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The Anatomy of Great Inbound Marketing

Updated on March 24, 2024
Posted on May 22, 2017 by Janice Wood

The Anatomy of Great Inbound Marketing

Whether you're an aspiring artist, a surgeon in training, or an individual who should be promptly reported to the authorities, anatomy is one of your first areas of study. Depending on who you ask, as a digital marketer, you're arguably a little bit of all three. Given that the masterpiece in question is the complex living, breathing figure of a great inbound marketing strategy, today’s lesson will focus on the main features of its anatomy.

 

Eyes

The first component of a great inbound marketing strategy is establishing visibility. You need to be seen. The eyes of your campaign are SEO. They look out into the web and back into the mind of your target market. Step one is determining the scope of your business and its campaign. Are your targets local, national, or worldwide? How saturated is the market in your industry? What's the most effective pool of keywords from which to draw? It's important to narrow down your optimization efforts to a precise group of keywords. The goal is to keep them valuable without diving into competition with other products and services that are unrelated or irrelevant.

 

Hearts

The beating heart of inbound marketing is content. Above all else, the goal is to provide an experience that captures people’s interest; that sells itself; that has people coming back for more. You want to be exciting, compelling and informative. SEO considerations still factor into the design process, but inbound marketing revolves first and foremost around a transactional model of permission where the currency is interest in quality content. Rather than interrupting a user's activities with unsolicited offers and promotions, you're asking people for their attention. In exchange, you're providing them with the type of content that they're actively seeking. If you expect to be obliged, you have to deliver.

 

Minds

Once you’ve made your impression, it’s time for your leads to make their decision. The closing phase of inbound marketing depends on effective calls-to-action and landing pages. This is where you facilitate your bottom line in the form of conversion. It’s also where you store the memories of your successful efforts with CRM, closed-loop reporting, and email. If you delivered on content, these are voluntary agreements with your customers where they're looking forward to hearing back from you. In exchange, you get valuable data about your consumers and the opportunity to build trust from within an ongoing relationship.

That covers a basic overview of the anatomy of great inbound marketing. It boils down to visibility, content, and conversion. With your SEO in line, your content geared to leave an impression and the proper infrastructure to land a conversion, your inbound marketing campaign is ready to find a place among the greats.

 

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