In this episode of "The Art of Selling Online Courses," I will explore the dynamic strategies to significantly amplify your course leads without the need for skyrocketing website traffic.
Larn how to craft compelling lead magnets that entice your audience, and discover the power of ultra-specific offers that resonate deeply. We'll delve into data-driven insights that unravel your audience's preferences, empowering you to tailor your lead generation efforts for maximum effectiveness.
'll walk you through real-world case studies that showcase the transformative impact of inline content strategies and ingenious exit intent pop-ups.
Tune in and gain a competitive edge in the world of online course sales. Watch the podcast now!
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In this episode of "The Art of Selling Online Courses," I will explore the dynamic strategies to significantly amplify your course leads without the need for skyrocketing website traffic.
Larn how to craft compelling lead magnets that entice your audience, and discover the power of ultra-specific offers that resonate deeply. We'll delve into data-driven insights that unravel your audience's preferences, empowering you to tailor your lead generation efforts for maximum effectiveness.
'll walk you through real-world case studies that showcase the transformative impact of inline content strategies and ingenious exit intent pop-ups.
Tune in and gain a competitive edge in the world of online course sales. Watch the podcast now!
• Find out how much revenue your funnel could make you http://www.pimpyourfunnel.com • Join The Advance Online Course Creators Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/advancedcoursecreators
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How can you double your leads without driving any more traffic?
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So what's the current problem? The current problem is you don't have a big enough email list. If you had more people on your email list, you would make more money from your email marketing. Whatever you're currently making from your email marketing, if you don't change anything about it, you keep it all exactly the same, but you just get a bigger email list. Then you're going to get more results. Hello and welcome to the art of selling online courses. We're here to share winning strategies and secret hacks from top performers in the online course industry. My name is Giant's Worth, and today is going to be a solo episode. We're going to be talking today about how to twox your leads without driving any more traffic. Now, before we dive into this topic, I want to talk you through what you can get from us in terms of support for free In order to improve your course business. What we can do is Martina, for my team, has started doing these video funnel reviews. If you want to get your funnel, your sales page, your checkout page, reviewed by Martina, then go to PimpYourFunnelcom, which I just adore as a URL. Fill in the form. I'm going to ask you a few different details there about 10 questions, I think. Fill it in and we're going to choose somebody to actually go and do this for. We normally sell these for $1,000 each, but we're going to give some away to listeners of this show. Go there, fill it in, and we're going to give 10 of these away this month to people who go and fill it in. We do these regularly. Even if you listen to this later on, still go fill it in. Go to PimpYourFunnelcom. Get the free report from Martina for my team now into the episode. How can you double your leads without driving any more traffic? What's the current problem? The current problem is you don't have a big enough email list. If you had more people on your email list, you would make more money from your email marketing. Whatever you're currently making from your email marketing, if you don't change anything about it, you keep it all exactly the same. But you just get a bigger email list. Then you're going to get more results. Now, is it two times? Email list equals two times results? Probably not exactly, but something like that. Maybe it's one and a half times as much revenue 1.8, whatever. It is A normal option rate for SEO traffic. So website traffic is about 0.5%. 0.5% to 1% is where most people are at. A good one is 2%. An excellent one is 3% to 5%. Where are you at the moment? Let's do some back of the envelope calculations and figure out what kind of erupting rate is.
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I'm doing this for website traffic, but you could do the same thing with YouTube visitors, youtube views as well. The same calculation basically applies. Or whatever you're using podcast or Instagram or whatever your main traffic source is. So take the number of email subscribers that you get a month and then take your number of website visitors a month and then divide email subscribers by the website visitors, then times by 100. So here's an example let's say you've got 200 new email subscribers a month and you're 10,000 website visitors a month. So you take 200, you divide by 10,000, you times by 100, it gives you two. That's 2%. That's the answer. Now, if you're doing it with YouTube, do the same calculation, but take the subscribers and divide it by the monthly views that you've got on YouTube, and an average a really good one on YouTube is about 1% of views, whereas on website traffic it's about 2% to 3%. So figure out your number. Figure out what your number is. If it's with Instagram, good one is probably more like about 0.5%, something like that, from Instagram subscribers Podcasts I don't have the calculation for, but that's the kind of range that you're looking for. Find out what it is and we're gonna talk today about how to make that number go up and, in fact, I'm gonna talk you through how we managed to get somebody up to a 7.5% when we work with them.
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So what are the steps to go through here? So we had this guy that we're working with, david from Paintable paintablecc, and they had already got pretty good option rate. They were like 100 blog posts published Option rate was already 3.5% and they were getting about 600-ish subscribers a month and so that was great, right, really, really good. Already, bill, we were like, can we make this better Now? We'd already built the email marketing system for them, we'd built out the whole kind of funnel and we'd helped him have a massive launch. Like a couple of hundred thousand dollars nearly doubled his monthly recurring revenue. So the next goal was increase the number of leads. So the whole thing works better. So the steps to get there improve the lead magnet, put the lead magnet in front of more people and minimize distractions not rocket science. There's a lot of little steps to it, but I'm gonna talk you through them today. So step one improve the lead magnet.
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So ideally, you wanna have a custom lead magnet for your homepage and that's what we did with them. What we found was the lead magnet that had wasn't compelling enough. In order for a lead magnet to be really compelling, you wanna make it ultra-specific. You wanna make it about one big thing should speak to a known desired end result, should shift the relationship and make them think of you as more of an expert, have a high perceived value, a high actual value, give them immediate gratification and rapid consumption. So we brainstormed a bunch of ideas and it takes a lot of time to create all of these different lead magnets. So there's a really interesting idea actually that we got from this guy, christopher Sutton. He's a friend of mine, he runs MusicalU I think it's musical-ucom and what he did. This isn't just for his homepage, this is for specific blog posts, but he actually would do a PDF download of specific blog posts that people could get and actually got a really, really good opt-in rate. And so it's fascinating, right Cause they could just read the article on the internet anytime, but getting the PDF download they're quite likely idea of, so that one works really well.
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But with paint. Going back to paintable, theirs was a 10-free tutorials and that's pretty good. But what we changed it to, because that has a decent level of it's not ultra-specific and it's not that high perceived value to a lot of people these 10-free tutorials it's good, but what we and it didn't have immediate gratification and rapid consumption, so what we changed it to was for them to get free downloads of these paint brushes that you could actually use within. They do like digital painting, so you use within one of these digital painting programs like Photoshop, and so it matched more of the criteria and therefore allowed them to increase the opt-in rate from the lead magnet.
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So next step was then to put the lead magnet in front of more people. So what do you do? What does that mean? Where do you put it? Well, you wanna add the lead magnet to every blog post. Start with the most popular ones and then work your way down over time. If you've got lots of them, add it as a pop-up, add inline sections within the blog post and add it to the sidebar. So start off with the most popular blog posts. If you've got 10 blog posts altogether, this is really easy, right? If you've got a thousand, this takes a lot of time. They had a hundred.
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So first step was to go through Google Analytics and find which blog posts are the most popular, put them in order. Relatively straightforward to do you just go to I'm gonna double check because this might be I might be out of date here. I don't wanna give you the old style where I'm looking at this. I wanna go to behavior and then site content and then all pages. That's what it is in old Google Analytics anyway. There's GA4 out now, so it might be slightly different. If you want to basically just find all pages, if your blog post pages have got slash blog at the beginning of it, then put slash blog into the search about halfway down the page and that's gonna then give you which? Only the blog pages. And then you just see which is the most popular top to bottom, and look at it over a long period of time. Don't just look at the last week, look over the last six months, something like that. So that gives you top to bottom and start with the most popular and work your way down. And so what do you do with that.
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Once you've got all this figured out, which pages to work on, so we add these inline sections. So what that basically means is it's like a graphic, like an ad within the blog post that's promoting your lead magnet. So it looks on brand. It's like you get your regular designer to do it. If you have a regular designer, we'll find someone who'll follow your brand guidelines and you get them to design like an ad for your lead magnet. Do ones with different images, ones with different bullet points, what have you? And that's gonna then give you things that you can put within each of the blog posts.
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And what we did was we had one top, middle and bottom. If something was a long blog post 2000 words we'd put one at the top, one in the middle, one at the bottom of it and if someone clicked on that it brought up the popup. And I forget what software we were using for that, but a lot of the different kind of lead magnet or opt-in software opt-in monster, for example would allow you to set up these kind of popups. And when someone clicked one of those, it brought up the popup and the popup had in it like a little summary again of the lead magnet and then somebody would add their email address in and then sign up and that's it. And we would phrase that by saying join our newsletter and get our 28 portrait brushes as a free welcome gift. So the thing they are doing is signing up for the newsletter and this is a welcome gift, rather than saying get our portrait brushes and then automatically sign them up for the newsletter. They have to know what it is they're choosing to do at this point. So that allowed us to get it in front of more people, which is great.
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The next one was the minimized distraction. So any other links and call to actions that are less relevant, we've got rid of them. So the main thing with online course sales is getting people on your email list first and then you make the promotion through the email list. So anything that was promoting the course is directly anything else that was irrelevant. Just get rid of that and have the focus be on the lead magnets. One action, multiple call to action buttons all lead to that one action and that was to download the lead magnet brushes, and that reduced distraction, made it really simple no confusion for people and those a combination of those things that we did the better.
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Lead magnet. Put the lead magnet more places. Reduced distractions allowed us to go from 3.5% before to, I said, 7.5, I think I slightly over exaggerated. It was 6.7% afterwards, which means like more than more than no. Nearly twice as many leads, nearly twice as many leads.
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The next step then was an exit intent pop up and then creating uniquely magnets for the most popular blog posts. Like I said, that was the idea. Test out, what if we put the article as a PDF that someone could download directly. Now, this wasn't a one off. This is like the normal kind of response we get. Most people haven't got 3.5% to start with and going up to 6.7,. Most people are starting at 0.5, and we're getting them up to 1, 2%, that kind of thing. But whichever it is is still getting you twice as many, sometimes more than twice as many, leads. If you had one client, we've got 50 times as many leads because they also weren't using their social media to promote their lead magnets and they had a big social media following. So we did this on the website and that got us from like 100 to 800 options per week, and then we put links to the lead magnets on all of the social media as well.
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So where you put the links to the lead magnet on social media varies, but I'll talk you through a couple of ideas with it. So in a YouTube video, what you want to do is say at the beginning of it, at the end I'm gonna tell you about how you can get a guide that's gonna help you with this in even more detail. At the end, you promote the lead magnet and then you put that in the description and sometimes I need to just double check, but sometimes you also put it into the first comment. I'm gonna pull this up and I don't have any students, apologies for that. So if we look at, what I'm looking at now is English with Lucy and this is one of our clients and if we look at some of her videos, you're going to see there's a description and that's got links to the lead magnet in there and that is the place to put it. But if you're doing it on Instagram, you want to pin it as the first comment. I think I'm saying that correctly. So wherever it is you wanna be putting the lead magnet mentioned in the video, if it's an Instagram, do it, as every 10th post is a graphic promoting the lead magnet. Put it into the pinned comment, put it into the description all of these different places and that allows you to increase your opt-in rate dramatically.
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If your social media has got a big following, if it's website traffic, then do the stuff that I already said and that's basically that's the bulk of it. Obviously, there's a lot of details to actually setting this up. What software do you use and what have you? I'm making sure you figure out what is going to be a really good lead magnet for you. If you need help with that, obviously get in touch with us wwwdata-drivenmarketingco. But hopefully this is enough that you can just take this and run with it and make what you've got a lot better and grow your email list way faster. Hope that is useful. If you want more episodes like this, then please hit subscribe and then you'll get updates wherever it is that you are. And yeah, hopefully this is helpful and I will talk to you soon.
