Episode 131: How to Simplify Your Marketing

April 22, 2020

Do you ever feel like you have to do all of the things in your business in order to be successful? Today, I’m pulling a page straight out of my training in the Heartfelt Brand Society, my six month group coaching program, to share the easiest way to simplify your marketing efforts in your business.

If you feel like you’re required to consistently blog, show up on Instagram stories daily, post to your Instagram feed, and #allthethings in order to feel successful, I’m here to tell you that you don’t. I’m raising my hand in solidarity, because oftentimes I’ve been sucked into feeling the same way!

This mindset will spread you too thin—forcing you to lose the intentions behind your marketing efforts.

My Three Unpopular Opinions on Marketing

1. You do not have to create more content.
2. You do not have to be on all of the social platforms.
3. You do not have to blog regularly (or at all).

Practical Ways to Generate More Inquiries through a Streamlined and Simplified Marketing Approach

Remember: We are all working with different limitations of creativity and time.

Understand Where Your Top Performing Leads are Coming From

Have you taken a look at the data within your existing platforms? Tangible numbers from your personal platforms can tell you a story that industry experts cannot. Take a look at the following places to determine where your clients are coming from to understand where you should be spending your time: Google Analytics and Contact Forms

What are your top lead generation sources?

While there have been times in my business that I spent way too much time creating content and trying to market on all of the platforms, I eventually realized that I needed to review my top lead generation sources. After doing a bit of research, I realized that my most profitable clients came from Word of Mouth Referrals, Instagram, and Pinterest.

How Can You Invest More Energy Into These Sources?

Once you’ve determined the most profitable lead sources for your business, it’s time to brainstorm how you can make the most out of these platforms. This could mean repurposing old content, utilizing scheduling tools, advertising, creating strategies, etc.

The steps you take to capitalize on these lead generation sources will look different for each source in order to best tailor to where your people are coming from and the offer you are sharing with them.

After reviewing and understanding what is working, you’ll want to remove anything that is not working—or at least place them on the back-burner.

Don’t Overthink This

You don’t need to buy into the notion that in order to be successful, you have to do, do, do. You can do less with more intention and experience even bigger, more beautiful results.

CATCH THE SHOW NOTE BREAKDOWN:

1:03 – COVID-19 Pandemic Impact on Social Media Marketing

2:35 – Disadvantages of Content Creation

4:15 – Streamline Your Marketing

6:02 – Look at the Data

7:44 – Bonnie’s Lead Gen Breakdown

10:18 – Investing in Your Best Lead Gen Sources

18:24 – The Heartfelt Brand Society

If you’re ready to learn more about intentional marketing and growth in your business, then I want to invite you to join me inside my six-month group coaching program—the Heartfelt Brand Society. 

Applications are open for this intimate, action-packed six-month group coaching and mastermind experience together!

It would be such an honor to deep dive into your goals, vision for the future, and equip you with the clarity and accountability you need to make that a reality. 

Curious to hop on a call with me to learn more about this program and how we can work together in this way?

All you have to do is apply here!

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My name is Bonnie – I’m a brand designer, strategist, and writer which all adds up to one eclectic conglomeration of qualities that enables me to serve you well! Past clients have dubbed me "the Joanna Gaines of brand design," and I've had more than a few call me a dream maker, a game changer, and a design wizard (my Harry Potter-loving heart didn't hate that one, let me tell you!). At the end of the day, I'm a big-hearted creative who will get teary-eyed as you share the heart behind your business; who will lose sleep over the perfect font pairings and color selections to bring your brand to life visually; and who will work tirelessly to empower, encourage, and equip you to share your work with the world intentionally. 

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