#17: How to Create a Marketing Funnel for Best Results

Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

Eric Siu and Neil Patel

Careers, Business, Marketing

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2016

⏱️ 12 minutes

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In Episode #17 Eric and Neil explain what a marketing funnel is. Then they’ll walk you through how to create your own marketing funnel, with advice on automated tools to help you get the best results. Time Stamped Show Notes: 00:23 – What is a marketing funnel? 00:25 – Google a “marketing funnel” and see Neil’s site at the top 01:00 – Funneling down from 100 to one or two people 01:44 – A marketing funnel is a great way to get people to convert 01:55 – The chances of a random person on the street to agree to marry you vs. agree to go on a date with you 02:50 – Getting to know your visitors over time 03:10 – Collect emails and educate people to build trust 03:28 – They will be much more likely to say ‘yes’ a month or so later 02:55 – The top of the funnel 04:12 – The middle of the funnel 04:33 – The bottom of the funnel, closing them on an offer 04:49 – The importance of collecting emails 05:02 – Drip is an easy email automation tool 05:20 – Acquired by Leadpages 05:28 – Infusionsoft has more advanced features 05:40 – An example of how the tool is used 06:20 – Tracking what type of emails people open 06:50 – Getting people involved in a free trial 07:25 – Taking them through multiple funnels 07:55 – Infusionsoft lets you track everything so that you can use multiple funnels 09:00 – You don’t have to start out with an advanced method 09:25 – Simple processes when you’re starting out 10:00 – Use software later on to stay organized 11:20 – Keep it simple and make it more complex as it is successful 10:54 – We’ll see you in the next episode! 3 Key Points: A marketing funnel is a strategy to get people to convert. The funnel is divided into three processes, at the top, middle, and bottom of the funnel. Start out with a simple funnel, and adjust that funnel until you see success. Then you can start to make your marketing funnel more complex. Resources Mentioned: Drip, Leadpages, and Infusionsoft: Automated marketing tools Leave some feedback: What should we talk about next? Please let us know in the comments below. Did you enjoy this episode? If so, please leave a short review. Connect with us: NeilPatel.com Quick Sprout Growth Everywhere Single Grain Twitter @neilpatel Twitter @ericosiu

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0:00.0	Get ready for your daily dose of marketing strategies and tactics from
0:06.8	entrepreneurs with the guile and experience to help you find success in any
0:11.4	marketing capacity. You're listening to marketing school
0:14.5	with your instructors Neil Patel and Eric Sue.
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0:51.3	Hey everyone and welcome to another edition of Marketing School.
0:56.0	I'm your host Eric Sue.
0:58.0	And I'm Neil Patel.
0:59.0	And today we're going to talk about what is a marketing funnel and how you can use it for your business.
1:05.2	So basically when you Google the keyword marketing funnel, this is going to be funny because
1:10.1	one of Meals companies that he co-founded, Kiss Metrics, is the number one result.
1:13.8	And the single grain post that we have is either the number two or number three results.
1:17.8	So take a look at those resources, but basically, when you think of a business from top to bottom or let's just think
1:24.5	about hiring for example when you're hiring somebody when any company hires
1:27.7	somebody there's a funnel at the very beginning right somebody you know at the
1:31.1	very top you have a lot of different candidates a lot of them are unqualified and then when you get to the very bottom
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