

Set up an automated email to be sent if a prospective customer abandons the shopping cart. But don’t take too long to send it. Set a shopping cart abandonment email to send within an hour after the prospective client initiates but doesn’t finalize the order.

Cart abandonment emails are amaze-balls (do people still say that?). Let me list a few reasons why you should definitely implement them:

Shopping cart abandonment emails actually recover sales. In some cases, you can recover up to 13% of would-be lost sales. Now, I know that 13% doesn’t sound like a lot, but when you compare it to 0%, it sounds like a heck of a lot.

Shopping cart abandonment emails can be completely automated. There’s no need for you to obsessively monitor your site in real time and send follow-up emails. Simply set up a trigger and let your email service do the rest.

Savvy shoppers actually anticipate shopping cart abandonment emails. That’s because the best abandonment emails include an irresistible offer– usually in the form of a discount or free shipping.