Blackout Motor Freight

Sales Funnel Performance

Whether a company is providing an actual product or service, it’s important to ensure your sales funnel (the experience your visitor receives when finding you on the internet) is functioning at it’s best. In this scenario, with Blackout Motor Freight, the website’s intent is to provide relevant information to their target market and provide them with a clear path to obtain what it is they are in search of. The first question to ask yourself is, “How do most people find me that are searching for my service?”. If you said ‘Google’ or a search engine, you’re correct.

What does that look like?

In this example above, the headline and meta description area could be improved. Also, we find that the company doesn’t have an active Google Business presence – Having a presence with Google Businesses will offer significantly improved ranking and a combined presence on Google Maps. Which raises the question – How does the competition look? Here is a quick analysis…

In South Eastern Michigan, you can see that the online competition isn’t that that bad considering there are thousands of active freight haulers competing against each other each day. The company needs to register a Google Business account and bring itself to the surface so prospects searching for a logistic company will be able to easily locate them.

There are the four main elements to a good sales funnel: Realization, Interest, Selection, Response – in that order.

Realization

When the visitor is in the stage of realization they become aware of a product or service that addresses their needs. Since we the company isn’t planning on advertising at the moment and word of mouth isn’t something we can manage; we focus on the third discovery method – Research / Internet searching.

Interest

When your prospecting client realizes you have a product or service that benefits them, like most others, they begin to evaluating what’s available to them. Contrasting offerings from a variety of competing companies. I believe this step occurs within search results or when visiting your website. This is where having a Google Business presence is powerful. Providing the prospect with a strong case for the quality of your product or service is important at this step.

Since this step begins, my priority is to maximize the presentation of Blackout Motor Freight’s prospect’s first impression.

Selection

Getting a prospect to make a decision comes down to supplying them with all the information they’re looking for, answering the questions preventing them from taking action, allaying any fears they have and convincing them the action they’re about to take will result in satisfaction. This is the level that you need to demonstrate your authority in your field confirming that you’re the best choice available. You can support this authority by providing social proof in the form of customer reviews, endorsements or compelling statistics.

Response

The last component of the sales funnel is response. This is where the potential prospect completes the process by becoming an active customer. As an added stage to the action component, it’s possible to convert a one time customer into a repeat customer. By providing exactly what the customer is looking for, and more, you can keep the customer coming back and possibly creating more awareness that attracts new prospects into your sales funnel.

Targeted Messaging

Your targeted messaging goes hand-in-hand with your Sales Funnel. There are two sub-factors that contribute towards the whole of your business’s “Targeted Messaging”. One, the overall idea and copy of your message. In general, how do you present yourself to your visitors? Who are they and how do you effectively communicate to them? Two, what are your targeted keywords that will help connect your business with your client, based on their search query? When developing a list of keywords or strings of keywords, you need to think like your clients would. “What would a typical visitor write in the Google search bar to find my business?”

There is a great amount of effort spent in researching and developing these elements, combining them so they play nicely with each other and are palatable to both Google and your visitors. Detroix Digital handles this entire service, usually as part of a Web Development Package, but also available as a one-off service if need be.

Once the copy, keywords, and keyword phrases have been developed; we incorporate them into all of your social media platforms. If your messaging is consistent throughout the different platforms, this creates a fortified digital presence and greatly improves your business searchability.

Esthetics

The third element of the trifecta is your business esthetics – This is the look and feel that your website radiates  and how your business brand is received by your visitor.