Automate your impact with this simple inbound growth funnel

Apr19

Inbound growth refers to the use of content and paid campaigns to grow a user base, and driving the users to take action. Part of the same family as growth hacking and inbound marketing, this process uses a couple of specific marketing strategies to push users through a funnel to reach a particular goal.

Once advanced, this process can take place in an almost entirely automated system. You can automate, and therefore scale, your impact. That’s why all brands – nonprofit, for-profit, or somewhere in between – should consider how it can play a role in their marketing efforts.

Here’s the standard marketing process on which inbound growth is built:

Inbound Growth Process

In inbound growth, we prioritize email marketing and retargeting/remarketing (advertising served to people who have already visited your website or are a contact in your database) to build, segment, and message our target audience(s).

Essentially, the goal is to build a community of website visitors and email subscribers, and use email and retargeting/remarketing to convert these prospects. Let’s take a look at a basic funnel:

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How to scale ideas that can change the world

Jan04

In a recent post from a series of interviews with leading Schwab Foundation social entrepreneurs, 5 powerful ideas for global impact were highlighted. Unsurprisingly, the need for scale was a key feature in this list.

5 powerful ideas for global impact from social entrepreneurs
In traditional business, the potential for scale is closely intertwined with the level of resources available. Time and again, however, we’re seeing a lack of resources as the #1 challenge faced by social enterprises and nonprofits.

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Competitive Analysis Checklist: Getting to know your online competitors…and learning how to beat them

Oct08

As web use continues to grow, more and more online channels are standing out to businesses as new opportunities for customer acquisition. They offer lots of promise and potential, but the market is flooded and it can be hard stand out from your competition.

A simple competitive analysis goes a long way to demonstrating exactly where a particular brand can beat the competition, but many business owners simply don’t know where to start.

With that in mind, we’ve decided to publish the online marketing competitive analysis checklist that we use when weighing up campaign strategy for clients – along with the tools we use to make these assessments:

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My Twitter rant: why not delete inactive accounts?

Nov26

ADDITION Feb ’12 – due to a lack of response from @willrussell, I changed the handle to @willrussellmktg to move in line with the creation of Will Russell Marketing.

I have a problem – an inquiry, if you like, into the Twitter policy on inactive accounts. If you can shed any light, please do!

My problem goes like this…

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