That is another more engaged approach, where people are like: "Okay, you know, we listen to this guy, maybe now on the blog or on the podcast, we are now following them on social media, we are really kind of like what it is that they're providing." So then they may be much more inclined to download a PDF and in that case, to subscribe by giving you their name and email, so that you can actually then exchange that information for the e-book or whatever else that you want to provide.
In the next stage, where these engaged potential customers are now really sort of getting interested into what it is that you're offering for free but possibly something paid which is of course the goal of why we're trying to do marketing. So then the next step in terms of providing content could be something such as a webinar, where you're actually engaging in a more deeper conversation; usually webinars last much longer than of course short podcast. And, that's an opportunity for you as a business or as a marketer to really show your expertise in a very specific manner. You could also provide them with a price sheet, you can provide them with a catalog of what it is that you're offering, so that they can start to explore some of those ideas or services or products that your company or you yourself actually provide for a paid service, right.
The next step, let's say that they are actually interested and now we can qualify those people as leads, right. They're actually people that are actually interested; they don't just want to go through the webinar but now they may want to have a one-on-one demo, either virtual or in person or they might want to sign up to try your product for free, or anything else that shows that they're actually interested in taking the first step to really starting to work with your company. So in that lead stage, again demos are very good idea, free subscriptions or limited plans where you're giving them a taste of what they're going to get if they start to actually hire you.
The next step is, once that we'd really becomes a qualified opportunity; that means okay, they really know what it is we offer, they're actually interested. It's really a good time then to create much more one-on-one content for them. In this case that means talking to them on the phone, meeting them in person, sending them anything by mail, if you still are doing mail or of course a very custom created email and that way you can provide more information for how your company can actually help solve the pain points of your customers.
And finally, once you know they get to be your customer, then at that point you're still got to be engaged to them and you want to make sure that they're going to actually see the value on what it is that you are offering. So if they hire you to do any specific service, now you want to make sure that you deliver, right.
And then you want to provide the results that show that you're actually completing your promise and making sure that you're providing those results that you originally talked about. So at that stage, you want to definitely talk about doing customer service, making sure people are happy and if anything goes wrong or people are not happy, you got to definitely address it usually with a personal phone call from the project manager or anybody else that's in charge of the account.
So that's pretty much a quick summary of the different things that you can do in terms of content at the different stages that your clients or potential clients are going to be in when engaging with you.
So on the next slide here we have a very quick example of things that work in the step for creating lead magnet. In this case, when people are going to be in the engage stage, this is where you can create things that you're providing value, but you allow them to download these things for free. It doesn't have to be necessarily a PDF, it could be simply someone filling out a form that's showing that they're interested. But in this specific example on this slide, here are some ideas of content examples that are going to help you come up with something related of course to your topic. So you got to connect it to what it is that you are an expert on. So the first one could be top ten tips on how to solve XYZ faster or how to build an XYZ solution. You could also offer a white paper on a specific solution that your company offers, it could also be a success story or a case study of how you helped this specific client solve their pain points through your services. Another one could be an e-course of doing X, Y or Z the right way, and that's something that you can deliver by email; instead of just as a single PDF, you could deliver it through multiple emails as well.
Those are just some examples that you can consider. I'm sure that if you actually want to research something very specific to your market or your niche, there's plenty of other ideas out there and that's pretty much it for today. I really thank you for watching this and we're going to continue to try to keep these things as short as possible because the most important is that you guys actually get to get value out of these marketing Fridays videos. Alright, thank you again this is Jaime from Bloominari.
